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Blanquepage

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Your most resonant game show music....
« on: September 02, 2024, 04:20:28 PM »
What GS music just really unexplainably hits you, making you feel really happy to hear it?
I think the joy I get from Bullseye closing is a matter of public record at this point, so I'll say that the Elaine Joyce's New Dating Game closing really makes me want to dance.

https://youtu.be/aRHevjdOdik

This isn't necessarily intended to be an A/V thread, I just felt the need to give the live example  ;D
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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2024, 06:00:16 PM »
What GS music just really unexplainably hits you, making you feel really happy to hear it?
I think the joy I get from Bullseye closing is a matter of public record at this point, so I'll say that the Elaine Joyce's New Dating Game closing really makes me want to dance.

https://youtu.be/aRHevjdOdik

This isn't necessarily intended to be an A/V thread, I just felt the need to give the live example  ;D

I agree that version of TANDG rocked!!! When they went to the watered-down mix during Jeff MacGregor's reign, it took a lot of the fun out of the show's.theme.

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2024, 06:15:36 PM »
"The Last Word" and "Make the Grade" are my top bangers. I could say the same about a lot from the Score and Kalehoff camps, though.

If we count stock music, "The Mad Dash"'s theme would be up there too.

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2024, 07:27:52 PM »
“The Big Banana” from Price’s music library.

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2024, 08:10:58 PM »
I think a lot of game show cues I enjoy only strike me with warm fuzzies because of the strong nostalgia I associate with them (I generally don't care for '80s synth, but I never recoil from the Press Your Luck theme). Objectively, the fee version of "Bhen" from The Price Is Right isn't a particularly exemplary piece of music, but darned if it doesn't put a smile on my face every time I hear it. It's so peppy!

BrandonFG

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2024, 08:44:32 PM »
If we count stock music, "The Mad Dash"'s theme would be up there too.
I gotta go with this as well.
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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2024, 09:42:54 PM »
As much as I love think music and themes, I don't know if there is a more aesthetically beautiful piece used for a game show than Rondo from A Little Night Music, which forms the theme tune of BBC Radio Four's Brain of Britain.
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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2024, 10:42:09 PM »
As mentioned, the title theme from The Mad Dash is a certified Banger™.

I get the warm fuzzies from a bunch of the old Price cues as well. Can't find a YouTube link at the moment, but there's something about the cue named "Robert" from the 1976 reel that makes me oddly happy when I hear it.

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2024, 12:36:05 AM »
I've been on an Italian game show kick lately, and some of Augusto Martelli's themes are fabulous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTy1l-i5Xl0

And, in a similar vein, ELP's take on "Fanfare for the Common Man." It was used as the theme for Top of the Form in Britain for a while.
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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2024, 07:38:04 PM »
Trivia Trap.

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2024, 09:56:56 PM »
"Splendido," without question and without fail.

The original "Tattle Tales" theme does my heart good, too, particularly in the B section.

I could go on and on, but I'll stop with those two.
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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2024, 06:57:36 AM »
Chump Change has been my iphone's ringtone for years. 
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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2024, 01:27:15 PM »
The original $10,000 Pyramid theme...it tells me something big is going to happen; also the original Jeopardy theme was always comforting

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2024, 10:42:02 PM »
Chump Change has been my iphone's ringtone for years.

"Joker's Jive" has been my iPhone's ringtone for years.
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TimK2003

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Re: Your most resonant game show music....
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2024, 11:32:15 PM »
Blackout and the NBC Daytime 1970's Hollywood Squares theme are ones I repeat on my audio devices a few times in a row.