Blogs Posts on "Tv Themes"

Start the day with "The Saint" by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 19, 2009. This is one of the coolest TV themes ever, and never fails to get my juices flowing - especially when performed by Roland Shaw. But I can't hear it anymore without recalling Gary Dobbs' hilarious piece, How to Emulate the Saint on a Limited Budget.

Johnny Cash, Johnny Yuma and Ricky Nelson?? by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 17, 2009You've all heard Johnny Cash sing "The Rebel - Johnny Yuma". But Johnny also wrote and recorded a second Rebel song, sometimes known as "Johnny Yuma - The Rebel" and sometimes "The Ballad of Johnny Yuma".But here's the weird part: Cash actually wrote...

Johnny Cash sings "Bonanza" by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 13, 2009.Lorne Greene stopped by to sing this for us some weeks back, and I mentioned the vocal version had also been recorded by Johnny Cash. Well, David Cranmer was (sort of) singing a Cash tune the other day, right here, and it reminded me this was still...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents... A Swingin' Tune by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 4, 2009...for swingin' by your neck, that is. Ralph Marterie and his Marlboro Men, who did Perry Mason for us a while back, return with their hip rendition of The Alfred Hitchcock Theme, also known as "Funeral March of a Marionette". Hit it, Ralph..."Alfred...

Duane Eddy Twangs "Paladin" by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 28, 2009Back in 1962, Duane Eddy hit #33 on the charts with this rockin' rendition of "The Ballad of Paladin." Among the tunes beating him out were "The Loco-Motion" by Little Eva, "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" by Neil Sedaka, and "Ahab, the Arab" by Ray Steve...

Swingin' with "Perry Mason" by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 20, 2009You've heard this theme a thousand times. Maybe a million. But Ralph Marterie and his Marlboro Men (I kid you not) give it a new kind of cool on this track from the 1959 LP "Music for a Private Eye." It'll make you want to rush out for a pack of Marl...

Lorne Greene sings "Bonanza" by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 18, 2009Who knew there were lyrics to the Bonanza theme? Lorne Greene sang sang them on a 1962 cast LP called Bonanza Party Time. Other vocal versions were recorded by Johnny Cash, Bruce Low (in German) and the Lawrence Welk singers. Tune into the Almanack l...

Lawrence Welk with a "Restless Gun"? by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 13, 2009Yep, when old Lawrence had put away enough champagne he sometimes donned a Stetson and led his Music Makers in TV Western themes. In this one Larry and the gang wander the West with retired gunfighter Vint Bonner (portrayed by John Payne). Restless G...

The Theme from "Dragnet" by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 1, 2009The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. If those words don't start the Dragnet theme playing in your head, the mp3 below surely will."Dragnet" by Si Zentner and his Orchestra...

The Texas Rangers sing "Cheyenne" by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Sep 29, 2009Or more properly, The "Texas" Rangers sing Cheyenne. These Rangers, you see, hail from somewhere in Great Britain. This song appears on a British EP with three other TV Western themes. How do I know the group is actually British? The accents. They're...