Your Favorite/Least Favorite Theme Songs

[ChuckNet]

Another thought: which GS themes spun off into the best musical cues (for wins, bonus game transitions, commercial outros, etc)?

I vote for:
- YDS '75
- Marshall HS (original, which had a nice big band-style flourish at the end)
- TJW
- Wipeout (bonus win)

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[PalCatIN]

Reviving this old thread so I don't start a new one, my favorites are:

Jackpot (All 3 versions, but '74 is my overall fav)

7X and 90 versions of Match Game

$25,000 and $100,000 Pyramids

Original Card Sharks

Wordplay

Original PYL

Original Chain Reaction

Go! (Hey, what can I say, it grabs ya!  One of those once you get it in your head it won't leave)

Newlywed Game

Deal or No Deal (both NBC's version by Groove Addicts, and the ABC version by Russ Landau, which you can check out by going to his website (just Google for him))

And, my least favorites:

$10,000 Pyramid

All but the current Trebek Jeopardy! versions

Current Feud

Michael Burger's Match Game

Win Lose or Draw

All-Star Blitz

[GSmaniac]

I'll give it a try.


FAVS: (no particular order)

TTTT 90
Classic Concentration
Double Dare (Nick)
Family Feud (all except current)
WOF (all except current)
J! (84, 91, and (gasp!) 97)
The Challengers
TPIR
BB 87 (minority vote)
and Pyramids (All except Current)

Worst:
Pyramid 02
FF current

[Jeremy Nelson]

My Favorites:
Wheel Of Fortune- "Changing Keys 83"
Jeopardy! (All variations since 84)
Blockbusters 87
$ale of the Century (1986 and Australian versions)
Card Sharks (Yes, even the 2001 version)
All versions of Password
Classic Concentration

Least Favorites
Split Second 1986
Camouflage
The Newlywed Game 1985

[14gameshows]

My Favorites (in no particular order)
1. The New Price Is Right 1994
2. $ale of the Century '86
3. Tattletales 70s (all cues especially the Turnabout cue)
4. Wheel of Fortune 1992 remix
5. Password All-Stars
6. Legends of the Hidden Temple
7. Card Sharks/Double Dare
8. The All New All Star Beat the Clock 1980

Honorable mentions...
Super Password
Blockbusters 1987
Classic Concentration
Family Feud (current party version)
Match Game 1998

Least Favorites
All Star Blitz
The Savers (TJW)
Go! (UGH)
Gambit
Cram
Pyramid (Osmond version)
The Better Sex
The new version of Shop Til You Drop (Costco warehouse version)

[Chief-O]

Favorites:
$1MCOAL
10K Pyramid
All-New LMAD
BTB '76
Classic Concentration
CS '78
Gambit
HS '86 [particularly '88 closing]
Jackpot! [Jet Set]
J! '84
Supermarket Sweep
TTTT '90
WOF '89

Honorable mention:
Dream House [Eubanks, of course]
J! '78
Whew!
Wordplay

Least favorites:
All Star Blitz [of course]
Better Sex [of course]
All Feud since '98
Osmond Pyramid [of course]

[Unrealtor]

Best: (No particular order)
- $25,000+ Pyramid
- TTTT 90
- Jeopardy, Trebek era (Particularly the first version. There was someone who mentioned upthread not liking that they cut off the first half of the first section, but I liked the sparing use of the very beginning, because the opening couple measures in particular worked to build a tension. The current orchestration is good as a closing theme, but I don't particularly like the new intro and having the first verse of the main theme playing under the contestant introductions.)
- Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
- Family Feud '70s
- Blockbusters 80

Honorable mentions:
- Best recent theme: Russian Roulette
- Great song, not so great game show theme: Tuning Up and The Savers

Worst: (No particular order)
- Card Sharks 86
- Hot Potato
- Whammy
- Hollywood Squares, Whoopi era ("I Love Hollywood" and "Square Biz")

Best cues:
- Password Plus: walk to Alphabetics (also used at the parnter switch in the last few months of the run)
- Super Password: Ca$hword win (I've never understood why this was more impressive than the endgame win cue)
- Family Feud '70s/'80s: the fiddle and mouth-organ heavy faceoff/intro cue

[gwarman2005]

My Favorites
___________

- Dream House (Eubanks)
- TPIR '72
- Tic Tac Dough '90 - It just grew on me.
- Card Sharks (Perry)
- Jeopardy! '78 - Relaxed you before game play

(Honorable Mention - Your Number's Up)

My Least Favorites
________________

- Joker's Wild '90
- All Star Blitz
- WWTBAM - Got old real fast
- Match Game 7X - Never liked it.
- TTTT - Vocal

[megamanj1986]

[color=\"#FFCC00\"]BONA-FIDE FAVES:[/color][/size]
Classic Concentration - What can I say?
Trivia Trap - At first, I thought of this theme as another carbon copy of the CS '86 theme, but a second listen and OOOOOH YEAH!!!
Jeopardy! - All versions and even the '97 version to some extent
WoF - Particularly the Big Wheels version, the '89 version, and even the '92 version
HS '86 - Love the sax, b/c it meshes so well w/ the overall look of this version and btw, is it me or does this versions's theme song remind me a lot of Nelly and Kelly's "Dilemma?"

