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If youGrowed in the 1970s and '80, chances you can always recite the words to theSong "Facts of Life". You know everything about how you take good, you take the harm, you take them, and you have the facts of life! But what you probably havenot know is who is behind thatSong Theme of emblematic television (and so much more):Growth painsStarAlan Thicke!

Yes, the patriarch of the family of the sea and the father of "blurred lines" singerRobin Thicke-Got its beginning to Hollywood not only as television hosting in the 1970s, but also writing theme songs for them, including the original theme ofWheel of Fortune.

Finally, Thicke added themed songs for the scripted series to his curriculum vitae. He and his first woman, singer and actressGloria Loringwere quite the powerfulTheme-song-writing. The duo, with composerAl Burton, co-writing theFacts of lifeSong theme, who saved blood. The team has also created theShots Song theme together. And, fun facts: one of the voices behind "you need diffread blows" is Thicke's!

In 2010, Thicke spoke about her televised theme singing legacy withA.V. club, noting that he had composed "more than 40 complete themes". "The challenge was to do 24 seconds to do something eye-catching and memorable and summarizing all the premise of the show in case someone had never seen it before. You had to do it with an internal rhyme scheme and A little Percieuse of Perky, "he said, looking at his career at the beginning of the career. "TheFacts of life The internal rhyme scheme was complex and remember to finish and say, "Yeah, that's pretty good. That all rhymes. I had a lot of words rhymes in 24 seconds. "

Although hisSong theme TV The credits are too numerous to the list, it was in particular behind the themes ofThe magician of chances (on which he also sung the voice introduction),The nature of the Joker,Celebrity Cookstakes,Blank check,Weave,OUF!, andHello,Larry, aSpin-off of sorts ofDiffusion.

Thicke, who is sadly dead of a heart attack in 2016 at the age of 69, told A.V. The club that "at the time, the thematic songs were more important. They were part of every show. ... I think it's almost a lost art." But it was an art that he certainly has mastered.