Ambers of the retro cocktail hour Facebook group and we've still got 5 more to go my mother always told me T.V. Would rot my brain clearly she was right and that's why we have the retro cocktail hour thanks thanks. Thanks thanks. To. Go. To any. I. That's holy curtains sensational theme for Johnny Quest the original series was just one season in the mid sixty's but the character has lived on a new shows comic books and computer games and rumor has it there's a feature film in the works too and that toon was voted number 5 by the retro cocktail hour Facebook group in the 10 greatest T.V. Themes of all time Perry Mason composed by Fred Steiner and played here by Ralph Martirio and his orchestra is from the album music for a private eye thanks for joining us for another retro cocktail hour this week we're all about T.V. Still to come some T.V. Themes that also crossed over and became Poppins. Speaking of which here's a tune that's become a sort of standard I guess even though the show for which it was created only lasted one season it's about time we heard from Henry Mancini and here's his theme music from Mr Lucky on the retro cocktail hour. me excuse. Me ask you. Excuse looks. Like some. Exclusive access. Excuse excess. Of 60. Stupid easy to see. Them going to. Steve Lawrence and B. Which 2 from the T.V. Show that name here on the retro cocktail hour the song was written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Kalar and the lyrics we just heard weren't used on the show Jack Keller has said that at one time they planned to use the vocal version of the theme but the producers didn't want to pay $2500.00 to hire a vocalist also in that sad love American style composed by Charles Fox for the 1st season the theme was sung by the Cowsills but a new version was used thereafter featuring the Ron Hicklin singers before that album hurt and his orchestra from the horn meets the hornet in the unforgettable theme from The Green Hornet the show was kind of a bust but that music is out of sight this is the retro cocktail hour of the home of space age pop an incredibly strange music I'm Daryl Brogden on the air from the underground martini bunker with America's Stone Age family coming up. But now it's time to unveil the 4th most popular T.V. Cocktail hour. Was written by Laurie Johnson and was originally called the shake when it appeared on an album in 1965 called the big new sound of strikes again we know it better today is the theme from The Avengers. From. The. Based on. Thanks. If I am. Not. Thinking anything. Is not scientists All right. Nobody knows what. Time. Of. Night. I. Think the snake. Followed me Oh I'm sure it's also bogus for a lot of. Setbacks in the life you know that. I still think you like to play do you. Well one of the best known of all T.V. Themes meet the Flintstones if you're on the retro cocktail hour now the version we just heard is not the same as that used on the show I want to play this one because it features the 4 original cast members Alan Reid is Fred Jean Vander Pillis Wilma Mel Blanc is Barney and began to direct his Betty and I the only one who thinks that Betty Rubble was like the hottest woman on sixty's T.V. You know meet the Flintstones wasn't the original theme for that show they used another tune by Holt curtain in title Rise and shine during the show's 1st 2 seasons before that Neal half the famous theme for The Odd Couple going on here by the Billy many orchestra glad you made it in for another retro cocktail hour coming at you on all 3 dimensions from here at the underground martini bunker I'm Darrell Brogden and we're yet to reveal the top 3 T.V. Tunes in our countdown That's ahead in the next 30 minutes. You know the name of the 1st T.V. Soundtrack album it's believed to be the soundtrack for the T.V. Show danger which was on in the early 1950 S. Music for the show was created by Guitarist Tony Matola and the Ray Charles singers Here's the theme music on the retro cocktail hour. Or. It's the retro cocktail hour with somebody please is just a nice theory. A production of Kansas Public Radio. 6. Weeks. Back. At the. With the thank the. Secret. The that the. With the. With the now I'm pretty sure you don't need me to tell you the name of that tune it's dragnet Peter Appleyard under his orchestra theme music by Walter Schumann and a tune that was the subject of a lawsuit brought by composer Miklos Roche up who claimed the famous dragnet for node motif was lifted from music he wrote for the movie The Killers in 1946 and after listening to Rush's music for that film I kind of think he was right. You know with me Daryl Dragon of the underground martini bunker for the retro cocktail hour This Week T.V. Is the thing we'll wrap up our Top 10 Countdown in this half hour and here are lots more tunes with a tube right now it's the theme that finished at number 3 in the voting and remained senior Roadies Peter Gunn theme for the T.V. Show with that name in 1958 the story goes