Speaker 1: From Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You
Can't Be Serious Podcast. I don't know what music Jason's
going to put for the introduction, but I hope it.
Speaker 2: Involves I've got to play something really crazy seventies because
we're diving back to the seventies today.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, guys, normally we do the eighties and nineties,
and normally we do albums and movies, but we are
doing something different today but still heavy on the gen X.
We are bringing you today the first part of a
three part series where we are giving our top five
TV themes.
Speaker 2: Top five TV themes from nineteen seventy five to nineteen
seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's episode one. Episode two will be nineteen eighty
nineteen eighty four, and episode three will be nineteen eighty
five to nineteen eighty nine, the time period that all
us gen X freaks we're watching TV NonStop.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm excited to do this because this is
back at a time when TV was sort of much
more important in people's lives.
Speaker 1: Guys, if you are feeling the stresses of life right now,
you know there's always seems like something else coming onto
your plate, and it's just bearing down upon you spend
just the next few minutes with us to forget about that,
travel back in time to when you were a kid
and the biggest worry was what breakfast cereal you were
going to eat when you watched your Saturday morning cartoons.
Speaker 2: Just pretend like you're lying on the floor, you got
your chin on your hands, and your dad tells you
to go turn the knob to change the channel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're talking about when you were the
remote control.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Okay, So in this first part of the series, we
got to kind of set some ground rules for our choices, right.
Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
Speaker 1: So if you've heard some of our other top five episodes,
we had the top five songs of nineteen eighty three.
Earlier this season, yep, we had the top songs of
nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, we've also had top Super Bowl
performformances as well. But we always establish a few ground rules.
One of the ground rules is it needs to kind
of fit in the time period that we're talking about,
but it doesn't have to be exclusively in that time period, right,
It's tricky. Yeah, we may have some songs that maybe
were before seventy five, but spilled on over into seventy
five through seventy nine. We may have some songs that
kind of go past seventy nine. You just you don't
know what it's going to be, But as long as
it kind of feels right, that's where we're placing things.
So conceivably with some of the longer series, say Magnum
p I for example, that went from eighty to eighty eight,
that could be in my episode two, and it could
be in your episode three. We just don't know what
this right.
Speaker 2: With that said, things like Scooby Doo and Gilligan's Island
stuff we watched after school in the seventies and eighties,
those are out because they're exclusively sixties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of Niked Knight stuff where
we were picking up Brady Bunch and other themes like that,
but we're talking about stuff that is new episodes in
the time period that we're talking about exactly now.
Speaker 2: Then the other rule that we established is that it
has to be written for the television show.
Speaker 1: And that is a big one. That was a booming
sweep once we realized what we had done to ourselves
because that excluded Golden Girls. Yeah, that excluded married with Children, right,
that excluded the Wonder Years. Yeah, and then you pointed
out to me it.
Speaker 2: Excludes Bosom Buddies, which is tragic because that was one
of my favorite TV things too. I was looking through that,
I was like, whoo, that one's out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So all of these songs were specifically written for
the series that they were the theme of. They were
not some sort of rehash reboot thing. Yeah, exactly, Jason.
The seventies for you was a little different than the
seventies for me. Right, I think the seventies and I'm like,
we're talking about the time period from my birth to
the time that I was four, So that's a pretty
tight window of knowledge for me. But I do remember
a lot of these songs. The other things that I
can remember from the seventies is my big wheel, I do.
Speaker 2: I had a green machine but yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolute boss right, and that thing out Neighborhood Street for
the first time.
Speaker 2: Love it. I'll tell you what I did in the seventies. Yeah,
my big thing was Star Wars Guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I played with those things until my hands fell off.
Star Wars Guys and Light Bright and Legos.
Speaker 1: So guys think about the time on your big Wheel,
think about the time with your Star Wars Kinner action figures.
As we go back in history to the nineteen seventies,
we flip on the TV and Jason, what is your
number five pick for the top five five?
Speaker 2: So my number five song from the seventies.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna do this sort of quiz fashion too, right, Yeah,
you're gonna give me a little hint. I'm gonna try
to guess.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: See this is tricky because there's not a lot you
know here, but okay, okay. So this show ran from
nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty four, okay, and it
established what was cool in the seventies.
Speaker 1: Okay, and by that I mean.
Speaker 2: Punching a jukebox to make it start playing was cool?
Speaker 1: Sunday, Monday, Happy Days.
Speaker 3: Sunday, Happy Days Day, Happy Days Days, the weekend counts.
