Part of the full music of the nation. We dont do ourselves any favors by under estimating the cultural penetration that these little songs had in this culture. Sister, sister what ever happens to the Tv Theme Song . You are going to make it after all outside of your own songs, whats your favorite Tv Show . Ever . Ever. I love green acres, because i grew up in a town called green acres. The choice. Outside of your own amazing show which i love, i have to say that. Whats your favorite Tv Theme Song . The Brady Bunch. Because i like when the song tells a story of the series. And i was very influenced with that growing up. Adams family. Here is the biggest question. What ever happens to the Theme Songs . It is a good question. Who can turn The World down with her Smile H there it was a sense that shows shows that came out in the 60s and 70s. Everybody knew them as well as you would know happy Birthday Or Mary had a little lamb. Doodoodoo. Those four notes, would immediately cause that almost pavlovian knee jerk reaction. Everybody knew how gilleon got on that island. We dont do ourselves any favor by under estimating the cultural penetration of these little songs had. Making a way in the World Today takes everything you got, show all your worries there was a lot of interests in the song. What happened . Judy angelo, we wrote a song called my kind of people. Lets hear it. My kind of people making a living rooting for our team we are bound to make new ones, you are never going to know whos going to show or cheers and hear wait, i liked it. We sent it and they turned it down. We said can we write another one and so we wrote this song called another day. There is a time when it is fun to take your way home sit around with those you come to know, hanging out until it is time to close they liked it but they turned it down so we went from zippidyzippidy, we thought we are never going to get it. I sat down and literally plunk it. We started writing. The words that we wrote were Singing The Blues when the Red Sox moves, it is a crisis in your life. On the Run Kiss all your girlfriends, want to be your wife. The laundry that gets in the wash. Sometimes you want to go we fi finished it and they said we really liked it but you got to change those words at the top. We booked studio time before we wrote it. You can say the bad word. You said what . I cant take it anymore. And so i remember writing in a cab going down to the Recording Studio working on making your way i remember and i dont think we ever played the whole song until we got into the studio to get something back for them. Making your way in the World Today, take everything you got taking a break from all your worry, sure would help a lot would you like to get away, sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and theyre glad you came, you want to be where everybody knows your name, you want to go where everybody knows your name and we sent it out and they said yes. And you said [ bleep ]. Rumor is you were singing the song on the Set And Someone ha heard you and said why didnt The Kid sing the song, is that true or no . Discussing Race And Culture in a sitcom, you are not defensive. When we see a version of ourselves on screen, it shows us whats possible. Washed your hands a Lot Today . Probably like 40 times. Hands feel dry . Like sandpaper. Introducing new dove handwash, with 5 x moisturizer blend. Removes germs in seconds, moisturizes for hours. Soft, smooth. New dove handwash. 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It also was probably the first Theme Song that immediately be something that everybody was able to sing. The Theme Song was sponsored by texaco oil corporation. The entire Theme Song is for Gas Station Independence to do a Chorus Line to sing the Theme Song in uniforms. And by the way, never mention the star of The Show once. The Theme Song once it was liberated was able to move into more rich artistic and dramatic territory. You have one of the most iconic Tv Theme Songs ever. Could you ever imagine that when you were a little kid and they cast you in this role . No, not even close. All i know is that when asked to sing, i was petrified. I am that guy at a Birthday Party that can screw up happy birthday. You were singing the song on the Set And Someone came up with the idea, Someone Urge you and said, why dont The Kids sing that song, is that true or no . Maybe . I have not heard that rumor. If i was there, i would have been the one singing the song. Do you remember anything of the Recording Session . They dragged me into the studio and i know what i have to deliver. Not much. It is just amazing what my singing does to peoples faces. So i try not to do it much. A lot more people could recite the Theme Song from the Brady Bunch than the poem that sits at the bottom of the statue of liberty. Is it because these songs were so brilliant . Is it because they were written by the greatest composer of all time . Sure which works . A comedy guy. He wrote two of the most classic