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9,344Today, it’s the best of the rest. Not too long ago, we began counting down the top television theme songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. And you guys loved it. However, I was lambasted for a few oversights. I mean, really lambasted! So for this episode, we’re going to right the wrongs. That’s right, I’ve got 8 more iconic television themes that deserve some serious love. Including the Laverne & Shirley that opens with “hopscotch chant”. It's a classic TV song that came from a children’s Jump Rope song, and no one knows what the hell it means! There was also Joey Scarbury's The Greatest American Hero (Believe it or Not), a one-hit wonder that has outshined its show a hundred times over. Becoming bigger than the show itself. In fact, it was more requested than Journey or AC/DC! And finally, there’s the theme that they changed every Single season of its show’s 8-year run. It was the biggest show on TV, and now almost no one can bear to watch it because one person ruined it for the rest of us. Plus, the Charlie's Angels Theme, a song that was about female empowerment, but feminists hated it, but one of the show's actresses sold 12 million posters! We’ve got these stories and more coming up, NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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Alright, today, we’re counting down 8 more of the greatest TV theme songs of all time. Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll be hearing and seeing: this time around we’re sticking strictly to the 70s and 80s… because these are the two decades that I got the most feedback about when we did this before. And you guys were right. These are some good ones for sure. This is the Best of the Rest TV theme song countdown. Let’s get started.
Kicking things off at #8, we’ve got the Airwolf theme song — a killer Cold War fantasy with rotor blades and synths. The show followed Jan-Michael Vincent as Stringfellow Hawke, a moody Vietnam vet flying a top-secret, supersonic attack helicopter… for a covert branch of the US government. When the show debuted on CBS in January 1984, Airwolf was all high-octane missions and packed enough firepower to shake living rooms across the country. Even though it had a bit of competition. Anyone remember Blue Thunder? Just before Airwolf’s debut, ABC launched a rival helicopter show spun off from the 1983 Roy Scheider film Blue Thunder. However, the show crashed and burned after just 11 episodes. Airwolf, on the other hand, lifted off — thanks to better writing, a much cooler chopper, and one of the most pulse-pounding theme songs of the decade. It would last for four seasons, calling it quits in 1987.
The original score for the theme song leaned toward traditional orchestral fare, but creator Donald Bellisario wanted something modern and fierce. Enter Sylvester Levay — a European composer with pop sensibility and a background in electronic music. Levay tossed out the strings and brought in a battalion of synths and pounding drums. The result was… unforgettable. By Season 2, Airwolf had one of the most instantly recognizable intros on television. And then there was the extended cut, this was so cool. Levay added more sections: long sequenced arpeggios, variations on the main riff, and blistering electric guitar licks layered over the synths. But here’s the thing. For more than a decade, fans couldn’t actually own or buy the song. Not unless they had recorded it onto a VHS tape.
No official soundtrack was released during the show’s original run. It was a real missed opportunity. However, all that changed in the 90s when a Northern Irish superfan named Mark Cairns spent