Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back to this Surely you can't be
serious podcast. This is our third episode on.
Speaker 2: TV theme Songs.
Speaker 1: Indeed, this time we're going nineteen eighty five to nineteen
eighty nine. Yes, these are the top five theme songs
from our experience, plus two honorable mentions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll each give an honorable mention, will each list
our top five. Whenever we're done, hit us up and
tell us whether you think we got it right, or
tell us whether you think we got it wrong. What
we'll do is kind of tease up each of these.
Try to guess, you know ahead, because we haven't gone
over our list with each other, right right. You know,
our prior to episodes have given some clues about what's coming,
but you may not have heard those yet. Be sure
and go check those out. But Jason and I don't
know what each other's lists are. Rules of the game
are It doesn't have to be exclusively eighty five to
eighty nine, just kind of has to hit that sort
of sweet spot. So there are a lot of shows
that went on so long that they definitely overlapped a
couple of these time periods we're dealing with. The Other
is you don't get to have any songs that were
not written specifically for the TV series, which means we
lose out on Golden Girls, we lose out on the
Wonder Years, we lose out on Bosom Buddies. I mean,
there's a ton of great with children. Yeah, great theme
songs that just took a song from somewhere else. We're
not covering any of those today, which is a pity,
but we had to limit this list somehow. Now, I
will tell you this, my friend. Yep, it was way
easier for me to find a whole bunch of songs
to pick from from our last episode than it is
this episode, no doubt. As a matter of fact, I
specifically said to you there were a couple of songs
that I had as honorable mentions in on my last episode,
and what I did was to go, Nope, I'm taking
those over and I'm moving them to the next episode,
because hey, they they hit somewhere in the time period
that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I did that with one.
Speaker 2: Okay, I pushed it off. Okay, So if.
Speaker 1: You're ready, I'm ready. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2: Man, Let's dive in. Guys. These are episodes that we
love do and be sure and go and check out
those old episodes. But it's just fun to talk about
these songs. So let's get going. Okay, Number five, five?
Speaker 1: All right, so my number five. I told you that
I'm trying to separate the theme song from the show
because I would rate the show higher than number.
Speaker 2: Five for this time period.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, So I enjoyed the show better than I
enjoyed the song.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: In fact, I told you last night that is not
really all that great of a song, but I associated
so fondly with the show that it's going to be
high on my list. This song was sung by al Girou.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about? What you're talking about?
Some walk by night, some fly by day.
Speaker 1: That's it, man, some.
Speaker 3: Change.
Speaker 2: So the series is called Moonlighting. I'm not sure what
the song is called, but that's it.
Speaker 1: The song is actually called Moonlighting.
Speaker 2: Oh that's creative.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This song reached number twenty three on the Hot
one hundred and nineteen eighty six and reached number one
on the Adult Contemporary chart. It also won two Grammys
in nineteen eighty eight, one for Best Male Pop Vocal
one for Best Song Written for.
Speaker 2: A motion picture or television. Although it is not my
style of music, this is a song that is very
enjoyable to listen to, and they're such strong nostalgia. When
I hear that song that I'm definitely with you, I'm
with you, it is worthy.
Speaker 1: I think next year we need to do an episode
Miami Vice versus Moonlighting television show to television show.
Speaker 2: That would be a tough one. I know what I
would pick. No, I don't know what you would pick.
I love them both you or yeah, you're a you're
a hard fan boy on both of those. I am.
I am. Yeah, that'd be an interesting episode. Okay, all right,
ready for my number five?
Speaker 1: What's your number five?
Speaker 2: All right? You ready? Ready? The show involves for Special
Forces unit members tried by a court martial for a
crime they did not commit.
Speaker 1: And one guy who's so ill, temperate and he can
never fly.
Speaker 2: This is the A team. How are they going to
knock out mister T this episode?
Speaker 1: I told you they fire automatic weapons all the time
and nobody ever gets shot.
