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#489079 - Sat Aug 29 2009 03:01 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Even though the song wasn't created specifically for the show, I love the intro of "Big Love". The Beach Boys song "God Only Knows" is really beautiful and the intro is just great all around. Every time I watch "Big Love" I make sure not to miss the credits.
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#489080 - Sat Aug 29 2009 04:51 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Good pick...I liked the "Baretta" theme, too.

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#489081 - Sat Sep 19 2009 05:37 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Doctor Who.
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#489082 - Sat Sep 19 2009 06:12 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Here's a few more:

The Big Country - Elmer Bernstein.

Happy Days - Gimbel/Fox.

The Godfather Theme - Nino Rota.
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#489083 - Sun Sep 20 2009 03:10 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Sorry, RedViking, but Jerome Moross wrote the "Big Country" theme; you may have been thinking of Bernstein's "Magnificent Seven" theme (used in the Marlboro cigarette TV ads of long ago).

Among my favorite themes are David Raksin's for "The Bad and The Beautiful" and "Forever Amber", Elmer Bernstein's lovely "To Kill A Mockingbird", practically everything John Barry wrote, from the James Bond theme to "The Ipcress File" (listen to how he uses the cimbalom!), all of Barry Gray's work for the Gerry Anderson shows, especially the Thunderbirds March, and John Carpenter's "Escape From New York/L.A." theme.

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#489084 - Sun Sep 20 2009 06:18 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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I like Joan Jett's take on The Mary Tyler Moore Show's theme,"Love is All Around". Check it out!

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

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#489085 - Mon Sep 21 2009 06:42 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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I have never seen the show, but the theme from 'Van de Valk' is a lovely piece of music


I just found this thread and was going to mention this one. It really is outstanding, and so was the show.
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#489086 - Mon Sep 21 2009 07:18 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Hill Street Blues
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#489087 - Mon Sep 21 2009 07:31 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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MadMen is another show with a great theme, very haunting.
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#489088 - Tue Sep 22 2009 07:15 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Some of my favorites are Cheers, Golden Girls, Pink Panther cartoon, and Growing Pains. I also loved the one for Greatest American Hero and Knight Rider.

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#489089 - Tue Sep 22 2009 08:02 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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#489090 - Wed Sep 23 2009 09:48 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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#489091 - Thu Sep 24 2009 12:20 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Thet theme song of "Party of Five" was good too. I miss that show!
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#489092 - Thu Sep 24 2009 02:36 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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I have never seen the show, but the theme from 'Van de Valk' is a lovely piece of music. It is called 'Eye Level', by the Simon Park Orchestra. It was the Number one single in 1973, on the UK charts, and it is one of those songs that everyone knows, but no-one knows the name of it.



"... I thought that I had the world on the end of a string,
I thought that I was a millionaire ..."

LOVE it, it was the first theme music which popped into my head before even opening this thread to read the discussion!

oh, and I loved the show as well


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#489093 - Sat Sep 26 2009 01:30 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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I like a lot of Mike Post's music (Quantum Leap, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, Law and Order and Hill Street Blues.), but my favorite of all time has to be the Doctor Who theme in its many forms from 1963 to now.

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#489094 - Sun Sep 27 2009 05:52 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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#489095 - Fri Oct 09 2009 08:59 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Songs that made the Hit Parade...."

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#489096 - Sat Oct 10 2009 09:36 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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The music from the onedin Line I think it was.
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#489097 - Sat Oct 10 2009 10:13 AM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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All in the Family!



I have been told my singing is uncannily reminiscent of Edith Bunker's vocals on that song.
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#489098 - Tue Nov 03 2009 10:44 PM Re: Favorite Theme Music
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Bones - The Crystal Method
Psych - I Know You Know by Steve Franks
Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Nerf Herder
House - Teardrop by Massive Attack
Dead Zone - New Year's Prayer by Jeff Buckley
Angel- Darling Violetta
Scrubs - Superman by Lazlo Bane
Bosom Buddies - My Life by Billy Joel
Chuck - Short Skirt/Long Jacket by Cake
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