Great TV Disco Themes

[buckaroo]

I can't believe that no one has mentioned this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz76342wQTg

Definitely disco!!!

[paul]

So Johan, fellas, did you listen to ItTakes A Thief. in particular my favorite, the 3rd season. Tell me you didn't wanna dance to that or wish their was a 12" or extended version. :grin:

[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by paul

So Johan, fellas, did you listen to ItTakes A Thief. in particular my favorite, the 3rd season. Tell me you didn't wanna dance to that or wish their was a 12" or extended version. :grin:

Yeap, those are nice, is interesting listening to the different versions, You know, I don't think I've ever seen any of the shows :-( they are from before my arrival

That Stefanie Power was some beaty Yummy Yummy

Never cared much for Chips, that show was a complete turn off for me, the same for the Love boat,:-?

My most remebered theme of mine was from "Hawaii five- O" , can't find any clips.:-?

Kojack was nice and Manix too, although the Clip doesn't have sound

wow, that 'Vegas' theme brings back memories, I used to watch that show, Robert Urich was a very good actor , one of my other faves of him was his "Spencer for Hire" series which didn't last long, and of course his "Lonesome dove" part.

[paul]

Glad you like 'em Mix. I loved those shows and the music. Like you, I never got into CHIPs.

[Disco Funk]

If you listen to the Charo Love Boat performance, who do you think is on the backing track? To me, it definitely sounds like a Philly production. My bests are on a John Davis produced Salsoul Orchestra. The drum pattern sounds like Charles Collins who used that on You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine by Lou Rawls, When Love Is New by Arthur Prysock, and Everybody's Fool by Brenda & The Tabulations.

Update: After checking out her stuff on ebay, I can see that this cut indeed was a Salsoul production. The track was on Ole Ole, an album which was produced by John Davis.

Disco Funk

[emmanda]

I can see that that some of the themes are widening the boundaries of disco!

But what the hell , I you can dance to it, thats got to be ok.

UFO , 6 million dollar man, Thunderbirds, and some non disco tv themes
have been featured in my favourite souljazzfunkdiscoPODCAST

Other thems I could dance to.....(alone)

End theme to the MARTIAN CHRONICLES (stanley myers)

Theme to STARSKY & HUTCH TV series

A VIEW TO A KILL - (Bond Film --Was It Duran DuraN)?

CAR WASH Rose Royce - from the movie

2nd series theme to Space 1999

Nothing from Star Trek , but I think Enterprise NCC1701-D 's TEN FORWARD
lounge would make a great place to have a disco.
DATA would take on JT any day. (Space Fever Space Fe ver...)
I think i've just generated an idea for a new movie !!!!

[qdearl]

Well .....here's my 2cents, 8)

Maybe you can't Hustle to these, but I certainly can go cruising down the highway groovin', blasting these out the car window:grin:

(original) theme from Mission Impossible
The Avengers
Buck Rogers
The Man From Atlantis
The Electric Company (straight up Disco pop, baby!)
Hawaii 5-O
Love American Style
The Mod Squad
The Rockford Files
The Price is Right(very jazzy,lol)
The Tra La La Song - the Banana Splits (don't act like you don't remember;) )
& my personal favorite.....Manamanah (from the Muppet Show:lol: )

and from the movies.....

In Like Flint
The Man with the Golden Gun
Casino Royale
Diamonds Are Fovever ( I applaud Kanye West's sampling of this)
Goldfinger
Gonna Fly Now (from Rocky 1)

[Disco Funk]

No one's mentioned 'Makin It' by David Naughton, which I believe was from a TV show of the same name.

Disco Funk

[Eman]

Yep! Makin It was a short lived disco tv sitcom on the ABC network. Song was also written by Perren/Fekarris who also wrote a lot of Gloria Gaynor, Peaches and Herb, The Raes, Sylvers stuff.....

[Disco Funk]

Freddie Perren also produced some Tavares stuff and going back even further, he produced stuff at Motown, like the Hell Up In Harlem sountrack, and I believe the early Jackson 5 stuff.

Disco Funk

[all*that*glitters*]

I'm flabbergasted that the 'theme from M.A.S.H.' hasn't been mentioned once....
suicide is painless...

but my favourite remains...Batman theme

even Prince and Todd Terry agree

...to the batmobile....let's go!!

[Videoskooter]

I'm looking for this one on DVD:

The Return Of The Saint:



A Man Called Sloane:



The New Avengers:



The Magician:



Cannon



Baretta

[dvdjamm]

when i was a little kid,i used to watch sesame street,the electric company,zoom...all the pbs shows that was made for kids in the early 70's...i remember the end song of sesame street sounding like a disco song and a few songs from each show that sounded disco.....

[needlefingers]

I'm glad you brought this back up.

Here is Lidsville. It's "the land of Living Hats".

It was made by the same people who mad H. R. Pufnstuf and stars Butch Patrick who was Eddie Munster on The Munsters.

YouTube - Lidsville Theme

It turns disco-ey in the end of the opening(around 1min. 30sec.). It reminds me of American Generation by The Ritchie Family. That bubbly sound.

[Salsoul1975]

Issac Hayes' "Theme From 'The Men'" (1972) was a great proto-disco song.

Also, the 1980-83 version of the closing theme from soap The Edge Of Night.