Alan Thicke (the dad from Growing Pains) was on Don't Forget The Lyrics and Mark McGrath said Thicke was a well known songwriter. Never knew that, interesting... going through his work now.
@disneydanny2 lol here I am back at the Wheel of Fortune theme again 5 months later. You know, prior to seeing Alan Thicke on DFTL I wasn't aware WOF was around in the 70s. I thought it was born in the 80s along with Jeopardy. It couldn't have become very popular until the 80s.
Whie "BIg Wheels" was a fantastic theme for Wheel of Fortune, IMO it started to sound a little dated in its original format by 1983. Maybe Merv could've re-mixed it if he never penned his own theme.
I was at a Flyers game last Thursday when they played this song while introducing a Flyers fan to play a shuffle fangame. I immediantly recognized the song!
this show wanted me to move to southern cailfornia. it was so cool, and all the contestants were from so. ca.. it turns out that later in life, one of my dearset friends was on the early years of the whell of fortune.
ALAN THICKE MADE THIS THEME??!! Well, DAYUM! I didn't know that at all! I happen to think this was one of the 10 best game show themes ever! I don't know why they dumped it in 1983!
In the fall of 1983, Wheel was now airing five days and nights a week, which gave its producer, Merv Griffin, the opportunity to use his own theme song, "Changing Keys."
I echo the sentiments of those who say that this theme was the best of them all. I wish WoF would go back to this theme. Why did they ever change the theme? Was there a royalties problem in 1989 between Griffin and Thicke?
I think royalties had a rle in it; it was cheaper for Griffin to produce his own music than pay Thicke to do it for him in 1983. With the syndicated sow running at the same time as daytime by that point, it made better financial sense.
Look at these extravagent prizes! Fabulous and exciting merchandise just waiting to be won today on Wheeeeeel of Fortune! Elegent flatware! A holiday in Acapulco! A kayak! Total retail value, over $40,000! And now, here's your host, Chuck Woolery!
What if they used the theme in Australia? (from an episode in 1990)
John Deeks: Here it is the fantastic Ford Festiva Trio and a host of fabolous prizes just waiting to be won on the Greatest Wheel Around, Wheel of Fortune!, A Refrigerator!, A holiday in Disneyland!, A Set of Flatware!, Total retail value, over $41,000!, And now, here's our star wheeler, John Burgess!
yea I'm sure Chuck Woolery wakes up in cold sweats to this day regretting messing with Merv...like the guy that sold all his Microsoft stock when it was worth 3 bucks
i think if chuck was still host of wof...it still be on idk....butif he didnt have that fallout with merv about his pay...maybe he wouldnt of became as famous or done as many shows as he has now..
1975, i remember this show / go shopping for prizes and asks if there is money left he says ...do you want this on account or gift certificate. the $500.00 was a top dollar amount back then
In the first round. The actual top dollar amount back then was $1,500. $1,500, wow, how times have changed. Now contestants can win $100,000 or even $1,000,000 on the show.
Right on, @ least Sajak has more class like some of the other Game Show Legends like Wink Martidale, Richard Dawson and Meredith Vieira unlike Bob Barker.
I mean you don't ever hear Sajak saying that he wants to be the Executive Producer of Wheel of Fortune.
Sajak has class and Chuck, sure he may be a nice fellow, but he got more popular by doing Scrabble and Love Connection as well as Greed and The Dating Game.
They both have their merits...the reason is obvious. Susan is my sentimental fave turner but the pace of the shows changed dramatically, the glamour factor was accelerated and Vanna was younger. Sorry about that am I as I adored Susan (sigh). When you take a network morning game show and decided to shoot for the hourlong TPIR's legend PLUS you now have talkshows pushing out soaps some and killing cartoons and kids shows...he redefined the eighties doing so.
the 70's. overpriced designer goods form l.a. love it! oh, i'll take the rest on a gift certificate.
justjack78 5 months ago
@justjack78 For $150, I'll take the ceramic dalmatian. Haha! priceless.
bradgandy02 1 month ago
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It would be GREAT to have this as a ringtone on my Iphone!
stingpower 7 months ago
DATED theme.
derricksautism 9 months ago
Alan Thicke (the dad from Growing Pains) was on Don't Forget The Lyrics and Mark McGrath said Thicke was a well known songwriter. Never knew that, interesting... going through his work now.
