[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'117524\' date=\'May 2 2006, 11:36 AM\']
I know many of you have the theme to "People Pickers" on your Chuck Barris CD, so you might be interested to know that the show did air on KGO-TV, Channel 7 in San Francisco.
Thanks for the info. I wonder if the show actually used the theme that matches up to it on the CD. GSN aired a few of those Barris pilots in an unsold pilot marathon (can't remember exactly what they called it), and I noticed a few of those themes on the CD were not the ones actually used.
Who knows...maybe they intended to use them and found something they liked better at the last minute...
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Considering that some of those alleged themes didn't match up to my memories ("Dream Girl"'s actual theme was Percy Faith's theme music from the film "The Oscar"), I'm pretty sure that after deciding to record a bunch of cues for his shows because he was going into syndication and didn't want to pay the music clearance money that ABC was doing for him, he just decided to commercially release them as a lark, even if they mostly ended up in radio station production rooms and cut-out bins (where I got my copy). And whether they actually were show themes or not, well, Chuckie Baby always liked to put us on, didn't he?
Now it's not to say that some records weren't sold or given actual airplay--in the mid-70s, when Chicago's WCLR was transitioning from elevator music to MOR to adult contemporary, they still played a good number of instrumentals (although not the more Muzaky ones) and I actually heard the "Treasure Hunt" win/closing theme once--identified as "'True Grit' by the Chuck Barris Orchestra," IIRC.