Speaker 2: So this is this is really a great story. The
guy who came up with this show had just gotten
fired from ABC for not being able to come up
with a show. Really. Yeah, the guy's name You may
have mentioned it when we were talking in our last episode,
But the creators of the show are a couple of
guys named Stephen Knell and Frank Lupo. Stephen Kanell had
just gotten fired from ABC. Brandon Tartakoff of NBC Fame
had hired them and said, give me a show, and
this is what he came up with. And when he
came to pitch it to him, he said, Okay, it's
a combination of the Dirty Dozen and Mission Impossible and
Magnificent Seven and Mad Max and Hill Street Blues. What
what with mister T driving a car? That's Bill mister T.
Speaker 1: Really at that moment, mister T was such an icon
in the eighties. Oh sure, if you could have landed
mister T, then that's enough to get at Greenland.
Speaker 2: This is I mean, this show is nineteen eighty three.
By the way, first episode appeared after Super Bowl seventeen,
nineteen eighty three, Mister T was about to become you
wage in nineteen eighty three. That's right.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny about mister T. Yeah, so he
obviously played Clever Laying in Rocky three.
Speaker 2: Yes, He was also.
Speaker 1: Todd Bridge's bodyguard. Todd Bridges willis of different strokes.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, yeah, he was a bouncer and a
fighter and a bodyguard. I've forgotten about that. Yeah, there
you go, fantastic. And I looked at mister T a
little bit, you know previously, just those rabbit holes that
I go down for no particular reason at all. But
his mister T was so that people had to address
him with respect. Yeah, Like he didn't like anybody calling
him boy, and so you can call me mister T.
And he was a bouncer and people would forget or
lose or maybe have ripped off their jewelry as things
were getting heated. Huh. And that is how he came
to wear all of his goal chain.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a good story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So this music for the A Team was
written by a guy you may have heard of named
Mike Post Yeah, and a writing partner of his name,
Pete Carpenter. Same two guys who came up with the
theme for Magnum p.
Speaker 1: I guys are studs, man.
Speaker 2: How many times have we said their name?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: I don't know, bunch yep, take another shot. Okay, you're
a turn. Tell me what you got for number four, sir.
Speaker 4: Four?
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So this show ran from nineteen eighty two to nineteen
eighty nine, but the show really didn't become a hit
hit until nineteen eighty four when it was slotted after
The Cosby Show, Gotcha, And then it got a boost
of rocket fuel when the star was in a movie,
one of the biggest movies of nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2: So this has to be family ties.
Speaker 3: I bet we've been together for a million.
Speaker 2: Yees, and I bet we will beat together for a
million more. Yes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. The song is called without Us, Okay. This song
was written by Jeff Barry and Tom Scott, which we
talked about in our last episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were the guys who came up with the Jeffersons.
Oh there we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, So they did the Jeffersons, They did doua Diddy,
Diddy did do Ron Ron Ron Iron Iron. They also
did then he kissed Me. Oh yeah, okay, the leader
of the Pack, and as you said, the song that
inspired Joe Elliott to write pour Some Sugar on Me.
Speaker 2: Sugar Sugar by the Archies, Sugar Sugar by the Archies, Fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah by the way. We've talked about this song already
in the previous episode the first ten episodes of Family Ties. Yeah,
the singers were Dennis Trafano and Minnie Sterling. After that,
they said, you know what, let's give this theme song
a boost by giving.
Speaker 2: It some better voices.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams took.
Speaker 2: Denise Williams though that would have probably been from our
Footloops album correct.
Speaker 1: Footloose soundtrack episode, she sang the song Let's Hear It
for the Boy.
Speaker 3: Well, next nam on.
Speaker 1: The love It, Love It dude, there you go number
four to you, sir.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna try to blow your mind with a
little trivia before I even tell you what the show
is or the song. Are you ready? Yeah? Okay, So
two episodes of this show, and I had a ton
of episodes. Two episodes of the show was written by
our friend mister Stephen Desusa of eighties fame, especially Die
Hard Yes, and one of the episodes was written written
by Richard Matheson, whose son would go on to be
part of the writing team that wrote Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure Sure.