ShelterDogs 9 months ago
@ShelterDogs yeah he wrote the theme songs for Diff'rent Strokes and "The Facts Of Life"
disneydanny2 3 months ago
@disneydanny2 lol here I am back at the Wheel of Fortune theme again 5 months later. You know, prior to seeing Alan Thicke on DFTL I wasn't aware WOF was around in the 70s. I thought it was born in the 80s along with Jeopardy. It couldn't have become very popular until the 80s.
ShelterDogs 3 months ago
Best theme of all Game shows all time
NebulaM78 9 months ago
Whie "BIg Wheels" was a fantastic theme for Wheel of Fortune, IMO it started to sound a little dated in its original format by 1983. Maybe Merv could've re-mixed it if he never penned his own theme.
RingtailStudios 10 months ago
Alan Thicke must have been a very young gentleman at the time he created the original WoF theme because he was around 28 years old then.
MrMichaelChua 11 months ago
1 person landed on a Bankrupt.
RedRanger2001 11 months ago
Thanks, Jason Seaver.
HatsForEveryone 1 year ago
I was at a Flyers game last Thursday when they played this song while introducing a Flyers fan to play a shuffle fangame. I immediantly recognized the song!
GSNSmashFan3 1 year ago
This theme kicks major ass for sure, but I still got to give it to the '97 Changing Keys.
SparkMaster2117 1 year ago
Another fine example of the original being the best.
msgreeneyez26 1 year ago
It's like the Blues Brothers!!!
landongendur 1 year ago
this show wanted me to move to southern cailfornia. it was so cool, and all the contestants were from so. ca.. it turns out that later in life, one of my dearset friends was on the early years of the whell of fortune.
justjack78 1 year ago
ALAN THICKE MADE THIS THEME??!! Well, DAYUM! I didn't know that at all! I happen to think this was one of the 10 best game show themes ever! I don't know why they dumped it in 1983!
CookyMonzta 1 year ago 2
@CookyMonzta Alan Thicke made several theme songs, including the "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Facts of Life" theme.
msgreeneyez26 1 year ago
@CookyMonzta
In the fall of 1983, Wheel was now airing five days and nights a week, which gave its producer, Merv Griffin, the opportunity to use his own theme song, "Changing Keys."
ClassicTVMan81 1 year ago
one of my favorite wheel themes...
giveorkeep72 2 years ago 2
Whoa, take me back.....that brings back memories of Chuck Woolery and his neatly feathered hair-do.
brownies4you 2 years ago 3
Cool comment. Let's take a look at our Wheel of Fortune, for old time's sake. :-)
johnissoevil 2 years ago
When the daytime version start using the next theme, the day the nighttime show debuted, September 19, 1983 or a little after?
nextbarker 2 years ago
The daytime version switched to Changing Keys on 8/15/83, 5 weeks before the nighttime show's debut.
WhatsAYak 2 years ago
this theme is way better then todays theme.
lklk90 2 years ago 6
I echo the sentiments of those who say that this theme was the best of them all. I wish WoF would go back to this theme. Why did they ever change the theme? Was there a royalties problem in 1989 between Griffin and Thicke?
jefam3 2 years ago
I think royalties had a rle in it; it was cheaper for Griffin to produce his own music than pay Thicke to do it for him in 1983. With the syndicated sow running at the same time as daytime by that point, it made better financial sense.
DownsA530 2 years ago 4
Look at these extravagent prizes! Fabulous and exciting merchandise just waiting to be won today on Wheeeeeel of Fortune! Elegent flatware! A holiday in Acapulco! A kayak! Total retail value, over $40,000! And now, here's your host, Chuck Woolery!
bluebear1985 3 years ago 4
What if they used the theme in Australia? (from an episode in 1990)
John Deeks: Here it is the fantastic Ford Festiva Trio and a host of fabolous prizes just waiting to be won on the Greatest Wheel Around, Wheel of Fortune!, A Refrigerator!, A holiday in Disneyland!, A Set of Flatware!, Total retail value, over $41,000!, And now, here's our star wheeler, John Burgess!
oaklandfan2k8 3 years ago 4
this is the theme that started out a very successful game show:)
bhs009 3 years ago 5
This is the best Wheel of Fortune theme!!!
WheelofFortuneFan91 3 years ago 21
@WheelofFortuneFan91
What about '89-1992?
POTATOESLOL 1 year ago
@WheelofFortuneFan91 I wholeheartedly agree! THIS is the Wheel of Fortune Theme I grew up with in the 70s.
wannawatchu66 1 year ago
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yea I'm sure Chuck Woolery wakes up in cold sweats to this day regretting messing with Merv...like the guy that sold all his Microsoft stock when it was worth 3 bucks
jobim810 3 years ago
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OMG...this theme blows. Changing Keys beats the living s--t out of this!
jobim810 3 years ago
This song is superior to Changing Keys, I think!