I love it.
Speaker 1: Great, great answer, great number five. So tell me what
you've got on Happy Days.
Speaker 2: So their first two seasons of Happy Days was actually
Rock around the Clock by Bill Haley in the.
Speaker 1: Comments, yeah, which technically would violate our rules. But by
season three they come up with their own songs.
Speaker 2: They did so they came up with a song called
Happy Days, written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimble. Okay, now,
these are the same guys who wrote Killing Me Softly
by ROBERTA.
Speaker 3: Flack, killing me song, Hey wear this song song.
Speaker 1: With this song, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I've got them
coming up in a later mentioned but you keep.
Speaker 3: On going, okay.
Speaker 2: So the singers on this is called the Ron Hicklin Singers,
and they actually back up the girl who sings little
Erner Shirley song, which we may talk about here.
Speaker 1: In a few minutes, Cindy Grecody Greco.
Speaker 2: But if you pay close attention in the credits for
Happy Days, the little forty five record comes up, starts playing,
and you can read all of this information right there
for you to see on the record. Nice grade five,
Happy Days.
Speaker 1: Great one, and that one created by Gary Marshall. Yes,
and I got another story coming up here in a
little while that'll throw back to one of our more
recent episodes. But we'll come to that one in a minute.
Are you very good? Yeah? Okay, all right, So for
myn number five, I realize that I'm making this extremely difficult,
but I don't think there's any way for me to
do it otherwise, Okay, that's fine, Okay, So the composer, no,
I can't do it, No, okay, okay. This theme music
played as you were driving behind cars on the California Highway.
It is so incredibly definitive seventies gold that you would
probably not be surprised to find it in a porn.
Speaker 2: Movie to be the theme song for Chips.
Speaker 1: You've Got It. Chips ran from nineteen seventy seven to
nineteen eighty three. We had Eric Estrada and Larry Willcox's
Paunch and John p. John Man.
Speaker 2: Those guys were studs back in the day.
Speaker 1: Pontarelli. No, okay, So that show was created by a
guy named Rick Rosner. He gets credit for the movie
that came out in twenty seventeen, not that anybody would
take credit for that movie right now. The guy that
wrote the theme music for this TV show is a
guy I don't really have any information on. His name
is John Carl Parker. He was only involved with the
series from seventy seven seventy eight. But we have talked
about the music in this before, and I'm wondering if
you're gonna remember this. So the guy who kind of
took over his spot when John Parker, the composer left.
The guy who composed the music for the bulk of
the episode we've talked about in one of our earliest episodes. Okay,
Okay started out as a rock musician. He did this
work with Chips, and then he started doing movie music
and he was trying to establish himself with a Spielberg production.
It was getting a little bit iffy. But this remember
that Chips ended in eighty three. In eighty four, he
did the theme music for a movie called Romancing the Stone.
Speaker 2: Yes, you got it, it's Alan Silvestri.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. So even though Alan Silvestri did not
compose the theme music to this, he did do the
music for the bulk of this. Shut up, there you go.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Alan Silvestri, of course, did the theme music for Back
to the Future, many of the Marvel million. I mean,
he's ready player one.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, Yeah, all right, back to me, K to you four?
All right, So my number four is a theme song
that was associated with the television show that ran from
nineteen seventy seven to nineteen eighty four. I still watch
this show. I still think it's hilarious. This TV show
is based on a British show called Man about the House.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, that's not what I thought you were
going to say. Oh, okay, keep going, all right, allow me.
Speaker 2: Lonnie Anderson before WKRP Okay, auditioned for a main role
in this TV show. Okay, and didn't get it because
she was quote unquote too beautiful.
Speaker 1: Okay, I kind of remember this. Keep going now.
Speaker 2: Then Joanna Kern's audition for the main role.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she didn't get it either. She got growing pains later.
Speaker 2: Yes, but I'll tell you who did get it, Suzanne Summers.
Speaker 1: This has to be Three's Company.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna knock on our door down.
Speaker 1: I'm knock gonna do I'm and knock gonna do.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: The music for this was written by Joe Riposo. He
also wrote the theme for Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: That's a big one.
Speaker 2: He also wrote c us for Cookie That's a great one.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay.
Speaker 2: This was sung by Julia Rinker Miller and Ray Charles. No,
not that Ray Charles, the other Rachel.
Speaker 1: I was like, what did you see the episode where
there was some kind of misunderstanding upon an overheard conversation
and Jack fell down a lot, and.
