@jeffmaylor I don't want to get into 'race' politics, but the "overwhelming Whiteness" you refer to as 'America' isn't exactly something to be proud of. That land was inhabited by people of darker hue long before Europeans migrated there and marginalised the native American Indian. And lets not forget the elephant in the room. That dirty word....Slavery. Saying goodbye to that 'America' is infact, a cause for celebration.
@bolder2009 The Native Americans were involved in vicious wars with each other for thousands of years, as were all hunter-gatherer tribes. The death rate among males from battle was extremely high. Now, they were not worse than other groups on earth in a similar state of development, but they were not any better either. And they also practiced slavery. They also wiped out many large animals groups (the buffalo and bison being some that survived). This was not some "Eden" that was "ruined".
@Jasonlittlex Even so, two wrongs don't make a right. My point is jeffmaylor has a romantic notion of how America used to be, which isn't an America to proud of. Regardless of how he may feel about the other ethnic groups in the so called 'land of the free', the country didn't live up to its promise of liberty. It denied equality to a significant number of its citizens. America doesn't just belong to one 'race' of people. Its America's shame.
Amazing piece of shit. This is the shit that I call music not today is retarded shit they call rap. Can someone pls recommend me more music like this I was born during the 1990s so I'm not to familiar with music like this from the past
This was America at its peak. Note the overwhelming Whiteness of this America compared to now. What you see here - the intelligence, the courage, the healthy culture - is all dead now. Half of all children under the age of 5 are non-White in America and it will get worse rapidly. Social scientists now know that higher ethnic diversity equals a low trust society – more depression and criminality. And IQ and behavior is linked to ethnicity. This was America. Say goodbye to it
@BTX61 It is interesting that you implicitly acknowledge that culture has an underlying biological and genetic basis (your reference to "white male" culture) yet people on the Left totally deny the power of biology in other circumstances. Of course, if there is an eclipse of White Male culture, you can say goodbye to a bright future for your children. You can forget about the visions projected by science fiction of a technologically advanced civilization. It will never happen.
@BTX61 It's also interesting that you are so comfortable with your own hatred and bigotry toward White men. So blinded are you by hate that you fail to understand that even your ability to post on an internet site like this was made possible primarily by White males. Hate is a corrosive force, you are willing to destroy your own future just to see Whites suffer.
@BTX61 Sounds like you are salivating at the prospect of White Genocide - cultural if not literally genetic. You might take some quiet time to examine the hate in your heart.
I love this old series. If you happen to find it on TV nowadays, and watch it again, chances are you'll see quite a few people who, in the ensuing decades, became major stars on TV, and on the big screen.
I love this show. It's hardly on anymore, unfortunately. The last time I saw it, it was no the Hallmark channel. It's funny how, if you watch these old episodes, chances are you'll see quite a few actors who later became big TV stars themselves, in the 60s & 70s.
This was America at its peak. Note the overwhelming Whiteness of this America compared to now. What you see here - the intelligence, the courage, the healthy culture - is all dead now. Half of all children under the age of 5 are non-White in America and it will get worse rapidly. Social scientists now know that higher ethnic diversity equals a low trust society – more depression and criminality. And IQ and behavior is linked to ethnicity. This was America. Say goodbye to it
@jeffmaylor - If you ever saw a "Perry Mason" episode, you'd notice that all those white people you glorify so much were evil, scheming, immoral SOBs who drank like fish, obsessed with money and sex, and plotting how to get them illegally. Most of them were either smug jackasses who thought they could get away with their crimes, or dopes who didn't know their butts from Adam and Eve, and were lucky Perry was to keep them from the gas chamber. Is this what you admire so much?
When I was a kid, I could never figure out what was on the paper that made him smile. Then one day I realized: the paper helped him put together the evidence to not only absolve his client, but also to totally bone Tragg once again!
@berserkley Oops! I meant Burger, not Tragg. Tragg was perfectly capable of boning himself, seeing as he always managed to arrest the WRONG person every week!
As a kid in the 60's this theme song scared the crap outta me. I can't figure out why but it use to give me the creeps especially if I were alone in the living room.
@OldMrMemories I made a similar comment to another version here. There's a version of the theme with a pullack from Mason on the sword of the "blind justice" that gave me nightmares as a kid with that "ghost" chasing me around with her sword and scales.
@OldMrMemories It has a very dark, suspenseful tone. It used to bother me too, because I used to watch the original Twilight Zone, and the way that TV channel aired the programs, this came on right after it! Even though it was in the middle of the day, it got me feeling freaked. LOL!!
@tall32guy - Scared me too, when I was a boy and my folks watched the first-run episodes. When I heard that theme, I'd run like hell to the next room! When I saw the reruns as a college student, I loved every show I saw, and still to this day.
Yes, in one episode, after Perry's client was convicted, Hamilton Burger provided assistance to Perry which ultimately led to having the verdict reversed just as Perry's innocent client was being prepared for the gas chamber.
F. Lee Bailey? Robert Shapiro? Johnnie Cochran?? Nah!! Perry Mason was the man. I bet he did inspire a generation of trial lawyers. Great tv series, thanks for posting.
Funny you should mention that, because the heavy music, combined with the stark b+w photography, made this show terrifying to me when I was a kid. In the 80's my dad would fall asleep to it at lunch time every day in the next room and it made me nervous as hell, ha ha...
@thomas58ish No, except for a near miss in "The Case of the Deadly Verdict", which he won when he managed to catch the real killer. The reason Perry Mason never lost a case on TV was because it was a condition that the late Erle Stanley Gardner (his creator) imposed on the writers before he allowed them the rights to Mason. And in all of the Perry Mason novels Gardner wrote, onle ONE legal technical error was ever made, & he wasn't a lawyer by trade. Thanx
This theme is chiseled in my memory - I would hear it from my bedroom and I knew my mom and dad were watching it together, safe at home. I transport when I hear ths song.
