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Your most resonant game show music....
BrandonFG:
Forgot to add “Hot Potato”. I’ve used it as interstitial music while hosting Music Bingo/Bar Trivia.
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on September 06, 2024, 09:16:25 PM ---Forgot to add “Hot Potato”. I’ve used it as interstitial music while hosting Music Bingo/Bar Trivia.
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This brings up another topic which I've thought about for a while. I guess most of us here have collections of theme songs. Besides listening to them on your own, do you get any other use out of them?
My wife and I have been in the ballroom dance community for a number of years and for several of those years, I've been DJing ballroom parties. Each party we have about a half-dozen door prizes that are drawn during the evening. Whenever a prize is drawn, I'll throw a game show theme in the background when the winner comes up to claim it. I'm sure at least some of the people must recognize a few of them, but at least I get enjoyment out of exposing these people to them! Probably some are thinking "...where have I heard that before?"
chris319:
TPIR has a wonderful music library dating back to 1972. Unfortunately the way they mix the audio now, the music is buried under George Gray and the roar and shrieking of the studio audience, so you can barely hear it. This is ironic because they are paying for music performance rights, a production person to cue and time the music, plus a technician to operate the playback equipment.
Edd Kalehoff did not compose all of the music for TPIR. Some of it was composed by the late Walt Levinsky, esp. the cue that became the FF theme. Levinsky was one of the many ghost composers used by Score Prods, including Edd Kalehoff, Charles Fox, Michel Camilo, Gary Anderson, Ken Bichel (Match Game) and who knows who else.
The Ol' Guy:
So many, but tops on the list is the 60s Bob Cobert Password theme. As a fan of the big band/orchestra sound, this bright piece captures the Bert Kaempfert style popular in that era. Also have fond memories of our first infant child's attention being captured by the openings of Chain Reaction and Bullseye back when they were on CBN Cable. Other top ones are Rafferty's Blockbusters and Robin Ward's To Tell The Truth, which, with a touch of editing, would be great for The Price Is Right.
Loogaroo:
The closing theme to Super Password is one of the brightest, most cheerful pieces of music I've ever heard. I remember when the '80s TV Theme SuperSite first came online - I made a beeline for that clip.
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