all time Theme Songs. The Brady Bunch and gilleons island. He needed to give us a purpose of shows shows. You see the support, the level of Tv Theme Songs. The Brady Bunch, of a lovely lady and bringing up three lovely girls. This goes deep into our medieval way of telling stories. It was hip back then and it was a blended story when most of people was mom, dad and a first time heterosexual relationship in a suburban single family with their own biological kids. We were at least beginning to explore that families could love each other and not necessarily fall into that very old Fashion Notion of The American family. Can you please sing it for us . Um here is a story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three lovely girls here is a Story Of A Man Named Brady who was busy of three boys of his own they were four men living all together but they were all alone this group should somehow form a family thats the way they form the Brady Bunch does it make you cringe . Cant cringe. It is an honor. Who could predict only generates cod ri we approach with a loving sense of disdain. In 1980s television, we can do shows like cheers and the old idea of the Brady Bunch Theme Song seems positively part of that Old School thing. The only reason we get an expository Theme Song is when it is done tongue and cheek. The nanny, for example it is aggressive and went back to a 60s style theme. You get this show that they said deal, now when do you say a Theme Song. 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It was when i was in london with my girlfriend, her and her husband busy working and so i ended up hanging out with her little daughter and i had a role over london and The Kid says oh fran, my new shoes is hurting memen and i am thinking what the hell is she telling me for. I could not get this relationship out of my head because i was not telling her what was good for her like a normal kid. I was telling her what was good for me. The wheels were turning in my head, what did you think of the spin on the sound of music, only instead of two inches, i come to the door. Are you kidding . I practically raise my sisters two kids. You get The Show, they said deal and when do you they okay, Theme Song. We made the pilot. Do you have a pen . They did not give us enough money to make a full pilot. We insisted on doing the whole script and we bored sets and had a small budget. When The Show got picked up, they said now you need to come up with an incredible Opening Title and that was when i said lets get Anne Hamilton Calloway to write it. Shes a singer song writer, right . Yes. She was singing and i had it in my head if i ever had a show of My Own, i was going to ask her to write the Theme Song. Did you help with the lyrics or all her. We spoon fed all the details about the characters journey. We describe her as a fleshy girl. Shes The Lady In Red when everybody was wearing tan. It became incredibly catchy and very New York and almost jazzy me melody. When you heard it, at first did you know as soon as you heard it . Absolutely. She did a marvelous job. It became one of the most significant Opening Title songs and certainly the 90s or if not in all of television. In all of television, fran. Dont down play or under estimate the Theme Song. The acting is great and the character is amazing. It would not have been the same without the Theme Song, am i wrong . I agree. Hbo max streaming, you ran for six successful seasons and you are running now forever until eternity. How do you feel about that . To see millions of people all over The World until this D Day still love it. It makes my heart sings. Every single week for six years and actually for you know 22 more after that. Everybody saw what was really the pilot episode. In the 80s some people got worried that we spent too much of the television Theme Song that people may switch the channel. Truth be told, they tend to under estimate the viewers because with quality comes a loyalty. It is few and far between the 80s And 90s and into the old century, we had many old fashion thing, when we saw them, they were retro to those olD Days. Like the opening of the sopranos, that song already existed. What accompanied those was the Great American story. The four scenes of the houses getting apart and greener and bigger until tony arrives. There are a couple of them that have no words completely instrumental. Law and order is an example where you have to have something playing while you show whos starring in this. That was important because they kept changing their cast. Twilight zone. You grow up next door to somebody in a tiny little town in South Dakota and when you are 30, you go to paris and you sit down in the cafe and there is the person that you grew up next door in your small town in South Dakota. You could say whats the likelihood or odds of this. You can go doodoo and that says everything. Those Theme Songs transcended the Show And Music itself. It became part of the language. My favorite martian. They set up the tone of The Show immediately. Mission impossible. Hawaii hawaii50, it is amazing how this stuff influenced us. You would see a black show but you would not hear a black show. Im really nervous. I dont know what i should wear. 