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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Jeremy Nelson on May 06, 2006, 08:46:27 PM
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Since the Page O Clips opened, the opening to the rare show The Neighbors has been posted. To me, it ranks up there with The Better Sex and All Star Blitz.
What do you guys think?
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I think that about did it for me as the all-time most annoying, appropriate for such an annoying show.
I'm in denial that Stan Worth was responsible for this. This music is just....CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!
Oh no..I'm starting to sing it...
--Jamie
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The Thousand Dollar Bee may be right up there with The Neighbors; it's the same 10-second "tune" looped badly over and over ad nauseum (literally).
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It IS cheap. It's only a woman speaking total gibberish.
The sad thing is, I could be talking about theme or the show
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[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'117910\' date=\'May 6 2006, 08:04 PM\']
It IS cheap. It's only a woman speaking total gibberish.
The sad thing is, I could be talking about theme or the show
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Actually, I don't think it's gibberish. I can make out words:
Pick a little (bottle?), pick a little (dottle?), CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP, come on pick a little more.
Repeat over and over, each repetition alternating between just one singer and a group of singers.
--Jamie
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[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'117907\' date=\'May 6 2006, 07:46 PM\']
Since the Page O Clips opened, the opening to the rare show The Neighbors has been posted. To me, it ranks up there with The Better Sex and All Star Blitz.
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Wowwee. That theme is really bad.
So can we just say that any theme that has non-sensical gibberish is a bad one?
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' post=\'117912\' date=\'May 6 2006, 08:08 PM\']
So can we just say that any theme that has non-sensical gibberish is a bad one?
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Well, it might not be non-sensical gibberish. Jamie was able to make out CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP, if anything.
[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'117908\' date=\'May 6 2006, 07:50 PM\']
I'm in denial that Stan Worth was responsible for this. This music is just....CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!
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Stan Worth probably was not getting paid much, so he had to work out his anger through the majesty of song.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'117911\' date=\'May 6 2006, 08:07 PM\']
Actually, I don't think it's gibberish. I can make out words:
Pick a little (bottle?), pick a little (dottle?), CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP, come on pick a little more.
Repeat over and over, each repetition alternating between just one singer and a group of singers.
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It's actually a real song: "Pick a Little, Talk a Little" by Meredith Wilson.
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Wow, thanks for clearing that up!
I googled it and found this:
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/pickalit.htm (http://\"http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/pickalit.htm\")
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little
Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more
--Jamie
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There are no lyrics on the episode I have on an audio tape I made off the TV speaker in 1976, so that composition must be a pilot theme.
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Thanks, my source wasn't able to offer any insight to the origin of this episode, and the fact that there's no credit roll of any kind hinted to me that it could've been a pilot.
--Jamie
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'117918\' date=\'May 6 2006, 10:09 PM\']
There are no lyrics on the episode I have on an audio tape I made off the TV speaker in 1976, so that composition must be a pilot theme.
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It's not a pilot theme (although it might have been used in a pilot for all I know). It's a song from The Music Man.
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'117920\' date=\'May 6 2006, 10:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'117918\' date=\'May 6 2006, 10:09 PM\']
There are no lyrics on the episode I have on an audio tape I made off the TV speaker in 1976, so that composition must be a pilot theme.
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It's not a pilot theme (although it might have been used in a pilot for all I know). It's a song from The Music Man.
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The play or the movie??? :)
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'117922\' date=\'May 6 2006, 10:27 PM\']
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'117920\' date=\'May 6 2006, 10:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'117918\' date=\'May 6 2006, 10:09 PM\']
There are no lyrics on the episode I have on an audio tape I made off the TV speaker in 1976, so that composition must be a pilot theme.
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It's not a pilot theme (although it might have been used in a pilot for all I know). It's a song from The Music Man.
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The play or the movie??? :)
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I saw it in the movie; I wouldn't be surprised if it was also in the play.
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It was also used in the musical, but I am almost certain that the recording from the possible pilot is the one from the movie musical (minus the last part of the chorus and the diologue).
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I'm not suggesting that this is the pilot, but at the MofT&R in NYC, there's an ep of the Neighbors courtesy of Andy Warhol, who taped it off air. There is a much jazzier theme song, and an animated opening, not a clip from the show with a voiceover.
The theme there is definitely from the movie with Shirley Jones....
Game and set are the same though, both are still awful. A definite slice of 70s daytime TV though, and a good clue as to why (IMHO) game shows aren't staples of daytime television anymore.
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Sure you've all heard of Meredith Willson, that guy from "The Name's The Same". Glad to know he did something else in his career. ;)
You want annoying themes? Try "The Joker's Wild" by Hancock and Joe. Or "Pyramid" by Blaylock and Coffing.
(I'd also say "Tic Tac Dough" by Henry Mancini, but that would be too easy.)
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[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' post=\'117909\' date=\'May 6 2006, 08:58 PM\']... it's the same 10-second "tune" looped badly over and over ad nauseum (literally).[/quote]
Mmphhh, sounds like an accurate description of the Match Game theme to me.
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[quote name=\'dad1153\' post=\'117933\' date=\'May 7 2006, 09:39 AM\']
[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' post=\'117909\' date=\'May 6 2006, 08:58 PM\']... it's the same 10-second "tune" looped badly over and over ad nauseum (literally).[/quote]
Mmphhh, sounds like an accurate description of the Match Game theme to me.
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You sure about that? Which MG are you talking about?
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'117931\' date=\'May 7 2006, 05:26 AM\']
I'm not suggesting that this is the pilot, but at the MofT&R in NYC, there's an ep of the Neighbors courtesy of Andy Warhol, who taped it off air. There is a much jazzier theme song, and an animated opening, not a clip from the show with a voiceover.
The theme there is definitely from the movie with Shirley Jones....
Game and set are the same though, both are still awful. A definite slice of 70s daytime TV though, and a good clue as to why (IMHO) game shows aren't staples of daytime television anymore.
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I'm sure that live-action open with "Pick-A Little" had to be a pilot show, for when "Neighbors" premiered, the animated open was on the the first two shows I saw (actually, I could only stand to sit through the premiere, but because the good ol' ABC affiliate I had cut off the open on premiere day and JIP'd it at the title display, I had to catch the first two minutes of Tuesday's show just to see it in it's entirety).
As for the actual theme being a Stan Worth composition, say it isn't so!!! This from the same genius who gave us the great theme and music cues from It Takes Two with Vin Scully? Not to mention the theme from George Of The Jungle ? How the once-mighty had fallen by then.