Stereo theme of To Tell The Truth 1961-1968

[sexymama1966]

this sounds like going shopping at the mall music and i love it

[altfactor]

Even if TTTT hadn't had the gap of almost one year (1968-69) when it was off the air, I suspect this theme would have been replaced around 1969 anyway.

[someguy23475]

@altfactor It was replaced sometime in 1968. I have a copy of the final CBS daytime show, and the theme is different.

[mooncrab]

@someguy23475 i remember that as a little kid when will have on here?

[MrWilliamtom]

Very heavy on the bass fiddle in the background.

[JeopardyandWheelFan]

This is like a remix of the original theme from 1956-1961 which was called "Peter Pan".

[Glinkaism1]

I recall this as THEE theme for TTTT when I worked in TV production. If you like this, go to Bryan's Lounge and hear another favorite of mine, "Shopping Spree."

[shyphyre]

I do not remember this theme. but the music does sound very 60's. I remember the later opening theme used in the ealy 70's

[143AC]

Man! This tune brings back the memories of the Original CBS TV Network version of"To Tell The Truth"..and I like this theme better than the later ones for the syndicated versions of the show.

[someguy23475]

Do you have a copy of the final original TTTT theme, from 1967-68? I know Score Productions did it.

[LGBJoey]

Thank you!! This was my very earliest music - I had the xylo/picc/pizzicato first few bars of this song in my head for 40 years, but couldn't remember the rest then when GSN did B&W Overnight a while back I heard it again all the way through - and I was so happy!

[bongomanfromdalou]

This sounds like a busy Manhattan street scene from a Doris Day-James Garner movie circa 1961, but more than anything else, it is the DEFINITIVE "To Tell the Truth" theme song!

[Glinkaism1]

@bongomanfromdalou YES! This is the one I recall as THEE To Tell the Truth theme. The previous one is by the Dolf Vander Linden Orchestra [spelling]. Don't know whose version this is. But it is based on the original. The has some punch to it.

[191965]

This theme was composed by Bob Cobert, who wrote the music to "Dark Shadows", as well as "The Price Is Right" (original version); that theme was called "The Sixth Finger Tune", later used on "Say When" and Snap Judgment", also "Password"(1960's version), and many of the Bob Stewart shows like "Pyramid".

[gymnastix]

Alright, I'm confused here. You're not saying this theme heard on this video's page 9the 1961-68 "To Tell The Truth" theme) was ever used on 'Password," are you?

Or are you saying another tune called "The Sixth Finger Tune" was a theme song used for "The Price Is Right," "Say When," "Snap Judgment," as well as on "Password?"

[gymnastix]

Because, from what I've read, "Password" first used a theme called "Holiday Jaunt" by Kurt Rehmfeld (a brisk, little tune with a flute or piccolo in the arrangement), then just a theme called "Password," also listed as composed by Bob Cobert.

[gymnastix]

Excuse me, I made a typo, the song "Holiday Jaunt" composed by Kurt Rehfeld, not "Rehmfeld."

[gymnastix]

Also, the "Sixth Finger Tune" you cite was written by Charles Strouse (not Cobert), who, with partner Lee Adams, also wrote the "All In The Family" main theme, as well the music for the Tony-winning musical "Applause," which starred Lauren Bacalll.

That tune was originally written for a play called "Sixth Finger In A Five-Fingered Glove."

[gymnastix]

I was first acquainted with the name "Bob Cobert" when I acquired the original TV soundtrack for "Dark Shadows," when I was a kid. Even though the hit single "Shadows Of The Night (Quentin's Theme)" b/w "#1 At The Blue Whale" was performed by The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde, the songs were written by Cobert.

But I never realized then I already knew some of Cobert's other music from game shows I watched years before "Dark Shadows."

[gymnastix]

Aside from this "6th Finger" discrepancy, there's no doubt Cobert wrote music for the most familiar "Password" theme, the original "Pyramid" shows, etc.

But my favorite game show theme music is still the one of the original "Match Game" (NBC-TV) called "Swingin' Safari," by Bert Kaempfert, used 1962-67, even though that original run of the show ran until '69.

It's too bad it wasn't used again for the '70s revival of the show on CBS, which was almost like attending a "swingin' cocktail party!"

[Noveltooner]

Correction here. Charles Strouse wrote the first TPIR theme, " The Six Finger Tune." Starting in 1962, TPIR adopted its second theme, "Window Shopping" by Bob Cobert. The second TPIR theme was also used on "Say When!" (a guitar arrangement), as background for ticket plugs on many New York-based Goodson-Todman shows, the first "Snap Judgement" theme, and Bob Stewart's "You're Putting Me On."