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Something about when i looked in his eyes, he put me at ease. How long of the spinoff . It was the third episode. My favorite television Theme Song would have to be the jeffersons. The performance. The gospel choir. Pronunciation of deluxe in just the right place of the Theme Song to make it work. You are homeless . Yes. Living on the streets of los angeles. Walking up and down melrose. What brought you out of that . I ended up getting a Record Deal with modern record. The single, we did oeg. Nothing big. The single we did, living large. Just got chosen to be a title for a Tv Show. After that i started trying more Tv Show. And the amazing Thing Of Being Homeless will make you figure out whats your priorities and one of the priorities had to be getting some food and started to eat. You have scored more prime sometime Television Series than any other black composers ever. I was fortunate to get in a time when there is a renaissance of black Tv Shows back in t the 90s. That was really a magical Theme Song. I cowrote it with the star of The Show, brandi, they offered me the part. The producer came to me, hey, we want you to do the Theme Song and a day or two later, they called me up, hey, a little change, brandi is going to do the Theme Song with you. Oh, okay. Well do that. And literally they put us together like a day or two later and she came over to my place and she sang me this idea. I said hold it, hold it. I written the music and she written the lyrics and all of it worked together immediately. So what would you call that . I would call that lucky as heck. Sister, sister i got My Own mind we recorded with the stars of The Show, tia and tamera. A lot of people dont know it, we were lipsinging and we were dancing. It was such fun they wanted to sing the song. Sister, sister it was just exciting. Thats as much as i got. As you can see i am not the singer in this brand. I just love that show. Everything about it. When it came to not ob objectifying brach women. We were a show talking about relationships between black women and our Support And Love of eeach other. I thought that was amazing idea is there anything you need to know when you are writing a particular song . You need to know what the character is like and you need to know the length of a Theme Song. You dont want to write a Threeminute Song and edit it down. Many Tv Theme Songs made it into the Great American song book, the Theme Song really needs to stick to in the olD Days, 60 seconds maybe when it gets introduced and cut, the shorter people get to know it. Now this is a story how my life got flipped turned Upside Down you do the whole song . I would like to take a minute to sit down and tell you how i became the prince of bellaire the Theme Song In The Beginning of the fresh prince, this is a story about how my life got turned Upside Down. How this guy from West Philadelphia is now in this rich bellaire neighborhood. By the second, third season, you dont need to be giving the entire song so it becomes completely tempting and within the best interests of everybody to start chopping that thing off because then you can use that to put more promotions to whatever thats next to sell more advertisements. There is a long version of that that few people know the whole thing. 2 both cheers and friends, network Theme Songs of a popular hit. Whatever happens to Theme Songs . Business happened. I quit. At philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear of cream cheese. The recipe we invented over 145 years ago and me. The worlds best, and possibly only, schmelier. Philadelphia. Schmear perfection. I order my groceries online now. Shingles doesnt care. I keep my social distance. Shingles doesnt care. I stay within my family bubble. Shingles doesnt care. Because if youve had chicken pox, youre already carrying the virus that causes shingles. 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They become iconic but a pretty good number of Theme Songs actually made it into top 40 regular radio play. The regular example would be friends. Life always stuck in second gear, the fact that you are really getting too old to this but things haves not kicked inuit. Yet. Thats what friends is about. It is not a back story. It is not here is a story about how they met. It is a story of how they feel. The music was composed by my exhusband. We went through a couple of drafts but it was not a difficult process. When things are right, they sort of write themselves. We got the offer on wednesday, went over the arrangement on thursday with the Music Director and cut the song on a saturday and it aired the following thursday. And i remember getting my car and driving to Warner Brothers One Day and i just turn on the radio and there