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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: gamed121683 on January 07, 2017, 12:17:22 AM
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Let me start up another silly "Barroom Argument" style question: What do you think was the best game show win cue (or music) of all time? My vote would go to the main game win cue on "Password Plus", but I would give honorable mention to the main game win cue from "Play The Percentages". What can I say? I'm a sucker for the brass.
OK, you're turn! What's your favorite?
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Going with Perry's $ale. Those three notes are so simple but bombastic, esp. with the tympani pounding in the background.
Honorable mention: Wink's TTD.
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Not sure what makes it a bar room argument as lots of people are going to have their favorites.
Just because, I'm going to go with the "you've won!" spoken word bit from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?.
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"$ale" lot win. The end.
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Some of my fav game wins include: Hit Man, H2 version of Hollywood Squares, Password Plus, Cashword win for Super Password, and Whew!. For bonus wins: Monty's Beat the Clock, Perry's Card Sharks, Classic Concentration, Make the Grade, and Now You See It.
For best win cues overall I'd have to go with a tie between Tic Tac Dough and $ale, though.
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My favorite win cue is the theme from "Whew" when the Gauntlet is run. Sure it's the main theme extended, but with all the flashing lights and the contestants going apes**t winning $25K, it matches the mood perfectly.
I also liked the win cue from Your Number's Up.
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Going with Perry's $ale. Those three notes are so simple but bombastic, esp. with the tympani pounding in the background.
Honorable mention: Wink's TTD.
Have to agree. those three notes are my favorite cue on *any* show. WOF aslo had a good cue for when the puzle was sloved too, IMHO.
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I'll put in a good word for WWTBAM's million win cue, especially when it was extended in '01.
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Who was the first winner who got the loop version?
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It's too bad we haven't gotten to hear the new million dollar winner cue on Millionaire yet but I think, with the new musical package, it's better than the old one.
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Who was the first winner who got the loop version?
Kevin Olmstead, first winner after the drought.
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Personally, I'm a really big fan of the win cue after the Temple Run on LotHT.
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It's too bad we haven't gotten to hear the new million dollar winner cue on Millionaire yet but I think, with the new musical package, it's better than the old one.
Millionaire used to release iOS versions of the game- the final version was from the first Shuffle season, and IIRC, the win cue, like the previous, was the main bars of the theme followed by a trumpet crescendo.
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What can I say? I'm a sucker for the brass.
In that case, I think mention needs to be made of Blockbusters win cue with the trumpets to start.
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An obscure one, but I really like the low drums in the later Monty Hall BtC stunt win cues.
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I'm impartial to the fanfare for winning on Kennedy "Split Second". Anyone who wins Split Second deserves something grand.
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In that case, I think mention needs to be made of Blockbusters win cue with the trumpets to start.
I'd love to hear a band with a great horn section like the Max Weinberg 7 play the Blockbusters theme live.
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After listening to it for the first time when watching The New Price is Right in '94, I thought the showcase showdown/Price was Right win music that they used was pretty good for win music.
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I'd love to hear a band with a great horn section like the Max Weinberg 7 play the Blockbusters theme live.
Way back on Conan's NBC show, Weinberg's band played the theme to "Blank Check" as Conan crossed over to the desk. I thought I was imagining it until Conan actually asked "Was that a game show theme?" And Max said yes. I'd love to find that clip. I couldn't even begin to guess a date.
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Although it's not as grand now as it was back then, when I was a young lad watching TJW or TTD I always enjoyed hearing the 5-game-win cues.
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Although it's not as grand now as it was back then, when I was a young lad watching TJW or TTD I always enjoyed hearing the 5-game-win cues.
Though Deal or No Deal is closest, I'm waiting for someone to bring up a bit of music that was great but went with a game/show that is regarded as a dog. Exciting music tends to go with exciting/tense game shows, so it's not surprising the list we're seeing and that there are many elements to the list.
/still not seeing how this is meant to emulate a bar room argument
//also there's lots of elements and not much in the way of the One True Answer.
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Much as I love epic beds for gameplay themselves (hello there, $5,000,000 Super Millionaire cue), I like something a bit lighter, jazzy, and cheery to celebrate the actual wins. So, my picks are honestly not the most conventional, and wouldn't likely be heard today: Dream House's, with The Big Showdown's a close second.
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I'd like to go off the board with Russian Roulette's $100,000 win music. The electric guitars just made a big win feel that much more epic.
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For those in Detroit that remember WXYZ's "Prize Movie," they used a portion of Al Hirt's "Cotton Candy."
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And speaking of Al Hirt, I loved listening to the whole Bowling for Dollars theme when someone gets the strike...and the jackpot strike...and the grand prize strike.
/...looking at classic WOR Bowling for Dollars clips on YouTube.
// Of course, I'm born after '80. :-)
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If you want to talk about over-the-top win cues, my vote goes for the $100K win cue during the Kathie Lee Johnson/Isolation Booth era of Name That Tune.
