Your Favorite/Least Favorite Theme Songs

[Dbacksfan12]

With over 400 game shows in the books, what are your favorite, and least favorite theme songs? [Please don't post a list of 35 songs for each category; 3-5 is sufficent]

My favorites:
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1. Super Password
2. "Big Wheels"
3. Classic Concentration
4. Hollywood Squares [1986]
5. Whew

My least favorites:
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1. All Star Blitz
2. Card Sharks/Double Dare
3. The Better Sex
4. "The Savers"
5. The Price is Right [1972]

As a side note: There wasn't ever an attempt to have the syndicated "To Tell the Truth" theme released as a single, was there?

[adamjk]

No offense here or anything, but I am curious. Why do you not like the Price is Right theme?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Sep 21 2004, 02:17 PM\'] No offense here or anything, but I am curious. Why do you not like the Price is Right theme? [/quote]
 Because it's all subjective. I think the Davidson Squares theme is crap, yet he has it on his favorites list. Why? Because I do.

[SRIV94]

Great topic, Mark O.!

Top five are in no particular order:

1.  TTD (Hidey put together a masterpiece)
2.  TTTT syndie (very catchy)
3.  TATTLETALES (70s version, the 80s one pales in comparison)
4.  GONG (at least it was done live)
5.  NYSI ("Chump Change"--another classic)

There's also about 18 Honorable Mentions in there.  

Bottom three (again in no particular order):

1.  JACKPOT! (Darrow version--"Jet Set" would be one of the 18)
2.  HSq6x (The first theme--like the second one much better, the discoish one just a little bit better)
3.  BUMPER STUMPERS (Good show; theme was just a little too cutesy for my taste)

Doug

[gsnstooge]

Among my favorites are: Big Wheels, (I just can't stop dancin' when I hear the opening!) The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, and Gene Gene the Dancing Machine from The Gong Show. Two others which I am also comfortable with All-Star Blitz and Go!  I guess I like repitiveness.

[ITSBRY]

Favorites
High Rollers '87
Press Your Luck
TattleTales '82 (never heard this theme til the 2nd CD was released...WOW!)
Pyramids '80s
TTTT '90

Least Favorites
Pyramid (2000's) -If it even qualifies as a theme
Hollywood Squares/H2 (both themes)
TJW- (Savers)- I think all that synthethic noise causes internal bleeding
Jeopardy! (any remix of the original '84 theme)
Password '60s (along with most other 50s and 60s gs themes...with the exception of 'A Swingin Safari')

ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com

[Skynet74]

John's favorites:

1. The Cross-Wits (1978)
2. The New Let's Make A Deal (Canadian)
3. Whew!
4. Password Plus
5. Trivia Trap

John's least favorites:

1. Joker's Wild (The Savers)
2. Gambit
3. The Joker's Wild 1990
4. The Better Sex
5. Card Sharks "1986" Eubanks




John

[FeudDude]

Favorites
1. Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
2. Family Feud (Dawson/Combs)
3. Super Password
4. Wheel of Fortune '89
5. Classic Concentration

Least
1. Any generic tuneless techno theme (Whammy, Osmond Pyramid, etc.)
2. Wheel of Fortune (2000- )
3. Scrabble '93
4. Card Sharks '86
5. Where In Time (not World) is Carmen Sandiego

[BrandonFG]

FAVORITES, in no particular order

1. High Rollers 74
2. TJW (the one used mostly through Barry/Cullen's syndie run)
3. "Big Wheels"
4. Family Feud 76 (not the Combs remix...I love a song with a good percussion line, and this one has it)
5. High Rollers 87

LEAST
1. Double Dare/Card Sharks 78 (very overrated)
2. Strike it Rich 86 (very repetitive and boring)
3. Pyramid 02
4. Beat the Clock 02 (very annoying)

[SamJ93]

Faves, in no particular order...
1. Match Game (Swingin' Safari)
2. To Tell the Truth (both the original 60's version and 90's orchestral re-record)
3. The Diamond Head Game
4. Dream House (Eubanks)
5. The Newlywed Game

And least faves...
1. Pyramid (Osmond version)
2. Cram
3. Gambit (70's version)
I don't really have any other least favorites...the rest are all somewhere in between.

--Sam

[tyshaun1]

Oh, why not-

Faves:

1. Press Your Luck (high energy, loud, just like the show)
2. Now You See It "Chump Change" (Too "fawnky" for a word game)
3. Bullseye (best theme by Hal Hidey)
4. Hit Man (very much overlooked)
5. Starcade (although not much to it, very catchy)

And.....not so much:

1. Card Sharks '86 (liked everything about the show when I was a kid, hate everything about it now)
2. Play the Percentages (sounds like '80's infomerical music)
3. $OTC '86 remix (took a good, dramatic theme and made it boring)
4. current J! music (feel like I'm watching a nighttime soap- oh wait, I am! All My Jennings)
5. tie- Family Feud '99, Whammy! (3 words: Techno is EVIL.)
Tyshaun

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'gsnstooge\' date=\'Sep 21 2004, 02:40 PM\'] Among my favorites are: Big Wheels, (I just can't stop dancin' when I hear the opening!) [/quote]
 This frightens me.

[alfonzos]

Favorites (in no particular order):
Classic Concentration, Blockbusters, Shenanigans (yes, I'm that old), NYSI, The 10K Pyramid, Monopoly, Family Feud

Least liked (again, in particular order)
TTTT (the one with the vocals), Beat the Clock (Subway Polka), The Wizard of Odds

[drmusic_99]

FAVORITES:
1. The Price is Right
2. Tattletales (original)
3. Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
4. Card Sharks (Perry)
5. H2

LEAST FAVORITES:
1. Current Feud
2. Monopoly
3. Scrabble

[ChuckNet]

My faves:

- Thicke WoF (Big Wheels)
- High Rollers (70s)
- Dream House (2nd version)
- DD/CS '78
- FF (original mix)
- HS (Bob and Merrill's Theme)
- $10K/$20K Pyramid (Tuning Up)
- NYSI
- Bullseye

Least faves:

- Pyramid '02
- TJW '90
- TTD '90
- WoF 95-97 (the 94-95 version of the big band theme mix was decent, then they decided to loop that one section 10x)
- LMaD '80 (too disco-ey for my taste)

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")