Catchiest theme songs?
John Doe
Lampoon's Vacation (1983) "Holiday Road", but that definitely is a good
one.
David Oberman
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it covers its surface with a network of petty regulations--
complicated, minute, and uniform--through which even the most
original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make
their way. It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them,
and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly
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is the shepherd.
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Okierazorbacker
After rewatching The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie recently, that Rod
McKuen tune stays on my mind.
And then, at the opposite end of the spectrum, I saw The Devil's
Rejects last night and have been alternating that with the Allman
Brother's Midnight Rider.
Anybody else watch two films this week that are more dissimilar?
treadleson
wrote:
Thunderball. Tom Jones. He always runs while others walk/He acts
while other men just talk/ He looks at this world, and wants it all/
So he strikes, like Thunderball.
Marv Soloff
Well, one that sticks in my head is the Susan Isaacs voiced theme
"Hey, Let's Go" from "Tonari no Totoro" aka "My Neighbor Totoro".
Sucker has stayed with me since I saw the film three months ago.
Marv
nick
"Deep throat,
Deeper than deep your throat
Deep throat
Don't row your boat
Don't get your goat
That's all she wrote
Deep throat."
Bob F.
"John Doe" <jd...@usenetlove.invalid> wrote in message
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Some of my faves:
Goldfinger
theme from Laura
theme from Picnic (Picnic/Moonglow)
Paul B. Thompson
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> Lampoon's Vacation (1983) "Holiday Road", but that definitely is a good
> one.
The theme from "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler comes to mind. The fact it is
wordless seems to help.
PBT
Jim Beam
The Themes from:
"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
"Shaft"
"Jaws"
"M*A*S*H"
"Live and Let Die"
"The Bridge on The River Kwia"
"The Green Berets"
"Bonnie and Clyde"
Okierazorbacker
>
> The theme from "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler comes to mind. The fact it is
> wordless seems to help.
>
years. The closing title theme, with the phone box, carries such an
aching sense of longing. Good call.
william
La Strada. Since I saw it just the other day.
William
www.williamahearn.com
Arthur
I watched "Bottle Shock" and "Red Road" and I am planning to watch
"Frost/Nixon" tonight. Not much in common there.
Okierazorbacker
>
> La Strada. Since I saw it just the other day.
>
> Williamwww.williamahearn.com
For some reason your comment brings The Third Man Theme to mind. Must
just be an Eastern European thing.....
william
>
> For some reason your comment brings The Third Man Theme to mind. Must
> just be an Eastern European thing.....
That's another one. It sure beats having the theme from "The Sting"
rattling around in your head.
William
www.williamahearn.com
Derek Janssen
> John Doe wrote:
>
>> I suppose there are tunes that stick in your head more than National
>> Lampoon's Vacation (1983) "Holiday Road", but that definitely is a
>> good one.
And on the lesser-known end of 80's comedies with soundtrack-friendly
credits--
Clicked on the comedy-era Michael Keaton "Johnny Dangerously" and forgot
it had a Weird Al song in the opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18vzLo3sKJg :)
> Well, one that sticks in my head is the Susan Isaacs voiced theme
> "Hey, Let's Go" from "Tonari no Totoro" aka "My Neighbor Totoro".
> Sucker has stayed with me since I saw the film three months ago.
(And a fairly straightforward Anglization of the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiiC3KwJ_c4 ^_^ )
S D
David Oberman
>That's another one. It sure beats having the theme from "The Sting"
>rattling around in your head.
But which rag is the theme: The Entertainer or Solace (Mexican
Serenade)? Both seem to get equal time. When the characters are jaunty
& grinning their chops, you hear The Entertainer. When the characters
are pensive, lonely, or mourning the death of a friend, you hear
Solace.
David Oberman
>After rewatching The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie recently, that Rod
>McKuen tune stays on my mind.
"Jean, Jean"! Quintessential '60s theme song!
For catchiness, I'd pick something from the Disney canon (excluding
TV). But maybe some of these aren't theme songs, strictly speaking?
