Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirly You Can't
Be Serious podcast. We are back again with another top
five list. I'm so excited. I love these top five
lists and our fans seem to love them too.
Speaker 2: I know they do pretty well, so why not keep
doing them?
Speaker 1: And as far as top five lists go, my favorites
so far have been our TV themes from seventies and
the eighties, and so we here back today to jump
back into it with the TV themes from the nineties.
We're gonna have two episodes. Episode one, we're going to
cover TV themes from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety four,
and in episode two, we're going to cover TV themes
from nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: It sounds good to me. What were you doing in
the mid to early nineties.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's interesting because you and I talked
about when we were doing our very first episodes, when
we were talking about Raiders of the Lost Arc versus
Back to the Future, the difference in our ages, although
it's just a couple of years and have a dramatic
difference in what we were going through at a particular time.
That's true So when eighty one, when Raiders came out,
you were eight or so, eight or nine and I
was five, right, And the difference between eight and five
is huge, right, especially when you got people's faces melting off. Right.
I didn't get to say that for another ten years
after that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so then you look again in the nineties, you
go mid nineties, and I'm thinking in the mid nineties,
Jason was getting married.
Speaker 2: I got married ninety six. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: And in the mid nineties I was graduating from high school.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a big deal, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 2: Different stages of life doing different things. So I don't know,
we'll see. I'm really anxious. I don't know what your
list is. You don't know what my list is, right,
probably watching different things. I'm guessing we were watching different things.
And I'm going to tell you right now, there are
some TV themes that I have on here that are
from shows that I didn't really watch and maybe didn't
watch at all, but they're fantastic themes, and so I'm
excited to talk about them. Okay, So here's the deal. Okay,
So there are some themes that I have that I
like the song. There are some things that I have
that I like the TV show, and there's some themes
that I have just because it reminds me of this era.
I'm a very nostalgic person, so when I hear a song,
it transports me back. Now that doesn't mean I am
in love with the song, but I might be in
love with a few moments that I associate. I'm a
tangled mess of nostalgia and you know popcorn and you
know chocolate.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you there is one show that did
not make my cut, but I kept thinking to myself,
I know there's a strong chance that Jason's going to
pick this just because of his love for the show.
So I'm interested to see if it makes it onto
one of your lists.
Speaker 2: All right, man, well let's let's do this.
Speaker 1: Okay, First we set out the rules. What we do
is we cover the first part will be THEV themes
from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety four. The only thing
that you have to do to qualify to be in
that realm is you have some episodes that were released
during that time, right. And then the other rule is
it has to be a theme that was created specifically
for the show can't have golden girls, we can't have
one years, we can't have married with children because those
were all songs that were reissued for the show. Oh,
I see a nervous look over there. I think you
forgot that rule. A little panic is setting in. Maybe
maybe all right, Well we'll see. With that being said,
these could be shows that you guys may associate with
the later part of the decade. You may associate it
with the eighties. Could be any of them, but they
can fall as long as they've got some episodes that
came out in the years that we have, first part
being ninety to ninety four, second part being ninety five
to ninety nine, And it qualifies.
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
Speaker 1: Let's do this all right now, Jason. The way that
we typically do this is we give each other teasers
and let the other guy try to guess it. And
as a matter of fact, it's my favorite part of
what we do, and so I kind of focused on that.
All right, So here you go number five for me. Five.
This show aired from October of nineteen eighty eight until
March of nineteen ninety seven. It was the number one
series from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety and in
nineteen ninety the title character kind of got canceled. Now,
the show went on, obviously for many years after that,
so she wasn't completely canceled, but then she got canceled again,
canceled maybe even a handful of times. And in twenty
twelve she received seventy thousand votes for the US President.
You know what show I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: It's got to be Roseanne.
Speaker 1: You got a buddy, I love it? Yes, Okay, Now,
I had my own mind blown as I started looking
at this right. So the first thing that I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna look at the composers. Okay, sure,
I see the first composer's name, and I'm like, oh,
that's the same name as the first law firm I
clerk for in law school. And I started thinking, I'm like,
wait a minute. That lawyer told me that his son
was a music composer in Hollywood, and I looked it up,
and sure enough, Dan Folliart is the son of James D. Folliart,
who I worked for my first year in law school
and for the remaining years of law school. He was
born in like nineteen nineteen. He was in his eighties.
