TV theme tunes

[bazranz]

I have just heard for the umpteenth time Mcfly's Red Nose day song, 'It's all about you'. It is driving me mad, because I know the song as a theme tune to a TV show.

Now, I think it is Brush Strokes, from the 80's. :unsure:

Can anyone, please, confirm this, or shoot me down in flames. :pow:

And, what is your favourite them to a TV show? :crazy: Mine's the theme to the Sharpe series.

[Matthew]

Mhmm, I'll give that some thought! :D

[Domestic Goddess]

The Brush Strokes theme was "Because of you (these things I do) by Dexy's Midnight Runners. It does sound similiar but isn't the same song. Whether the McFly song is a cover or an original, I'm afraid I have no idea. I don't recognise it. Perhaps you've just heard it so often that you think you remember it from the past?

[Eeyore]

I heard it last night and thought it sounded a little bit familiar, but I can't think why :blink:

[mazza]

Hi I am not convinced it is a cover version either...I am sure I saw a bit about them in Africa the other day and they got lots of school kids out there to sing it with them. Then after, they said how proud (and tearful) they felt having heard the children sing a song they wrote...?

I must admit, that song is plaguing me too - every morning when the radio comes on, there it is, when I get into the car, there it is, when I put the radio on the the kitchen,,,yup, there it is! :blink:

Even my two yr old woke up this am singing it :blink: :bigeyes: :blink: .

Fave theme tune...The Professionals, hm, also Potman Pat ! :lol:

[alicks]

The one I heard last night was (i think!!) a muppets song! I've got a feeling that Kermits nephew used to sing it.

[alicks]

the other one is apparently an original

Tom Fletcher from the band wrote the single All About You especially for Comic Relief. The song remarkably features a 60-piece orchestra! The second song on the single is a cover of Carole King's classic hit You've Got A Friend.

http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/whatson/...-name_page.html (http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/whatson/whatson2/tm_objectid=15193300&method=full&siteid=50141&headline=red-nose-day--05-gets-off-to-a-flying-start-name_page.html)

[Neighboured]

Stranger on the Shore. Who remembers the programme or the theme? :lol:

Archers with Barwick Green? :D

And I love the Voyager theme! Da dah, dah da dah, etc., etc. :rolleyes: :hihi:

[Domestic Goddess]

As a kid I would run around my mums gardens singing the Bonanza theme
dum diddle um diddle um diddle um dum dum dum, dum diddle um diddle um diddle um dum dum diddle um dum dum!!!
Other faves include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Banana Splits, Jamie and the magic torch, Black Beauty, the magic roundabout, the monkees, the Avengers, and Thunderbirds!! :thumbs:

[Eeyore]

The Magic Roundabout theme tune, what a classic :thumbs:

And I loved the Black Beauty music too, but but my favourite? Roobarb and Custard :D

[bazranz]

Originally posted by Domestic Goddess@11th March 2005 - 7:44 AM
The Brush Strokes theme was "Because of you (these things I do) by Dexy's Midnight Runners.**
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There I have been shot down in flames. :pow::tomato: and no parachute! :bigeyes: :toilet:

[Kev9090]

I have so many favourites, some of them have already been mentioned in this thread.

Brings back memories....... I know I shouldn't .....bu..... but...... I think....... I'm filling up! :cry_more:

[Tracee]

80s child here, never missed an episode of Rainbow :) (whisper)I bought a DVD not too long ago in fact(whisper)

But my fave theme tune has to be Raggy Dolls. "dolls like you and me", ahh such a good lesson for lil kiddies, I wish they'd put it back on telly.

At work I tend to burst into song quite often, and kids' TV theme tunes are great for raising a laugh. Rosie and Jim, Inspector Gadget, Poddington Peas and the such-like do get infuriatingly stuck in your head though.

Ooh can't believe I almost forgot - "don't you open that TRAP DOOR! Cos there's something down there!" :P

[JJ]

I used to love ( as a child....lol) the theme to Little house on the Prairie..... and I always used to laugh when little laura Ingles fell over at the bottom of the hill!!!!

Another great tunes was from'Rentaghost'......that was a seriously great kids programme...I used to love it!!!!


jj

[Eeyore]

I loved Rentaghost - both the programme and the theme tune :D "When your mansion house needs haunting just call Rentaghost....." :music:

[vernon]

oh my... renta-ghost used to scare the hell out of me!!!!.. it still does.

oh black beauty theme that brings back memorys

i think personal favorites are "the fall guy" , and bodger and badger

because,
everybody knows,
bodger loves...
MASHED POTATOE!

Oo and thundercats :thumbs:
"feel the magic feel the roar... thundercats are go!"

hehe trap door too, and BATFINK, bananaman, Chucklevision B)

[JJ]

Have a peek at this


www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/rentaghost/


really funny!!!

JJ

[Eeyore]

Thanks JJ :thumbs:

[hollygolightly]

Hong Kong Phooey
Number One Super Guy
Hong Kong Phooey
Quicker than the human eye
He's got style a groovy style
And a car that just won't stop
When the going gets rough he's super tough
With a Hong Kong** Phooey Chop
Ya!

:rolleyes: :D

I'm sure that some of you will have great fun rooting about in here (http://www.jedisparadise.co.uk/index.htm) and enjoying a discussion in the telly talk folder about some of them! :hihi: :thumbs: B)