Nowadays, we typically think of television theme songs as being the province of sitcoms, from shows like Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch and Alice and All in the Family and Maude and The Jeffersons and Good Times and Growing Pains and Friends... and a number of Saturday Morning programs ranging from Scooby-Doo to the Archies to the Krofft programs...the Flintstones and the Jetsons...
but there were several memorable Western themes: Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel, Bret Maverick... Bonanza, even though the lyrics were only heard once onscreen...
Nowadays, we typically think of television theme songs as being the province of sitcoms, from shows like Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch and Alice and All in the Family and Maude and The Jeffersons and Good Times and Growing Pains and Friends... and a number of Saturday Morning programs ranging from Scooby-Doo to the Archies to the Krofft programs...the Flintstones and the Jetsons...
ReplyDeletebut there were several memorable Western themes: Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel, Bret Maverick... Bonanza, even though the lyrics were only heard once onscreen...
Gordon Long