![]() It was the sitcoms that got the big splashy vocals - with one huge exception: I think most of them were written by Mike Post: The Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues come to mind. Dramas had their own theme songs, instrumentals, that also became hits. ![]() the great (and distinctly cooler) Donny Hathaway and the theme from Maude: I mean, I knew he was slightly Sly-obsessed, growing up, but what song could he mean? Like this one, which may have started the trend:ĭuly impressed that I could sing most of these accurately, my son wondered if the theme from “Diff’rent Strokes” had been done by Sly and the Family Stone. He knew the theme from The Jeffersons, of course and the one from the The Greatest American Hero, but he was unaware of so many others. My son was a little surprised to hear that the 1970’s was so full of great ones that they often ended becoming stand-alone hit records. ![]() That all led, quite naturally, to a discussion on the current dearth of catchy commercial jingles and sitcom theme songs. ![]()
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