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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on September 05, 2010, 11:46:56 PM
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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?
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[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....
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-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 (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcPV1bCUyzo\") in the bonus round. While looking for the appropriate cue on YT, I found this cue as well. (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0zo6KbIls\")
-From the 80s LMaD, I always loved and wanted to hear the cues (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNXmaCNxzt4\") from the first two deals in the clear, esp. the second one
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Whew! had a pretty good tickets cue.
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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.
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Whew! - when they went to the Gauntlet
Gambit - the ticket cue
MG 7x - the ticket cue was pretty cool!
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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
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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...
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[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?
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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.
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[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?
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I had to find that song, but yes, that one. :-)
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The Shopping music from Woolery Wheel...wish I could find a copy, or at least recreate it.
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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).
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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.
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There were two cues from the last seasons of $ale of the Century that I personally liked:
at 7:00 (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2R65amZb24&feature=related\"). 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
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mine would have to be Thicke WHEEL outros (temptation eyes and the other one, some people have called the 'country-style" cue. Really favour TPIR cues that were used on NYSI then moved over to TPIR.
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Do unsold pilots count? If so, Hyper Gamma Space (contestant cue) from B&E's 21 is pretty good. In the realm of aired game shows though, it's a tough call. I liked the prize plug on PYL; the Davidson run of HS also had a nice secret square prize cue I thought was cool. Scrabble '93's contestant cue was another one I found to be enjoyable along with the WBMG cue on $ale of the Century. I don't think I could pick a favorite though
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[quote name=\'GiraffeBoy\' post=\'246998\' date=\'Sep 6 2010, 03:23 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[/quote]
The interesting thing about the PYL prize cue is that there were actually two different versions of it: A jazzier version that was used during the first month or so on the air, and a synthesized one that was used for the majority of the run. It would make my day if both versions resurface.
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[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'247024\' date=\'Sep 6 2010, 08:36 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).[/quote]
Was but a small child at the time, but I used to try to figure out the melodic connection between the Art Fleming J! theme (Take Ten), the original think music, the contestant intro riff, and even the (probably stock or needledrop) music played when the board curtain opened before each round. I think I once composed a segue in which the usual cold finish at the end of Take Ten quickly led into a succession of notes that spiraled lower, slower, and softer until you had the think music.
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I would say I like the Wheel of Fortune "Buzzword" cue. So glad to see that it later became the Merv Griffin's Crosswords theme. Also, wasn't it used for a pilot that Merv did called Buzzword?