• Theme Songs From Tv Shows In The 60's
• Most Recognizable Theme Songs
• Theme Songs From Tv Shows Game

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65 TV Themes! From the 50's and 60's is the first volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series of compilation albums by TVT Records. From the 50's and 60's was a double LP that featured 65 themes from television shows ranging from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s.^[1]

The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Los Angeles-based Oglio Records announced they were releasing the Television's Greatest Hits song catalog after entering into an arrangement The Bicycle Music Company. A series of 9 initial '6-packs' including some of the songs from the album has been announced for 2011.^[2]

Don Pardo 'hosted' the original LP and cassette versions from 1985. Five tracks are exclusive to the original 1985 releases..

• The first track on the first record/tape, side one, begins with a musical sample of Edvard Grieg's 'Morning Mood' from the Peer Gynt suite,^[3] which is interrupted by Don Pardo beginning the 'broadcast day.'
• Side one concludes with a faux test announcement of the Emergency Broadcast System, leading into the 'Duck and Cover' song (from the 1951 Civil Defense education film of the same name.)
• Side two concludes with easy-listening music and Pardo making announcements of the 'station' having technical difficulties and to please stand by. This was also sampled on Hexstatic's album Rewind.^[4]
• Side three (the first side on the second record/tape) concludes with a medley of news themes and announcer voices, led off by Pardo announcing a faux news bulletin interrupting the 'broadcast' over a music sample of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, specifically the 'Scherzo' movement.^[5]
• Side four (and the whole album) concludes with Don Pardo signing-off the 'broadcast day' with a recording of the United States national anthem (enhanced with explosion and firework sounds near the end), and then fades on a test pattern tone (signaling the 'station' has gone off the air.)

Track listing[edit]

NOTE: An asterisk (*) designates a track that was re-recorded for either a later season of the TV show, a single/album by the theme song artist or this album. A double asterisk (**) denotes a track exclusive to the record and cassette versions only, and, except for the Japanese release on CBS/Sony, do not show up on any CD version.

Side A (LP and Cassette versions)

1. Peer Gynt: Morning Suite**
   Talking Voices (performed by): Don Pardo
   Music Composed by Edvard Grieg
2. Captain Kangaroo ('Puffin' Billy')*
   Music Composed by Edward White^[6]
3. The Little Rascals ('Good Old Days')
   Music Composed by Roy Shields
   First appeared in the 1930 Our Gang/Little Rascals short 'Teacher's Pet'^[7]
4. The Flintstones ('Meet the Flintstones')
   Background Vocals sung by The Skip-Jacks
   Instruments played by a '22-piece Jazz band'^[8]
   (Music & Lyrics) Written by Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
5. The Woody Woodpecker Show
   Music Composed by George Tibbles & Ramey Idriss
6. The Bugs Bunny Show ('The Bugs Bunny Overture (This Is It!)') Written by Jerry Livingston & Mack David
7. Casper the Friendly Ghost - Written by Jerry Livingston & M. David
8. Felix the Cat - Written by Winston Sharples^[9]
   Soprano Vocals performed by Ann Bennett^[10]
9. Popeye - Written by Sammy Lerner
   Music Arranged by Winston Sharples^[11]
10. Yogi Bear - Written by H. Curtin, W. Hanna & J. Barbera
11. Magilla Gorilla - Written by H. Curtin, W. Hanna & J. Barbera
12. Top Cat
    Written by H. Curtin, W. Hanna, J. Barbera & Evelyn Timmens
13. The Jetsons ('Meet George Jetson')
    Written by H. Curtin, W. Hanna & J. Barbera
14. Fireball XL5 - Written by Barry Gray
    Vocals sung by Don Spencer^[12]
15. Howdy Doody
    Lyrics Written by Buffalo Bob Smith & Edward Kean^[13]
    Talking Voices: Buffalo Bob Smith
    Background Vocals: 'A Choir of 40-Children'
    Music based on the vaudeville song 'Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay',^[14] originally credited as composed by Henry J. Sayers
16. Test of the Emergency Broadcast System - Duck and Cover**
    EBS Voice: Don Pardo^[15]
    'Duck and Cover' Songwriting Credited to Civil Defense Department