"Fortuosity" from THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from SONG OF THE SOUTH
"The Bare Necessities" from THE JUNGLE BOOK
"Chim Chim Cheree" from MARY POPPINS
"I've Got No Strings" from PINOCCHIO
"Bella Notte" from LADY & THE TRAMP
moviePig
Someone may be able to identify the sciFi short story about a tune so
catchy that it permanently locked down the internal aural circuits of
whomever heard it ...so that "I can't get it out of my head" was both
literal and debilitating. One of my real-world nominees for such a
tune was from tv: Henry Mancini's little title-melody for
'Newhart' (...for which he got a full pre-episode standalone credit
every week ...then quite rare, iirc).
--
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YOUR taste at work...
http://www.moviepig.com
Marv Soloff
Wonder who wrote the original.
Marv
Paul B. Thompson
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The story is Arthur C. Clarke's "The Ultimate Melody," one of the collection
of stories in "Tales of the White Hart."
PBT
foggytown
Blues". Other notables were "JAG", "ER". What I hated were movie
themes that were OK but then constantly repeated ad nauseum, as in
"Delta Force" and "Where Eagles Dare". But I suppose my fav movie
theme is still "The Magnificent Seven".
Okierazorbacker
>
> That's another one. It sure beats having the theme from "The Sting"
> rattling around in your head.
>
for a stroke.....
william
wrote:
I can't watch "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" because of
"Raindrops" or "The Thomas Crown Affair" because of "Windmills of Your
Mind." Not themes but film killers for me.
William
www.williamahearn.com
Jack Lefton
The Ballad of Cat Ballou
Derek Janssen
> On Jun 27, 11:09 pm, John Doe <j...@usenetlove.invalid> wrote:
>
>>I suppose there are tunes that stick in your head more than National
>>Lampoon's Vacation (1983) "Holiday Road", but that definitely is a good
>>one.
>
>
> Someone may be able to identify the sciFi short story about a tune so
> catchy that it permanently locked down the internal aural circuits of
> whomever heard it ...so that "I can't get it out of my head" was both
> literal and debilitating.
Would you settle for Mark Twain (as is traditionally cited at this point
in threads like these)?:
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/559/ :)
Derek Janssen
eja...@verizon.net
Jim Beam
T.V. Themes:
All in The Family
Bonanza
Hawaii 5-0
M*A*S*H
Barney Miller
Derek Janssen
> william <wlah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>That's another one. It sure beats having the theme from "The Sting"
>>rattling around in your head.
>
>
> But which rag is the theme: The Entertainer or Solace (Mexican
> Serenade)? Both seem to get equal time. When the characters are jaunty
> & grinning their chops, you hear The Entertainer. When the characters
> are pensive, lonely, or mourning the death of a friend, you hear
> Solace.
(I suppose it was foolish of me to hope for anyone to have YouTubed,
DailyMotioned or otherwise GoogleVideoed any trace of Jackie Gleason or
Mac Davis in "The Sting II", the better to demonstrate Marvin Hamlisch
moving on to using Heliotrope Bouquet as the new central Joplin-rag
theme of jaunty reunited clockwork-sting operations--
Failing that, all I could find were amateur-sector musical samples, eg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVlLNx5sCkU , so you'd either just have
to turn to Netflix or trust me on this one.)
Okierazorbacker wrote:
>
> Oh, gee, thanks a lot for mentioning that one....now I'll have to pray
> for a stroke.....
Or, just look for something more extra-strength to blast it out with--
Sounds like an extreme case, thus calling for desperate measures with
equal 25-year potency...Well, didn't wanna, but you forced my hand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkKX035484
Hope you're satisfied, if any innocent casualties were inflicted.
Derek Janssen (hey, at least I got it stuck back in my head the
*honorable* way, via Blu-ray!)
eja...@verizon.net
David Oberman
>(I suppose it was foolish of me to hope for anyone to have YouTubed,
>DailyMotioned or otherwise GoogleVideoed any trace of Jackie Gleason or
>Mac Davis in "The Sting II", the better to demonstrate Marvin Hamlisch
>moving on to using Heliotrope Bouquet as the new central Joplin-rag
>theme of jaunty reunited clockwork-sting operations--
Oh, Derek, who even SAW that movie?!
Derek Janssen
>
>>(I suppose it was foolish of me to hope for anyone to have YouTubed,
>>DailyMotioned or otherwise GoogleVideoed any trace of Jackie Gleason or
>>Mac Davis in "The Sting II", the better to demonstrate Marvin Hamlisch
>>moving on to using Heliotrope Bouquet as the new central Joplin-rag
>>theme of jaunty reunited clockwork-sting operations--
>
> Oh, Derek, who even SAW that movie?!
