Well, my California Dreams Seasons 1 & 2 boxed set arrived earlier this week.
I love this show. It’s sooo bad, but there’s something about it that I can’t get enough of. As a musician, I get a big laugh out of how bad the characters mime the musical segments. Yes, they all sing their own parts, but when Matt stops playing his guitar to tear up a vocal line, you can still hear the guitar playing in the backing track. Or, when Jenny jumps up to the front for a song, the keyboard part magically remains in the mix. One could argue that they sequenced the keyboard part, but then Tony would have to be machine-perfect to keep time with that keyboard part. But, no one should ever think about something like that too much.
Somehow, I got off the main subject (did I ever have one?). I wanted to find out what some of your favorite television theme songs were. I’ll give you two categories – vocal and instrumental.
Here are some of my picks:
Vocal:
Perfect Strangers
California Dreams
Growing Pains
Instrumental:
Batman (1966)
Hawaii Five-0
Magnum P.I.
Do any of your favorites match mine?
Batman (1966) of course! and Hawaii Five-0…who could not like that one.