Stereo Theme of "Eye Guess" "Sugar Lips" by Al Hirt

[professortheremin]

Proof positive, that Cullen was one of the brightest, most fast-thinking hosts in the history of game shows. How I miss him. (sigh) How I miss what game shows used to be.

[Noveltooner]

A Roman Catholic diocese recently licensed "Eye Guess" as a faith-based version than ran one some prayer channels. I don't remember that title they gave the program, but they used the original format of the first two seasons. It was very interesting to find out that the pope prior to John Paul II was "Bing Crosby." Nine monitors a la "Jeopardy!"-style were used and the overall set had an updated look-and-feel of the original "Eye Guess." Sony currently holds the rights to the format.

[professortheremin]

So great to hear this theme song in its entirety. This was one of my all time fave game shows. Remember when Bill would have some wind-up toy on his desk on that mid-show bumper?

[Noveltooner]

@professortheremin Bill started doing that during 1963 on "The Price is Right" during the home viewer showcase sweepstakes bumper as well at audience ticket bumpers. During the 1964 season on ABC he almost put away Johnny Gilbert with an absurd wind-up clown toy that "burped" a baby clown on his shoulder. Poor Johnny did all he could to get the ABC ticket address out, especially since tha audience couldn't stop laughing.

[professortheremin]

@Noveltooner A wonderful story; as good as the Allan Sherman story of when "The Price is Right" brought out a live elephant, on which to bid. Once that elephant started crapping on stage, nobody wasn't laughing (The cameraman couldn't find anybody on which to focus, so he kept a tight closeup on the elephant's face; the only earnest face in the house. (source: The Rape of the A*P*E)

[Noveltooner]

@professortheremin I saw that show when it was live on NBC. They all laughed when Bill Cullen, without missing a beat, quipped, "And tomorrow, we'll have the Democrats' response!" All the doors of the theatre were opened, Don Pardo went to the booth to fill airtime with every NBC promo he could think of, Cullen did a few live commercials from the booth, and the stage was cleaned and disinfected with the theatre being fumigated with gallons of AirWick (which happened to be a sponsor).

[Noveltooner]

@professortheremin All 4 players were invited back for the next show (and, thankfully, no donkey was brought on to give "the Democrats' response.").

[MagnumReisenfeld786]

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[143AC]

This was the show's first theme song..later in the run..the theme tune was replaced by another song.

[Noveltooner]

@143AC That's right. During the second year, Bob Cobert introduced a fun new theme with a female "la-la' chorus as well a bumper and prize cue that was later used on Bill Cullen's "Three on a Match" (which also used Cobert's second theme from Larry Blyden's "Personality). In addition, Cobert also added a countdown tone for the revealing of the answers (the "tick:" was dropped) that was a predecessor to his later "countdown" for "The $10,000 Pyramid" and other game shows.

[v8foad]

Thanks for posting this! I was only 3 or 4 yrs old, but remember this show. I wonder who had the idea to use this tune as the theme? Sure would be interesting to know.

[KMBCGeno]

I remember this game well. Cullen was great on it. With the right host, I think an update is in order!

[WhatsAYak]

Would be nice...they actually did try to revive it in 1989 as "Eye-Q", w/Henry Polic II as host, but it didn't sell.

[garrisonskunk]

That eye guess face manages to be cute and creepy at the same time. :)