Comments on: What Is Your Favorite TV Sitcom Theme Song?

By: Bob Graham

Bob Graham — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:50:19 +0000

How could I forget:

“Baby, if you ever wondered,
Wondered, whatever became of me,
I’m livin’ on the air in Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, WKRP…”

By: Bob Graham

Bob Graham — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:43:21 +0000

OK, off the top of my head:

CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU? One of the greatest sitcoms and one of the greatest theme songs ever (too bad, it’s all but forgotten today):

“There’s a hold up in the Bronx
Brooklyn’s Broken out in fights,
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem,
That’s back up to Jackson Heights,
There’s a scout troop short a child,
Kruschev’s due at Idlewilde,
Car 54 Where Are You?”

CHEERS

TALES OF THE VIKINGS (another great, obscure one)
“From Out of the north like an icy wind,
Swept Odin’s bold warrior breed…”

IVANHOE (with Roger Moore)
“…There’s justice in his banner, freedom in his sword,
He rides against the manor, where tyranny is lord…”

ADDAMS FAMILY

and my current favorite:
“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Sponge Bob Square Pants!
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
Sponge Bob Square Pants!”

By: Lovejoy

Lovejoy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:52:30 +0000

my faves were “the dukes of hazzard” – Just two good old boys, never meanin’ no harm….
Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law
Since the day they was born.

the jeffersons – Well, we’re movin’ on up (movin’ on up)
To the east side (movin’ on up)
To a deluxe apartment in the sky
Movin’ on up (movin’ on up)
To the east side
We finally got a piece of the pie

Fish don’t fry in the kitchen
Beans don’t burn on the grill
Took a whole lotta tryin’
Just to get up that hill
Now we’re up in the big leagues
Gettin’ our turn at bat
As long as we live, it’s you and me baby
There ain’t nothin’ wrong with that

Well, we’re movin’ on up (movin’ on up)
To the east side (movin’ on up)
To a deluxe apartment in the sky
Movin’ on up (movin’ on up)
To the east side
We finally got a piece of the pie

(had to include all of that one!)

and of course the love boat!

By: Will Morris

Will Morris — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:41:44 +0000

Lot’s of good ones and I can sing them all. But my very favorite is Cheers. We had a local bar in Fort Smith with the same atmosphere and everybody knew our names. Bobby Vick sat on the stool at the end of the bar, Bill Treat stood next to him, Carey Meadors, David Vandergriff, Blake Harper, and I alternated between sitting at the other bar stools. The owner of the bar, Angelo J. Batounis, was from NYC and had a baseball autographed by the 1927 Yankees. He worked at the Waldorf and new all the sports celebrities of the day. And Nanci, was the oversexed barmaid that kept everybody in line. We were Cheers.

By: Merrill Dubrow

Merrill Dubrow — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:41:40 +0000

Joe,

What a nice comment for you to say about your daughter and share with all of us.

Have a great weekend.

Merrill

By: Willie Martin

Willie Martin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:37:21 +0000

Merrill.

Im an old school cat, so I’ll begin with a series that I thought caught the mood of the young nation circa 1970…My list in no particular order…

1.The Mod Squad

2.Dragnet

3.Good Times

4.Chico and The Man ( the closing tune, not the opening one)…

5.Mash…aka ‘Suicide is Painless…

By: Joe Baldi

Joe Baldi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:55:42 +0000

Janet Baldi that’s what you do for me every day of my life.

Love,

Dad

By: Beverly Redler

Beverly Redler — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:10:36 +0000

Didn’t like the show so much, but the jaunty tune to the show Sanford & Son w/ Redd Foxx is catchy. Also, Chico and the Man. Courtship of Eddie’s Father was the first one I thought about. If you think about some of the words, some are really poetic (Mary Tyler Moore) or great story-tellin’ (Gilligan’s Island, Beverly Hillbillies).

I have a book that has the words to various theme songs–did you know Star Trek actually had words?! If you’d ever see them, you’d understand why they decided to keep it instrumental!

By: chris hauck

chris hauck — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:56:03 +0000

is there any other – Hawaii 5-0 of course!

By: leslie

leslie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:52:59 +0000

how about the courtship of eddy’s father?! ‘people let me tell you bout my best friend… ‘