{"id":30387,"date":"2012-09-27T19:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/theme-songs.html"},"modified":"2012-09-27T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:15:26","slug":"theme-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/theme-songs.html","title":{"rendered":"Theme songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While TV today, as a whole, is great, something that has inexorably been fading away is the TV theme song. \u00a0Between shows starting immediately after the previous credits roll, to trying to eke out an extra 30 seconds or a minute of show (or commercial) time, the theme song is something of an endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some guys singing a whole bunch of them &#8212; mostly sitcoms from the 70s and 80s. \u00a0Good stuff, even if I didn&#39;t watch half those shows. <i>That&#39;s<\/i> the power of theme songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100010333593843286118'>Darrell Lee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Best thing I have seen today!<\/b> via (<span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110731951130561423918\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"110731951130561423918\">Andrew Konietzky<\/a><\/span>)\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'><iframe type='text\/html' width='97.5%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CTNJIp4BKfM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dYniXrS4ahv' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While TV today, as a whole, is great, something that has inexorably been fading away is the TV theme song. \u00a0Between shows starting immediately after the previous credits roll, to trying to eke out an extra 30 seconds or a minute of show (or commercial) time, the theme song is something of an endangered species. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/theme-songs.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Theme songs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16939,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/20\/tv-theme-songs.html","url_meta":{"origin":30387,"position":0},"title":"TV Theme Songs","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 20-Mar-10 1:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've a great fondness for TV theme songs. 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