The theme song for Barney Miller. It's so unmistakeably seventies
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=roHYXrLhmHc
Theme Songs
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Re: Theme Songs
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
~ Cicero, Letters to Friends, Book IX Letter IV
~ Cicero, Letters to Friends, Book IX Letter IV
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