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And Your Choice for the Best TV Theme Song Ever Is... 'Gilligan's Island'!
Yahoo ^ | 4/12/13 | David Nemetz

Posted on 04/12/2013 8:55:50 AM PDT by MissTed

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To: dfwgator

Jennifer I think you would be disappointed, plus HIGH MAINTENANCE!

Baily I think you would be surprised!


101 posted on 04/12/2013 11:17:42 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: left that other site
The theme from the TV show MASH was taken from the movie so that also makes it not original.

Last TV theme I liked was from the FOX TV show “Action” ( 1999-2000 ). Warren Zevon’s “Even A Dog Can Shake Hands.” Not original to the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYbyuXC-hsc

102 posted on 04/12/2013 11:20:30 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Kartographer

“Jennifer I think you would be disappointed, plus HIGH MAINTENANCE!

Baily I think you would be surprised!”

Agreed. Bailey would be an “enthusiastic participant.” Jennifer not so much. Same applies to Ginger & Mary Ann.


103 posted on 04/12/2013 11:37:29 AM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: left that other site

Thanks for the info!! True, probably not in the running, but it’s one I always enjoyed, anyway!!


104 posted on 04/12/2013 11:38:05 AM PDT by Radagast the Fool
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To: allmendream; mikrofon

I don’t know, the 1966 “It’s About Time” theme song is most irritating IMO.

Don’t listen to it, really...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg

“It’s about time, it’s about space...”


105 posted on 04/12/2013 11:40:24 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: MissTed

I read every reply to this thread and, frankly, I’m SHOCKED that no one mentioned this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBMESyjIkgs


106 posted on 04/12/2013 11:43:24 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: KarlInOhio
No Ballad of Jed Clampett - The Beverly Hillbillies.

Theme for "Dallas"

Buffy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYS-7mqpc7w

107 posted on 04/12/2013 12:11:51 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: Biblical Calvinist
Right you are Buffy Theme! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYS-7mqpc7w

Also Mork & Mindy , Dallas, Knots Landing, SOAP,

BTW, SMG in a CBS sitcom Pilot with Robin Williams. R.I.P. Jonathan Winters

108 posted on 04/12/2013 12:14:45 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: GreenHornet

I wholeheartedly agree on that one. I liked Bonanza as well.


109 posted on 04/12/2013 12:17:40 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: KarlInOhio

No Beverly Hillbillies?


110 posted on 04/12/2013 12:18:01 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: MissTed

Mr. Lucky by Henry Mancini


111 posted on 04/12/2013 2:34:43 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: All

“Stairway to Gilligan’ss Island”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oGz0mxwks


112 posted on 04/12/2013 2:34:52 PM PDT by Virginia-American (Don't bring a comic book to an encyclopedia fight.)
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To: Radagast the Fool

I LOVE Gounod’s Music.

A lot of Classical Music was used for the old TV and Radio Shows. Here are Just a Few:

Hitchcock-”Funeral March for a Marionette” Gounod
The Lone Ranger-”William Tell Overture” by Rossini
The Shadow- “Valse Triste”-Sibelius
Warner Bros cartoons:
Strange Bird:”Fingal’s cave”-Mendelssohn
Road Runner-”The Bartered Bride”-Smetana
Bug’s Piano recital-”Hungarian Rhapsody #2”-Lizst
I’m sure there is more! LOL!

There was also a puffed wheat commercial that used Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture! LOL!


113 posted on 04/12/2013 7:18:00 PM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: MissTed

The Jefferson’s ... “Movin’ On Up”. No doubt this was the best :)


114 posted on 04/12/2013 7:37:55 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: dfwgator
What about ABC’s Wide World of Sports?

This is the 30-second version, there was a 1-minute full version, but it was pulled:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WvhviqvQ0o

115 posted on 04/12/2013 7:38:24 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

And I remember CBS Sports Spectacular used ELO’s “Fire on High”.


116 posted on 04/12/2013 7:42:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Thinking back to Gilligan’s Island:

That’s where I first heard snatches of Bartok and also some Prokofiev (not “Peter and the Wolf” but the Symphony No. 5).


117 posted on 04/12/2013 7:45:58 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: left that other site

I remember most of these, and Bugs’ Piano Recital never ceases to make me laugh. Thanks for mentioning it, and the others you write about!!
The sad thing is most of today’s kids are completely clueless about classical music, so they would not recognize ANY of these!!!


118 posted on 04/13/2013 10:51:42 AM PDT by Radagast the Fool
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To: Radagast the Fool

Yes...it is sad.

I am actually a Rock Musician, but in my quiet moments I play Classical.

All eras of music (and the other arts) have their Giants and their mediocre hacks. For Every Beethoven there were probably dozens of Schlemiels and For Every Hendrix there are hundreds of Schmendricks.

We just immortalize the geniuses and forget the others! LOL!


119 posted on 04/13/2013 11:01:24 AM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: Flick Lives

That was going to be my pick. Had the 45 when I was a young feller.


120 posted on 04/13/2013 11:04:30 AM PDT by kanawa
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