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KrisW73:
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Jun 26 2003, 12:24 PM\']
If someone could oblige by explaining what "We're close as a quarter after three" means, I'd appreciate it!

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 Look at a clock with hands at quarter after three...

Mike Tennant:
[quote name=\'KrisW73\' date=\'Jun 26 2003, 01:51 PM\']Look at a clock with hands at quarter after three...[/quote]
Ahhhhh. . .I get it now.  Usually I'm pretty sharp with these kinds of things, too.  Thanks.

tomobrien:
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Jun 26 2003, 09:49 AM\']After a fascinating conversation with the Oscar winning songwriting team Livingston-Evans (hundreds of compositions - everything from Doris Day's \"Buttons and Bows\" to the \"Mr. Ed\" theme!) Ray Evans mailed me an autographed copy of their original lyrics to.... TV's BONANZA theme! He writes: \"You are now one of the few people of the world to know that there are lyrics to BONANZA, and what they are.\" Did anyone know about this one? I sure didn't. It starts:

\"We got a right to pick a little fight,
Bonanza!
If anyone fights anyone of us
He's gotta fight with me.\"


Randy
tvrandywest.com[/quote]
If memory serves, the end of the 'Bonanza' pilot features the Cartwrights actually riding and singing the theme as they ride along.  (I can't recall if it's that exact theme or something similar to it.)  Hey, what else was there to do in the old West but ride around the range with your brothers, singing show tunes?

tomobrien:
[quote name=\'MyronMMeyer\' date=\'Jun 26 2003, 01:10 PM\']The books you want for this are John Javna's TV Theme Song Singalong Song Book, Volumes 1 and 2.  These books will make you king of the trivia.

If Rhino Records hasn't done this compilation, they should.  Lyrical versions of instrumental theme songs.  I'd buy it.
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Rhino did do a vinyl version of the Javna book years ago. It does have some of the vocal versions mentioned in previous posts (like the Arnaz \"I Love Lucy\") but most of them (like \"Hogan's Heroes\" and \"Leave it to Beaver\") are just instrumentals.

DrBear:
This post is going to lose 90 percent of its effectiveness because I can't sing on this board - Work on this, Matt! - but I do remember seeing Rob Reiner on one of the late night talk shows - possibly Carson - singing the words to the theme from \"Lawman.\" Very dramatic.

Getting back to game shows very slightly...

Doesn't it seem that themes for game shows always seem to have one motif with a number of beats matching the number of syllables in the show's title: Example, \"Swingin' Safari\" for
The Match Game, The Match Game, The Match Game, The Match Game...\"

or the four-note fanfare for TPIR or even the eight-note dramatic motif for \"Millionaire\"

So even without lyrics, the thought is there.

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