Whenever I met him, you know, he wasn't really practicing
law anymore. He was just the guy Carrie and the
you know, the the rain making. But he's, you know,
just I met him a few times, this old eighty
year old man. He's like, yeah, my son's a composer.
I'm like, oh, old guy. What Yeah. So, Dan Folliart
and a couple of other guys were composers for this song.
The other guys are Howard Pearl, who did the TV
version of the ninety to five series, and then a
guy named W. G. Snuffy Walden, who composed the music
for the West Wing. He actually started as a guitarist
for an episode of Laverne and Shirley, but went on
to compose many many more TV shows.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of NOTTHEW.
Speaker 1: Walden.
Speaker 2: I'll just tell.
Speaker 1: You you should be, because this bluesy theme is friggin'
awesome blue I love this TV theme. It's super catchy, right,
It is very catchy. And one of the guys that
loved the theme of the show had his own band,
and a few years later he ends up being in
the show as Dan Connor's old high school band. Okay,
now you know that the theme for the show is
strong on harmonica. Right, Well, this guy's name who's a
big fan of the show is John Popper. You might
better know him as the lead singer for a group
called the Blues Traveler.
Speaker 2: Whoa are you serious?
Speaker 1: Yes? And so for like their final season, it's actually
John Popper, a Blues Traveler, playing the harmonica for the
show theme.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful, good job like it.
Speaker 1: Original harmonica player John Luke Logan.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that brings me to my number five.
Speaker 1: You're a number five, all right, your honor.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask for a bend in the rules here, Okay, Okay,
So here's the deal. This song was not created for
this show. However, I'm gonna make the case that it
was rescued from total obscurity.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't a popular song, wasn't well known. The
field producer for this show just happened to be a
fan of this band, and so he's like, what about
this song, this obscure track that nobody knows for the
theme of the show, And it literally became like the
biggest thing ever.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Oh.
Speaker 2: My gosh, if I say the name of this TV show.
You're gonna sing the words of this song.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal. This song reached number eight on
the Hot one hundred when it was released as a
single June twelfth of nineteen ninety three. So it peaked
out at number eight. That's blocking Living on the Edge
and Come undone by Duran Durant. Okay, Okay, So this
song was originally off an album that was released in
nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The band's name is Inner Circle.
Speaker 1: Okay that do anything for you? No, I haven't got
it yet, all right.
Speaker 2: The follow up single was a song called Sweat La
La La La La La.
Speaker 1: Nothing empty space. All right.
Speaker 2: When I say the TV show, yeah, I want you
sing the lyrics of this song.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The TV show is called Cops.
Speaker 1: Bad Boys, Bad Boys. What you're gonna do, What you're
gonna do when they come for you? Just because that
is such a freaking awesome song, I will accept the
fact that it was not originally composed for the TV.
You receive a pass, serve, thank you, well done. That
is awesome.
Speaker 2: Bad Boys, Bad Boys? What's it gonna do? What's he
gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys.
What's it going to do? What's he gonna do? When
bad boys? Bad boys? I mean, come on.
Speaker 1: Fantastic?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: All right? Number four four, number four all right. This
song comes from a show that began in nineteen eighty
seven and ran until nineteen ninety six. It was based
on comic books from the mid eighties, but the comic
books were much darker. There's a new movie of it
about to come out. The original comic characters were created
by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.
Speaker 2: Cat Anything yet, No, you're exposing my my street cred
to my comic book buddies. But keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, this one's going to blow your mind here, right, okay, Ready.
There are two composers on this song. Right. One of
the composers is called the King of Sitcoms. Right. He's
not just a music guy, but he is also a
a producer, a director, a writer. His name is Chuck Lorie.
His partner's name is Dennis Brown, and Dennis has written
for some of the shows that Chuck has produced, some
of which are Grace, under Fire, Dharma and Greg Two
and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory.
Speaker 2: It was a big Hitters man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So this song was composed by those guys.
By the way, Chuck Lury was also one of the
executive producers of Roseanne.
Speaker 2: I know who Juck Glory is.
Speaker 1: Okay, last hint, Okay, look at my T shirt.
Speaker 2: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles You got it? What?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Your very Threadbarren T shirt.
Speaker 1: I might add this is one of my favorite Nobody
ever tries to pick a fight with me when I'm wearing.
