OT: TV show Themes that you don’t skip.
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Sopranos, boardwalk empire, season one of True Detective. No, HBO is not monetarily compensating me for this endorsement, they just kick ***
Sanford & Son
I dont watch serial TV for the most part.
They've figured out how to alienate this old couch potato.
I probably would let cheers, mash, and westworld play on. Can't think of another right now.
They've figured out how to alienate this old couch potato.
I probably would let cheers, mash, and westworld play on. Can't think of another right now.
I've been a happy bastard since Roku Channel picked up Simon & Simon. I get my 80s fix along with Magnum and Rockford now. Everything else I can tune into Pluto TV
Starring Mississippi born Gerald "Major Dad" McRaney. Glad he's from Mississippi. He's still an assshole.
He excels at the ******* roles like in Deadwood and Longmire.
Sanford and Son “The Streetbeater” by Quincy Jones. The original funk.
Hill Street Blues
Moonlighting (Anybody remember that show with Bruce Willis?)
Moonlighting (Anybody remember that show with Bruce Willis?)
Have you ever listened to MASH theme with words?
MacGyver
Airwolf
Dukes of Hazzard
Chips
A Team
Night Rider
Three Stooges
Sanford and Son
Jeffersons
Married, with Children
Airwolf
Dukes of Hazzard
Chips
A Team
Night Rider
Three Stooges
Sanford and Son
Jeffersons
Married, with Children
Fun fact about the MASH theme song,
Altman said that, while he only made $70,000 for directing the movie, his son had earned more than $1 million for co-writing the song
Robert Altman hired Johnny Mandel to compose the song, he gave two stipulations: #1) The song had to be called "Suicide is Painless". And #2) It needed to be the "stupidest song ever written". Mandel, a classically trained composer who had worked with dozens of major artists like Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Count Basie, conjured a gentle guitar part and a mournful melody. Unfortunately Johnny drew a blank when it came time for the lyrics. His writer's block was so bad that he had to ask Altman for help.
Altman tried to compose the accompanying lyrics himself, but he also came up short. Altman quickly realized that neither he nor Mandel were immature enough to write something silly, snarky or downright dumb enough to make the satirical scene work. Where, he wondered, could he find someone in the throes of adolescence? Someone who lacked the pretensions of age. Someone who could cook up something adequately juvenile???
Fortunately, Altman didn't have to look too far. His fourteen year old son Michael Altman fit the bill just fine. Robert gave the teenager the challenge. The younger Altman seized his opportunity and amazingly ended up taking just five minutes to write the final lyrics that became "Suicide is Painless" as we know it today. As you can tell when you listen to the final version, Mike found the perfect cornucopia of corny couplets that would have felt right at home in a Monty Python film: "The sword of time will pierce our skins / it doesn't hurt when it begins," he penned. "But as it works its way on in / the pain grows stronger…watch it grin."
Altman said that, while he only made $70,000 for directing the movie, his son had earned more than $1 million for co-writing the song
Robert Altman hired Johnny Mandel to compose the song, he gave two stipulations: #1) The song had to be called "Suicide is Painless". And #2) It needed to be the "stupidest song ever written". Mandel, a classically trained composer who had worked with dozens of major artists like Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Count Basie, conjured a gentle guitar part and a mournful melody. Unfortunately Johnny drew a blank when it came time for the lyrics. His writer's block was so bad that he had to ask Altman for help.
Altman tried to compose the accompanying lyrics himself, but he also came up short. Altman quickly realized that neither he nor Mandel were immature enough to write something silly, snarky or downright dumb enough to make the satirical scene work. Where, he wondered, could he find someone in the throes of adolescence? Someone who lacked the pretensions of age. Someone who could cook up something adequately juvenile???
Fortunately, Altman didn't have to look too far. His fourteen year old son Michael Altman fit the bill just fine. Robert gave the teenager the challenge. The younger Altman seized his opportunity and amazingly ended up taking just five minutes to write the final lyrics that became "Suicide is Painless" as we know it today. As you can tell when you listen to the final version, Mike found the perfect cornucopia of corny couplets that would have felt right at home in a Monty Python film: "The sword of time will pierce our skins / it doesn't hurt when it begins," he penned. "But as it works its way on in / the pain grows stronger…watch it grin."
Always thought it was a great song including the lyrics and vocals. I don't think the lyrics are all that stupid or any more so than numerous others written over the years. Funny story though.
Director Robert Altman had two stipulations about the song for composer Johnny Mandel: it had to be called "Suicide Is Painless" and it had to be the "stupidest song ever written".[2] Altman attempted to write the lyrics himself, but, upon finding it too difficult for his "45-year-old brain" to write something "stupid" enough,[3] he gave the task to his 15-year-old-son Michael, who reportedly wrote the lyrics in five minutes.[4][5]
Altman said that, while he only made $70,000 for directing the movie, his son had earned more than $1 million for co-writing the song.[6]
We watch Golden Girls from time to time and my 12 year old son has that theme on his playlist
This is Jim Rockford, leave your message...........Greatest theme song of all time here...............
compilation of phone messages..........
Not really an intro, but show theme. Frasier
Because most shows, especially network TV shows, don’t have enough time to have an intro because their air time gets smaller and smaller every year.
Airwolf was must watch Tv. Michael Jan Vincent had major health issues later in life and lived in Eagle Lake years before he died.
Best move Sinatra made other than to sidle up with the mob in vegas.