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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Ian Wallis on April 20, 2014, 04:21:42 PM
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When GSN released the two game show theme CDs a decade ago, in my area several of them popped up regularly as background music on morning radio shows. The ones I heard more frequently are $25,000 Pyramid, Family Feud and Price is Right. These days I hear $10,000 Pyramid (although edited by the station) and Password more often than the others. Oddly enough, I hear Match Game and Newlywed Game on the local sports radio station (of all places) during various promotions.
Are any of these themes still used on stations in your areas?
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Back when I lived in Maine, one homebuilder (called "Showcase Homes") used the theme from The Price is Right in its radio ads (and even closed their ads with "These showcase homes can be YOURS if The Price is Right!" or something similar)
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Many years ago (or "Many Tears Ago," as Connie Francis sang back in 1960), former Starcade host Mark Richards had his "Radio Game Show Party" in San Diego (KOGO), then in Los Angeles (KFI), and finally in Las Vegas (KVEN). He played the themes to Wheel Of Fortune, Jeopardy, and even Press Your Luck when he featured games based on those shows. I got to participate on his show a couple of times in the late 1980s.
Cordially,
Tammy
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Not a theme, but on Sirius XM, one of my favorite programs, The All Out Show has a segment where they will play the original Jeopardy! think music.
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Here in Toronto, we have a program called Sunday Morning Trivia on CFRB-AM. They play different quiz games in each of the two hours that the show runs, one is The Chain Game (each question goes off a word or phrase that either was in or sounds like something that was in the previous question), which uses the 1980 Chain Reaction theme; the other is Child's Play (you must get 4/6 right on a card from the 1984 Young Player's edition of Trivial Pursuit), using the appropriate theme as well.
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On certain Howard Stern Show game segments, Fred will play some random game show's theme as the segment's theme. I know one of the shows from last week had the Tic-Tac-Dough theme. A segment similar to an actual show (such as "The Newlyweird Game") will get the original show's theme as well.
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The local FM sports radio station's morning show has a game played twice a week called Ahead or Behind? The TPiR theme is used as intro music and at the end of the game. The same morning show does a weekly co-host vs. producer pop culture challenge named The Idiot Pop Quiz, which uses the Password Plus theme as both intro music and background music.
/Won the much sought-after Kiley and Booms toenail clippers on Ahead or Behind? a year and a half ago
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The local "greatest hits of all time" (really only the British Invasion through the 80s, and lots of stuff that was a big hit during that time frame not being included) hs a bunch of promos that are one of their extended slogans voiced over one or another TV theme. Several of them are game shows, including TPIR, Pyramid, and Match Game but not Jeopardy; other non-game shows I can remember offhand are one of the Cosby Show themes and I think the Rockford Files.
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One of our local radio stations (94.1?) has used several game show themes for its call-in games. I've heard the original Jackpot! theme a couple of times, and if my memory is correct, the Las Vegas Gambit theme has been used, as well.
Elvis Duran has used the Tic Tac Dough theme a few times for his call-in games.
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I remember hearing the 1971 Password theme in the background on a station around here once. This particular station was hooked up to a preprogrammed country music feed from Dial Global, and I just randomly heard that song in the background during a bumper. It really struck out since a.) I don't know if that particular theme is on any CDs or not, and b.) I had never heard them use game show music before or since. (They switched to classic rock last May.)
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I remember hearing the 1971 Password theme in the background on a station around here once. This particular station was hooked up to a preprogrammed country music feed from Dial Global, and I just randomly heard that song in the background during a bumper. It really struck out since a.) I don't know if that particular theme is on any CDs or not
A version thereof [not the one used on air---said variant is also at TVPMM] is on the first GSN theme CD.
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When I was the news director at WSIN 1590 AM, I used the 70s Break The Bank theme for my weekly news show's intro/outro.
Here's what that sounded like. (https://soundcloud.com/christian-carrion/wsin-weekly-news-5-intro)
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When I was doing production in Nashville, a little over ten years ago, I used the '71 Password theme for a promo. Perfectly legal. But another production guy grabbed it from my files, unbeknownst to me, and used it for an actual commercial. Oops!
