Wednesday, October 7, 2015

What About Bonanza!?!

Do you find TV theme songs memorable? They don't really do memorable ones as much these days, but Billboard did a list of TV theme songs that actually climbed up the charts. Here are 18 of them, along with their peak position on the Hot 100:
1. "I'll Be There for You" from "Friends", which stayed at #1 for eight weeks
2. "How Do You Talk To An Angel" from a show called "The Heights". The song was #1 for two weeks.
3. The theme from "S.W.A.T.", which was #1 for one week.
4. "Welcome Back, Kotter", which was #1 for one week.
5. "Miami Vice", which was #1 for one week.
6. "Greatest American Hero", #2
7. The original "Hawaii Five-O", #4
8. "Happy Days", #5
9. "Cops", #8
10. "Peter Gunn", #8
11. "Hill Street Blues", #10
12. "Party of Five", #16
13. "Batman", #17
14. "Bonanza", #19
15. "Magnum P.I.", #25
16. "Mission: Impossible", #41
17. "The Wonder Years", #68. The theme song was Joe Cocker's version of "With a Little Help from My Friends", and was on the charts back in 1968, not when the show ran from 1988 to 1993.
18. "iCarly", #100

But some made charts other than the Hot 100. For instance, the themes from "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" made the Country charts.



 "Those Were the Days" from "All in the Family", and the theme from "Cheers" both made the adult contemporary chart, and the"X-Files" theme was apparently a hit in dance clubs.

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