What are the better TV soundtracks of the 70's?

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Practically the best part of The Mod Squad every week was the opening credits.

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

This tune still does it for me. Awesome urban vibe to it.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/welcomebackkotter.wav

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

Clearly, the 'Taxi' theme song was the greatest TV track of the '70s. Like 'Dancing in the Moonlight' without lyrics.

― honest alamo, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Angie!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

The Rockford Files

Hawaii Five-O

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I still maintain that the theme from Taxi is at least 40% of why people found Moon Safari so comforting and familiar.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Bod! Soon to be released on Trunk records, it seems.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

The Streets of San Francisco them has some wicked wah wah going, probably the best this side of SWAT or The Rookies.

That is the problem with Law & Order, not enough wah wah.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I think that Angie theme was one of the longest theme songs. I'm quite into the craft of these entire songs that take place in a short span of time. The Angie theme has a whole involved bridge.

The Laverne and Shirley theme is really good. An intro consisting of unique musical materials (heard only once), then two quick verses, a bridge, and then a third verse (new words yet again) where the refrain line builds into a closing section. Nice.

I don't remember the Kojak theme (I'm assuming it was instrumental?), but there's a whole musicology book on it by a guy named Philip Tagg. A whole book about a piece of music that's something like fifty seconds long.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Other good ones of a similar nature to the Laverne and Shirley one that come to mind: Diff'rent Strokes and The Love Boat.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Why y'all sleeping on Sanford & Son? (Quincy Jones, btw). I also really liked The Courtship of Eddie's Father (by Harry Nilson).

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

The Jeffersons - Movin' On Up. Gospel all the way. Good show too.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

"Suicide is Painless"

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

The Rockford Files

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Pretty good list so far. I would add

"Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow (Barretta's Theme)"

and

"And Then There's Maude", with its soulful recounting of the exploits of various heroines of feminism (a distant cousin of the Great Inventors sequence in "The Love You Save"?)

And what about "Love Is All Around," too obvious?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Also include

Barney Miller
The Odd Couple

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

The last line of the Maude theme song is so ruling:

"RIGHT ON, MAUDE!"

― p.j. (Henry), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

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