Speaker 1: Matheson wrote, I am legend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, come on, So okay, I'm giving you more
clues without telling you what this is, right, hang on, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know Stephen Desusa worked on The six Million Dollar Man.
Speaker 2: It's not that's seventies. Yes, okay, keep going. Okay. There
is an actor that is involved with this show, key
actor involved with this show, who is also involved with
another eighties show called Saint Elsewhere, which I mean very
well could be on this list, right, great interest song
on Saint Elsewhere. And he was also involved in a
movie from the sixties that had a fantastic soundtrack where
he played Dustin Hoffman's dad. He was the dad in
the Graduate. But you never see his face in this
TV show. You only hear his voice.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: His character is a car.
Speaker 1: This is night writer, you got it. This is the
guy who plays the judge in the Bruce Willis movie
Blind Date.
Speaker 2: I don't even word.
Speaker 1: He says, you'r honor, He's Tracy honored the call time.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: This is John Larrah Kat and Kim Basinger.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: William Daniels, Yes, William Daniels. William Daniels was the name
of the guy who played kid. He was Doctor Craig
on Saint Elsewhere he was mister Braddock or something like that.
On the Graduate, he is the voice of Kit. Of course,
we have the introduction of David Hasselhoff to the world.
Hoff Yes, the hofst the Hoffman.
Speaker 1: We talked about this in our previous episode.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: You've got a dude who assumes an identity in a
talking car and I'm in that's it. Yeah, that's all
I need.
Speaker 2: It's got a cool little light that goes along the hood. Yeah.
I can't tell you how much I wanted that. By
the way, just a little trivia bit on Ready Player one.
The car that he created, the ECDO eighty eight, I
believe is what it was called, was a combination of
the DeLorean from Back to the Future, the Ghostbusters car,
and Kit from Night Rider.
Speaker 1: We really need to have a top five eighties vehicles
conversation one of these days.
Speaker 2: We definitely do. By the way, I have to think
that The A Team is the only show in history
that made a van cool.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: The music in this episode is by a guy named
Glenn Larson, who you mentioned him in our last episode.
He did The Fall Guy. He was a member of
the four Preps with Ed Cobb, who is the guy
that wrote Tainted Love. I mean, pretty cool little mix
up of stuff that we've got there. Fantastic love it,
love it all.
Speaker 1: Right, So we're on to my number three. Three, My
number three you mentioned in our last episode. Okay, this
is a police drama that was above my head at
this age, right right. This show ran from nineteen eighty
one to nineteen eighty eight. This song is written by
our man, Mike Post and it is a piano over
a intense police siren. This song, of course, is from.
Speaker 2: Hill Street Blues. Okay, I mean I will listen to
that song every day.
Speaker 1: It's a great song.
Speaker 2: Right, And he came up with it in a half
an hour. I mean he came up with a half
an hour.
Speaker 1: That guy's a stud.
Speaker 2: He is now some of the other things, like he
also did NYPD Blue, which is again Stephen Bosco, same
group of guys. Right, here's the story on that one.
By the way, I know we're probably not gonna mention
that particular show. Yeah, Stephen Bosco and the other creator
of NYP, he'd get together for lunch and so he's like,
come on, guys, tell me about the show, what are
we gonna do? Stephen Bosco is like, we're thinking maybe
it just starts with just drums, and he's like, you
mean like Hawaii ive O or something. He's like, no, no, no, no,
just drums and he's like okay, right, and then the
other he's like, well, what's your thought? And the other
guy's like, my word is the subway. And he's like,
are you guys freaking kidding me here? You're giving me
drums in the subway and I'm supposed to come up
with a song from that, right. So that one took
him three weeks, and he had a little bit of
an inspiration from the Drums in the Air Tonight by
Phil Collins. So when you hear this song, know that
he was thinking drums the subway Phil Collins.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I can see that. It's really cool. The
crashing of the drums, right, the hard pounding drums.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about a song here in a minute
that is sort of Tan Gentle to Phil Collins.