Speaker 2: This shirt that nineteen ninety three right there.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's fascinating to me that this song was
written by a guy who's really better known for producing,
I mean a ton of sitcoms. He went to college
for a couple of years, dropped out, toured around as
a musician, and he wrote a song called French Kissin'
that was performed by Missus Deborah Harry.
Speaker 2: Missus Deborah Harry of Blondie You got It?
Speaker 1: Whoa? And that wasn't enough to keep the bills paid
for him, so he started writing scripts for a show
called Heathcliff Heathcliff the Cat you got.
Speaker 2: It, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Lines from the song Raphael is cool but rude, Give
me a break. Michael Angelo is a party, dude, party.
Speaker 2: I can't fault you. I can't fault you. Have you
seen the Netflix show The Toys That Made Us?
Speaker 1: I have?
Speaker 2: Have you seen the one on Teenage Mutant Ninja Tause Gosh, dang,
you talk about two college dudes who are just like, hey,
check it out Turtles doing Ninja stuff.
Speaker 1: Our friend who has a movie coming out on national
release that I did an interview with just a couple
of months ago, Kyle Roberts. He made his name big
by doing like stop action animation homages to the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles, and one of the producers on his
movie is also a producer on the original Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles movie. So he's he's a I mean, I
went to his office. He's got that stuff all over
the place. Right, It's right and awesome. But I love
that this show is timeless because this morning, as I'm
like going through all of the possibilities, I tell my
son Caleb, I'm like, hey, put on Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles theme song. He puts it on and we're listening
to it, and all of a sudden, he's singing along
like he's singing all of the words. Really, and I'm like, dude,
this show it ended over ten years before you were born.
Speaker 2: This is my number four.
Speaker 1: Yep, all right.
Speaker 2: This song is actually titled Materia primorris.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know it. This is the theme for the iconic,
the unstoppable, the amazing, The X Files. Okay, so every
time I hear this song, it gives me the feels.
You remember Sadanus by Enigma back in like the early nineties, Satanists, Satanists,
sad I'd have to hear it to recognize it. I
didn't recognize that title, but yes, I know that sock. Yes,
I mean you remember the like three and a half
weeks in nineteen ninety four when everybody started listening Gregorian Chance. Yeah,
I bought the CD. I'm not kidding. I had the
Gregorian Chance CD. By the way, that was recorded in
the eighties. I had to go look, I go down
these rabbit holes. I can't help it. Okay, but anyway,
The X Files music has that kind of mystical, ominous
sure new age field that no other TV show was
doing at the time.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this was composed by a guy named Mark
Snow and he was sitting with Chris Carter and they
were working on the theme song, and he kept playing
it for him, and Chris Carter's like, you know, it's
pretty good, but it's missing something. And out of frustration,
Mark Snow leaned over put his arm on the keyboard
and it made this reverberating echo sound, and he said,
that was what was missing. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: Accidental drip? Man. I don't know how many times I've
said I got you gotta love it when that stuff happened.
Speaker 2: I know, man, you remember the guy on Sesame Street.
They'd be like playing had a little lamb and then
he'd be like, I'll never get it right and bang
his head on the piano. That reminds me of this story.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic, okay number three three. Yes. This show ran
from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety six. The title character
is also the composer of the lyrics of the.
Speaker 2: Song ooh okay.
Speaker 1: The composer composer of the song we've talked about before
in our very first episode, a guy named Quincy Jones.
Speaker 2: I got it. This is the fresh Prince of bell Air. Now,
this is the story all about how my life.
Speaker 3: Got twimpurns upside down, and.
Speaker 2: I'd like to take a manager.
Speaker 1: Sit right there, I'll tell you how it became the
prince of a town called bell Air. You got it, buddy,
all right? I was going to tease you with it. It
was produced by a fellow named Jeffrey Towns, which you
might know better as DJ Jazzy Jeff. So Quincy Jones
had come up with the music to this Jazzy Jeff.
Jeffrey Towns is sitting with Will Smith and they're talking
and saying, why don't we write some lyrics to this
and make it a little more like our hit from
nineteen eighty eight, Parents Just Don't Understand. Yeah. They come
up with the lyrics. They go to Quincy Jones and
he's like, I love it. Yeah. It is released in
the nineties, I think in Netherlands and Spain it's released
in nineteen ninety two. The B side is parents Just
Don't Understand, right, and it is in the top five
in both of those countries. As a single, it.
