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Archive through January 19, 2004

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Tishala

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maybe this thread once existed and I forget...Let's face it, TV has given us some of the most memorable, if not the best, songs in the past 50 years. Which is your favorite theme song? What are the best lyrics? I have many, but I will start by offering one of my favorites...the original and the later versions of the Mary Tyler Moore show theme:

How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big
Girl, this time you're on your own

But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving

Love is all around, no need to fake it
You can have the town, why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.
You're gonna make it after all.

Then the revised version:

Who Can Turn The World On With Her Smile?
Who can take a nothing day -
And suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well, it's you girl, and you should know it.
With each glance and every little movement you show it

Love is all around, no need to fake it
You can have the town, why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.
You're gonna make it after all.

Legalboxer

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Too many to count but for starters

Fame!
I'm gonna live forever.
I'm gonna learn how to fly,
High!
I feel it coming together,
People will see me and cry
Fame!
I'm going to make it to heaven,
Light up the sky like a flame,
Fame!
I'm gonna live forever,
Baby remember my name,
Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember

Fame!
I'm gonna live forever,
Baby remember my name,
Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember


or

Love, exciting and new
Come Aboard. We're expecting you.
Love, life's sweetest reward.
Let it flow, it floats back to you.

Love Boat soon will be making another run
The Love Boat promises something for everyone
Set a course for adventure,
Your mind on a new romance.

Love won't hurt anymore
It's an open smile on a friendly shore.
Yes Looooooove! It's Looooooove!


or

I bet we been together for a million years,
And I bet we'll be together for a million more.

Oh, It's like I started breathing on the night we kissed,
And I can't remember what I ever did before.

What would we do baby, Without Us?
What would we do baby, Without Us?

And there ain't no nothing we can't love each other through.
What would we do baby, Without Us?
Sha la la la.


Tishala

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is the last one Family Ties? Was that the Alex P. Keaton [Michael J Fox] show?

Legalboxer

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yup

Zules

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love the theme song from Friends.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear.
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year. But,
I'll be there for you (When the rain starts to pour).
I'll be there for you (Like I've been there before).
I'll be there for you ('Cause you're there for me too).

Pamy

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ALIAS! I love that techno music

Not1worry

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The MASH theme song, Suicide is Painless. The tune always brings back such family memories, my parents loved that show and so do I. I'll spare everyone my knowledge of the verses.

Mocha

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I still love the theme song to Facts of Life:

There's a time you got to go and show you're growing now you're knowing bout the Facts of Life, the Facts of Life....

or something like that, lol.

Tishala

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You take the good, you take the bad,
you take them both and there you have
The Facts of Life, the Facts of Life.

There's a time you got to go and show
You're growin' now you know about
The Facts of Life, the Facts of Life.

When the world never seems
to be livin up to your dreams
And suddenly you're finding out
the Facts of Life are all about you, you.

It takes a lot to get 'em right
When you're learning the Facts of Life ... Learning the Facts of Life.
Learning the Facts of Life ... Learning the Facts of Life.
Learning the Facts of Life.

Draheid

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
TV Tunes Online has the following sections to find lyrics to classic TV shows. Some parts of the site are now membership only accessible but these appear to still be freely accessible. Enjoy:
Adv./Western
Action/Drama
Cartoons
Comedy

Tishala

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cool! I never knew the words to "Suicide is Painless"...great song

Spygirl

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Friends is my all-time favorite.

Cheers would be my second all-time favorite.

The one for Growing Pains was my favorite one growing up. I can sing the entire song still!

Lancecrossfire

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I always liked the song for Greatest American Hero. I thought the show was good too.

Djgirl

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Apparently, I loved the theme to "Who's the Boss" as I hadn't seen that show for probably 10 years, and was at the cottage over the holidays, and what should come on? And who's singing right along with it? Although, to be fair, I sing along with everything - Luvs commercials included.

Legalboxer

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lance - LOL i almost posted Greatest American Hero lyrics earlier - i was saving them for my next post! :) glad someone else rememebrs them

Dukes of Hazard was great too.. especially the end "Just good ol' boys, Wouldn't change if they could, Fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.. "


Fanny

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For no lyrics... my adrenaline shoots up a notch whenever I hear the theme song to Monday Night Football. I also like The Sopranos theme

Theowl

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love the theme song for American Dreams!! I grew up in the 60's and 70's and I relate to all the music on the show, as well as the situations. I love that show!!

Legalboxer

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nonlyrics wise- it is all about ALIAS too - plus ER gets you after 10 years!! and i like general Hospital

oh and i really like the guardian eventhough its a real song by the wallflowers -"empire of my mind"

Catfat

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Greatest theme song ever has to be the "Lone Ranger" theme, the William Tell Overture. Absolutely everyone recognizes it and it always stirs the juices.

Yankee_In_Ca

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mine has no lyrics -- the Sanford and Son theme.

Yankee

Legalboxer

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
geez Cat- how could i block out that one- i remember as a kid i always went around humming the Lone Ranger theme and then would yell HiHo Silver AWAY! Rossini was a master with that Overture


Bonanza was always a great nonlyric theme song

Tishala

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee, I think the S&S theme was written by Quincy Jones. It's a great, funky song

Spygirl

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
With no lyrics, I love the one for X-Files. I also like the Sex and the City intro as well.

Heck, the ER music is great!

The Scrubs song has a lot of potential, too. The "I'm no superman" line is clever and gets stuck in my head.

Slothkitten

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
American Idol's theme comes to mind ( starts tonight ! ) It's wonderfully over the top music always gets me mouthing the best part . .

Ahhh whoaaa whoaaaa !

It's like Pavlov's Dogs, I hear that music and I'm impatient for the show to begin.

Tishala, didn't know Quincy Jones wrote S&S theme!
Good one, Yankee.

You mentioning Sanford & Son reminds me of Chico and The Man's theme by Jose Feliciano ( love his music and his voice ) . . his song was kind of sad and poignant.

Eliz87

Monday, January 19, 2004 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love all the theme songs that have been mentioned -- Mary Tyler Moore has to be my favorite. And I thought I was the only one that enjoyed the "ahhh whoaa whoaaa" at the beginning of American Idol! It's so simple but so catchy at the same time!

Has anyone mentioned the Welcome Back, Kotter theme yet? That's a really good one. I love John Sebastian!