Re: Best Sitcom Theme Song
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Number One:
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Welcome back,
Your dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they're turned around.
Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya)
Here where we need ya (Here where we need ya)
Yeah we tease him a lot cause we've hot him on the spot, welcome back,
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
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This song actually charted, after being used as a theme song. So it's a fantastic answer. "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" is so good that you don't even have to refer to "Cheers" to have people recognize it. I personally like the one from "Good Times" a lot. I also like the MASH theme song, "Suicide is Painless" just for the irony.
If this wasn't limited to sitcoms, I'd be pimping English country-gospel-techno-acidhouse-blues band A3 and their fantastic song, "Woke Up This Morning," which is being used by The Sopranos. A3 is incredible, and everyone could do much worse than to buy their albums Exile on Coldharbour Lane, La Peste, and Power In The Blood.
I was actually going to post Woke Up This Morning in the best intro thread, as there's a spoken word intro on the record to this (and a lot of others). I don't have the whole thing by heart, but it starts with, "And after 3 days of drinking with Larry Love, I just get an inkling to go on home." and ends with "So long, John Coltrane. So long, Duke Ellington and Leslie Young. So long, Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald. So long, Jimmy Reed. So long, Muddy Waters and so long, Howlin' Wolf." then the sample of the Wolf screaming out, "Woke up this morning!" as it rips into the main bit, familiar to all Sopranos fans.
Another great non-sitcom theme, "The Twilight Zone."
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