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Worst Music?
SuperSweeper:
--- Quote from: chris319 on April 24, 2020, 07:56:27 PM ---For Password Plus, Bob Israel proposed that we use the TPIR cue used for "Most Expensive", but it was turned down.
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Second Thoughts?
chris319:
--- Quote from: SuperSweeper on April 25, 2020, 06:55:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: chris319 on April 24, 2020, 07:56:27 PM ---For Password Plus, Bob Israel proposed that we use the TPIR cue used for "Most Expensive", but it was turned down.
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Second Thoughts?
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Yes.
I don't know how they came up with the music we ultimately used in such a short time.
whewfan:
Just played Second Thoughts to refresh my memory of how it sounds. It's definitely better as a prize cue and not a main theme. The second part of the cue sounds like the inspiration for the Password Plus commercial cue actually used.
chargeradiocom:
As a music geek, I’m finding this thread fascinating.
--- Quote from: tyshaun1 on April 24, 2020, 10:22:17 AM ---Thing is, especially by the 80's, most game show themes were taken from existing music.
Hit Man theme = "Worlds Away" by Pablo Cruise
Press Your Luck theme = "Flash" by Keith Mansfield
Blockbusters 87 theme = "Run, Don't Walk" by Richard Myhill
Hot Potato open and close = "Stop, Look and Listen" by Donna Summer, "You Make Me Feel" by Sylvester
Body Language theme = "Working Girl March" (though I would argue the Classic Concentration theme sounds more like it)
Whew!, Go, Wordplay, and Dream House are other examples shows that used existing music for their pilots and simply borrowed elements of them for the series music.
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Interesting. I wouldn’t have probably made the connection between “Working Girl March” and the BL/CC themes, but I see your point. Though the Body Language theme—the bass line at least—has almost always reminded me of Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.”
Also... I wasn’t familiar with “Flash” except from the Ludia PYL video game. And here I was ready to declare it as one of the worst themes (if we can count video game-only themes for the purposes of this thread) because of how closely it ripped off the PYL TV theme. Apparently the TV theme was the actual ripoff. ;D
Though that leaves a question in my mind... Why would they have decided to license an actual song for the PYL video game? I assumed they didn’t use the TV theme because of some rights issue (though I was surprised Fremantle seemingly didn’t own it free & clear for that purpose), but I’d expect it would cost them even more to license a “real” song.
Neumms:
--- Quote from: vtown7 on April 25, 2020, 06:50:12 PM ---I feel like this is an enjoyable alternative to the the LVG theme...
Ryan.
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Yes! They should also have worked the deer into the game.
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