Side B

1. The Beverly Hillbillies ('The Ballad of Jed Clampett')*
   Performed by Flatt & Scruggs featuring Jerry Scoggins
   Written by Paul Henning
2. Petticoat Junction* - Written by P. Henning & Curt Massey
   Vocals sung by Curt Massey^[16]
3. Green Acres - Performed by Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor
   Written by Vic Mizzy
4. Mister Ed - Vocals Performed by Jay Livingston
   Music Composed by Jay Livingston
   Lyrics Written by Ray Evans
5. The Munsters* - Music Composed by Jack Marshall
6. The Addams Family - Written & Arranged by Vic Mizzy
   Background Vocals: Vic Mizzy
   Finger Snaps^[17] & Additional Voices:^[18]Ted Cassidy
7. My Three Sons* - Music Composed by Frank De Vol
8. The Donna Reed Show* -
   Music Composed by Howard Greenfield & Jack Keller^[19]
9. Leave It to Beaver ('The Toy Parade')* -
   Music Composed by Dave Kahn, Melvyn Leonard & Mort Greene
10. Dennis the Menace* -
    Music Composed by John Seely & William Loose
11. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis* -
    Music Composed by Lionel Newman
    Lyrics Written by Max Shulman
    Vocals performed by Judd Conlon's Rhythmaires^[20]
12. The Patty Duke Show
    Written by Robert Wells, Sid Ramin & Harry Geller^[21]
    Vocals Sung by The Skip-Jacks^[22]
13. The Dick Van Dyke Show* - Music Composed by Earle Hagen
14. Gilligan's Island ('The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle')* -
    Written by George Wyle & Sherwood Schwartz
15. McHale's Navy* - Music Composed by Axel Stordahl
16. I Dream of Jeannie ('Jeannie')* -
    Music Composed by Hugo Montenegro & Buddy Kaye
17. I Love Lucy* - Music Composed by Eliot Daniel & Harold Adamson
18. The Andy Griffith Show ('The Fishin' Hole')*
    Performed by Earle Hagen
    Music Composed by E. Hagen & Herbert W. Spencer^[23]
19. Please Stand By** - Voices: Don Pardo

Side C

1. Star Trek ('Theme from Star Trek')* - Written by Alexander Courage
   Monologue Voice narrated by William Shatner^[24]
   Soprano Vocals sung by Loulie Jean Norman^[25]
2. Lost In Space* - Music Composed by Johnny T. Williams
3. The Twilight Zone* - Music Composed by Marius Constant
4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents ('Funeral March of a Marionette')*
   Music Composed by Charles Gounod^[26]
5. Superman ('Superman March')
   Written^[27] & Arranged^[28] by Leon Klatzkin
   Narrator Voiced by Bill Kennedy^[29][30]
6. Batman* - Written by Neal Hefti
   Contains replayed elements from 'To the Batmobile', as performed by Nelson Riddle with Adam West & Burt Ward,^[31] with Dialog written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.^[32]
7. Flipper* - Music Composed by Henry Vars
   Lyrics Written by William 'By' Dunham
8. Combat! - Music Composed by Leonard Rosenman
9. The Rifleman* - Music Composed by Herschel Burke Gilbert
10. Bonanza* - Performed by Al Caiola
    Music Composed by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
11. Branded - Written by Dominic Frontiere & Alan Alch
12. F Troop - Written by William Lava & Irving Taylor^[33]
13. Rin Tin Tin - Music Composed by Stanley Keyana^[34]
14. Daniel Boone* - Music Composed by Lionel Newman
    Lyrics Written by Ken Darby
    Lyrics Credited to Vera Matson^[35]
15. The Wild Wild West* - Music Composed by Richard Markowitz
16. The Lone Ranger (Music taken from 'William Tell Overture')
    Music Composed by Gioachino Rossini
    Music Arranged by Ben Bonnell^[36]
    Orchestra conducted by Daniel Perez Castaneda^[37]
    Narrator Voices: Gerald Mohr & Fred Foy^[38]
    Sampled Voice ('Hi-Yo Silver'): Earle W. Graser^[39]
17. The Roy Rogers Show ('Happy Trails')
    Written by Dale Evans & Foy Willing^[40]
18. We Interrupt This Program - News Medley**
    Additional Voices: Don Pardo
    Featuring Music Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

