Love American Style TV Show Opening Theme Season One

[TheMikester307]

Watched the show when I was around 11. Just got the DVD, it is a lot better than I remember.

[irish89055]

"Rochesterrrr...." Fun series and somewhat risque for the times...

[pirate78118]

Television seemed so fun back in the day. It just isn't fun anymore.

[aerospike00]

@pirate78118 Indeed, most of it is rather depressing.

[gagarichardson]

i wnt it back on tv come on there has to be a channel on tv that knows the baby boomers like retro tv plz were old not dead and we want old shows! inmlov gilligans island,love american style,hogans heros,ex......

[benjaminvlz]

@gagarichardson @gagarichardson "Love, American Style" currently airs at 6 AM on a network called "MeTV," which airs classic TV shows from the 1950s through the 1980s. The network airs as a digital subchannel of local TV stations that are affiliated with it. You can check MeTV's website to see if it's available in your area. If so, you'll need to have either a digital cable box or an HDTV with a digital tuner to receive the network.

[windstorm1000]

Boy, does this bring back the memories--catchy innocent theme music episode and visuals. Every Friday night. Every out of work actor was in a episode. Fun corny epsisodes. 

[crittertv]

this was on after Gilligans Island but I didnt get it cuz I was like 10, also remember night stalker, project blue book, in search of, flying nun, laugh in, the odd couple, happy daze,...lol...tv was cool back then, really loved 'I dream of Jenie' as kid, Barbara Eden was IT!

[Gmancrap]

Duck man haha

[MrDRUID27]

ABC on Friday night was invincible at this time in TV history. Thank you for posting. Brought back a lot of fond memories.

[GuyinCa]

Yep grew up watching this show and so many other great shows from the late 60's. Anyone else remember Room 222? I love finding great memories like this, nice to know they aren't forgotten.

[justme9962]

@GuyinCa i LOVED room 222

[GuyinCa]

@justme9962 The theme music for the above show and Room 222 always stayed with me, very catchy tunes hard to forget. So many classic shows, I really miss seeing them.

Like sands through the hourglass so are the Days of Our Lives.....

[eddievenegas]

I liked that the pilot for "HAPPY DAYS " was an episode of LOVE AMERICAN STYLE.

[morgan8757]

whats taking so long for season 2 of love american style to get released

[PatrioticPirate]

I'm glad to have FINALLY seen the opening with The Cowsills singing the theme song...

GREAT POST!

[alabamagirl49]

i loved this how, watch the original show and re-runs later on in years. Love and the Happy Days was the best.

[schmidtdeangallery]

Happy Days came out of this show.

[btachi50]

@schmidtdeangallery finally someone else who remembers that too!

[btachi50]

@schmidtdeangallery finally someone else who remembers that too! "Love and The Happy Days"

[najami12]

Gail Fisher was attractive! I have grown more fond of the black lady!

[fannyanne2]

@najami12 she was on mannix and she pass away

[143AC]

Dear 60's Kid,

What I ment to say is that I hope and pray that CBS TV will not try to revive "Mannix".

[143AC]

Dear 60's Kid,  Yes! Ms.Fisher also played"Peggy Fair"on "The Mannix Show"with Mr.Connors.

I looked forward to watching the wonderful detective series on CBS TV..every week. I can only hope and pray that CBS TV will try to revive it.

[the60sKid]

This was the show to watch on Friday nights back in the day

[MsColoradodoc]

Remember this from my childhood too. It always made me feel icky. Maybe too much sexual induendo for a 7 yo girl.

[therealraybaby]

@MsColoradodoc Yeah well, I used 2 always watch this when I was a kid and I always got excited when the theme music played in the beginning cause I always got a happy feeling from the music. I particularly fantasied at the word LOVE when I was in about 2nd grade. I remember watching this program in the winter & summer months. Wow, what a great time period those days were. :-)

[pbanta62]

Oh, I only wish retrorebirth would tone down their ear-splitting bumpers!

[AMDave1023]

@pbanta62 I agree, those bumpers are a bit loud and annoying espcially when you got earphones on.

[ilovemartinmilner]

omg! How much did I love this show! Thanks for posting. This brought back some wonderful memories.

