Today In History

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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 7 2005, 11:34 PM\']AUGUST 8th 1983
At 11:00am Eastern time over the NBC Television Network in an episode colorcast to thousands of homes across the USA, instead of the familiar Alan Thicke theme, viewers of Wheel Of Fortune hear the audience say the title of the show followed by some God-awful theme music. "Yuck!", I said. "Ew!", my sister said.
I did like the 1992 remix of the song, but nothing (in my mind) for that show tops the great instrumental used for the opening eight years of the program existence.

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Undoubtedly creator Merv Griffin was bucking for extra cash. Gimme Big Wheels over Changing Keys any day.

[Ian Wallis]

Undoubtedly creator Merv Griffin was bucking for extra cash. Gimme Big Wheels over Changing Keys any day.

Although I think "Big Wheels" is a much better theme, I really like the first version of "Changing Keys", used from '83-89.  The versions they used after that weren't as good, IMHO.