Speaker 2: Okay, ready for my number three.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for your number three.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking I'm gonna throw you a curveball in this one.
I hope that I do. I hope that I do.
Speaker 1: I love curve balls.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I'm just going to tell you that we've
talked about the creator of this show before. Okay, we've
talked about the composer for this show before. I'm going
to tell you that another composing duo was involved with
this show for one episode. The episode was called The
Family Dog, and the composer that is not the composer
of the theme music, but was the composer for that
episode is Danny Elfman and his guitarist from Oingo Boingo,
Stephen Bartek. Okay, but the series was created by somebody
that we've talked about before and a composer that you
always keep together with.
Speaker 1: That guy got anything, well, I thought I had it,
and then you threw me off.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give you one more hint. Okay. Another episode
of this show was supposed to be a story called
Battery Not Included, but the show creator liked it so
much that he decided to direct an entire movie called
Batteries Not Included.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this has to be So this is
Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 2: You got it, amazing stories, you got it. Yes, So
of course that Amazing Music is by John Williams. Always
things you put together. I mean you can hear it.
Once you hear that, you go, oh yeah, I hear
Indiana Jones and Jaws and all of the other obvious
John Williams is in there. It is one of my
favorite theme musics from the late eighties. Great show Amazing Stories,
which was kind of a Twilight Zone kind of deal.
One of my favorite episodes had Mark Hamill in it,
where he was kind of a hoarder and then ended
up becoming rich from hoarding stuff because they all became antiques.
Show only ran from eighty five to eighty seven, but
I thought it was a brilliant show.
Speaker 1: Wow, I have not thought about that show.
Speaker 2: And forever I thought of my three curve.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Okay, I like it, all right, Okay,
all right, So here's my curveball to you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 1: This is a little tricky because I could have literally
put this in early seventies, which we haven't done late seventies,
early eighties, late eighties.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I've got a guess. Okay, is it the
love boat? No love? All right? Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 1: So the name of this song it's known as Heavy Action.
That's the title of the song. Okay, okay, yeah, Now
is written by this guy named Johnny Pearson. He's British.
The song was commissioned by the BBC. Now, okay, I'm
telling you this is a curveball. It has since become
synonymous with a sports show in the UK, Superstars. The
first four notes have become synonymous with American sport as well.
Let me play this for you and see what you think.
I can see you're stumped.
Speaker 2: I am completely and totally stumped. Okay, hold on to
your socks. Okay, So the TV show that you're talking
about is Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Monday Night Football.
Speaker 2: Okay, that is a bit of a curveball. I was
really struggling. I wasn't thinking about sports shows, but well,
obviously that is unmistakable.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this is the song that they would play
behind Howard cosell Is, he's like recapping the highlights and
for me, my football awakening have kind of in the
early to mid eighties, and so for me that's a
big deal. Monday Night Football was huge to me, and
so Heavy Action.
Speaker 2: Johnny Pearson love it. Great one that's a great one.
Speaker 1: It did not become the official theme for Monday Night
Football until nineteen eighty nine, nineteen years after.
Speaker 2: It was composed. Wow, that is crazy. That is awesome.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're onto my number two. Right. I have
a prediction that I'm going to make right now here
we go. I believe that my number two is your
number one, probably so, and so I'm going to hold
off until we do honorable mentions, Okay, and then I'm
going to give you the lead in and I'll see
if we'll see if I'm right, Okay, yeah, yeah, okay,
all right, all right, so here we go, Yeah, honorable mentions.
We'll come back to Jason's number one, and maybe my
number two, I don't know, and then my number one.
All right.
Speaker 1: So my first honorable mention is a song written and
composed by John Bettis and Steve Dorf.
Speaker 2: Okay, Stephen Dorf, he's an actor, right, dwarf man? Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: So BJ Thomas nineteen seventies singer. My dad loved BJ Thomas.
He sings the first season by himself, then in the
second season he teams.
Speaker 2: Up with a lady.