Speaker 2: They thought Jack was sleeping with that other girl and
Jack fell down a lot. That's hilarious. I loved Three's
Company as a kid.
Speaker 1: I honestly, they were they were definitely in the running
for me, but I knew you'd put him on your list,
so I just went ahead and left it. Okay, So
back to me, number four, number four. My number four
is a spinoff of a series. Okay, all right. The
series that it's a spin off of also had a
very memorable introduction song that was actually sung by the
two main characters in the TV series as they sat
at a piano.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the two main characters that sung the song
and Saturday a piano, that has to be Archie Bunker
Archie and Edith Bunker.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, the name of the series was All in
the Family. Yep. He had a neighbor that he absolutely
couldn't stand because he was this racist. His neighbor was
named George Jefferson.
Speaker 2: Moving on.
Speaker 3: Dude, Moving on up.
Speaker 1: Moving on up. That's number four for me. That Jefferson's
ran from nineteen seventy five to nineteen eighty five, created
by Don Nicol, who did all in the Family and
Three's Company Okay, and developed by Norman Who's I mean
I ran into if you were playing a drinking game.
With the research I did on this, Norman Lear would
be one of those names.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: The guy who came up with a theme song. Born
Joel Adelberg, but changed his name to Jeff Berry. Good choice.
I think he did a lot of work with a
guy that we've talked about before named Phil.
Speaker 2: Spector, Crazy Phil Steal your Shoes Specter.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Work that he did with him included the song
do what did he did? He? Uh huh. Jeff Berry,
with other writers, wrote the song Leader of the Pack. Yes,
also wrote a song that we talked about in our
Hysteria episode sung by the Archies, Chug Sugar You Got It.
And he wrote this song Moving On Up, with the
singer of the song, Janet du Boi. Now Here's when
we were looking into it. I was like, shut the
front door a little bit earlier. I asked you if
you had watched the TV series Good Times.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, MI hid done a Mike you got
It in Janna Jackson.
Speaker 1: So Janet Dubois, the one who sings Moving On Up.
She played the part of Willona Woods, that neighborhood gossip
that was always over stir in the pot. That was her.
She was the actress that played that part, and she
was the one sang moving on up. She's got a
great voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that surprises me.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. I like that. That's very nugget.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're back to me, back to you.
Speaker 2: We're number three three yeah, three, okay. So this show
ran from nineteen seventy six to nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1: It too, was a spin off.
Speaker 2: The singer for this song, yes, was discovered at six
Flags Magic Mountain.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you know it? Well if it relates to
a song that you've already mentioned, then yes, I know
it does it? It does? Okay. This is also my
number three all right, great. This is the song depending
on whether we're talking about the album or the series.
If we're talking about the TV series, the song is
called We're Gonna Make It. If we're talking about the album,
the song is making our dreams come true.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting because I to me, it's making our
dreams come true.
Speaker 1: Yes, So they when they put it on the show,
they called it We're Gonna Make It. But yes, Schlamiel
Schla Maazel Haws and pep incorporated by Slamaz has incoporated.
Speaker 2: This is the theme song from Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 1: Yes, which we talked about on our previous episode on
Big Penny. Marshall was the director of that and of
course she had gotten her big break when she and
Cindy Williams played double dates of the Fawns and Richie
and the crowd love them so much they decided to
give them their own show. This was that show, and
a key ingredient was this awesome introduction.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's fantastic. So I've got a story for
you on this, Yeah, go ahead. Gary Marshall talks about
how he came up with the idea for la vernon Shirley. Okay,
So he came back from Korea and he was on
a date and he was at a restaurant and the
girl he was with got crossed with another girl in
the restaurant, somebody they didn't know. The other girl said
something rude to his date, and his date said, Gary,
would you mind holding my coat for me please? And
then a fistfight broke out between his date and the
other girl.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: He's like, I couldn't believe that two girls got in
a fistfight at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: That is fantastic, and he goes, So.
Speaker 2: That sort of spawned the idea of these sort of
two blue collar, rough and.
Speaker 1: Tough girls, girls who work in a brewery. Yep. I
threw this idea out to my brother throw you know, hey,
what don't think just say top eighties theme songs, right, yeah,
this one came up and he's like, I remember that.
Mom and I used to always sing this, and I
was like, it's the only Yiddish I know. Schlemil schlamazl
does that might have no idea?
Speaker 2: Okay, I got one more nugget for you on this song.
So you talked about how the guys who wrote this
song are Charles Fox and Norman Gimbell.
