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GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Jun 25 2003, 08:02 PM\'] Believe me, the Star Trek theme does have real lyrics.  I sang them in show choir a number of years ago. [/quote]
 Do I have to plug another Yahoo! group here?  As a member of the Opening Credits Squad, I uncovered many themes thought to be instrumentals but actually have lyrics.  Among them:
[*]I Love Lucy
[*]Bewitched
[*]I Dream of Jeannie
[*]Hawaii Five-O
[*]The Flying Nun
[/list]
There are too many too name here.

tomobrien:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Jun 25 2003, 08:07 PM\']Do I have to plug another Yahoo! group here?  As a member of the Opening Credits Squad, I uncovered many themes thought to be instrumentals but actually have lyrics.  Among them:
[*]I Love Lucy
[*]Bewitched
[*]I Dream of Jeannie
[*]Hawaii Five-O
[*]The Flying Nun
[/list]
[/quote]
Some of those really didn't take a whole lot of \"uncovering\"...Desi Arnaz recorded a vocal version of the \"Lucy\" theme; Peggy Lee (and others) recorded \"Bewitched\" and Hugo Montenegro's chorus recorded \"I Dream of Jeannie.\"
All of these were released around the times their respective shows were on in prime time.  There are lots of other examples, too, like Sarah Vaughan's recording of the \"Mr. Lucky\" theme...

tvrandywest:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Jun 25 2003, 08:07 PM\'][*]I Love Lucy
[*]Bewitched
[*]I Dream of Jeannie
[*]Hawaii Five-O
[*]The Flying Nun
[/list]
There are too many too name here.[/quote]
Yes, way too many. But I'll add one I'm particularly proud of having learned about.

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

Matt Ottinger:
What a wonderful thread!

Steve's right, of course, the Star Trek theme does have lyrics.  One of my favorite recent discoveries was that the original Dick Van Dyke show theme had lyrics.  Good ones, too, written by game show favorite Morey Amsterdam.  They sang the song (a couple of times, actually) on the TV Land Awards a while back.

Swinging interestingly back on topic, several of you have a copy of a CD I compiled that I called \"There Were Words To That?\".  It's a collection of game show themes that you wouldn't necessarily think of as having lyrics.  Some were obvious, even to non-game show fans (\"The Start of Something Big\", \"Hooray for Captain Spaulding\") but some were pretty obscure.  A Chuck Barris single called \"Lovee\" is the theme to The Gong Show and -- my personal favorite -- it turns out that the well-known Newlywed Game theme was originally a pop song Chuckie Baby wrote called \"Summertime Guy\".

Casey:
Just to follow up a little on what Randy West offered with Bonanza:

I learned this year about the lyrics, after watching a Season One episode of Cheers.  One of the bar patrons bragged that he knew all the lyrics to the Bonanza theme and proceeded to sing it, just as Randy stated.  Rather interesting. :)

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