[raybo1018]

Love that 60's music! Thanks for the remix!

[143AC]

Sadly, most of the guest performers on this installment of"Love American Style"..Ms.Fisher,Mr.Anderson and Mr.Wilson have left us..(Crying) what a sad loss to tv and to comedy.

[the60sKid]

@143AC don't forget Gail Fisher played secretary "Peggy Fair" on the television detective series Mannix from 1968 through 1975, a role for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award.

[rustkeeper]

OH yes my Grandparents use to watch this, came on late at night i pretended i was asleep on the floor so i could watch the sexy girls,i was 5 what can i say

[Skulldini]

I remember this show quite well ( though I havn't seen it for a pretty long time ). It was usualy pretty funny,.. and sometime pretty racy for it's time too.

[lpvcrcd]

Was that the Cowsills doing the theme song? This was a very good show - It had mini episodes with dfferent plots within - Like a forerunner to" Love Boat "in a way

[Beautifulmusiclistnr]

@lpvcrcd Yes, that was the Cowsills. Do a search on them with the full version of the song which is longer than the opening theme song that you're familiar with. It's really good.

[cmulwee001]

@Beautifulmusiclistnr

The Cowsills only did the first season theme. Afterwards the theme was redone with the Charles Fox Singer aka The Ron Hicklin Singers, aka The Love Generation. The group who did the theme from season 2 onward were the REAL voices of The Partridge Family, who, ironically, were BASED on The Cowsills!

[bobgee1999]

While I agree with ighforever that the show sucked. I remember it from my childhood, too, but that hardly makes it good; I watch these old intros to give myself a shiver and wince at the lame-ass sitcom mentality of days goneby -- ighforever is clearly a nut. Look, True Believer, you base your worldview on mystical nonsense and atavistic gibber -- which gives you the added joy of judging others. The cowardice required to subjugate this life to an imagined hereafter is truly awe-inspiring.

[brantlyful]

but I don't want to go to heaven!

[ighforever]

this show was not a very good one. It promoted cheating on your wife or husband!

sleeping around was the norm, why not be modest and love your God. God wants the best for you. when you see things like this , think about the effects it has on you and your spouse and your children. It may be a small seed that is planted , but it can take root and grow, and more seeds are planted by other worldly shows. Be immersed in God, Read your Bible, Pray to the Father in the name of Jesus, go to Church.

[sunryse65x]

I loved that show.

[daboteman]

I really enjoy the content of these clips. But!

Please, please, PLEASE! Do something about that rather obnoxious audio on your logo at the beginning and end of these clips. It blows my doors off and has me diving for the volume control to turn it down, then I miss the intro of the theme music. It's really way too loud. I can't play these clips late at night for fear of waking up the household (and the neighborhood).

Thank you for your efforts in this.

[auctionguyinmo]

I remember sneaking up to watch this when my parents thought I was in bed. I would watch it over their shoulder while they sat on the couch. That is where I learned my ninja ways that got me through high school.

[sneezyize]

@auctionguyinmo I did the same thing when I was 6 years old back in 1969 - 1970, although it was my older brother and sister who were in high school and were allowed to stay up late. Use to love to sing this the next day in school or when I was out riding my bike.

[ryoushii]

The last popular anthology series on television, that had no regular cast or continuing storyline.

[parkercadie1]

Probably these days the only way we'd see it on TV is if they decided on "remaking" the show.  God help us if they do that. TV Land would have been perfect for it because they did run LAS at one time-but things changed-apparently ):

[ajbalfour]

Parkercadie1,

God didn't help us because in 1985 they did remake the show as a daytime series, which also didn't receive His help since it basically sucked! I also remember how sterile and awful the introduction looked having been shot on videotape.

Even with all of the CGI being used today, the original intro (uniquely tailored for each episode), with all of the wonderful film-lab work is still great!

[berezin99]

Turn back the clock exactly 40 years from this moment in time and this theme song is playing on ABC. Friday at 9PM, 1970. I beleive after the Odd Couple. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[wasteland70]

I was born in 1970!! Call me corny or silly, but I remember watching re-runs of this one when I was a child, home from school, with the flu or whatever. What a flush of memories this clip brought. Friend, you never get over those sweet days of childhood.

