DrStephen Hagan, who led a successful push to rename Coon cheese, is calling on the Blues to change its theme song, which is set to the tune of Lily of Laguna, a song in which the original lyrics centre on a black man pining after a Native American woman and a song frequently performed in black face.
Today, the entire Noisey editorial operation was derailed by this website that lets you create mashups of your favorite hits from the 2000s, enabling such winning combos as Nelly's "Country Grammar" and Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" or, more notably, 50 Cent's "In Da Club" and Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles." "A Thousand Miles" is objectively the stone coldest classic of all stone cold classics, a slap for the ages so great that, among other things, it inspired Soulja Boy's best tweet, its video redefined the genre and led to a classic remake via D.R.A.M. and Lil Yachty, Cam'ron is supposedly making a movie that samples it for the theme song, and it compelled Irv Gotti in 2006 to sign Vanessa Carlton to his label, Murder Inc., home to Ja Rule and Ashanti (more on that later).
Musically, however, the connections are slimmer. There is, in fact, a song called "Ashanti (Remix)" on Young Money The Mixtape Vol. 1, which is just Curren$y rapping over Ashanti's "Only You," a song that I realize now, in the context of someone rapping over it, is also, like we discussed with "Snitch," an unrecognized early vaporwave classic.
So because this music video uses the technique for its performance element that I want to use I decided to have a post talking about the different techniques used in the video and analyse it. This is good preparation for my music video when thinking about the filming process and can provide inspiration as well as develop a greater understanding of music videos.
The video does not start with the music straight away, and has an opening introducing the female artist, this to is what I want to have. The A Thousand Miles video opens with Vanessa Carlton coming into her garage and sitting at her piano, the planned opening to my video shows the male artist picking up his guitar and sitting down on this chair ready to play. This will establish the scenario before the moving footage comes in.
At the beginning of the video the moving footage is very slow, and soon picks up and becomes faster as the song kicks in. This fits well with the speed of the music as the piano music is quite fast paced and so it is timed correctly to a good speed. The speed of the song, and the video often changes during its course. When the chorus is being played, everything in the video seems to move faster, whereas at the beginning and end, and in the middle of the song things slow down and seem to be in slow motion. The footage showing the horses running down the beach, which is something that is fast paced and exciting is slowed down a lot. This shows the video keeping up with the different speeds of the music. My moving footage will be one long continuous speed and will not change noticeably throughout the video, I hope to keep the same pace throughout. My song is a little bit slower and so my moving footage will be to in order to fit well with the music.
The whole video for A Thousand Miles is made up of this performance element and the moving footage. Because of the nature of the song, this in itself is the narrative for the music video as it is all about distance and wanting to be closer to someone, my song contains elements of this so my idea will work however it is not the main theme of the song. My music video will contain a lot of performance element as I feel it will look interesting on screen and I feel using the moving footage was a good idea so I hope to incorporate a lot of it into the video however this will not be my whole video. I hope to break up the video with various other shots creating more of a narrative to the music video.
The most obvious mis-en-scene of the video is the different backrounds captures, like my music video they will all be outside. I will not be able to film such a wide range of backrounds and film on places like main roads like this video shows however I will vary my shots and hopefully have a lot of variety. The opening scene sees the female artist going to sit at the piano. The room it is placed in appears to be a garage and has lots of other random objects in it, the backround appears quite dull and this makes the piano stand out.
Back in 1967, Smacka, together with Frank Traynor and the Jazz Preachers, recorded the Carlton theme song from within the confines of the 3DB Studios as a promotion for The Herald. It is understood all 12 Victorian club theme songs were recorded and released at that time.
We are thrilled to announce that 18-year-old Abrianna Schmidt, a talented songwriter, singer, and actor from Carlton, will be the Grand Marshal for this year's Carlton Daze celebration. Abrianna recently made headlines after she penned a heartfelt song "Small Town Girl" about our beloved town and recently won the prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame's "Words & Music: Journey of a Song" contest.
