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More evidence of the dumbing down of pop music.
WonderWoman
TheStreetsOfSanFransisco
TheRookies
TheRockfordFiles
TheBobNewhartShow
This theme is just killer.
SWAT
StarskyHutch
Room222
50 secs of network tv funk...
BarneyMiller
BarnabyJones
And my fave,
CarolBurnettShow
Great, aggressive drumming on all of these.
Thats starsky and hutch theme is awesome!
Did u know vinnie is on drums for the alf theme, i can post it here if u want
I believe that is Tom Scott and the LA Express playing that tune. the theme is just a chunk of the song "Gotcha".
I'd like to know what guy wrote the Room 222 theme and what kind of drugs was he on. It sounds like Don Ellis. Who writes a tv theme in 7, and for a Karen Valentine show? Maybe it was a joke.
I love the theme from SWAT. Damn that grooves.
Awesome, Benrand!
You are the the true master
and so right!
Remember how concert-toms had
just come into use? The SoSF
theme was one of my faves! I
remember wanting them SO BAD
after hearing that one! That
had real b@lls!
Starsky and Hutch really put
me over the fence! I KNEW that
I had to find out who these
players were and to play like
them! I HAD to!
I am not sure if Guerin played
the drums on on it, though it
was Tom Scott and possibly the
rest of the band on it. It sounds
too heavy (more like Rick Marotta
but it does not even sound like
him). I think I would have to
guess Harvey Mason.
Yeah! SWAT kicked major @$$!
Barney Miller is SO a classic! I
played that one over and over!
Those horns are very Tom Scott
influenced, for sure!
Carol Burnett's Theme is just a
great mix of big band/contemporary
(for that period). What a theme!
Thank you, Benrand!!
*Pete bows to Benrand*
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Check out Drum! from a couple of years ago. There was a feature article with a couple dozen TV Theme drum parts transcribed in it.
Great topic [img]wink.gif[/img]
There one drummer i MUST find who play on this serie intro: "Boomtown" [img]rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]
Anybody know who is the drummer on it ? i never missed the begining because i always wanted to ear that song at the begining [img]smile.gif[/img]
Tried to find it on mp3 on eMule but 1020 users on queue [img]mad.gif[/img]
Another tv serie i see now is called "Line of Fire" with also a Great drummer on it and i'll like to know who it is...
On old serie i loved drum on the intro in "New Avengers" (chapeau melon et botte de cuir in french ) and of course Strasky & Hutch [img]tongue.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a"><font size="1">[ July 16, 2005 11:50 AM: Message edited by: donu ]</font></font>
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 16, 2005 12:04 PM: Message edited by: donu ]</font>
The late great Jerry Goldsmith composed the theme to "Room 222."
? PE
Vinnie was also on the "A-Team" sound track... i think it was Mike Post who composed that (along with every other 80's show!).
I always thought it was Gadd on the Starsky theme, but I believe it is Marotta.
That Carol Burnet theme has a killer drum fill at the end which stirred my interest in the instrument as a little kid. I think those are tale tell signs of a drummer...that is when kids think about drum parts or get "hit" by a little fill that everyone else hears but doesn't listen to.
I have ALWAYS wanted MD to keep us informed on jingles, theme show recordings etc. I want to know who played on Mission Impossible shows--all those little drum parts that were so cool, Carol Burnet theme & The Odd Couple theme--again there are some very tasty fills in that theme.
I know Joe Porcaro & Emil Richards did a lot of TV theme stuff back then, as well as Marty Paich. Hmmm...I smell the likes of a TOTO [img]smile.gif[/img]
One of my favorite TV themes is from a little know show on the Fox network called "Against the Law". It went off the air about ten years ago. I stumbled across this by accident. It's some great drumming .... I swear it sounds like Vinnie? I would love for you all to hear it. I don't have a way to post the file but I can E-mail the mp3 to someone who can?
Let me know?
Thanks
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 16, 2005 11:35 PM: Message edited by: TImbata ]</font>
Someone should grab some TV stuff from Japan... DAMN! That stuff is crazy... you have to look for that stuff over here, over there, it opens the evening news. Akira Jimbo shredding fusion on a detergent commercial [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
Who played drums on the first season of the Odd Couple?
As a kid, I looked forward to that double-on-the-kick lick every night it came on.