Anybody who had HBO from '84-'86. At any given hour of the afternoon. >_<
Derek Janssen
eja...@verizon.net
TT
Good one...Very infectious!
--
"Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum
and villainy. We must be cautious."
TT
> The Ballad of Cat Ballou
This was in my head for like...10 years...
My favourite scenes are those with Lee Marvin drunk...his arrival with
the ballad...and when he "gets through the day so fast". lol.
Hey and Jane is not tough for eyes either.
TT
> For a long time one of my fav TV themes was Mike Post's "Hill Street
> Blues".
Brilliant.
TT
TV themes are designed to be catchy...most of them are...
I'd mention LA Law and McGyver!
Dallas, loveboat etc...
Jim Beaver
to that one on an endless loop, practically. Along with most of the other
songs from that movie.
Another of my "catchiest" theme songs (by which I mean tunes with lyrics) is
the Hollies' "After the Fox."
Jim Beaver
Anim8rFSK
"Jim Beaver" <jumb...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
--
Uncle Jack: "Will, you're invisible!"
Will: "Invisible? I can't be! I can touch myself!"
--actual dialog from third season LAND OF THE LOST
Howard Brazee
<trea...@aol.com> wrote:
>Thunderball. Tom Jones. He always runs while others walk/He acts
>while other men just talk/ He looks at this world, and wants it all/
>So he strikes, like Thunderball.
I really don't see very many people who don't pick Goldfinger as the
top Bond song.
--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
- James Madison
Howard Brazee
much shorter.
Stone me
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> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:10:00 -0700 (PDT), treadleson
> <trea...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>Thunderball. Tom Jones. He always runs while others walk/He acts
>>while other men just talk/ He looks at this world, and wants it all/
>>So he strikes, like Thunderball.
>
> I really don't see very many people who don't pick Goldfinger as the
> top Bond song.
>
Stone me.
Derek Janssen
As with "Diamonds are Forever".
Derek Janssen (Lulu's "The Man with the Golden Gun", however,
is....further down the list >_< )
eja...@verizon.net
Paul B. Thompson
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On Jun 28, 8:59 am, "Paul B. Thompson" <mra...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> The theme from "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler comes to mind. The fact it is
> wordless seems to help.
>
<standing ovation> One of my desert-island-fave movies for about 25
years. The closing title theme, with the phone box, carries such an
aching sense of longing. Good call.
Amen. Check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMwcGPjYAIk
PBT
David Oberman
>> The theme from "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler comes to mind. The fact it is
>> wordless seems to help.
>>
><standing ovation> One of my desert-island-fave movies for about 25
>years. The closing title theme, with the phone box, carries such an
>aching sense of longing. Good call.
>
>Amen. Check out:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMwcGPjYAIk
Knopfler, along with Joni Mitchell & Lindsey Buckingham, is one of the
pre-eminent pickless guitarists in rock.
foggytown
title/theme song.
"Journey To The Seventh Planet"
There, I've admitted I can still remember it!
Anim8rFSK
Derek Janssen <eja...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
> Stone me wrote:
> >
> > "Howard Brazee" <how...@brazee.net> wrote in message
> > news:ho3055lbiht7bth0t...@4ax.com...
> >> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:10:00 -0700 (PDT), treadleson
> >> <trea...@aol.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thunderball. Tom Jones. He always runs while others walk/He acts
> >>> while other men just talk/ He looks at this world, and wants it all/
> >>> So he strikes, like Thunderball.
> >>
> >> I really don't see very many people who don't pick Goldfinger as the
> >> top Bond song.
> >>
> > Much of it's value comes from Bassey's dramatic emphasis.
>
> As with "Diamonds are Forever".
And MOONRAKER -- no matter what you think of the movie, Bassey sings the
hell out of that song.
>
> Derek Janssen (Lulu's "The Man with the Golden Gun", however,
> is....further down the list >_< )
> eja...@verizon.net
--
Stone me
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such as a song, rather than a favourite score.
One perhaps that has you whistling it over and again.
Legrand's "The Summer Knows" is one that does it for me.
"Un homme et une femme" (A Man and a Woman) from the film, perhaps.
The zyther music from "The Third Man"
Stone me.