Speaker 1: We've talked about Jennifer Warrens, and then in season four
they dropped Jennifer Warrens and they add Dusty Springfield, another
lady we've talked about. And the song, of course goes
to the TV show.
Speaker 2: Growing Pains and starring Kirk Cameron and mister Allen Thick,
who wrote one of the TV shows that we talked
about in our prior one of the TV showed theme
songs that we talked about in our prior episode we
got and I'm not sure how it fell off my list,
but he also wrote something that's worthy of an honorable mention.
And since you just did Growing Pains as your honorable mention,
I'm gonna boot it off of my list and insert
this one, okay. He also wrote the theme music for
the TV show that was a spinoff of Different Strokes
called The Facts of Life. You take the good, you
take a bad, You take them both them There you
have the backs of light, the backs of life. There's
a time you got nice.
Speaker 1: You take the good, take the bad, take you both
the facts of life.
Speaker 2: That nice?
Speaker 1: That's good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. Yeah, So he and his wife.
Speaker 1: Alan Dick wrote that song.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's crazy, right, that is crazy By the way,
Jennifer Warrens, just in case you don't know who she is.
She is the singer on this song right here, which.
Speaker 2: Of course we talked about on our Dirty Dancy episode.
Be sure and go check that one out. We compared
movie to movie, an album to album, Dirty Dancing versus
Saturday Night Fever. A great bunch of stories in all
of those episodes.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, So honorable mention that I just gave to you
was facts of Life. Your honorable mention was growing pains.
If you've got one more honorable man, one more honorable mention, Okay,
I do too, but it was one that you already
talked about. My other honorable mention was Moonlighting. We've covered it,
So what have you got?
Speaker 1: I have Moonlighting higher on my list than you did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did, wow, because.
Speaker 1: We talked about it. You said you really like that song. Okay,
So my honorable mention is bass heavy. In fact, it
starts out okay, very heavy on the bass.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm surprised.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to disguise that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: This was composed by a guy named Jack Elliott, who
wrote themes for Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1: Really tell you anything else other than you've got John Larroquette,
you've got Markey posts oh night Court course.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's a great one. Yes, yeah, I love that
little bass intro. Great yep. Okay, okay, So that's our
honorable mentions. We're onto your number one. I'm going to
start by by giving you a little info on my
number two because I think it's the same song. I'm
sure it is, but I just thought it was crazy
that right after we've done the episode on Vivid with
James Buckley, that I come across another member of the
Maha Vishnu Orchestra that we talked about. Were like, what,
I mean, how often are you going to run across
that orchestra? And I've done it twice in two episodes.
Speaker 1: I could not believe it when I saw that.
Speaker 2: Right, the keyboardist for the I mean one of the keyboards,
but a key keyboardist for the Mahavish New Orchestra was
the guy named Jan Hammer who's gone on to compose
a million other songs, but you probably best know him
from this TV series that ran from nineteen eighty four
to nineteen eighty nine. Am I wrong? Did I pick
your number one?
Speaker 4: He nailed it one.
Speaker 1: The Miami Vice theme. Okay, before we get off of
this one, Okay, I don't. Actually I have a pretty
good idea what your number one is. In fact, I
think I know what it is. But this so far
is the only song to hit number one on the
Hot one hundred. Yeah, this song hit number one November
ninth of nineteen eighty five. It's mind blowing how popular
this TV show was. The soundtrack was. I would love
to take a deep dive on this soundtrack next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so. We talked about maybe doing
this soundtrack versus the Beverly Hills cop soundtrack with Axual
f on it. I think that'd be a great matchup
to do.
Speaker 1: Miami Vice soundtrack and just listen to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The week that this hit number one, your top five
is We Built This City by Starship, You Belong to
the City by Glenn Frye. Another song from the Miami
Vice soundtrack, Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears. We
hope to cover that part time Lover by Stevie Wonder,
which is a horrible song. Oh that's a good song
and then Miami Vice theme number one.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned a little bit ago in the pilot
episode you have the song in the Air Tonight by
Phil Collins, which was the part of the inspiration for
the theme for it from NYPD Blue by mister Mike Post.
