Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Theme Songs

I loved "St. Elsewhere" yet can't even remember half of the Season I cast. They had a lot of turnover and some of the better characters (Harmon, Furst, the guy who played Luther) came on later.

 

I did a CTRL-F for "Community" and it didn't turn up any results, so I'm satisfied.

Also, this seems relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIOM8mCS1fk

 

Don’t know where it ultimately ranked but no theme song made an impression like “The Untouchables” with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra. For me, number 2 would be “The Tonight Show” starring Johnny Carson. Shows you how old I am!

 

Also, their website sucks when you're on a tablet.
Good luck trying to scroll up and down those lists.

 

They have the theme for “Succession” at 25.

But they fail to mention that it’s just a recomposed, more heavily orchestrated “Bojack Horseman” theme.

 

That ending track was solid gold.
And the garbled lyrics were bonus gold.

The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits", was a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs. Also, because CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would actually hear the closing theme lyrics anyway.

The 'WKRP in Cincinnati' closing theme lyrics are all gibberish | Boing Boing

 

If you really want to summarize 1980s sitcoms for someone who didn't live through the era, you just show them the intro to Perfect Strangers and walk away.

The Tonight Show with Carson, The Partridge Family, the Flintstones and Golden Girls are severely underrated.

How you leave off themes from Who's The Boss, Barney Miller, Family Ties and friggin Night Court while adding one-season wonder shows like Terriers is beyond me.

 

I always liked this one . . . produced by the same guy who produced Kotter.

 

This list includes Lost, which doesn't even have a theme song, but doesn't have Black Sails, which in my opinion, has the best theme song of all time. It's brilliant, catchy, and just all-around awesome.

 

How about that!