Side D

1. Mission: Impossible* - Music Composed by Lalo Schifrin
2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Music Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
3. Get Smart* - Music Composed by Irving Szathmary
4. Secret Agent Man* - Performed by Johnny Rivers^[41]
   Written by P. F. Sloan & Steve Barri^[42]
5. Dragnet ('Theme and March')* - Performed by Ray Anthony
   Written by Walter Schumann
   Music based on the 'Main Title', from the 1946 film 'The Killers', composed & performed by Miklós Rózsa^[43]
6. Perry Mason ('Park Avenue Beat')* -
   Music composed by Fred Steiner
7. Adam-12 - Written by Frank Comstock
8. The F.B.I. - Music Composed by Bronisław Kaper
9. Hawaii Five-O* - Performed by The Ventures
   Music Composed by Morton Stevens
10. 77 Sunset Strip* - Written by Jerry Livingston & Mack David
11. Surfside 6 - Written by Jerry Livingston & M. David
12. Ironside* - Music Composed by Quincy Jones
13. Mannix* - Music Composed by L. Schifrin
14. The Mod Squad - Music Composed by Earle Hagen
15. The Tonight Show ('Johnny's Theme')* -
    Music Composed by Johnny Carson & Paul Anka
16. The Late Show ('The Syncopated Clock')^[1]* -
    Music Composed by Leroy Anderson
17. WTV Toons Sign-Off - The Star-Spangled Banner** -
    Voices: Don Pardo
    Music Composed by Francis Scott Key

Reception[edit]

Alongside Television's Greatest Hits Volume II, the compilation was described by CD Review as 'organized as a theoretical average viewing day'. CD Review jokingly commented that the compilation would be 'highly effective during interrogations' by the FBI.^[44]

References[edit]