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I mentioned the Idiot Pop Quiz on 92.3 The Fan here in Cleveland. Today's Idiot Pop Quiz was about our favorite TV genre. All but question 7 should fall under the category of pre-requisite knowledge before entering here.
http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2014/04/25/kiley-booms-on-demand-rundown-for-425-2/ It's the 2nd item on the page, at 7:44.
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I mentioned the Idiot Pop Quiz on 92.3 The Fan here in Cleveland. Today's Idiot Pop Quiz was about our favorite TV genre.
I correctly guessed the Newlywed Game answer at the time the first guy buzzed in. :)
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KQMV (Movin' 92.5 FM) morning show, "Brooke and Jubal In The Morning" do a segment called "Shock Collar Trivia". When the segment starts, and up until the question is asked, the music bed is the "Supermarket Sweep" theme (the later theme). Then it goes to (I think) WWTBAM background ($25000 level, IIRC).
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They also do their own twist on the Best of Ten Test of Knowledge, which is a fun little diversion. (using music from Classic Concentration) I think the folks up at 107.7 FM did it better as Beat the Producer, though.
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Actually, I just heard the MG theme (TV edit) on Star 99.1 promoting their "Match Game" (which is more like Concentration, actually). The game itself uses the Fast Money answer reveal from 1988-now.
New Jersey 101.5 has a ton of usages, as their Friday evening games are often based on game shows. They do MG (using the GSN themes version), Pyramid, and Password (1971 theme). Here's something interesting: one of the other shows on 101.5 used what seems to be a cover of "Tuning Up." Way back when, they had the TPIR theme playing behind the rules and regulations for station contests.
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Oh yes, Deminski and Doyle on NJ101.5 still play Friday games & use the theme songs whenever possible. The bad CD cut of "Match Game" was the most recent.
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Here's something interesting: one of the other shows on 101.5 used what seems to be a cover of "Tuning Up."
I'm guessing it's the version on this loathsome album: http://www.amazon.com/Seen-Game-Show-Theme-Songs/dp/B0011NDAXY
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Here's something interesting: one of the other shows on 101.5 used what seems to be a cover of "Tuning Up."
I'm guessing it's the version on this loathsome album: http://www.amazon.com/Seen-Game-Show-Theme-Songs/dp/B0011NDAXY
Good lord, they want nine bones for that? It sounds like Super Nintendo music.
The Feud theme is particularly bad. Almost succeeds the Genesis version as worst.
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Good lord, they want nine bones for that? It sounds like Super Nintendo music.
There are companies out there whose primary thing seems to be to watch for whatever song is hot, pump out a shitty cover as quickly as possible, and get it up on the Amazon store in the hopes that someone buys it by accident instead of the original track.
So I cannot be surprised that they want nine bones for that.
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Good lord, they want nine bones for that? It sounds like Super Nintendo music.
There are companies out there whose primary thing seems to be to watch for whatever song is hot, pump out a shitty cover as quickly as possible, and get it up on the Amazon store in the hopes that someone buys it by accident instead of the original track.
So I cannot be surprised that they want nine bones for that.
Funny you bring that up.
Years ago, back when Chumbawamba was still quasirelevant, my brother picked up a CD single of what was said to be remixes of their one and only hit.
And they were remixes. Of some douchebag's cover of it.
Couldn't have enough whiskey drinks, vodka drinks, lager drinks or cider drinks to make it sound tolerable.
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Years ago, back when Chumbawamba was still quasirelevant
So those couple of months between "Tubthumping" and "Amnesia", then? :)
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I've heard those shitty mixes on Spotify. Wanted to listen to a nice theme song playlist at work, and got treated to what sounded like karaoke versions, and not just game show themes. "The Hit Crew" also managed to bastardize the Rockford Files and Magnum, P.I. themes.
Insulted, my intelligence was.
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I've heard those shitty mixes on Spotify. Wanted to listen to a nice theme song playlist at work, and got treated to what sounded like karaoke versions, and not just game show themes. "The Hit Crew" also managed to bastardize the Rockford Files and Magnum, P.I. themes.
Insulted, my intelligence was.
IMHO, even Mike Post was able to bastardize Rockford Files on the later albums and TV specials. Blame it on the 90s I guess.