[A10N3L3FT2D13]

@wasteland70 me2 but i dont remember nothing idk if it was a game show or a reg show!! I only remember the song a little

[wasteland70]

I know it was a regular show. I think it may have been kind of like the Love Boat, different guests and different stories. Again, I'm not sure about that.

[ajbalfour]

Berezin99,

LAS originally premiered on Mondays @ 9pm and was moved to the more familiar, Friday @ 10pm slot either later in the 1st season or sometime during the 2nd (don't have my copy of the Prime Time Directory of TV Shows handy right now so I can be more specific).

Parkercadie1,

TVLand had the very maddening habit of rerunning only the same 3 or 4 dozen 1/2 hour segments to the exclusion of the rest, which in 1/2 format, must total approximately 200 or so shows!

[silver418star]

Where can you watch these old 70's shows online? Loved them!

[tsntana]

Well, I tried looking it up. But does anyone know the reason why The Cowsills's version was replaced with The Charles Fox Singers?

I can only assume it was a rights issue involving Charles Fox, The Cowsills, their record labels, and Paramount. Something that has obviously been finally resolved since they're using the original version now.

[bearfedway]

According to an interview with composer Charles Fox, Paramount Television studio executives were not happy with the version performed by The Cowsills and asked Fox to re-record the theme song.

According to the end credits from the first season, The Cowsills were under contract with MGM Records. Although music rights may have been a factor, I think it was just that the execs wanted a different sound. (Creative differences.)

Source: TV Legends/Archive of American Television channel on YouTube

[ajbalfour]

Interesting. I figured it was because by 1970 the Cowsills's were no longer hot (despite the premier that fall of a sitcom loosely based on their lives!

I'd like to see that inverview with Fox. Too bad it (or others like it) wasn't included on either LAS DVD set.

Speaking of which, c'mon people, sign the petition. Let's get some signatures there so that maybe they'll finally release Season 2 and the rest of the series on DVD! ;-)

[illuminatioracle]

i like the exploding old woman's head in the beginning

[classicphile]

As a kid in the 1970s, I watched TONS of syndicated reruns of classic tv shows. But LAS wasnt one of them. The reason? The story lines, dealing with love, and relationships, romantic ones especially, went WAY over my young head. However, that aside, I LOVED the opening theme song. Many is the time that when LAS came on, Id watch the opening theme, then change the channel to my shows that was opposite it. Decades pass, they release LAS episodes on DVD. I finally watch it as an adult & loving it.

[RCmack]

I was interested in The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family as a youngster growing up in the '70's, but I could never get into Love American Style.

Now, Love American Style makes sense to me. It's kind of cool!

[Gerkinstock]

How about The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family? How have they held up?

[tracyterry]

this looks fucking cool. why don't they show this old shit so i can see it? my fucking sister is an old bitch. she remembers it all in reruns. where the fuck are the reruns for me?

[kthao05]

Cable TV used to show all these "great' re-runs, but then they realized they could make even more money by playing commercials or infomercials all the time. So now they get money from you to watch commercials that make them even more money.

[Godzilla1985]

My mother use to hate this show, she wouldn't let anyone in the family watch it. "That's Incredible, Three's Company and Love American Style are the worst TV shows in history"

[ajbalfour]

Charles Fox won an emmy for the score, This show is one of my all time favorites too, but it's not seen much on tv these days, unfortunately.

So far, only Season 1 has been released on DVD. No doubt, along with me, others would like to see more seasons on DVD, so when you get a chance, please enter "Love American Style Petition" into google so you can visit the petition site & add your name. ;-)

[NeluThat70sKid]

@ajbalfour Thank you SOOOO much for the tip, because, quite personally, I'm getting really tired and fed up of all the constant mindless crap that's on TV nowadays (except the new Hawaii Five-0, at least that keeps you on the edge of your seat). Besides, I just got in a Cowsills compilation CD from Amazon, where I can jam to that cool 60's beat from the theme NON-STOP!! (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE....YEE-HAHHH!!!) Other than that, can't wait to give them a piece of my mind, thanks again for the tip. ;)

[Kitsuneranger]

@ajbalfour The way i see it, It seems companies like Viacom/Paramount live to doom shows like these in terms of DVD releases like this. When both sets of Love, American Style's 1st season came out.. NOBODY WAS AIRING THE SHOW!