FAVORITES
All versions of Password, esp. PW+ and SP
The B-E Packages
Pyramid (all except 2002)
To Tell the Truth (the '70s, '80s, and '90s)
(Tied) HR - Both versions & PYL

SO-SO
HS (Marshall) - All versions
Blockbusters - Both
The Challengers (1990)
SotC ('86)
Split Second (1986)

LEAST FAVORABLE
The Newlywed Game
Jackpot (1970s) Alternate Version used on This Week in Baseball
HS (Bergeron) - Both versions
The Dating Game
Lingo (2002)

AAAAACK!!! TURN IT OFF!!!
Gambit (1970s Closing) - I hate it, but then again I just like to listen to it to make fun of how horrible it is!!!
TJW (The Savers & Joker's Jive) - I can't stand obnoxious moog synthies!!!
The Wizard of Odds
All New 3's a Crowd - The original version's theme was a lot more bouncier than this, but this was the worst theme song opening I've ever heard of!!!
Pyramid 2002 - Too Clubby for my tastes!

[color=\"#3366FF\"]HALL OF FAME[/color]
TPiR ('72 & '94), Whew!, MG (all verisons and yes, even the '60s version, a.k.a. Swingin' Safari and '98 version), Family Feud (All versions, but I prefer the percussion on Dawson's version though.), Hit Man

[color=\"#FF0000\"]HALL OF SHAME[/color]
TTD '90 - What the f**k was Henry Mancini smoking here???, Monopoly (the sound of that first note makes me cringe to death in my seat!), All GS Theme Songs w/ Lyrics post-1985 (e.g. STYD w/ J.D. Roberto, Monopoly, you name it!), Scattegories, and LMaD 2003!!!

[PYLclark86]

Might as well....

FAVORITES:
Hit Man (if anyone has this theme, please tell me).
$ale of the Century (1983)
$ale of the Century (Mid-80's Australian)
Press Your Luck
The Joker's Wild (1978 End Theme)
Split Second '86
Tic Tac Dough (1978)
Wipeout

DISLIKES
Quiz Central (or Drum Loop #XXX from Apple Garageband)
Gambit (1972 End Theme)
TTD '90
All Star Blitz
Deal or No Deal

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'PYLclark86\' post=\'118023\' date=\'May 8 2006, 08:07 PM\']Hit Man (if anyone has this theme, please tell me).[/quote]
Jay Wolpert doesn't have it.  If he doesn't have it, then it's likely nobody has it.

[Blanquepage]

Jay Wolpert doesn't have it. If he doesn't have it, then it's likely nobody has it.

Maybe it's somewhere still in the Score Productions archives?

--Jamie

[Allstar87]

Guess I'll throw my choices in.

FAVORITES (in no particular order)
Super Password
The Challengers
Hit Man
Trivia Trap
Hollywood Squares (Davidson)
Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego
Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
Wheel Of Fortune (1992 theme)
All-Star Blitz (Yes, I'm the only person on the planet who actually likes this theme.)

LEAST FAVORITES (again, in no particular order)
Tic Tac Dough 90 (Especially that God-awful prize music!)
Inquizition
The Thousand Dollar Bee
Roberto's Shop Til You Drop (the prize cues are all right, but the main theme and bonus round music are terrible)

I'm sure there are more I could put in each category, but that's all I can think of for now.

[wheelloon]

FAVS:

Changing Keys Versions 83-93 (wow, what a surprise...)
Classic Concentration
Press Your Luck (last season sounds better to me than the first one for some reason)
Scrabble
Super Password
Double Dare (Nick)
Hollywood Squares (Davidson)
Password (ABC)
Where in the WORLD is Carmen Sandiego
Twenty-One (Maury)
$25,000 Pyramid
Now You See It
Win Lose or Draw
Super Millionaire (especially the music they use when the person hits $100k)
Match Game 90
Card Sharks (Eubanks)
Family Feud (Combs), and Dawson's 94 Intro


LEAST FAVS:

The Wizard of Odds
Dating Game
Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour
Whammy
Pyramid (Osmond)
Where in TIME is Carmen Sandiego
Friend or Foe

[clemon79]

Going back to the first post in this thread:

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'57771\' date=\'Sep 21 2004, 01:45 PM\']
[Please don't post a list of 35 songs for each category; 3-5 is sufficent]
[/quote]

Why am I not surprised that it has come to this?