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2. ^'Television's Greatest Hits - TV Theme 6-packs'. Oglio Records. September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
3. ^Don Pardo's 'WTV Toons Sign On' Sample of Edvard Grieg's 'Morning Mood'. WhoSampled.com. http://www.whosampled.com/sample/208098/Don-Pardo-WTV-Toons-Sign-on-(Peer-Gynt-Morning-Suite)-Edvard-Grieg-Morning-Mood/
4. ^Bush, John. 'Rewind - Hexstatic - Album Description'. Qobuz. 1 August 2000. http://www.qobuz.com/ie-en/album/rewind-hexstatic/5051083020312
5. ^Don Pardo's 'We Interrupt the Program..News Medley' Sample of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 9: Scherzo'. WhoSampled.com. http://www.whosampled.com/sample/207894/Don-Pardo-We-Interrupt-the-Program..News-Medley-Ludwig-Van-Beethoven-Symphony-No.-9%3A-Scherzo/
6. ^'TV's Greatest Hits - Captain Kangaroo (Puffin' Billy)'. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 16 September 2012. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IsWgt3v-WNA
7. ^Edwards, Bobb. 'Leroy Shield'. Find a Grave. 3 April 2012. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88041033
8. ^Gailer, Sharon. '13 of the Best-Ever Telly Theme Songs'. Life Death Prizes. 9 September 2015. http://www.lifedeathprizes.com/lists/best-ever-tv-theme-songs-31271
9. ^'TV's Greatest Hits - Felix The Cat'. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 20 September 2012. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8530B78QX1Q
10. ^Sanders, Rebekah L. 'Glendale Singer marks 'Felix the Cat' theme's 50th year'. Azcentral.com. 8 April 2009. http://archive.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2009/04/08/20090408gl-felix0408-ON.html
11. ^'Popeye the Sailor TV Series (1960-62): Full Cast and Crew' - Series Music Department. IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145628/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
12. ^'Theme Time..Fireball XL5'. So It Goes.. 6 September 2015. http://randomramblingsthoughtsandfiction.blogspot.com/2015/09/theme-time-barry-gray-don-spencer.html?m=1
13. ^Hevesi, Dennis. 'Edward Kean..Dies at 85'. The New York Times. 24 August 2010. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/arts/25kean.html
14. ^Kittrels, Alonzo. 'It's Howdy Doody Reminiscing Time'. The Philadelphia Tribune. 28 January 2017. http://www.phillytrib.com/lifestyle/it-s-howdy-doody-reminiscing-time/article_7a240fd6-762d-501e-b799-8b260bc9ec91.html
15. ^'Television's Greatest Hits..Duck and Cover..'. YouTube: Wileyk209zback. 24 September 2013. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5GZNJijWlQ
16. ^Massey, Curt. 'Petticoat Junction (Thene from the CBS television production)'. YouTube: Michael McKenna. 4 November 2014. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mcDQS94SE
17. ^'The Addams Family Theme Song'. Movie Theme Songs & TV Soundtracks. http://www.themoviethemesong.com/the-addams-family-tv-theme-song/
18. ^Shaw, James. 'Original Addams Family Theme..'. Otaku no Culture. 11 August 2016. https://otakunoculture.com/2016/08/11/original-addams-family-theme-goes-remix-and-lurch-busts-a-move-in-music-video/
19. ^'Howard Greenfield'. Page 4 of 22. Songwriters Hall of Fame. http://songwritershalloffame.org/index.php/songs/detailed/C132/P60/
20. ^'TV's Greatest Hits - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 27 July 2013. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVluFjhZLc
21. ^TV's Greatest Hits - The Patty Duke Show'. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 27 July 2013. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OwPVpDUvT0k
22. ^'10 Fascinating Factoids about 'The Patty Duke Show'. MeTV.com. 15 December 2015. http://www.metv.com/lists/10-fascinating-factoids-about-the-patty-duke-show
23. ^'TV's Greatest Hits - The Andy Griffith Show'. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 29 July 2013. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2R4-IdC5vkA
24. ^Deezen, Eddie. 'The Star Trek Theme Song Has Lyrics'. Mental Floss. 2 October 2011. http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=28895
25. ^Bernstein, Adam. 'Alexander Courage..'Star Trek'. Washington Post. 31 May 2008. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053003013.html
26. ^'TV's Greatest Hits - Alfred Hitchcock Presents. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 31 July 2013. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKZdWr4VYY
27. ^'TV's Greatest Hits - Superman'. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 31 July 2013. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X5eMQBJcUik
28. ^'The Adventures of Superman - Main Theme: 'Superman MS'. http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/superman.html
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31. ^TeeVee Toons Inc's 'Batman' Sample of Nelson Riddle, Adam West & Burt Ward's 'To the Batmobile'. WhoSampled.com. http://www.whosampled.com/sample/144519/TeeVee-Toons,-Inc.-Batman-Nelson-Riddle-Adam-West-Burt-Ward-To-the-Batmobile!/
32. ^Riddle, Nelson. 'Batman: Original TV Soundtrack (CD, Album, Reissue)'. Mercury. 1989. https://www.discogs.com/Nelson-Riddle-Batman-Original-TV-Soundtrack/release/4185185
33. ^'TV's Greatest Hits: F Troop'. YouTube: ThePeacekeeperj3l. 1 August 2013. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WnnJhbI0M94
34. ^Television's Greatest Hits Band. 'Rin Tin Tin'. Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/song/rin-tin-tin-mt0046764175
35. ^'Vera Matson'. Discogs. https://www.discogs.com/artist/636369-Vera-Matson
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External links[edit]

• Television's Greatest Hits at Oglio Records

When I heard that actor Ken Berry had died this month, I felt sadness for the passing of an actor whose work I had enjoyed over the years.

But that didn’t match the words and music that immediately began playing in my head: “The end of the Civil War was near/When quite accidentally/A hero who sneezed, abruptly seized/Retreat, and reversed it to victory.”

Theme Songs From Tv Shows In The 60's

For baby boomers, or any fan of '60s sitcoms, those lyrics are instantly recognizable from the opening theme of “F Troop,” a silly ABC comedy that featured Berry as the inept commander of an incompetent frontier military unit. The show is mostly forgettable – except for its self-explanatory theme song. (It's badly dated today. As with the series itself, the “F Troop” theme contains the kind of insulting reference to Native Americans that was standard then but unacceptable today, unless it’s the name of an NFL team.)

The memory of that goofy theme made me smile and think of the whole genre of ‘60s sitcoms predicated on ideas so nutty – high concept, in today's jargon – that they essentially required directions in the form of theme songs that explained the show's premise. (Theme songs are mostly memories these days, the victims of shows squeezed for time to sell more commercials).