Speaker 1: Yes, real quick, you mentioned that they both wrote Killing
Me Softly fantastic song.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Charles Fox also wrote the theme for the Love Boat,
another big seventies yes, and at this one the original
Monday Night football theme.
Speaker 2: Really fantastic, you go Okay. They also wrote the Barry
Manilow song Ready to Take a Chance Again, which was
the theme for the movie foul Play, Oh with Chevy
Chase Cha Yeah, which I'm getting ready to go onto
the Film.
Speaker 1: By podcast and talk about guys. Be sure and go
over to the Film by podcast check out Jeff and
Brad and some of their co hosts as they cover
movies that are all awesome, but it's like the lesser
known movies of the directors we all know. So Jason,
you're gonna be talking about foul Play with them? I am.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be the last episode of the year,
so it's down the road a bit.
Speaker 1: But foul Play, great movie. Can't wait to talk about
that sounds awesome. So we mentioned before. This song was
sung by Cindy Greco is her only charting song, but
it reached number twenty five on the Hot one hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Charles Fox was at six Flags and heard her singing.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, It's crazy, you never know ye all right? Okay,
so that covers both of our number three. Shall I
go to my number two? Or are you gonna go
to your number two? Oh? Whatever you want to do,
go for it. Okay, I will go to my number two.
Okay two, And I will tell you that the composer
of this song was the key to the best selling
album of all time that we talked about in our
very first episode.
Speaker 2: So the best selling album of all time. I'm guessing
you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Say that's Thriller. Yes, And he's the composer of Thriller.
He was a key ingredient in Thriller. Quincy Jones. Correct, Okay,
I got nothing. What are we talking about here? So
I'm gonna blow your mind because I didn't know that
this was by him as well. So in the late
sixties early seventies, he was still living in England, just
had a baby over there, was trying to get back Rashida.
Might have been, might have been okay, yeah, could have
been okay. And he while in England fell in love
with his very popular TV show called Steptoe and Son.
Steptoe and Son, Yeah okay, And so he actually looked
into getting the rights to do this show in the States,
but somebody else already had it. They end up calling
him back and saying, hey, would you write the theme
music for us? Okay? I love I love the anticipation.
I'm just going to keep on going and give you.
I have a guest out there. I have a guest,
keep going, keep going, he skill me up. So's He's like, okay,
well tell me who you've got playing these parts. And
the producer, Aaron Rubin says it's a Red Fox and
Quincy Jones like, you can't put him on TV. He's
like that there isn't a word that he says that's
allowed to be said on TV. He's like, I used
to work with that guys. I used to run the
same circuit together. You can't put Red Fox on public television, No, sir,
Sure enough they did, but they said, do you want
to see the first episode before you composed the theme song?
And he said, no, I know exactly what it needs
to sound like, because I know what Red Fox sounds like. Yeah,
which is where you get.
Speaker 2: That's Sanford and sonon.
Speaker 1: So listen to this song. I can't help but think
of Doctor Teeth an electric mayhem. Oh yeah, very good,
Sanford Son nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy seven. The
theme written by Quincy Jones, is called the Backstreeter. The
story was based on an English series named Steptoe and
Son created by Aaron Rubin and Norman Lear again develops
the show.
Speaker 2: Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Okay. So we're on to my.
Speaker 1: Number two, onto your number two, all right, go ahead, okay.
Speaker 2: So this show ran from nineteen seventy six to nineteen
eighty one. Yes, and frankly, I'm astonished that we haven't
come across it with you yet, and maybe we still will.
So this song played at the beginning of every episode
and the end of every episode, okay, and always had
a different stinger with a character at the end before
the show started.
Speaker 1: Oh, I got nothing. You're gonna have to keep going,
all right.
Speaker 2: Okay, So imagine with me arches okay, and then we
back up, and there's more arches, and then we back
up and there's more arches, and everybody is singing this song.
You got zuoit on the sacks, you got Rolf on
the piano.
Speaker 1: This is the Muppet Show tonight.
Speaker 2: It's time to play the music, it's time to dress
up right. Great song, and you've got Gonzo who at
the end of every song does something funny with his
horn and bubbles come out, or a chicken falls off
the stage or something happens.
Speaker 1: Yes, great show.
Speaker 2: Love the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic show. Good call. I didn't. It didn't make
my radar. I actually thought about it, but it didn't.
It didn't get dipped in, so great, great pick for
number one.