LeothePatrioticLion 3 years ago 15
i think if chuck was still host of wof...it still be on idk....butif he didnt have that fallout with merv about his pay...maybe he wouldnt of became as famous or done as many shows as he has now..
luckyc120 3 years ago 2
1975, i remember this show / go shopping for prizes and asks if there is money left he says ...do you want this on account or gift certificate. the $500.00 was a top dollar amount back then
gshow1970 3 years ago
In the first round. The actual top dollar amount back then was $1,500. $1,500, wow, how times have changed. Now contestants can win $100,000 or even $1,000,000 on the show.
SilentBob20 3 years ago 6
Never heard of this theme song before.
ShaDeed329 3 years ago
It's the one they use now...
NJNoob 3 years ago
Ah my fav WOF theme.
AdamStabelli666 3 years ago 4
This is a very good version. Stoner music as well.
acidtones1 3 years ago
shut up bigroy chuck and pat are both better!
mapblog 3 years ago 3
Better than that drunk that hosted the second pilot episode back in 1974.
IllinoisHighwayMan 3 years ago
Chuck Woolery > Pat Sajak
terjer01 3 years ago 3
Nieeece. Now I see how Alan's son Robin gets his taste for music, evident in his song "Lost Without You". Must run in the family.
sugarbear522 3 years ago
WoF should have a "Retro Week", old theme, old host, old letter turning, old rules.
Keep current values on the wheel and have Chuck and Susan and maybe even getting Alex Trebek from Jeopardy! to play for charity.
I don't know. Nostalgia is great
rickhh1 3 years ago 7
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Chuck over Pat;Pat SUCKS!!
bigroy38 3 years ago
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AMEN!!!!
terjer01 3 years ago
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Pat's a fag!
bigroy38 3 years ago
Don't be dissing Pat Sajak!
BenJabituya 3 years ago 7
Right on, @ least Sajak has more class like some of the other Game Show Legends like Wink Martidale, Richard Dawson and Meredith Vieira unlike Bob Barker.
I mean you don't ever hear Sajak saying that he wants to be the Executive Producer of Wheel of Fortune.
Sajak has class and Chuck, sure he may be a nice fellow, but he got more popular by doing Scrabble and Love Connection as well as Greed and The Dating Game.
tnawcwvictoria 3 years ago 5
funny but rude
luckyc120 3 years ago
This is a very catchy theme but, my favorite themes are from 1989-1992 and from 1992-1994.
a4ur8 3 years ago
Better than WHEEL...OF...FORTUNE! That is so lame.
WorldChallenge 3 years ago
The theme is "Big Wheels" by Alan Thicke. I prefer this theme more...lots of energy.
artytoons 3 years ago 6
This song is vastly superior to "Changing Keys." They should start using that theme again.
LeothePatrioticLion 3 years ago 6
AWESOME!!!
blueberryjames77 4 years ago 3
Wow, this is catchy!
simpsonsfan2007 4 years ago 2
Yes, this sounds much better.
okiesteveus81 4 years ago 3
Thanks for posting this. I'm not sure why I have listened to it so much lately. It just seems addicting. I certainly remember it.
sageofsuccess 4 years ago
i see that the photo is from the last episode with chuck woolery...anyone got that episode?
mannysdaman 4 years ago
great, but why are the pictures so nice with chuck and pat and vanna all faded? shame chuck
did not do it longer,only thing merv did that
seems to have come out as personal attack.
olbrych82 4 years ago
i was looking all over the web for this and i found it here thanks 5/5
moneyman24641 4 years ago
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Do you mean 5x5? It sounds like someone has been listening to Faith too much.
sageofsuccess 4 years ago
Alan Thicke...Robin Thicke's father, eh?
I could tell by the groove of the song. Nice.
DemoSocialist 4 years ago
I still think it was a shame they changed the theme back in '83. I totally get why Merv did it, but this theme is WAY better than the replacement.
freeek04 4 years ago 2
They both have their merits...the reason is obvious. Susan is my sentimental fave turner but the pace of the shows changed dramatically, the glamour factor was accelerated and Vanna was younger. Sorry about that am I as I adored Susan (sigh). When you take a network morning game show and decided to shoot for the hourlong TPIR's legend PLUS you now have talkshows pushing out soaps some and killing cartoons and kids shows...he redefined the eighties doing so.
steadfastcoward 4 years ago