More: Ken Berry, star of 'F Troop,' 'Mama's Family' and 'Mayberry R.F.D.,' has died at 85

Most Recognizable Theme Songs

“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale/a tale of a fateful trip/that started from this tropic port/aboard this tiny ship …” – you know the rest – and you’ll know everything about “Gilligan’s Island” by the end of the opening credits.

The theme from 'The Beverly Hillbillies' lays out the fish-out-of-cement-pond story of a plainspoken mountain man striking oil – i.e., 'bubblin' crude, black gold, Texas tea' – and moving his clan to snobby “Beverly/Hills, that is/swimming pools, movie stars.”

And at a time when divorce was becoming more commonplace, “The Brady Bunch” theme – another musical explainer from “Gilligan’s” creator Sherwood Schwartz – features lyrics that set forth the concept of a blended family, fairly new to many viewers at the time: “’Til the one day when the lady met this fellow/And they knew that it was much more than a hunch/That this group must somehow form a family/That’s the way we all became the Brady bunch.”

The kooky sitcom trend was popular at a time when broadcast networks were the only game in town, attracting big, broad audiences of every age, including kids who are now adults with theme songs taking up too much shelf space in their brains.

Other shows that laid out an entire fantastical storyline in a theme song include: “Mr. Ed,” about a talking horse; “The Patty Duke Show,” which introduced viewers to 'identical cousins'; and “Green Acres,” the wonderfully off-kilter tale of a country-loving husband (“Fresh air”) and cosmopolitan wife (“Times Square”) that might be worth reconsidering with today’s urban/rural divide (keep Arnold Ziffel, the pig who was treated like a human boy, but ditch the husband claiming his right to force the wife to move to a farm. Again, a ‘60s blindspot.).

Some one-season wonders, as in “I wonder how that got on,” are remembered, if at all, solely because of their opening songs. How many people have never seen “My Mother, the Car,” an automotive embrace of reincarnation, but can remember that Jerry Van Dyke's mom had turned into a caustic 1928 Porter? Schwartz also produced the time-travel comedy, 'It's About Time,' which had the distinction of two theme songs, one explaining astronauts who traveled back to the Stone Age, and a midseason reversal that had the astronauts and cavemen returning to the present in an effort to beef up lagging ratings. (Didn't work.)

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Other ‘60s shows featured similar, if less explicit themes, including “The Addams Family;” “Petticoat Junction;” and a couple of primetime cartoons, “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons.” “The Monkees” turned a theme that introduced the rock band at the center of the show into an actual chart hit.

Theme Songs From Tv Shows Game

By the ‘70s, the crazy concepts started fading away, along with the need for detailed theme-song explanations. Some great shows, such as “Maude” and “The Jeffersons,” explained themselves to a degree with opening numbers, as did some less great entries, such as “The Love Boat.”

While the 'Cheers” theme didn’t lay out the story of friendship at a neighborhood bar, millions can identify the phrase “where everybody knows your name,” which is synonymous with the '80s sitcom. And, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” had the meta-theme of all time to match the show’s matter-of-fact genius: “This is the theme to Garry’s show/The opening theme to Garry’s show/This is the music that you hear/As you watch the credits.”

In the ‘90s, budding superstar Will Smith, in collaboration with DJ Jazzy Jeff, rapped an explanation of how he became “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” creating one of the catchiest and most popular themes of all time.

If broadcast networks no longer have time for theme songs, pay-cable networks and streaming services have no such restrictions. HBO's 'Silicon Valley' offers a funny, detailed visual explanation of its tech-heavy address, while Netflix's 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' features a creative opening theme that plays off tabloid-style reporting about the kidnapping and release of the title character.

And, there’s at least one current show, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” that pays homage to TV’s crazy past. Forza horizon 4 crack watch.

In its Season 1 theme, the series, which finishes its CW run in early 2019, laid out the story of how lawyer Rebecca Bunch gave up her high-paying New York legal job “to move to West Covina, California/Brand-new pals and new career/It happens to be where Josh lives/But that’s not why I’m here!” And, “Crazy” has brilliantly rewritten its theme over four seasons to reflect its changing story.

So, thanks, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” for keeping a fun, sometimes witty and always pleasingly goofy tradition alive. And thanks, Ken Berry, for memories of a time in TV that we might as well embrace, because, as the “F Troop” earworm attests, it's going to be with us forever.