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Speaker 2: That show, of course, was created by Anthony Yekovich and
largely Michael Mann. Also season four produced by Dick Wolf.
Speaker 1: All Right, so this brings us to your number one,
which it has to be where everybody knows your name.
Speaker 2: You nailed it.
Speaker 3: Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries. Sure, what help along?
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Speaker 1: Sometimes you've gone well out the mod and knows your name?
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: So, as we mentioned, several songs can go from one
era to another era, this is one of those that
stands the test of time. Jason put it in his
as his number one spot in the previous episode that
we did our part two on this series for nineteen
eighty through nineteen eighty four. Obviously, this series went on
into the nineties.
Speaker 1: Put it down the nineties list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. But this song beautiful It is by a
guy named Gary Portnoy. Jason mentioned in the last episode.
He was a guy who had never written a theme
song before. He was a musician, obviously, but he had
actually just gotten fired from his musical staff position. And
a friend of his, who you mentioned in the last
episode who helped co write this song, is sitting down
to dinner with a Broadway producer, and the Broadway producer says, hey,
do you know anybody who writes music? I'm looking for
songs for my show, and she's thinking, Gary just got fired.
Here's a chance for him to land on his feet.
That's great. So they write this song for the show,
and somehow it ends up a little bit later on
in the hands of the Charles brothers. My clue for you,
had you not guessed this, by the way, my clue
for you was going to be sit ubu, sit good dog,
Good dog, and you would have gotten it right off
the back.
Speaker 1: I would have I love cheers.
Speaker 2: So here's just an interesting piece of information. My mom
went to school with Glenn Charles and Less Charles. Really
my grandmother, her mother was an administrator at that school
that they grew up in in Newvada.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Thanks. So they of course created the show Cheers. They
had gotten this song that was being featured in a
Broadway musical and they thought perfect, except the Broadway producer said, no,
you're not going to use my song, right, And so,
as you mentioned, they went back to the lady Judy
hart Angelo and said, can you come up with anything else?
And how many songs did you say?
Speaker 1: They sent, so they came up with my kind of
people rejected in an other day, rejected, right.
Speaker 2: And so this was kind of their final ditch effort.
But when Glynn Unless Charles heard it, they were like,
this is great, and then they thought, well, who's going
to perform it? You know what, we like the way
you sing it. So Gary Portnoy, the writer of the song,
is the man that you hear performing it. I mentioned
on our last episode. I always thought, I frequently thought
that it sounded like Woody Harrelson singing. And I just
feel like they updated the song a little bit over
the years because it just it had a more vibrant feel.
Maybe they just remixed it. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Well I did read that they they doubled him, they
tripled him, and they quadrupled him to give it that
sort of chorus thicker.
Speaker 2: Feel I got you. Well. As it turns out, the
Charles brothers were so confident in their ability to get
it done that they did not even attend the recording session.
Just said you got this, and we have a song
that is maybe maybe the best song of the entire decade.
Speaker 1: That's TV themes, sure sure, and maybe the best show
the entire decade.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Now, the interesting thing was is that the show was
dead last in the ratings when it first came out. Yeah,
but they had people who would call into the TV
station and request the sheet music for that song. Nice,
So the song was actually a hit before the show was.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic boom.
Speaker 1: Great choice.
Speaker 2: By the way, those two guys also produced the TV
series Taxi, which has a really very memorable theme song
as well, which reminds me. After we did our big episode,
we had a guy on Instagram called the Orgami Wizard.
Let's go check out his Instagram page. Yeah, some cool stuff,
but he hit us up and said, love the show.
But you you mentioned that Tom Hanks was in Happy Days,
but you didn't mention that he was also in Taxi.
I went and looked it up, and sure enough, he
was in an episode of Taxi same time as Happy
Days had gotten fired from or had lost Bosom Buddies,
and he played like Christopher Lloyd's pot Brownie eaton religious
experience in front of a lava lamp. Guy, is it's great?
A little bit of trivia right there for you? Love it?
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