Speaker 2: I actually checked this show out from the library, showed
it to my kids. They fell in love with Alice
Cooper because of this show that you know, the muppets
are singing Welcome to My Nightmare. They was singing Welcome
to my Nightmare. Yes, and my kids just thought Alice
Cooper was the funniest.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So that's that means we're to me
that completes my number two. Okay, So I've done my
number two, you've done your number two. We're onto honorable mentions, Yes,
we are. I can tell you my honorable mentions. They've
both been discussed. My honorable Okay. My honorable mentions were
Happy Days and Three's Company. So you tell me what
have you got? So one of my honorable mentions is
Chips nice okay, good.
Speaker 2: California Highway Patrol with the porno music in the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paunch and John great great song.
Speaker 2: Loved it, Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: My other honorable mention is.
Speaker 2: A TV show based on a movie.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: The movie is called Moon Runners from nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: The movie is called moon Runners. That's right, that's got
nothing okay? Oh oh wait, as in like moonshine Runners.
Maybe is that it? That's it? Okay. I may come
back and discuss that particular song with you in a
future episode, But you've got to be talking about Dukes
of Hazzard just a good old bone.
Speaker 3: They haven't made in no harm.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I'm talking about The Dukes of Hazzard, which
ran from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty five, with
a little break in the middle with Vans and Koy.
Speaker 1: Remember when uh scabs Bow and Duke Bow and Luke
got kicked out for a few episodes and then Vance
and Koy came in.
Speaker 3: That didn't work.
Speaker 2: But the song is called good Old Boys. It's based
on a movie called moon Runners. Waylon Jennings actually narrated
that movie, and so they invited him back to narrate
The Dukes.
Speaker 1: Of Hazzard as well as sing the theme song. Absolutely, absolutely, yes, sir,
and I love that it starts off with the guitar, right,
that's the first thing. How many times do you give
so much credit to the theme music that you actually
show the guy playing his guitar before you do. Scenes
from the TV su point right, great point.
Speaker 2: This was released as a single in August of nineteen
eighty reached number one on the Country Hit chart in
November nineteen eighty. I'm including it in the set, but
it was very, very easy to put it on the
eighties as well.
Speaker 1: For sure. So be sure and tune into our future episodes.
Maybe we've got more tidbits for you coming up, are okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So now we're onto my number one, Yes, and your
number one and my number one? Okay, you go first, Okay,
all right. One.
Speaker 2: So this comes from a television show that ran from
nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty okay, starring an actor
with local ties to you and I. In fact, there's
a statue of him in downtown Norman, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what it is. This is great because
in our future episode, I'm going to be talking about
the composer of that particular song. He is. Again, if
you're playing a drinking game, his name is a name
that you will need to remember. But I'm not going
to step on your stories here. I'm just going to
tell you you're talking about out James Garner and The
Rockford Files.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you alluded to it, but this is composed
by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. Mike Post is gonna
pop up left and right in our next episode, probably
for guessing.
Speaker 1: There's no question.
Speaker 2: When they sat down with him to talk about The
Rockford Files, yep, he said, Okay, tell me about the
main character.
Speaker 1: I said, all right, here's the deal.
Speaker 2: It's casual, he's laid back, he's Oklahoma. And they said,
whenever there's a fight, he tries to avoid.
Speaker 1: Getting in a fight. He's like, okay, I got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Harmonica, They're like, yes. So he built this theme
from that laid back Oklahoma feel that James Garner has.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. I love it.
Speaker 2: By the way, This was released as a single in
August of nineteen seventy five, made it to number ten
on the Hot one hundred.
Speaker 1: So this one was his breakout hit he had at
twenty three years old. Well, first, let me just let
me let me back up just a little bit. So
Mike Post is a you know, musical genius, yes, and
just this laid back I mean he looks like a
mechanic a normal guy. I can't tell you how many
interviews I watched with him on the stuff that he's done.
But anyway, after touring for a while with various acts
that became pretty popular, he got a studio job and
he wanted to just you know, get paid and play music,
and so he started playing with this group of folks
that some people refer to as the Wrecking Crew.
Speaker 3: No Way.
Speaker 1: Yes, so we've mentioned the Wrecking Crew probably multiple times
at this point, but they are the band behind all
of the bands, and if you just to sum it up,
they're the band that Brian Wilson went to when he
composed his masterpiece pet Sounds, and there's a documentary out
there on him. But he's nineteen years old thrown in
with these guys and he's just like in awe. He
knows how good they are and he manages to impress
them and becomes a part of their group. It's fantastic.
