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Theme Songs
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BettyLouSpence
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Re: Theme Songs
The theme song for Barney Miller. It's so unmistakeably seventies
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=roHYXrLhmHc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=roHYXrLhmHc
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show
a fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
and celluloid heroes never really die...
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
a fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
and celluloid heroes never really die...
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Re: Theme Songs
Dick Cavett had a number of incarnations of his television show, and a for the end theme of one, there is this kind of haunting song that the band plays. Tonight I googled it, and found out that it's Glitter and Be Gay from a play called Candide.
Here's a piano version.
And listening to the whole thing, I just realized the happy, quick opening is also this song! The power of revelation!
https://youtu.be/1EIg8ykuVh4
Here's a piano version.
And listening to the whole thing, I just realized the happy, quick opening is also this song!
The power of revelation!https://youtu.be/1EIg8ykuVh4
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Re: Theme Songs
That's a really unique theme for the show, isn't it? 
The only part of the Candide operetta I'm familiar with is the sparkling overture. That's been one of my favorite pieces to listen to for a long time. Bernstein scored it for orchestra, but there's also a much-played arrangement of it for wind band. I was in on a performance of it in college. A fun piece, but easy, it ain't.
So it was interesting to hear this other piece from it, so different in character.
Here's the overture, if you want to give it a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haYuPdKZKYc
The only part of the Candide operetta I'm familiar with is the sparkling overture. That's been one of my favorite pieces to listen to for a long time. Bernstein scored it for orchestra, but there's also a much-played arrangement of it for wind band. I was in on a performance of it in college. A fun piece, but easy, it ain't.
So it was interesting to hear this other piece from it, so different in character.
Here's the overture, if you want to give it a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haYuPdKZKYc
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BettyLouSpence
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Re: Theme Songs
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show
a fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
and celluloid heroes never really die...
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
a fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
and celluloid heroes never really die...
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Re: Theme Songs
This made me think of a video I ran across awhile back about great bass playing in classic TV show themes. The bass work by Chuck Rainey for Sanford and Son was ranked near the top. This was interesting, because I'd never really thought about that bass line separately nor appreciated how much it contributed to the uniqueness of that theme. It really just makes it.
(If the link to exact time doesn't work, go to 7:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaG4XP5dabg&t=442s