that man seen it 1st wasn't convinced that anyone would buy a soundtrack album from Peter Gunn and it was actually ready Anthony who had the 1st hit record with the tune in 1959 and remained Seanie the Peter Gunn theme at number 3 on the retro cocktail hour. 6 to. 60. Lives. Click. Click click. Click click. With. Neil hefty he's Batman theme from the sixty's T.V. Series and here on the retro cocktail hour after he was a guy who made his bones as an arranger composer in the Big Band era and then he worked a lot with the Count Basie band in the fifty's and by the sixty's was writing considerable music for T.V. And movies the bad men theme is a pretty simple tune basically a 12 bar blues progression with a sound that mixes surf and spine music and headed that guitarist Vinnie bell in a tune called Nicky which was written by Byrd Bacharach and throughout the night early 1970 S. Was used as the theme music for the A.B.C. Movie of the week. Thanks so much for joining us here in the underground martini bunker for another retro cocktail hour this week it's all about T.V. Tunes and there's more to common clothing the theme that was voted number one by members of our Facebook group we're on public radio stations every week at this time and you can listen on demand anytime at retro cocktail dot org. That's probably the only theme you'll hear tonight that still running Danny Elfman and the theme music for the Simpson it's your own the retro cocktail hours T.V. Themes countdown Well OK it's time to reveal the seconds most popular T.V. Theme in our countdown if it was up to me this would be number one but like you I only got one vote it's loud difference the music from Mission Impossible a tune I consider the greatest ever written for T.V. Show this came out in 1967 it got to number 7 on the Billboard chart it's written in 54 time which Lalo Schifrin says is for people who have 5 legs. And it's been covered I don't know how many times somebody once said that if you're unfamiliar with this tune it's because a you're under 5 years of age be you've been living with the Unabomber for the last 25 years or see you're unaware of television number 2 with the bullets Lalo Schifrin and the mission impossible thing I'm on the retro cocktail hour. Please please. That is one terrific T.V. 2 on John Williams And the theme from checkmate you're on the retro cocktail hour this was a show from the early sixty's created by writer ever a gambler and all about a team of detectives whose mission is to prevent crime before it happens before that Earl Higgins legendary theme for the N.D. Griffith Show there's another one I can't believe didn't make it to the top than a lot of people thought it was Andy Griffith whistling the theme but in fact it's composer Earl Hagen who said he wrote the tune in all of 15 minutes also one of the most iconic T.V. Themes of the seventy's love was all around a song written by Sonny Curtis who sang it every week on The Mary Tyler Moore Show we're done here by the Ray Conniff singers glad you're here for the retro cocktail hour I'm Darrell broad you know we're rockin the underground martini bunker every week on public radio stations listen on demand at retro cocktail dot org We're also on Facebook you can follow me in the Twitter verse at K.B.R. Brogden and if you want to reach out my email is host at retro cocktail dot org Thanks so much for joining us for our T.V. Themes countdown and even though we don't have a drum roll here is the tune voted the most popular T.V. Theme ever by members of the retro cocktail our Facebook group Morton Stevens wrote it for show that came along in 1968 about an elite police task force based in Hawaii and here's a fact oid did you know that it's illegal in British Columbia to play this tune at a cannabis dispensary it's true they're afraid it will tip off the presence of their undercover inspectors. So apologies if you're hearing this in British Columbia but here's number one the whole what you find both by Morton Stevens cocktail hour. With. The Earth. With. The boy. With the. With the but the. With you. With thing. With. Public radio at the University of Kansas Lawrence. Alpha day and thank you for listening to 89.3. 5 new go on your source for N.P.R. News and music discovering. Your home for til downtown. This is Kathleen chance tell us now. That's right you're high plenty of chill music for you to sit back and relax to incumbent in this hour the show got a little bit of music from our old friend Atlanta Y.-E. That's de dipping with grease the single I've got you back in 2017 and we bring that back in for you to check out the sounds of artist Ito that's ID Oh who released the album fragments in 2018 and has put out a handful of singles since then a little bit a since leave stylings of artist Hello meteor in the lineup as well and maybe throw in a little bit of that swing from imagined herbal flows to all that and more coming your way in this hour of Cafe children's. Lives.