The 25 best TV theme songs ever written
The history of television gave catchy classic tunes that resisted the time test.
In the era of streaming, the television theme song has become a kind of relic of a bygone era. Many new shows completely avoid the sequences of elaborate titles, and Even the shows Who have large themes see them quickly jumped at the pressure of a button. You just have to make you aspire on days when television theme songs could become successful successes - a happy spell that has struck more than some of the following 25 themes, which are among the best ever written.
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1 Twin peaks
Composed in just 20 minutes, Angelo Badalameti's "Fall" is the perfect accompaniment to the emotional and obsessive spectacle. In fact, creator David Lynch Once, "it's the mood of the whole room. It is Twin peaks . ""
2 MASH POTATOES
When it was originally composed for the 197o feature film MASH POTATOES , director Robert Altman would have said the composer Johnny Mandel that the theme must be titled "Suicide is painless" And "Be the most stupid song ever written." The words were really written by the son of Altman, 15 years old, but the television adaptation opted for An instrumental version , offering the perfect balance between melancholy and energetic for the longtime comedy drama.
3 The adventures of Pete & Pete
Pete and pete co-creator Willbbb Called the song "The Backyard" - An ode to adventures and childhood relationships by the Indie group of the 80s Miracle Legion - The "largest" unique "influence On the original show of the 90s live. He then approached the group on the interpretation of songs for the Pete and pete , only to find it in a mess. The members reformed as Polaris, the "group that lives in your TV" and produced the rather indecipherable Theme song "Hey Sandy" " And 11 others for the show.
4 The Hillbillies Beverly
THE Banjo Bluegrass narration Interpreted by the country singer Jerry scoggins Prepare the field for this 1960s comedy on a family of poor countries which is in unexpected richness. The emblematic opening lines of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", "Come and listen to a story" Bout a man named Jed ", throws the ground so that the viewers make the improbable trip of the rural poverty to the opulence of Beverly Hills.
5 Futurama
Based closely on the 1967 song " Psyche rock "By pioneer of electronic music Pierre Henry ,, Christopher Tyng theme Also samples the songs "Amen, Brother" by the Winstons, "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang, and "Funky Buttercup" of the Elu. Listen carefully and you could also note a vocoded "you-tu-ra-ma" in the theme of the science fiction cartoon.
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6 The prince of Bel-Air
Will Smith plays The opening song For his 90s sitcom on a poor child from Philadelphia who moved with his rich parents. Like a hip-hop rotation on the Beverly Hillbillies Theme, it gives you the whole background that you should know and has started a tradition of Smith, which began its start of showbiz as a rapper, contributory songs To accompany your appearances on the screen.
7 Ducktals
Filled with as many duck game words that you can collapse in one minute, This cartoon theme is so catchy, whoever was born in the 80s can probably sing it for you a word. It's so good that when they restarted the series Three decades later, they maintained it for the most part unchanged.
8 Welcome, Kotter
The show could have been called Kotter had the former leader of Lovin 'Sppoon John Sebastian was able to rhyme it with something better than "girl" when it was ordered to Write the theme song . Instead, his air welcomed the aforementioned professor in his former Brooklyn high school and arrived at n ° 1 On the graphics in 1976.
9 Ex-crazy friend
Music is at the heart of this series, which communicates the most intimate thoughts (and anxieties) of the main character Rebecca Bunch ( Rachel Bloom ) Through songs, Broadway style musical numbers with pop clips. And it all starts with the great Catchy theme song of the first season , sung by Bloom and co-written by Jack Dolgen And the delay Adam Schlesinger . Not happy to stop there, the trio has created a new theme for Each of the four seasons of the series .
10 Sponge Bob SquarePants
The catchy theme For this nautical nautical nautical series Nautical Nickelodeon, is very fun to sing, and not surprising: it is not only the silly words ("absorbent and yellow and porous is!") Or the shouted refrain of "Spongebob Squarepants!" - The song was actually Based on the Historic Spechers of the Sea "Blow man."
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11 Daddy's Girls
The series on four mature women living together in Miami borrowed a sincere ode of the 70s from friendship by Andrew Gold for his catchy theme . The sentimental "thank you for being a friend" perfectly compensates for the sassy comedy.
12 Brady Bunch
As infectious as the joyful arrangement of the series, The theme song of Brady Bunch Capture sucks the mixed family dynamic of the healthy sitcom of the 70s. With its catchy melody and its memorable words, it remained a lasting emblem of nostalgia for generations.
