help me identify this corny old TV theme song

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The lyrics to the chorus go:

standing taaaaaaaaaaaall
on the wings of [something something]
rise and faaaaaaaaaaaall
[something something something]

They played it during the closing credits on the new Simpsons episode yesterday.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I know it's not from Growing Pains (whose theme song I am VERY familiar with), but that's the only thing that pops to mind when I heard it.

I'm going to cover this song in my band OH NOES.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Small Wonder or something? Probably late 80s.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

PERFECT STRANGERS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to pretend I knew that, but I just Gooooogled it. But yes, now it's coming back to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

very nice balki.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wondering about this, too. I figured that it had been for an action show like "The Fall Guy" or something.

Mr. Whipple's daughter was hot.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha SHIT YEAH THANK YOU

AND NOW WE DO THE DANCE OF JOY

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Here they are, in all their glory, the lyrics to "Nothing's Going To Stop Me Now", aka the theme song from PERFECT STRANGERS, by Jesse Frederocl amd Bennett Salvay:

Sometimes the world looks perfect,
Nothing to rearrange.
Sometimes you get a feeling
Like you need some kind of change.
No matter what the odds are this time,
Nothing's going to stand in my way.
This flame in my heart,
And a long lost friend
Gives every dark street a light at the end.

Standing tall, on the wings of my dream.
Rise and fall, on the wings of my dream.

The rain and thunder
The wind and haze
I'm bound for better days.
It's my life and my dream,
Nothing's going to stop me now.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

*harmonica*

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.aol.com/duchesssem/Balki.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

that sequence always reminded me of the video for "the girl is mine"

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, I was certain that had to be a Simpsons-written parody. How fucking astounding.

I think I saw the first episode of Perfect Strangers, and never again.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean "Say Say Say", Mark.

WERE YOU AWARE?
Mark Linn-Baker portrayed Mark Slackmeyer in the Broadway production of "Doonesbury"?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 November 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

right!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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