Speaker 2: Reaches number three in the Netherlands number two in Spain.
And I've got some more to add about it in
just a few moments.
Speaker 1: All right. Then, by the way. Name of the song
that nobody calls it is called Yo Home to bell Air.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're to my number three. Okay. I don't
have a lot on this song. Here's what I know.
The show started in nineteen eighty nine and ran through
the nineties. I caught it all the time on syndication.
I really enjoyed this show. The first episode that I
watched was because they had Barry Switzer on as a
guest on the show. Okay, Arir Switzer, former head coach
of University of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay.
Speaker 2: Now, then the theme song for this TV show was
written and composed by a guy named John Morrise and
performed by the Iowa State cyclone football Varsity Marching Band.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, no idea.
Speaker 2: No, I'm thinking this has escaped to you, so.
Speaker 1: All I can. I've just got the Boomer Sooner themes
running through my head. That's all I've got.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this was the theme song for a fictional
college football team, the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles.
Speaker 1: Is this the theme song from coach Coach Nice?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: See? That song is so good it should be for
an active college football program right now?
Speaker 1: You know, I watched Coach all the time growing up.
I haven't heard that song since the night is Yes,
I love it.
Speaker 2: Great. Okay, there you go, the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles.
Speaker 1: One of the actors in that show will come into
play minor in the show that I'm going to talk
about on our next episode.
Speaker 2: You know, we talked a little bit about Craig T. Nelson.
We talked about the Incredibles.
Speaker 1: Right, because he is the voice of mister Incredible.
Speaker 2: Mister Incredible. Yea awesome, okay to you number.
Speaker 1: Two, right right, two, Okay, here's my number two. This
show ran from nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety five.
It got rebooted in twenty sixteen and ran for four years.
But when it got rebooted, although a lot of the
cast members came back, the actresses that played the babies
in the show did not come back because they had
become mega millionaires from their makeup and fashion enterprises.
Speaker 2: Okay it is it's gotta be full house.
Speaker 1: You nailed it.
Speaker 2: Yes, How did they handle that? I don't even know
what they did when the Olsen Twins didn't return.
Speaker 1: I think the Lsin Twins turned me down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, but in the new version of the show.
They just like they moved to Alaska or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just have you know, minor mentioned and then
move on with your life.
Speaker 2: Okay, listen. I don't know how many times that show
has been shown in syndication, but for like generations of
young girls, they they love that show.
Speaker 1: Right after I got done telling Caleb that teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles might very well make my list, my daughter
in the back goes, You're gonna have full house on there, right,
I was like, it was the second theme that I
thought of when we picked our a nice second theme.
This song is called Everywhere You Look by Jesse Frederick.
Jesse Frederick also wrote the theme to Perfect Strangers, Family Matters,
and Step by Step. All of them great, all of
them the same kind of feel. I love the theme
of Perfect Strangers one of my favorites, and Family Matters
too for that matter. Yeah, but here's here's the interesting
piece of trivia that I'm gonna throw at you on
this one. All right, Okay, ready, So there was an
actor named Scott Weiner. Okay, yeah, he played DJ's boyfriend,
Candace Cameron's boyfriend on the show.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: He came back for Fuller House and was kind of
a more major character because they were they had been
a couple or whatever. Right, Okay, he is the voice
for Aladdin in the original Aladdin movie from Disney.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a great nugget, right there. Yeah, I
would have no idea what that guy looks like.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, So I was watching Fuller House and there's this
kind of awkward scene where he sings with Candace Cameron
and they're both awful. I mean, they're just awful, and
I'm like, you can't be awful.
Speaker 2: He was Aladdin seriously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, it's because they had a different guy sing
the songs than the guy who was voicing the character.
Speaker 2: You have just destroyed my world by telling me that
it's a whole new world.
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna lop him up to me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have that, all right, Okay, all right, So
we're to my number two. All right? So my number
two is a song that's very colorful and fun. It's
a song that gets its basis off of a song
from the summer of nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: This TV show ran from September of nineteen ninety through
May of ninety six. It has the line Yo Holmes,
smell you lator in it.
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, that's it is. The Fresh Prince
of bel Air is in.
Speaker 3: West Philindelbia Bonn and rais on the playground of Ammathon.