[PamelaRP]

I absolutely loved this show and the music at the beginning of the show. I was born in 1963 and remember the song and show like it was yesterday. Thanks for the wonderful memories by posting this on YouTube.

[SAMMYMAN7777777]

LOVE AMERICAN STYLE OR STYLE AMERICAN

[unclerico54]

This was sung by the partridge family?

[VistaXXX2008]

For its first season, the theme song was performed by The Cowsills. Starting in the second season, the same theme song was sung by John Bahler, Tom Bahler, and Ron Hicklin, (billed as "The Charles Fox Singers"), and was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as most episodes in syndication.

[drkatel]

Loved the Cowsill's version of the theme song the first season!

[crashkidd34]

I was born in '69 and it's one of the first shows I remember.

[skylershelby]

lol,I thought I halucinated this show.I was born in 74,and remember sorta watching this afterschool.

[buffguy31264]

love that song

[repelghosts]

Bat bitch!

[EdwardRommel]

This show ran on ABC from 1969 to 1974...probably the most catchy theme song next to Hawaii 5-0

[CCI22rmfr]

I remember watching this show in the early seventies, back in jr high school.

[ortleyman]

Wish they would show the reruns.

[happytappyslappy]

There are about over 300 satellite channels on pay tv. Put ur bet one of those channels have those retro shows.

[jonwiley85]

Yes, I Used To Watch Love, American Style With My Mom, For The First Season Theme Song With The Cowsills & The Final 4 Seasons With The Charles Fox Singers.

[regency98us]

The Charles Fox singers were actually the Love Generation who did a lot of music on their own, backed up a lot of popular groups. They did many soundtracks, commercials, well into the 80s and 90s.... and were best known as the backgrounds for The Partridge Family.

[jrzgirl56]

I can't believe I still remember the words to this song. Loved this show way back when. Thanks for posting! :D

[womanlybassplayer]

Gotta love that 60's bassplaying!

[Smiley6669]

I watched this when I was little, I see it's on DVD now.

[paktype]

Groovy. Dig Yvonne Craig - Batgirl herself!

[luvthoseclips]

I deeply looked forward to watching this show every Friday night, but was saddened when I watched the final Friday show which aired in Jan. of 1974. Wish it was still on Friday nights, but even if it was, "it just wouldn't be the same anymore". Many of the people who appeared on that show are now dead.

[ryoushii]

One of the last great anthology shows, often using current talent.

[bkwiley]

Friday nights was Love American Style, I loved this show.

[quiltbee]

love it!i always watched this..thank you...

[vinnyhoags]

RIP Billy Cowsill. Great memories.

[SHRINA17]

Oh I love The Cowsills..I really do. I remember watching reruns of this show and loving it. Godzilla1985 my father felt the same way about Gilligan's Island when I watched that....hated that show with a passion--used to leave the room or just HARUMPH about it!

[jhutch524]

This was a cute anthology series about romance. Why doesn't someone update it?

[jebeja]

Oh my goodness...what memories this brings back, and the cast of actors presented every week. Wow!!!

[Godzilla1985]

My mother HATED this show with a passion, but I liked it. she would go into another room when it came on. She still loathes it to this day.

[streetcarjay]

The Cowsills sang the theme song!!

[ACLTony]

Wow! Rochester, Flip, Batgirl, Jane Wyatt. It was always neat seeing talent like this appearing on this show. Even with Vietnam and Watergate going on, the early 1970s were indeed a wonderful time to be a kid. Thanks for posting this vid :)

[ComedianStevieMack]

Yesterday I was on the set shooting Little Brittain for HBO, (I'm in the Fat Fighters scenes) and the Little Brittain logo reminded me of Love American Style, so I sparked up a conversation and we were all caught up in the nostalgia...good to see it here on youtube.

[LondonGuysVids]

Hopefully the US version of that turns out better than the one they did for Life On Mars, which was recently just 'leaked' online.