Author Topic: Prize/Ticket/Promotional Consideration Music Cues (Read 9230 times)

TimK2003 · « **on:** September 05, 2010, 11:46:56 PM »

I know the question has been asked several times regarding favorite (main) themes from game shows, but I don't ever recall anyone asking about people's favorite music cues -- whether it be a prize cue, contestant or tickets cue, or even a promotional consideration cue that is not the same as that show's main theme*.

Some that have crossed my mind as being ones I'd listen to more than once in a sitting (in no particular order):

1) The Prize cue used on "Three On A Match" -- a late '50s/early 60's sounding music cue for a 70's show -- out of place when compared to other music cues of the time.
2) "Berkenhead School" (Jokers Wild Prize Cue) -- that cue rocked!
3) "Frisco Disco"(?) (Prize Cue on Wheel Of Fortune -- even though it was the main theme for J! '78).

Others?

Chief-O · « **Reply #1 on:** September 05, 2010, 11:58:43 PM »

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'246944\' date=\'Sep 5 2010, 10:46 PM\']2) "Berkenhead School" (Jokers Wild Prize Cue) -- that cue rocked![/quote]

This, for one. As for other picks....

-"Sporting Highlights"---LMAD Vegas eps.
-"Think Fast" prize/consolation cuts [#19 and #25 @TVPMM]
-TPIR--too many to list. "Starcrossed" is perhaps my favorite from the '76 package; also several '83 cuts
-Most of the "Concentration" cuts
-"Classey" from "Give-N-Take"
-Several LMAD '84 cues---the "It's Anybody's Guess" theme and some of the Big Deal cuts, in particular
-"Gambit" prize cue

I'm sure I'm missing a few....

BrandonFG · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:47:34 AM »

-Most of the TPiR stuff from the 70s and 80s (too many to name)
-There's a Wheel cue from the early-80s, often used when describing a car in the bonus round. While looking for the appropriate cue on YT, I found this cue as well.
-From the 80s LMaD, I always loved and wanted to hear the cues from the first two deals in the clear, esp. the second one

chris319 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 06, 2010, 01:29:49 PM »

Whew! had a pretty good tickets cue.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #4 on:** September 06, 2010, 03:04:57 PM »

I like a lot of the Barris prize cues. Also, Price is Right and a few from the '77 package used on Joker's Wild come to mind.

joker316 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 06, 2010, 03:43:43 PM »

Whew! - when they went to the Gauntlet
Gambit - the ticket cue
MG 7x - the ticket cue was pretty cool!

GiraffeBoy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 06, 2010, 04:23:26 PM »

The MG '7X ticket plug and the PYL prize read-off cue. Kind of a bummer when Peter would say, "No need to talk to Rod Roddy, because it's all cash!"

--Charlie

BrandonFG · « **Reply #7 on:** September 06, 2010, 05:39:11 PM »

The more I listen to that second Wheel cue I posted, the more I can't help but notice that there's no way it was only written as game show RV description music. Would that happen to be a song from any of Merv's albums?

Speaking of Wheel, during the Woolery era, there was a funky electric guitar number played as a commercial outro. Add that to my list as well...

Brian44 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 06, 2010, 05:41:29 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'247005\' date=\'Sep 6 2010, 05:39 PM\']Speaking of Wheel, during the Woolery era, there was a funky electric guitar number played as a commercial outro. Add that to my list as well...[/quote]

You mean the one that sounds like the beginning to "Temptation Eyes" by the Grass Roots?

GrandMasterGalvatron · « **Reply #9 on:** September 06, 2010, 05:47:43 PM »

I've always liked the Buzzword cue from Wheel of Fortune.

You can imagine my face the first time I saw Merv Griffin's Crosswords.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #10 on:** September 06, 2010, 05:51:48 PM »

[quote name=\'Brian44\' post=\'247007\' date=\'Sep 6 2010, 05:41 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'247005\' date=\'Sep 6 2010, 05:39 PM\']Speaking of Wheel, during the Woolery era, there was a funky electric guitar number played as a commercial outro. Add that to my list as well...[/quote]

You mean the one that sounds like the beginning to "Temptation Eyes" by the Grass Roots?
[/quote]
I had to find that song, but yes, that one. :-)

Jeremy Nelson · « **Reply #11 on:** September 06, 2010, 07:01:34 PM »

The Shopping music from Woolery Wheel...wish I could find a copy, or at least recreate it.

SRIV94 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 06, 2010, 08:36:05 PM »

Loved the cue music for TT (the 70s model). Would always watch in vain to see if somehow, someway the ticket plug/prize descriptions would go past one minute to see if the cue (which is a vamp of the break in the main theme) would segue into the main theme (wasn't until listening to the cue at TVPMM [cuts 21 and 22] that I found that it didn't, it just continued into more of a vamp of the break).

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #13 on:** September 07, 2010, 05:03:26 PM »

Quote

Loved the cue music for TT (the 70s model).

I loved how that cue was actually the last part of the main theme, used until about fall '75 (they had several slight variations of the main theme over the years). There's a Gene Rayburn and Mel Torme '75 episode that GSN ran that has a really long cut of the closing theme and it segues into this part.

Strikerz04 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 07, 2010, 10:07:25 PM »

There were two cues from the last seasons of $ale of the Century that I personally liked:

at 7:00. There was a more upbeat version used at the start of 1988, but the video for that was taken out.

And of course, the guitar riff from the "Big Wheels" era from Wheel