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TPIR Cliffhangers music:
SRIV94:
[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.\"[/quote]
So that I don't step on anyone's toes by quoting things without permission, I bring this website to everyone's attention:
http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/lyrics.html
While it shows the lyrics that Randy posted from Ray Evans (albeit at the end rather than at the beginning), it also shows a set of lyrics that I seem to recall hearing a Lorne Greene recording of at one time or another. Not saying this is the definitive authority (in other words, not necessarily Dr. Reason A. Goodwin), but I found it interesting nevertheless.
Doug
uncamark:
--- Quote ---Now, this begs a question. I Dream of Jeannie has two themes -- one for the first season, and one for seasons 2-5. Which one has lyrics?
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I believe they both do. Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote the first one, which seems to imply that there were lyrics, though I haven't been able to find them anywhere.
--- End quote ---
Dave Mackey, who I tend to trust more on these sort of things, says that a gentleman named Richard Wess wrote the first season theme, not Goffin and King. As far as we know, no lyrics (although the first part of the theme seems like it was written for someone to sing \"Jeannie, Jeannie...\").
mmb5:
[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jun 26 2003, 03:37 PM\'] 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. [/quote]
I always thought this on two others: Break the Bank ('70s) and Now You See It. Johnny O helped out by attempting to put Now You See It in rythym.
clemon79:
[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Jun 26 2003, 03:46 PM\'] I always thought this on two others: Break the Bank ('70s) and Now You See It. Johnny O helped out by attempting to put Now You See It in rythym. [/quote]
The Millionaire fanfare HAS to have been written with The Phrase in mind. Just HAS to be.
As for NYSI, remember that \"Chump Change\" was originally used on \"The New Bill Cosby Show\" and released on a Quincy Jones album before it was tapped for NYSI. So I think that is just a case of fortunate happenstance.
PeterMarshallFan:
If you've ever heard the crappy alternate NYSI theme that was only used for one week in 1975, that's quite blatantly got the title in its music.
Now you see it...now you see it....now you see-e it....Now you see it....Now you see it...Now you see-e it...
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