He goes on, he does an arrangement for Classical Gas,
which gets him his first Grammy at twenty three, and
then that Rockford Files becomes a top ten hit and
gets him his second Grammy.
Speaker 2: Listen to this, I'm gonna blow your socks off with
this keep going. So he produces a couple albums that
you've heard of. Yeah, he produces the Dolly Parton album
that includes nine to five, which we will.
Speaker 1: Be talking about in our future episode nine to five
versus mister Mom.
Speaker 2: Well, I can't wait to talk about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He also produced Van Halen three, I know, right, the
one with Gary Cherone.
Speaker 1: Poor Gary Charon. But hey, honestly, that's not a bad
album at all. Fantastic makes you want to go listen
to it. He also back even before he produced Dolly Parton,
he produced Kenny Rogers in first edition throw back to
our Big Lebowski episode, Oh wow, just walked in to
see what condition my condition was?
Speaker 2: In this Rockford Files theme song for forty years was
the walkout music for the British football team, the Tranmer Rovers.
Speaker 1: That's that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Forty years.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Okay, all right with that name, Mike Post,
it's coming up later, all right, now.
Speaker 2: Ready for your number one?
Speaker 1: Okay, lay it on me. I can't believe it hasn't
come up yet. Okay, okay, okay. So the composer on
this particular song is a guy that we've talked about
briefly before.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: The story that I talked about before was when this
composer sat down with a guy and smoked a joint
with him on a hill, and that guy was like, man,
I really dig your music. I love your name, and
so he gave his name as the first name and
the middle name for his son would go on to
blow our freaking minds with his ability to sing hard
rock in a voice that was anything but hard rock.
It was so beautiful, sounds very much like a classical composer.
Speaker 2: Godly, dude, I got nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have no clue. Okay. The name
of the composer for the song that is in my
number one spot is a guy named John Sebastian.
Speaker 2: John Sebastian, Yes, Sebastian Bach.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it. So the story was that John Sebastian
Bach's dad got high John Sebastian.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's all Okay, that's been like three years ago
we talked about.
Speaker 1: So his dad was a huge fan of Love and Spoonful, right, Yes,
John Sebastian was the lead guy for Love and Spoonful.
He had started off just you know, playing regular clubs.
Is kind of a solo act, and then he gets
invited to do this little concert. He's standing next to
the guys who started the who ran the concert, when
the news comes over to him. They're like, hey, they
they broke down the gate in the third quadrant. And
the two guys go talk for a second and they go, well,
I guess Woodstock is going to be a free concert now.
So he was at Woodstock as a virtual unknown and
goes on to form Love and Spoonful and then a
series comes along that is created by a guy named
Gabe Kaplan and Alan Sachs, and Alan Sachs says, I
really want the theme music for this to be like
a Love and Spoonful song. Okay, got it, And so
they send John Sebastian the script, say hey, can you
write a song for this? And so he reads the
whole script and he's like, Okay, I I think I've
got some ideas, but like, what's the name of this show?
You know what it is. It's Welcome Back Cotter.
Speaker 3: Welcome back your dreams? Were you ticket.
Speaker 1: Perfect? But at the time that he got the script,
the only name they had for it was Cotter. Okay,
and John Sebastian was like, guys, are you serious you
want me to write a song about Cotter? What is
a rhyme for that Otter? What am I going to
do with this?
Speaker 3: Right? Right?
Speaker 1: And he goes, do I have to use that name?
And they were like, no, I guess you know, do
what you want to do. And so he felt like
the whole idea on that pilot episode was mister Carter
is coming back to his old high school to teach,
and he's having to kind of teach the kids that
were he was once like when he was that age,
and so it was a welcome back feeling that he got.
That's how he got the title of the song, which
then of course became the title of the series.
Speaker 2: I love it, I love it. I can't believe I
overlooked that one. That's a great number one, thanks man,
And it's a fantastic song and it was a great
TV show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I imagine that we'll talk about this a little bit
when we talk about Grease in the Fall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was the breakout for mister John Travolta
movie star extraordinary of the late seventies and early eighties.
Speaker 2: That's right, all right, So that's our top five TV
theme songs A nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: We want to make that distinction.
Speaker 2: We would love to hear what you think we missed
and what's.
Speaker 1: Your top five? Yeah, don't forget rules are it has
to be a song made for the series. That's rather
than that. Give us what you got. Absolutely, thank you
so much for supporting us. We look forward to seeing
you next week.
Speaker 2: Bye guys,