The only music cooler than TV themes is video game themes (circa NES). For any of you who haven't heard of the minibosses, go to http://www.minibosses.com and check them out -- they play covers of NES music like Megaman and Contra.
I think NES music should be Randy Waldman's next venture with Vinnie and Pattitucci [img]cool.gif[/img]
Finaly fond the Boomtown theme song i talked earlier:
http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...H2D4WVPUZULXC1
Pete (Ersko),
You are so right and how great
he was!!! I have a huge collect-
ion of his work (collect film-
score). He was the top!
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You guys should check out the theme song to a Anime show called "Cowboy Bebop". Tank is a great tune with a sweet bongo feature. Please check this tune out...
-Ed
Just got an old Don Ellis album from Amazon.
Apologies to Jerry Goldsmith, he's nowhere as out as Don Ellis. don ellis was OUT. A TV theme in 7 is still pretty adventurous. I love the drum sound on it.
Ellis is cool, nonetheless. I'll post some mp3s soon.
A couple more gems.
BionicWoman
Cannon, Frank Cannon
Emergency!
Chico, and the Man
Quincy, a Quinn Martin production
WKRPInCincinatti
Ahhh, the 70's.
A 21 drum salute to Benrand for sharing!
I always liked Magnum PI and Family Ties [img]redface.gif[/img]
Ha ha ha
Very cool.
Whut about the Jetsons, Flintstones [both jammin upt BB-style tunes]...awa Dick Van Dyke, & Lucy Show?! [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]
NO Gilligan, Batman, Munsters, Addams,' or Brady's, pls...do i hear Green Hornet? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
The best TV theme show ever written is still THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!! Man, that is a perfect theme song. Who wrote it?!
As a kid, my parents wouldn't let me watch SWAT because it was too late and too violent. But I negotiated to listen only to the intro theme before going to bed. I dug that theme so much.
I had the same agreement with HAWAII 5-0.
Anyone got the A Team theme? None other than Vinnie! [img]wink.gif[/img]
Yeah - could someone post that theme? I know that I know it, but it's been years!
Funny enough I was doing a session a few weeks ago and the guy goes "do a beat like the A Team song" and I laughed... had no idea it was Vinnie!!! [img]redface.gif[/img]
i was always partial to Jonny Quest
Brings back a lot of memories, sniff sniff. [img]graemlins/cry_smile.gif[/img] A lot of those Quinn Martin Production shows had great themes.
Some other killer TV themes before most of your times were from:
Secret Agent Man
Peter Gunn
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (OMG! This one is Wild)
The Avengers (Maybe the greatest TV theme ever)
I Spy
The Mod Squad
Baretta
How could I forget ALF, that's definitely Vinnie on the first ALF tune [img]tongue.gif[/img] but of course everybody knew that already [img]frown.gif[/img] just like Simon & Simon.
And yes Mash is great too PP. Did anyone mentioned Crime Story, New Gidget, Slegdehammer and Still the Beaver? Oh and Knight Rider and Blue Thunder [img]biggrin.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]
Simon & Simon
PS. Thanks for these!
A boat load of themes...ask and you shall
Odd Couple
Green Acres
Get Smart
Gomer Pyle USMC
Partridge Family
Price is Right
Hawaii Five O
Adam 12
The A Team
Johnny Quest
Dark Shadows
Dating Game
Dennis the Manace
Dick Van Dyke
Family Ties
Magnum PI
Man From Uncle
No Place Like Home
__ Something
More well known, but very B52's
__ Sun__ Strip
Taxi
Timeless Classic
As 80's as it gets!
Sounds like a Jeff Groove
She was a cutie
Renegade
Jake &/t Fatman
One of the BEST
Another Classic--Dig the Cowbell!
Absolutely Couldn't Resist!
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 20, 2005 01:09 AM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>
OK...
Simon & Simon
How could I forget!
Mary Tyler Moore
MASH
Maude
Miami Vice
Mr Ed
Mission Impossible
Mod Squad
The Monkees
Munsters
FISH--this is funky!
Fat Albert--more funk
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 20, 2005 12:54 AM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>
Anybody know who played drums on the Barney Miller theme? I always dug the Zigaboo-style hihat syncopations - not many guys were doing that back then (or even now, for that matter).
Mr. A.