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TV and movie theme songs

which were your favorites?

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I was a musician once upon a time and have always had a special appreciation for instrumental music,mostly progressive rock,but there is a subgenre of music that gets overlooked a lot...themesongs. B)

 

I think part of the reason is we only get about 1 and a half minutes and then the show starts...or a commercial blares in.But if you ever get to hear the extended versions,some of them are incredible.It dosnt hurt if just hearing the first few note conjures up warm fuzzies from the past or lets you know something good is about to happen.

 

Some of my favorites are...

 

Voyage to the bottom of the sea...moody,dramatic and really fit the show.

Space 1999...wow,mega jumping bass,pseudo porn track guitar  alternating with blaring horns and strings...too freakin' cool.

Mission Impossible...inyer face bassline,jazzy flute,big horns...KAT cool man.

Monty Pythons flying circus...wth!?...this is some countries national anthem,they played it every morning while my flight marched by in the morning(EARLY in the morning) while I was in bootcamp.We got in trouble EVERY morning for laughing as we went by...guess the DI wasnt a PBS viewer. :grin:

Peter Gunn...many a stripper twirled her tassles to this one...its just plain raunchy. :drool:

Red Dwarf...hard to picture this song with a scifi show...til you know the story about Lister's plans for life after the space corp."goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes" :D

Lost in Space...spectacular John Williams.There were 2 of them and both were great.

Dr. Who...weeeeiiiiiiiirrrrrrrd man.

Buck Rogers in the 25th century...show was silly but the theme was terrific.(WILMA DEARING! oh my!)SouthPark did a hilarious take on the whole opening montage with Cartman...you gotta see it if you were even a minor Buck Rogers fan.

James Bond...the main theme is truly iconic and 2 of the movie title themes were among my favs...You only live twice,and Tomorrow never dies.

 

So what are some of you favorites?

 

a free place to hear some...quality fair but I bet you could find much better...mine are from cd's.  http://www.televisiontunes.com/index.php

 

 

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Reply #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Fresh Prince of Bel-air

Fast became a modern classic by the Master Quincy Jones Keila!

Go deeper into this great composer's past work, your ears'll love you for it.

But a fast tid-bit.  Quincy Jones when to junior high school with Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee!

:thumbsup:  

Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sandbaggers...

Callan...

Star Cops...

My all-time fave....The Persuaders ...;)

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #78 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The Persuaders

I have that one...not familiar with the others. :)

Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Stargate SG1

Stargate Atlantis

now let me go waaaaay back,

Howdy Doody (Tra-ra-ra-boom-di-a)

Captian Kangaroo

I Love Lucy

Burns and Allen (George M. Cohan's "Love Nest")

Dinah Shore (see the USA in your Chevrolet)

to name a few.

Reply #81 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Can anyone here name any other composers who's music has meant as much to modern television and movies along with these legends?

If you can, add them to this list:

John Williams

Irving Berlin

Quincy Jones

Danny Elfman

Henry Mancini

Basil Poledouris

Dominic Frontiere

(Not in any order of importance or awards, this is just a humble opinion)

:sun:  

 

Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top

X-Files

Enterprise

Combat

Rat Patrol

 

Too many movie soundtracks/scores that I love, to list here. I listen to Cinemagic on XM radio. :thumbsup:

Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top

77 sunset strip

bewitched...

I dream of jeanie

the flinstones

the incredible hulk series with bill bixbie

and the aussie show "seachange"

Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting cplair, reply 14
   


Movie-wise I love the theme from Star Wars. Gives me goosebumps


Well it's no wonder MouseGoddess.  John Williams has been composing most music associated with our life time more than anyone.

Spanning from the 50's to today with new realease already for 2010 check out his list of film scores, it'll dawn on you that there aren't too many songs you've heard by him that doesn't give you chills!

 

John Williams' Film Scores

 


   

Cool link! I had the soundtrack of "Days of Wine and Roses" when I was little, but didn't remember who composed it. I was also always partial to the music from "Fidler on the Roof", another of his compositions, as I just found out from your link. Lots of interesting info there. Thanks! 

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Reply #85 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Theme from Twin Peaks - Angelo Baladamenti... heard it earlier and still a very haunting piece.

Reply #86 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Simon and Simon plus it is from San Diego, though so was Hunter too.

Reply #87 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting MouseGoddess, reply 9
Quoting cplair, reply 14   


 

Cool link! I had the soundtrack of "Days of Wine and Roses" when I was little, but didn't remember who composed it. I was also always partial to the music from "Fidler on the Roof", another of his compositions, as I just found out from your link. Lots of interesting info there. Thanks! 

Answer: Henry Mancini....