Speaker 4: Most of my days chilling out Max and relaxing, all cooling,
shooting some people outside of.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, And the opening theme for this looks just
like parents. Just don't understand. You've got the same kind
of mom character.
Speaker 1: From the video. Yeah, I could be the same actress.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: It probably was. Ye, you've got the graffiti line background.
So I think this is more like an eighties theme
song because it tells what the show is about. It
explains the plot. It gives you everything you need to know.
Instead of trying to make a hit song, which you
know some of these looks like they're trying to make
hit songs.
Speaker 1: Well, they made a hit song. It did very well,
especially in the Netherlands and Spain. And if somebody says
Jo Holmes and you don't say smell you later afterwards
you grew up under a rock or something, that's it.
Speaker 2: Mister Willard smith.
Speaker 1: YEP also sort of canceled in the last couple of years. Okay,
So now before we get to our number one picks,
we have our honorable mentions. And I got to tell
you this was a struggle for me. I didn't think
that I would even be able to come up with
fourteen songs. I got probably eighteen or twenty, and I
was there are a few of them that I was
able to bonk, but it was hard for me to
pick which ones we're going to fall to the honorable
mention category, right, Okay, yep, I'm with you all right now.
The first one is a reboot that occurred in the
early nineties of the Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes episodes Oh Wow, okay.
It was produced by Steven Spielberg. It actually won the
Emmy for a Best Original Song for a TV Show.
Do you know what it is?
Speaker 2: And a Manix?
Speaker 1: No, but that's a good guess because they're very close.
This show was called Tiny Tunes, or to be precise,
Tiny tuone Adventures.
Speaker 2: Tiny Tuning were all.
Speaker 1: The composer was a guy named Bruce Broughton, who was
also involved for composing for the TV show Dallas and
also composing for the TV show Look Rogers. With dozens
of others, but this is one that I think he
absolutely nailed. Eel of the old school Looney Tunes sound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't watch the show, but I knew my
younger siblings did, and it was around and I was
familiar with it. So yeah, great theme song, good nill mention.
I like it.
Speaker 1: Thanks. My second honorable mention, This one was actually Mojo's
number one pick for cartoon themes, and I was shocked.
But it was not a show that I watched. Okay,
it is a show that's theme is very good and
a show that was probably popular with a lot of
our listeners. This was the theme from X Men, the
animated series by Ron washing Won. It also has a
very similar sound to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Speaker 2: That's right, which we did. We covered Roger Rabbit? Who
Framed Roger Rabbit over at the Docking Bay seventy seven
podcast with our buddy Daton Johnson. That was one of
our Summer of eighty eight movies.
Speaker 1: It's a great movie and it's a great episode. Be
sure and go over and check out Dayton's podcast Docking
Base seventy seven.
Speaker 2: Yep, a lot of fun. Okay, no, wait a minute,
I've heard this theme before, and I'll tell you how
I heard it.
Speaker 1: Okay, when my boys were.
Speaker 2: Young, we would go to the library and we would
check out DVD's and they always want to check out
Spider Man, X Men, Credible Hulk, all those things. So
it doesn't hit me in the nineties. It hits me
in the early two thousands. But that is a great
theme song.
Speaker 1: Thank you, that's I love it. Ron Washerman is a
fantastic guitarist. I'm gonna talk about him again in just
a second, but that is a great TV theme.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Okay, very good.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So we're up to my honorable mentions. Yes, okay, I've
got two that you're gonna know, but you're not gonna
know him probably until I play them. Okay, okay, So
my first honorable mention is for a TV show that
I unabashedly, unapologetically absolutely love, Spike the Football, and it
will destroy my street cred because it is the dorkiest, goofiest,
dumbest show ever and I love it. It's like eating
chocolate chip cookies for dinner. I don't care, I'd love it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: So the song is sung by a woman named Jill Calucci, Okay.
This song started in nineteen eighty nine, and the reason
why I know that is because I taped I VCR
taped the first episode, and I traded the tape around
my baseball team because everybody wanted to watch the video.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: The song is called the Funny Things You.
Speaker 1: Do is It's an animated No, I got nothing.
Speaker 2: How about if I say it like this? You're the Red, white,
and blue. Oh the Funny Things you Do America, America?
Speaker 4: This is you.
