shamelessly stealing Sammy Reed's t.v. music idea -- which is the better t.v. theme song? this has been a bone of contention in my circles for years now.

Rockford Files, no question. Cool theme song and show :)

I love that Rockford Files theme.  Composer Mike Post always does great themes :)

Sanford & Son! Sorry.

i love me some rockford files, particularly that main figure with that low-tech synth, but that's definitely not to take anything away from the breakdown in S&S with the walking bass and the harmonica trilling stuff. i think you'd have a perfect song if you found a way to fuse em together somehow.

Apples and Oranges

Apples and Oranges


i'll go with apples!

As much as I like "Sanford & Son", I do have to sadly admit that the Rockford theme does have more to it.

(By the way, I already put my vote in the day the poll started, but I waited until now to write this comment.)

I picked Sanford and Son b/c it was done by Quincy Jones (Mike Post doesn't come close to that!) and I still know it. I don't recall Rockford Files at the moment.

Apples and Oranges


True. But I'd give the edge to Jim Rockford. A very influential television show.

Watch it suckah!

I call it for Quincy Jones: The Streetbeater, better known as the theme from Sanford and Son.

oo! s&s, coming up from behind. it's on now!

Sanford & Son  8)

Sanford and Son. There's no question about it.

Sanford and Son

Sanford and Son

The Rockford Files

sanford and son

:)

I never watched 1 epsiode of the Rockford Files.... :( :-\\ :\'(

But...You big Dummy....Sanford and Son is the coolest.  ;)

i have the actual 45 record of the rockford files from the day that i bought it..197???......i forget, so you know my pick

i have the actual 45 record of the rockford files from the day that i bought it..197???......i forget, so you know my pick


i LOVE that song. that portamento sawtooth-wave early 70s synth is the BEEZNEEZ. man. i wish i had the 45. that's sweet!

throw that on tonight and turn it up to 11 and know that somewhere, someone is GREEN WITH ENVY.... :)

my record player only goes up to 5 red lights.. ;D

Sanford and Son.

haha. i got to vote again because i deleted my account.

rockford files mofo. i've been listening to it over and over again for like, an hour, because i'm a lunatic.

LOVE this song. tell you the truth, at this point, i can't even remember if the show was any good or not.

it's an impossible decision

The Rockford Files theme was a Top 10 hit in 1975

I liked both theme songs but I went for Sanford & Son.

The Rockford Files, I never really watched sanford.

I voted for Sanford and Son...However, I love them both. Have both themes on a 1970's TV theme compilation on vinyl and I bought it for both those songs...I also got The Happy Days theme, Laverne and Shirley theme, MASH theme (with lyrics though), and a few others as well on the same album...HAVE to get it put into CD!!!




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Just a side note I like Chico and the Man's  theme better. Hose Feliciano did a great job with that one. But for the record,  voted for The Rockford Files. Also Baretta's theme Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow by Sammy Davis Jr.  Liked the show too. But mostly for the Cockatoo Fred.  ;D
Too bad Blake turned out to be such a weirdo.

don't forget hawaii five-0!

Hawaii Five-O aired from September 1968 to April 1980.  I was trying to stick to 70's theme songs.. There were quite a few shows that stated in the late 60's that ran into the 70's.Even one from the 50's  Gunsmoke.  The television version ran from 1955 to 1975 and is the second longest running prime time fictional television program.  Now if 60's theme count, where is Gilligan's theme. ;D ;D

Hawaii Five-O aired from September 1968 to April 1980.  I was trying to stick to 70's theme songs.. There were quite a few shows that stated in the late 60's that ran into the 70's.Even one from the 50's  Gunsmoke.  The television version ran from 1955 to 1975 and is the second longest running prime time fictional television program.  Now if 60's theme count, where is Gilligan's theme. ;D ;D
heck, i just wanted to know whether people thought rockford files or sanford and son was better. for my taste those are far and away the two most killer theme songs of the 70s (and the 70s had some killer theme songs!) but all at once i got a mood to evoke hawaii five-0, which was also a good one. but this thread is just about those two, S&S and RF.

i didn't know hawaii five-0 started in the late 60s. damn, that's a long run, almost twelve years. :o i'm surprised they haven't ruined it by making it into a CGI-saturated movie yet.


or wait.... maybe they did and i just didn't notice.

Love the Rockford Files theme song and the show. Wonder if it's on in my area anymore? I'll have to check that out.

DROFKCOR!

my version of the rockford files. tell your friends!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=659180

love 70s tv? i found good links and put them on my blogspot.  from mary hartman to cell block H to Hawaii 5-0.
ugh. i dig it
i could watch all day.
one thing technology won't do for me and put me in the era in which i belong.

love 70s tv? i found good links and put them on my blogspot.  from mary hartman to cell block H to Hawaii 5-0.
ugh. i dig it
i could watch all day.
one thing technology won't do for me and put me in the era in which i belong.
i;ve been thinking a while about good theme songs to suggest the band do as a medley. rockford would definitely be up there, along with sanford and son, barney and son, oops -- lol, i mean barney miller, hawaii five-0, back in the day they seriously knew how to twist a t.v. theme song around like a wet towel and squeeeeeeeeeeeze all the available groove out of it.

this was one of my first threads ever on this board.

The Rockford Files