[quote name='Bob Zager' date='Jul 6 2006, 05:58 PM' post='123488']
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If memory doesn't play me false. there was no music while the contestants wrote their answers during the 60s version; Gene read the question and we heard the pens scribble, drop and the contestants raised their hands to show they were done. The only music was the "Swingin' Safari" theme.
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While the theme song was the only music heard on the show, a new theme song was used starting around 1967 or 1968. I believe there is a color episode of original Match Game, featuring the second theme song, in the library of the Museum of Television and Radio.
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The later theme was first used sometime around 1968, if not exclusively in 1969. In 1967 I was still getting it locally in KC (albeit in black and white at 3:30 on a one-day delay because of "Matches N' Mates" at 3:00) and it still used "Swingin' Safari" that year. It's unfortunate no one can get ahold of that later theme music as a recording with an actual name; I want to hear it and getting to the Museum is literally a distant dream for me.