Speaker 1: This is drawing an absolute blank for.
Speaker 2: All right, hang on before I give you the theme song.
The host of this show, and this bowled me over.
The guy who created the show wanted John Ritter to
host the show. He didn't get one of the funniest
men ever to be born. He got one of the
least funny men to ever be born, Bob Saggat.
Speaker 1: Is this from America's Funniest Some Video?
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, this is from America's Funny Some Videos.
Speaker 3: Got Masting Coast to make small caps on.
Speaker 1: I think Bob Sagga is hilarious.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: He had to make corny jokes on that show. If
you've seen his live performance, he is a dirty mouth comic.
Speaker 2: I know. I can't believe it. The first time I
saw him, like legit comic stand up, I was like,
you're shocked, America's read America's dad is cussing all over
the place. Yeah, I can't believe that's the same person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God rest his soul. I think he was a
fantastic comedian.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you watch this show.
Speaker 1: America's Funny Something? Yes? Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 2: Was rule you had to everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I remember there were times in my life where I'm like,
I'm kind of down, I'm kind of bummed out popping
on AFB.
Speaker 1: How many times did something happen in your life that
you went, Man, if we had that on video, we
would win America.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when Daisy Flintest took over?
Speaker 1: I think I quit watching at that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here is my second honorable mention.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so I'm off.
Speaker 2: The beaten track. You know I like to do this
every once in a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This was a jingle, a theme song that NBC played
between the years nineteen ninety and two thousand and two
twelve thousand times. Now, the name of it is called
round Ball Rock. This was written by John Tesh.
Speaker 1: D John Tesh the Er John Entertainment.
Speaker 2: Tonight, John tesh Okay, Okay, now listen to this. He
came up with a melody while at a hotel. He
called his home answering machine and sang the tune so
he wouldn't forget it.
Speaker 1: I can identify with that.
Speaker 2: This was also revived for the Summer Olympics for two
thousand and eight, twenty sixteen, twenty twenty. Nelly sampled this
for his song Heart of a Champion.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a big Nelly fan.
Speaker 2: I know, right, So let me play round Ball Rock
for you and see if you can place it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So, NBA on NBC, NBA on NBC.
Speaker 2: Because everybody in the entire United States was watching the
Chicago Bulls. Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, John Stockton,
Carl Malone, all these guys played basketball in the early nineties.
It was truly the greatest time to be an NBA fan.
So round Ball Rock is a song I very much
associate with the early nineties and watching Jordan Barkley.
Speaker 1: All those guys. Fantastic. Okay, are you ready for my
number one?
Speaker 2: I'm ready for your number one.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna cry if it's my number one, But keep going.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way on God's green Earth
that this will be your n Okay, because I like
you decided to do something that was a strong deviation.
I mentioned at the beginning of this episode that I
picked some songs on shows that I didn't even watch. Right,
I did not watch this show. I am familiar with
it because my kids watched it. Okay, but here are
your clues. Okay again. Our composer is Ron Wasserman. Although
he listed himself at that time as Aaron Waters or
the Mighty Raw, he had gotten a job as musician.
He had gotten a job filling in at the production
company which was called Sabon Entertainment, and then he just
ended up staying for six and a half years. He
ends up writing the song for X Men, the animated series,
which we played just a second ago, and then he
was given some raw footage of this new show that
they were going to do. The new show took some
adopted stock footage from a Japanese TV series that was
part of Toy's Super SINAI O K now. When he
got this footage, the producer, the owner of the entertainment company, said,
I want you to use the word go. He used
it twice in the song. This part amazed me. He
composed this on a keyboard that was preloaded with guitar
and drum sounds because he didn't play guitar and drum.
But I'm gonna let you take a listen to the song.
You may not even recognize it. This may be so
far out of your wheelhouse that you don't recognize it.
But I think you're going to love it.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's kick.
Speaker 2: But right, that's very catchy. I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What is that.
Speaker 2: Edi been Halen on guitar right here?
Speaker 3: Ba? God? That you never a baby?
Speaker 1: Now, before I get to the title, I just want
to tell you, okay, I just got to tell you this.
I put that music on and it was the extended version,
and I was like, maybe this was good. I don't
really remember. I have the theme from the movie that
came out in the two thousands because I use it
when I'm working out, and I started listening to this,
I'm like, this is these are my words in my head.