was the Theme Song and that to me was wow, this is big. This is huge. Both cheers and friends the Last Gasp of the Network Television Song as a popular hit. Whatever happens to the Theme Song . You know it is a good question. I know, it is a crime. Why arent there catchy Theme Songs like The Nanny anymore . What happened . I think that business happened. They needed more space, and i know where we can get 60 seconds right now. I knew where we could get 55 seconds. Well take this down to 5. That happened on a lot of shows, yeah. And why . Advertising. Sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you dont The Shows werent longer. It was the commercial breaks that were long. Yeah, absolutely. They didnt give it to The Show. Just sit right back and owl hear a tale every second you spend on your opening Theme Song is a second you cant be spending on the content itself. No problem. But its also a second you cant be selling to advertisers. Big problem. When did you start baking from scratch . Its not scratch, mom. Its new pillsbury plus. They kept shortening the Theme Song, right . From like a minute to 45 to 30 seconds to make more room for commercials. Canada dry have you experienced that . Is that an issue for you . Yes, ive experienced it. Is it an issue for me . No. I mean, its a part of reality. If you only have five seconds, imagine moesha with five seconds. You get mo to the. A lot of people think it happened with streaming, with cable. But i remember when it happened because i remember back in the 80s the first time somebody gave Judy Hart Angelo and myself a script and said give us 45 seconds instead of 60. Okay. And not too long thereafter somebody said give us 30. And 20. And 10. And you know there are people who can do that. Like orchestrators, arrangers. Im a songwriter. I cant express myself in ten seconds. I dont want to. So i quit. As a composer and as a person a part of the whole Tv Showmaking experience, trust me, a lot of thought goes into those Theme Songs. I know of a lot of people that relate to their Tv Show through its Theme Song. So why give that away . Right now there is so much to watch. There isnt really one thing that everybody can rally around. We spent the first 80 years of the 20th century building up this unbelievable consensus audience. And then we spent the last two decades of the 20th century and all of the 21st century breaking that up into A Million little pieces. First with cable and now with streaming where theres an infinite number of varieties. One could argue that streaming has been a great friend of the Theme Song in that streaming allows young people to discover and watch multiple episodes of fresh prince, of i love lucy, of any of this stuff that they may not have had access to before. But the bad thing is they may decide to watch these things, but theyre given the effortless opportunity to skip the Theme Song. I dont think its getting the opportunity to get engrained in Peoples Head and be totally linked with The Show as they were in the past. I mean, the Brady Bunch is one of the most popular Theme Songs ever. Its from the 1970s. It keeps getting reintroduced to new generations and new audiences every single day. The Theme Song is catchy. Popular at the time. But its only grown more so. Because 50 years later you can still remember it because its that simple. Honey are you gorgeous. You look just like a virgin. Theehere are some crackers f your morning sickness. You know, now that The Show is having this incredible moment again since its been on a streaming platform, people are really appreciating the facets of it that made it so wonderful. And i think that theyre digesting it in a whole new way. And that starts with the Opening Titles, the Theme Song, the animation, and goes all the way through. Theres a certain nostalgia i think for tv viewers. Do you think there will be a renaissance . Do you think it will come back . Well, i do. Only because i think everything that goes around comes around. Sure would help a Lot Everything seems to cycle eventually. Maybe were on a rather extended orbit on this, and maybe it will come back. Bring back the Theme Song. Bring back the Theme Song. Yeah. Were on a mission, fran. Okay. So one last thing. I have this little show called don Lemon Tonight. Yes. Can you write me a Theme Song . Oh, my god. What do you have in mind . I dont know. Don Lemon Tonight were gonna talk it out tonight on don Lemon Tonight were gonna talk things through don Lemon Tonight were Gonna Deal with the truth don Lemon Tonight were gonna talk things through don Lemon Tonight were Gonna Deal with the truth were Gonna Deal with the truth i like to deal with the truth. That was it. Thats your 20 seconds. I know youre not an arranger. I need 60, don. Panera. Enjoy the cool, refreshing strawberry poppyseed salad. Panera. Order on the app today. Millions of vulnerable americans struggle to get reliable transportation to their medical appointments. 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