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TV Theme Music - what’s the best ever?
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glennerd
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Barney Miller theme song because it's fun to play on my Ubass.
hoosierhiver
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The best ever TV theme music can be heard on The Normal Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show with Robert Emmett, Saturday mornings on KFJC in Los Altos Hills, (CA) from 9 to noon.89.7 on the FM dial, and streaming on KFJC.org.
YogiTom
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Hands down favorite is the theme for The Green Hornet by Al Hirt.
Another Ukulele
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The Theme Song from the show
St. Elsewhere.
Possibly the best series finale as well
The show always opened with an outside view of the hospital
One of the characters was the head doctor who had an autistic son
The show ended with that same doctor being a factory worker.
His son was staring at a snow globe containing the same building and his father stating that his son spent hours staring at the globe, thinking and imagining things.
St. Elsewhere.
Possibly the best series finale as well
The show always opened with an outside view of the hospital
One of the characters was the head doctor who had an autistic son
The show ended with that same doctor being a factory worker.
His son was staring at a snow globe containing the same building and his father stating that his son spent hours staring at the globe, thinking and imagining things.
In the US, Rob Reiner is a consummate wizard of TV themes. I worked on "Stand By Me" that he directed in northern California and most every night the crew would jam in the bar of the hotel with various instruments. I played my harmonica. Rob would often attend and lead the group in a variety of theme songs.
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This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly West near the Beverly Center
9 tenor cutaway ukes, 5 acoustic bass ukes, 10 solid body bass ukes, 13 mini electric bass guitars (Total: 37)
• Donate to The Ukulele Kids Club, they provide ukuleles to children in hospital music therapy programs. www.theukc.org
• Member The CC Strummers: YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/CCStrummers/video, Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheCCStrummers
Star Trek Voyager. In addition to being a lovely piece of music, it's accompanied by an opening sequence that is visually breathtaking.
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I had to post the opening sequence here. Check out all the people who worked on this show before they became famous.
And no discussion of television theme songs is complete without this one.
old and slow
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Couldn't think of anything but this
https://youtu.be/ri83v76PXdE
https://youtu.be/ri83v76PXdE
old and slow
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Magnum P.I. ?
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Agreed. And I always enjoyed the opening of Deep Space Nine. While it wasn't nearly as visually pleasing as the Voyager opening, the brass ensemble had an edge to it, just like the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TsMyLt2BTM
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Pukulele Pete
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Yes , Peter Gunn ! Thats the first TV theme I can remember . That was probably the start of cool TV theme songs.
That was one of the first things I played on guitar.
That was one of the first things I played on guitar.
The Littlest Hobo theme tune- Maybe tomorrow. My family used to sing it on our cycling holiday when we set off each day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8oeiVDcx4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8oeiVDcx4
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The Star Trek Voyager opening and Mary Tyler Moore. Her's makes me smile, and the other makes me want to conduct an orchestra (plus I love Captain Janeway)!
