The harmonica and synthesizer-driven theme song was a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1975 and remained ...

Ricky Cobb, a sociology prof in the Chicago area, tweets under the handle “Super 70s Sports.” He is very clever and very popular. He comments on more than sports. A while back, he said, “When you’re ...

Nearly 35 years ago, producers Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis put together a 20-minute presentation to convince ABC that two guest stars on “Happy Days” could be spun off into their own series. They ...

R.I.P/TV Theme as it fades into sunset, Original music that has helped define shows is becoming a product for nostalgia. Earle Hagen and Alexander Courage, who died days apart this month, were ...

We apologize in advance for all the TV theme songs we are about to lodge back into your heads. Or maybe we should preemptively accept your thanks? Despite periodic attempts to contract or outright ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What do Mariah Carey, Ozzy Osbourne, and the Barenaked Ladies have in common? You've probably heard a theme song they performed hundreds of ...

So, let's imagine that you are a participant in a call-in radio show contest and, in order to receive the prize, you must sing a classic TV show theme song. Confident that you can win, you begin ...

If you are of a certain age, you remember when TV theme songs actually meant something. They were almost a character themselves on the show. Unlike many of today’s themes that air for ten seconds or ...

Over the last 40 years, it has been extremely rare for an instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100. That makes it all the harder to believe that during a five-year span in the mid-1970s, no fewer ...

“Glee,” the hit musical on FOX, does not have an opening theme song. “Grey’s Anatomy” had one and dropped it. Even famed composer Danny Elfman has seen his theme for “Desperate Housewives” chopped ...

MILWAUKEE - If you've watched any new sitcoms or dramas lately, you've probably realized they don't have theme songs. Gino Salomone talks about the real reason many in the industry say TV theme songs ...