Not only did you have the orchestra playing winning fanfares, but you also had about 4 or 5 alternating air raid and police sirens going off on top of that... A little overkill, IMHO.
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A little overkill, IMHO.
The contestant just won TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR FOR TEN YEARS, man! There should have been hookers and a skywriter, too!
/these days you can win $100,000 for NOT dropping a farking ball down a pegboard
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I just visited my favorite Inflation Calculator; in the 70s, $10,000 was the equivalent of 40K a year. I could see why that was a big deal, considering a lot of shows still gave away "just" $5,000.
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My favorite win cue is the theme from "Whew" when the Gauntlet is run. Sure it's the main theme extended, but with all the flashing lights and the contestants going apes**t winning $25K, it matches the mood perfectly.
I also liked the win cue from Your Number's Up.
I agree on "Whew." The first clip of it I ever saw was Randy Amasia's Gauntlet win, and I remember just loving the way the show treated a bonus win. Another cue I'm partial to is the Secret Square win cue on the Davidson Squares. I'm a sucker for good saxophone music and that's a fun little cue for winning a nice prize.
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TPIR with the 'Whoop Whoop Whoop', 'clang clang clang' all going at the same time, with the theme of course.
Whew
WOF Puzzle Solve (Thicke) - Also, for those who haven't seen the few episodes online or collections, they used the "rock-style' music originally used for commercials as soon as the win cue stopped playing after the bonus round going to break. If that can be included, ill add that to the list.
$10,000 - $50,000 Pyramid, when it sounded good. Most times it was too 'tinny' or muffled. Almost sounded like it was coming off a telephone or something. I never understood why it sounded so bad. The "win" ding wasn't all too impressive to me. Sounded more like a weak bicycle bell. Goodson shows seemed to have better sound effects I thought.
Now You See It (both Chump Change, and the "other" one)
Big Showdown
Password 74-75 / All-Stars
Password Plus
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TPIR with the 'Whoop Whoop Whoop', 'clang clang clang' all going at the same time, with the theme of course.
Early 80s DSWs were one of my favorites. They did an extended Whoop Whoop Clang through the credit roll along with a light cycle along the backdrop.
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I'm going with "Super Password". Simple seven-note cue that led finished with a crescendo for style.
And it was even better when the win was unexpected from an early puzzle solve.
Side Question: Can contestants hear most of these music cues while playing the game on stage?
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$10,000 - $50,000 Pyramid, when it sounded good. Most times it was too 'tinny' or muffled. Almost sounded like it was coming off a telephone or something. I never understood why it sounded so bad. The "win" ding wasn't all too impressive to me. Sounded more like a weak bicycle bell. Goodson shows seemed to have better sound effects I thought.
Many, if not all, of Bob Stewart's productions back in the 70's relied on that "call bell" (a.k.a. "tap bell") sound.
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It's too bad we haven't gotten to hear the new million dollar winner cue on Millionaire yet but I think, with the new musical package, it's better than the old one.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQ0n841S5c
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It's too bad we haven't gotten to hear the new million dollar winner cue on Millionaire yet but I think, with the new musical package, it's better than the old one.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQ0n841S5c
I think what Chris meant was that we haven't heard the cue in action yet, accompanying a million dollar winner. That's the moment we'll know for sure whether or not it's a good cue.
Myself, just from hearing it in the soundtrack, I don't care for it. I think it's pretty generic and boring, but maybe I'll change my mind when I hear it in its proper setting.
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Myself, just from hearing it in the soundtrack, I don't care for it. I think it's pretty generic and boring, but maybe I'll change my mind when I hear it in its proper setting.
They've used it in ads for the show. I agree that it's not great and certainly doesn't accompany a win as well as the original one did, given the crescendo at the beginning.
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Myself, just from hearing it in the soundtrack, I don't care for it. I think it's pretty generic and boring, but maybe I'll change my mind when I hear it in its proper setting.
They've used it in ads for the show. I agree that it's not great and certainly doesn't accompany a win as well as the original one did, given the crescendo at the beginning.
They've used it as a commercial bumper as well, and it works well as that. I think the issue with it for me is this, and I'm probably not choosing very good words to describe it: The cue consists of moments of "hooks" separated my moments of "vamping". Compare it to the original cue, which was all hook.
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Myself, just from hearing it in the soundtrack, I don't care for it. I think it's pretty generic and boring, but maybe I'll change my mind when I hear it in its proper setting.
I found it very boring, much like the actual theme itself. When I hear the original win cue, either by itself or on the show, it felt majestic. When I hear the current cue, I don't get any sense of urgency. I've heard more exciting win cues when a contestant won $10,000 or a Chevrolet Chevette.
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The Millionaire cue in the current package just sounds like the usual theme with a little extra vamping. The Millionaire cue pre-shuffle had that neat little thing where it goes from a C minor to an F major at the end, with a timpani beat that was about as big of a "Ta-da!!" as you could find.