This is so kick ass that I am not going
to turn it off. Reminder he was told to use
the word go no, wow, that is great.
Speaker 2: I've never I don't know if I know that song.
Speaker 1: Right, So you're probably completely unfamiliar. This probably hit in
that space that you didn't have your kids listening to it,
and you didn't listen to it. But I knew you
would love it because this could be a hair metal
rock anthem from the late eighties, right right. It is fantastic.
I just I gotta say I was I had listened
to it. I had gone work out, listened to a
couple more times. I get back to the house, I'm
in the kitchen, I'm getting the kids ready for school,
and it just comes out. I'm like, go go Power Rangers,
and I hear Caleb he was up the stairs go.
Speaker 3: Done on on on.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, that's great, man. I was in college.
I didn't have kids. Totally bypassed me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This started in ninety three ended in ninety six.
You were wooing your wife for those four years, you know. Yeah,
so you weren't interested in in Japanese knockoff American TV.
This is true, Yeah, but it has I think the
song is probably the best part of the show, and
they've redone it multiple times. But when they did the movie,
they featured Eric Martin of Mister Big Yeah, and on
drums they had Matt Sourm who had played drums for
Guns and Roses. Yes. So if you had told me
yesterday that I would be picking this song as my
number one song, yeah, yeah, I don't even know what
that song.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's great, that's great. Okay, So, speaking of songs
that are better than the show, Yeah, are you ready
for my number one?
Speaker 1: Let's hear it.
Speaker 2: Okay, It's not as kick butt as yours, but I
definitely heavy associate this with early nineties Denim and Moose
all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, I think I already know what it is, really,
can I say it? I guess it?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is it Saved by the Bell?
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: Oh is it Beverly Hills nine two one? Oh?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But you're in You're in the area.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're in the area. Yeah, all right, Okay.
Speaker 2: This show was canceled after twelve episodes one season. Didn't
make it. Show didn't make it. The song hits number
one in November of nineteen ninety two songs written by
the guy named Stephen Terrell, American singer producer. Okay. He
had produced bj Thomas his version of hooked on a
Feeling Love that Okay? And rain Drops Keep Falling on
My Head.
Speaker 1: Which Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, one of the
greatest movies of all time. Yes.
Speaker 2: Now, then, the lead singer for this particular song is
an actor named Jamie Walters. I See You're stumped. Jamie
Walters also had a number sixteen Hot one hundred hit
in nineteen ninety four called hold On Nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean if I heard that song maybe Okay?
Speaker 2: Now, then get this this song dethroned into the Road
by Boys to Men knock them out of the number
one spot. Wow, one of the biggest songs of the nineties.
Yeah get Out. It also blocked I Die Without You
by PM Don and Sometimes Loved Just Ain't Enough Patty
Smyth and Don Henley, two of my early nineties guilty pleasures,
and kept jump Around by House of Pain from reaching
number one.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, how do I not know what this is?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna play it for you. Let's see if
you recognize it. You're not in your head. It's not
Dustin scream. I know her face bye.
Speaker 1: In my song, I know the song.
Speaker 2: You could not live in the early nineties and not
hear this song.
Speaker 1: TV series had. This is its theme song.
Speaker 2: This song goes to a TV show called The Heights.
Speaker 3: So fast talk.
Speaker 2: It's like trying to catch a fallen start.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, I would not in a million.
I mean I remember that name, but no, I never
watched that show. Would never have even put it.
Speaker 2: Nobody watched the show. That's how they canceled it.
Speaker 1: Wow, deep cut. Now that we get to the chorus,
I'm like, oh, I slow danced to that song.
Speaker 2: Yes, the song is called how do You Talk to
an Angel?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wow, number one hit song nineteen ninety two TV show
canceled beat it. Nobody watched it, nobody cared, nobody remembers it. No,
but you play that song. People were like, heck, yeah,
all right, Sorority Party was playing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so there you have it. So that's my list.
Speaker 1: What do you think I loved the dude, you did
a fantastic job. I'm really I'm not terribly surprised that
we only had one crossover.
Speaker 2: We're at different stages in our life.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, so I'm really excited to see what happens
in our next episode. Guys, be sure to come back
for that. That one, we're going to cover our top
five TV themes from nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: We will see you back here next week.
Speaker 1: Your home, smell you later.
Speaker 2: That's good.