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Thanks to riveting dramas like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, many critics consider the last few years among the best television has ever known. While I certainly don't disagree with that idea, I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the TV theme songs from my childhood in the '80s. Actually, there might be some great theme songs on the air right now, but I don't really watch sitcoms anymore, so I wouldn't know.
Being the nostalgic fool that I am, I was inspired today to write up a list of some of my favorite TV themes from the '80s, along with some trivia tidbits about each one. If you're in your late 30s or up, there's no way you won't know these songs.
The crown jewel of this piece, "Believe It or Not" was one of the few television theme songs to have success at radio. Written by Mike Post and Stephen Gayer (more on them later), "Believe It or Not" reached the #2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was released as a single in 1981. After the song became a huge success, Elektra Records signed the theme's singer, Joey Scarbury, to a solo deal. His debut for the label, America's Greatest Hero, was produced by Post and featured songs written by Bruce Hornsby and Dan Seals, among others. Scarbury's solo career never really took off after the album, but he went on to sing more TV theme songs (Hardcastle and McCormick, Jennifer Slept Here, etc.) and write the #1 1990 country hit, "No Matter How High," for the Oak Ridge Boys.
Before he became a household name in America playing Jason Seaver on the late '80s sitcom Growing Pains, Alan Thicke had a career as a talk show host and songwriter. The latter found him writing theme songs for television shows like The Facts of Life and The Joker's Wild. On the writing session for "It Takes Diff'rent Strokes," the theme song from Diff'rent Strokes, Thicke teamed up with his then wife, actress/singer Gloria Loring (their son is singer Robin Thicke), and the show's producer, Al Burton. "He and I wrote the themes to Diff'rent Strokes, Facts of Life," said Burton in an interview. "My original ambition was to be a songwriter, but then the world left me." Thicke also performed the theme song to his 1983 American talk show, Thicke of the Night. Check out our review of that track here.
Written by Westcoast AOR greats, Jay Graydon and Richard Page, the second theme song for Gimme a Break! was used in Seasons 3 - 6 of the show. The song was performed by Nell Carter, the show's star and a former Tony Award-winning Broadway actress. Graydon and Page's theme for Gimme a Break! definitely sounds like a product of its two composers. With smoothed-out keyboards and a mid-tempo rhythm pattern, "Gimme a Break" sounds like something Graydon would have written for one of the Al Jarreau albums he produced in the early '80s.
As iconic as it's become, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," the theme song of Cheers, wasn't originally intended for the long-running comedy series. Originally titled "People Like Us," the song was written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo for a musical they were working on called Preppies. After the producers of Cheers heard an early demo of the track, they asked the duo to change the lyrics around so it could fit the storyline of the series. Once the producers of the show agreed on a final version of song, they had Portnoy sing "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," instead of bringing in another vocalist. In 2013, the editors of TV Guide named "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" the greatest TV theme of all time.
Speaking of Portnoy and Hart-Angelo, they also wrote "According to Our New Arrivals," the theme song to Mr. Belvedere. Like their theme for Cheers, "According to Our New Arrivals" was originally written for another project; the NBC pilot, Help. After Portnoy and Hart-Angelo changed the lyrics up a bit, the producers of Mr. Belvedere made "According to Our New Arrivals" the show's theme song. For the recording session, the producers brought in Leon Redbone, a singer known for his reinterpretations of early 20th-century ragtime and Tin Pan Alley songs. Redbone's "old-timey" vocals set the Mr. Belvedere theme apart from the rest of the shows airing on primetime during the late '80s.
"The Unknown Stuntman," the theme song for The Fall Guy, was written by Glen A. Larson (also the show's creator), Gail Jensen, and Dave Somerville, a founding member of the '50s vocal group, The Diamonds. One of the most memorable TV themes of the '80s, "The Unknown Stuntman" was sung by Lee Majors, the action show's star. Ironically enough, early in his career, Majors (also of The Six Million Dollar Man) did some work as a stuntman. Although credited to Majors in its pilot, "The Unknown Stuntman" was then attributed to his character, Colt Seavers, for the rest of The Fall Guy's five-season run.
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