13 The pink Panther
Composer Henry Mancini wrote this Jazz Slinky theme with the opening animation of the film version of The pink Panther in mind. The suave panther depicted there later would become the star of some animated children's series, including the early 90s which stung the original theme of Mancini Cool-Cat.
14 Impossible mission
Composer Lalo Schifrin said he had written the Memorable and percussive theme For the 1960s television series - originally entitled "Burning Fuse" - roughly Ethan Hunt would have to defuse a bomb.
"All - including the chorus, the bongos, everything you hear - may have made me three minutes," said the composer nominated at the Oscars. "I created [the] sound of impossible missions and I was swinging them. I did not know that it was going to succeed." Indeed, the composition is always used in the blockbuster Impossible mission Series of films.
15 Gilligan Island
"Sit down immediately and you will hear a story" ... of the way things have gone terribly for five tourists and two crew members in the comedy of the mid-60s on the washes of Desert Island. And for fun, you can sing many other songs in the air of " The ballad on the island of Gilligan , "Including" Amazing Grace "and" Auld Lang Syne ". AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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16 The Jeffersons
The theme song for The Jeffersons tells how Queens couple George ( Sherman Hemsley ) and Louise Jefferson ( Isabel Sanford ) Change their lives when they move in a Manhattan Highrise after taking off from George's dry cleaning business. Funny fact: Good time star Ja'net Dubois wrote "Movin 'on up" and interpreted it with the help of a Choir of the Gospel.
17 Acclamations
Acclamations Origin chose another song By songwriting duo Gary Portnoy And Judy Hartgelo To accompany a new series on a district watering hole in Boston. When they learned that the song was legally attached to the Broadway musical Preparation , they gave them another blow, and they found the emblematic " Where everyone knows your name "" Who would open the show for the next 11 years.
18 The simpsons
The simpsons Creator Matt Groening Personally asked the composer Danny Elfman , already well known as a member of Oingo Boingo and for his work with the director Tim Burton , to create the Theme of his new animated show . Elfman suggested "something retro" and Composed the song in his car On the way back of Reunion.
"It was such a bizarre show," said the singer-songwriter later. "I thought it was going to run two or three times and disappear forever." He opened each episode of The simpsons Since - 765 of them.
19 Friends
Everyone loved THE Friends theme song At the time - Shortly after the start of the show on NBC, the version of a minute of "i'm be there for you" was re -recorded as three minutes pop and published on the radio, where he has Outdated the graphics of display panels for eight weeks. Everyone, that is to say, except the group that sang it. Although he briefly made the pump duo a familiar name, the group wanted it to its success, which they believed " killed [their] cool "As a group.
20 The twilight zone
The haunting melody composed by Marius Constant proven the perfect prelude to strange tales which could only reside The twilight zone . Viewers could have been surprised to learn that the theme was actually Two pieces of music have been epissed together From a solid library, the constant had recorded in order to save money and avoid paying fees.
21 The Addams family
Victor Mizzy Not only composed the Emblematic and heavy theme of the clavecsiche of The Addams family - He also managed the opening credit sequence. "Two fingers and you live in Bel-Air", he would comment later, References the success of the song .
22 Lost
Although most music for Lost Was written by the regular composer of the program, Oscar and Emmy Winner Michael Giacchino , co-creator of the series J.J. Abrams really assembled Its emblematic main theme —A 16 seconds Your ghostly, atonal, plunging —Imimi-self, just as he had done for his previous series, A.k.a .
23 X-Files
Mark Snow's obsessive theme For the paranormal investigation series X-Files Give the tone to the spectacle powered by the plot filled with monsters and undoubtedly infiltrated the dreams of many young children trying to fall asleep while their parents looked at. The melody remixes of electronic tinted have become popular, and The song was even a single In the United Kingdom and France.
24 X-Men: The animated series
If the animated adaptation of Marvel 1997 X men The comics had not been so popular, perhaps the 2000s X men The film may have never been directed, and we would never have experienced the film of solid comics which has dominated the cinema in recent decades. And perhaps the animated series would not have been so popular if it had not had such Theme song of jamming (preserved for The recent Disney + Reboot ). We have no way of knowing, that's what I say.
25 Dawson's Creek
A song on a woman wondering if her husband will come back from the Second World War seems to be a strange choice to be the theme of a soap for adolescents, but also Dawson's Creek Creator Kevin Williamson original choice, Alanis Morissette "Hand in my pocket." For years, whoever broadcasts the show would not hear Paula Cole's "I do not want to wait" for opening credits, due to rights problems. But in 2021, the artist was reached The song so that it can be legally reunited with the children of Capeside.