TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes

TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes

TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes
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Composer: Alan Ari Lazar
Composer: Chris Seefried
Composer: Richard Kosinski
Edition: Music CD
Audio: Albanian (Original Language); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language); Hindi (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); Swahili (Original Language); Swedish (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-10-29
Music Label: Tvt
Soundtracks:
  1. I Love Lucy
  2. Dragnet
  3. The Honeymooners
  4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  5. Leave It To Beaver
  6. Peter Gunn
  7. 77 Sunset Strip
  8. Maverick
  9. The Flintstones
  10. The Andy Griffith Show
  11. The Dick Van Dyke Show
  12. The Addams Family
  13. Gilligan's Island
  14. Batman
  15. The Monkees
  16. Bewitched
  17. Mission: Impossible
  18. Hawaii Five-O
  19. The Brady Bunch
  20. Sesame Street
  21. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
  22. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  23. All In The Family
  24. M*A*S*H
  25. Happy Days
  26. Welcome Back, Kotter
  27. The Jeffersons
  28. Taxi
  29. The Muppet Show
  30. Laverne & Shirley
  31. The Greatest American Hero
  32. Dallas
  33. Hill Street Blues
  34. Miami Vice
  35. The Cosby Show
  36. Moonlighting
  37. Cheers
  38. L.A. Law
  39. Thirtysomething
  40. The Simpsons
  41. NYPD Blues
  42. Mad About You
  43. Friends
  44. Law & Order
  45. Ally McBeal
  46. Sex And The City
  47. The Practice
  48. Malcolm In The Middle
  49. Alias
  50. Six Feet Under

Music reviews of TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes

Music Review: A Blast from the Past
Rating: 3 Stars

If you are like me, (40-ish) then you can mark the cycles of your life by popular music and the medium through which it was distributed to you, i.e. records, 8-track, cassette tapes, CDs, radio and TV. We associate past emotions, events, most powerfully with visual and aural memories that can instantly tranport us back to the moment they ocurred. Most of us probably have either saved our favorite LPs (and even the old record player) or upgraded our record collection to CDs. The other medium that we associate important memories with is of course T.V. Who can forget the Beatles' first appearance on Ed Sullivan. Or Rob Petrie tripping over the Ottoman in his living room? Or the knight on a white horse proclaiming that Ajax detergent is truly stronger than dirt.

Well, now you can finds CDs, tapes, and DVDs that can help you relive almost all of these moments (unfortunately, I know of know video collection of classic TV commercials available to the public for purchase). But let's face it; most of us don't have the time, money or inclination to actually sit through a whole episode of My Three Sons, Gilligan's Island or Green Acres. Most of Classic TV is best remembered in sound bytes anyway; the stories were really not that good.

Fortunately, this collection of the theme songs from the classic (e.g. Lucy), post-classic (e.g. Taxi), modern (e.g. L.A. Law), and post-modern (e.g. Friends) TV era is a high-impact dose guaranteed to stimulate the nostalgia center of your brain. From the opening rumba of I Love Lucy, to the tinkling lounge piano of Cheers, you get most of the TV Themes that defined what we watched.

The collection does have some curious choices though. In an attempt to balance all the eras, some arguably famous themes have been omitted (e.g. The Munsters) to make room for some post-modern selections (e.g. Six Feet Under?!). However, it is fortunate that the classic, post-classic, and modern era take up 90% of the collection which should satisfy even the most fussy listener.

I am also happy to report that the fidelity of the original musical performances have been cleaned up where possible and without detracting from the experience. In fact the tacky and tinny sound of the Addams Family theme has been maintained, whether because a better source could not be found, I do not know; yet this is what I remembered the performance to be.

Thus for a very reasonable price of about 12 bucks (far cheaper than prozac), you will have bought the means to stimulate your nostalgia lobe, unleashing a flood of pleasant (I hope) memories. To paraphrase Homer Simpson, "Ahh T.V., is there anything you can't do?"

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Description of TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes

Full Title - TV Guide - 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes. To commemorate TV Guide's 50th anniversary, Tee Toons and TV Guide present a year-by-year celebration of the greatest television themes from 1953-2002. This definitive compilation covers everything from 'I Love Lucy' to 'Friends'. The CD includes a comprehensive fact-filled bonus booklet featuring the 50 original full color TV Guide covers. TVT Records. 2002.

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