Game show themes that were actually stock music.

[PYLdude]

If I remember correctly the theme to the 1987 Blockbusters series was a piece of stock music. How many game shows over the years employed such compositions as themes? Legitimate curiosity.

[gamed121683]

The $10,000 Pyramid quickly comes to mind. I believe Debt, too.

[TimK2003]

The original Jackpot! with Geoff Edwards:  "Jet Set", by Mike Vickers (one of the members of the 60's group Manfred Mann)

I believe Debt, too.

Debt indeed used stock music from Alan Ett.

[Chief-O]

"Winning Streak": "Saturday About Town" by Barry Stoller.

If pilots count, then this could be quite an exhaustive list.

[JakeT]

Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture? 

JakeT

[Dbacksfan12]

Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture? 

If we're talking about things such as Plink, Plank, Plunk and A "Swingin' Safari", I don't think those are "stock" pieces, are they?

[JakeT]

Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture? 

If we're talking about things such as Plink, Plank, Plunk and A "Swingin' Safari", I don't think those are "stock" pieces, are they?

True enough...but also keep in mind that they were not composed/released with the thought that they'd one day become a game show theme..

JakeT

[PYLdude]

Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture? 

If we're talking about things such as Plink, Plank, Plunk and A "Swingin' Safari", I don't think those are "stock" pieces, are they?

True enough...but also keep in mind that they were not composed/released with the thought that they'd one day become a game show theme..

JakeT

Yes, but that doesn't qualify them as stock necessarily.

I'm looking for stuff that was written specifically as production music but not intended for a specifc use (kind of along the same lines as the NFL Films library).

[The Ol' Guy]

I heard bits and pieces of the theme from Every Second Counts on a comedy album by Billy Crystal, which made me wonder if that was stock/production. Would appreciate any info on that.

[SuperMatch93]

Bob Barker's Truth Or Consequences used "Stop Gap", and 1952-57 episodes of What's My Line? had "Melody in Moccasins", both of which were written by Wilfred Burns.

This is a good resource when looking up the title and composer information of early TV themes.

[clemon79]

I heard bits and pieces of the theme from Every Second Counts on a comedy album by Billy Crystal, which made me wonder if that was stock/production. Would appreciate any info on that.

I have that album. (He only did "Marvelous" to my knowledge.) Which track?

[oaklandfan2kx]

Atinale Al Precio (the Mexican Version of TPiR) uses many stock music as prize cues usually shown in the Closing Credits of each episode so here's a list of these cues including "Go For The Gold" by Family Guy Composer Walter Murphy which used as a Car Cue.

[clemon79]

That's a short list.

[BrandonFG]

I heard bits and pieces of the theme from Every Second Counts on a comedy album by Billy Crystal, which made me wonder if that was stock/production.

I remember reading here that it was indeed a stock piece, and I want to say Hollywood Connection's theme was as well.

As far as other shows, I'm seriously drawing a blank, but it seems that a few of Bob Stewart's NYC shows used stock music until about the mid-70s. Then he simply recycled the Shoot for the Stars theme for about another 15 years*. ;-)

Did any of Stone Stanley's mid-90s shows use stock music? I'm thinking Quicksilver and Free 4 All...I know the former used a repurposed Shop Til You Drop cue, but not sure if that was stock.

*ObTongueInCheek: Which did Bob recycle more, the SFTS theme or what would become Go's format?

[JasonA1]

Did any of Stone Stanley's mid-90s shows use stock music?

Their music was in-house. I forgot which half of the pair it was, but one of the two names in the Stone-Stanley partnership was a composer.

-Jason