Grendel
> In article <N064m.2452$9l4.2...@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
> Derek Janssen <ejan...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Stone me wrote:
>
> > > "Howard Brazee" <how...@brazee.net> wrote in message
> > >news:ho3055lbiht7bth0t...@4ax.com...
> > >> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:10:00 -0700 (PDT), treadleson
> > >> <treadl...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> Thunderball. Tom Jones. He always runs while others walk/He acts
> > >>> while other men just talk/ He looks at this world, and wants it all/
> > >>> So he strikes, like Thunderball.
>
> > >> I really don't see very many people who don't pick Goldfinger as the
> > >> top Bond song.
>
> > > Much of it's value comes from Bassey's dramatic emphasis.
>
> > As with "Diamonds are Forever".
>
> And MOONRAKER -- no matter what you think of the movie, Bassey sings the
> hell out of that song.
>
>
>
> > Derek Janssen (Lulu's "The Man with the Golden Gun", however,
> > is....further down the list >_< )
>
> --
> Uncle Jack: "Will, you're invisible!"
> Will: "Invisible? I can't be! I can touch myself!"
>
> - Show quoted text -
Can't forget "Live and Let Die", now can we.
Yol Bolsun,
Grendel.
Grendel
> On Jun 27, 11:09 pm, John Doe <j...@usenetlove.invalid> wrote:
>
> > I suppose there are tunes that stick in your head more than National
> > Lampoon's Vacation (1983) "Holiday Road", but that definitely is a good
> > one.
>
> catchy that it permanently locked down the internal aural circuits of
> whomever heard it ...so that "I can't get it out of my head" was both
> tune was from tv: Henry Mancini's little title-melody for
> 'Newhart' (...for which he got a full pre-episode standalone credit
> every week ...then quite rare, iirc).
My personal favorite Henry Mancini tune is "Baby Elephant Walk" from
"Hatari!".
Great music, great movie.
Yol Bolsun,
Grendel.
Steven L.
> I suppose there are tunes that stick in your head more than National
> Lampoon's Vacation (1983) "Holiday Road", but that definitely is a good
> one.
"When there's somethin' strange,
And it don't look good,
Who ya gonna call?
Ghostbusters!"
--
Steven L.
Email: sdli...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.
Derek Janssen
> John Doe wrote:
>> I suppose there are tunes that stick in your head more than National
>> Lampoon's Vacation (1983) "Holiday Road", but that definitely is a
>> good one.
>
> "When there's somethin' strange,
> And it don't look good,
> Who ya gonna call?
> Ghostbusters!"
Too overexposed--I'll take 80's Bowie, any day: :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090585/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8NZa9wYZ_U
Derek Janssen (ba-ba-ba-ooo)
eja...@verizon.net
Anim8rFSK
<a4968877-b587-4b8c...@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
Grendel <wsth...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 5:12�ｿｽam, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@cox.net> wrote:
> > In article <N064m.2452$9l4.2...@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
> > �ｿｽDerek Janssen <ejan...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Stone me wrote:
> >
> > > > "Howard Brazee" <how...@brazee.net> wrote in message
> > > >news:ho3055lbiht7bth0t...@4ax.com...
> > > >> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:10:00 -0700 (PDT), treadleson
> > > >> <treadl...@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >>> Thunderball. �ｿｽTom Jones. �ｿｽHe always runs while others walk/He acts
> > > >>> while other men just talk/ He looks at this world, and wants it all/
> > > >>> So he strikes, like Thunderball.
> >
> > > >> I really don't see very many people who don't pick Goldfinger as the
> > > >> top Bond song.
> >
> > > > Much of it's value comes from Bassey's dramatic emphasis.
> >
> > > As with "Diamonds are Forever".
> >
> > And MOONRAKER -- no matter what you think of the movie, Bassey sings the
> > hell out of that song.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Derek Janssen (Lulu's "The Man with the Golden Gun", however,
> > > is....further down the list �ｿｽ> < )
> > > ejan...@verizon.net
> >
> > --
> > Uncle Jack: "Will, you're invisible!"
> > Will: "Invisible? I can't be! I can touch myself!"
> > --actual dialog from third season LAND OF THE LOST- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Can't forget "Live and Let Die", now can we.
Dear God, I wish I could.
Anim8rFSK
<6e3827a8-edf0-4445...@t33g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Grendel <wsth...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Yes to both.