I went to Raymond Burr's Orchid Garden in Fiji. It was awesome. It's a amazing that someone who portrayed such a stern, hard-core criminologist could nuture the beauty of flowers.
Perry Mason kicked arse back then, and during the made for tv movies later on. Raymond Burr was a great actor. If he wanted to he could've have been Perry Mason in real life. He was smart enough and could take in all the needed legal information to become a great attorney.
I know! When I was a kid I would always hear this theme on the television, and I always loved it and got it stuck in my head randomly over the years, but I never knew what it was from! I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be interested in actually watching this show either, but the theme's still fantastic.
My dad met Raymond Burr in an elevator in Nassau the Bahamas back in the late 50s, early 60s, what a surprise, that was his favorite tv show, I have old color 35mm slides of him.
Can anyone help me find the episode The Case of the Spanish Cross? I need to know the exact explanation Perry gave the young man for why he was helping him. The young man was accused of stealing a valuable cross.
Perry Mason is the most famous fictional lawyer of all time -- a bit ironic, considering that the show barely dealt with the practice of law. The stories were really mysteries, whodunits, and Perry acted more like a detective than a lawyer. Nonetheless, it's a classic.
Perry would always get the killer to confess on the stand at the end of the show, and as a kid I would always scream out to the TV, shut up! don't confess! True story, lol.
Trust me on this: The best of all the Perry Mason theme selections here on YouTube is to be found on a bright blue screen w/ the words "Theme from Perry Mason" because it is just the right length (1:15)and incorporates all those familiar elements we've come to love in the theme. Now all we need is that stack of Corpus Juris Secundum books at the end credits instead of an empty blue screen!
Don't know if anyone has ever noticed. But in the James Bond Film "Tommorrow Never Dies". Sheryl Crow took a little of this Perry Mason theme on the piano and added it to the opening title. Listen to the theme to "Tommorrow Never Dies".
When this came on in the 60's it was past my bedtime. I'd always get up to get a drink and my dad would be watching it, and he'd say "get back in bed". We spend our childhood trying to be adults, and now that we are, we long for the childhood years again.
I was never scared of the theme, but I do recall stopping whatever I was doing when I would hear it as a small child. There was something particularly compelling about it that eluded other television programs.
As I grew older, it became one of my favorite themes of all-time and still is.
I first saw this intro around 1970 on WPIX when I was 4 or 5. Though "Perry Mason" had numerous openings, this is the one that always comes to mind first.
I think the emotional impact of the Perry Mason theme comes from its minor key, repeated phrases with variations and its 6/8 or double-waltz time signature. That rhythm conveys both a sense of urgency and a spinning, slightly disorienting sensation. Think of Bernard Herrmann's main title music for "Vertigo," for example.
I have to say that you certainly articulated my feelings about the theme better than I did in my earlier post. :-) I also agree that the theme from "Vertigo" is very similar in its impact upon this listener.
mason of cider of pear is thus freaking fresh. it is man more powerful to have be never on TV. that I wish I could to maintain it, pleasure he, if is this what it required ego. but I am old now, thus I do not know if it would find me attracting particularly. somebody said to me that that the pear cider was a merry man, but me refuse to believe that - he was simply too powerful, in a way raw and male; its eyes are cold steel, his face which of a god, adore it.
no way, dude, this guy is the definition of mental health. i think he's saying that burr is great and powerful, that we should all suck at his cock, that we might draw from it the power of the gods. what could be more sound, more wholesome than that idea?
so you agree with him? i'm not sure how i feel about it. i've never sucked at a man before, but burr is so powerful, i just might have to surrender to the thought, as you've done. i need money. this has nothing to do with any hurricane. please send it to me in grover, utah, c/o andy's diner - they know who i am. god bless.
So THAT is the show behind that score. That music has been haunting me for years, and the last Perry Mason episode I've seen was when I was 6. (I'm 20 now.)
When I think of TV legends, Raymond Burr's name is among many on my personal list, "Perry Mason", a bona fide TV classic, no courtroom drama ever made since comes close to the mystique and essence of Perry Mason..."Ironside" was off the chain, too, I have season one of it on DVD, and loving every minute of it. I miss Raymond Burr to this day, he truly was one of a kind.
I love Raymond Burr and the first time I saw him was in Perry Mason, where I fell in love with his intelligence and the fact that he always got his man and saved a damsel or two. I was sad when he passed. I did a tribute video for him on Youtube - should you have time, check it out. There will never be another Raymond Burr.
Correction, the Perry Mason DVD's are NOT season 1,2,3. It is Season 1, Vol. 1-2. and Season 2, Vol. 1-2. 50th ann. edition will be released in April, 2008.
I noticed that this opening was from the episode "The Case of the Deadly Verdict". That episode was notable in that it was the only case that Perry LOST! He did, however, manage to find the real culprit at the end of the episode.
I could never work out why the prosecutions service kept Hamilton Burger on as chief prosecutor in the Perry Mason series. In 150 episodes he lost every single case. The cops were no better arresting 150 innocent people.
To true. Most of the trials wouldn't have happened as they plead guilty in the courtroom (they were always in the courtroom) when Perry M exposed them.
I just watched "Rear Window" last night which was shot at least two years earlier. Burr played Lars Thornwald, the suspicious man living across from Jimmy Stewart. It's amazing how much younger and trimmer Burr looks here. He must have dropped 25 pounds to play this part.
Raymond Burr was such a gifted actor. Perry Mason is still a great favorite of mine, watching the Season 1 DVDs right now ;) He was wonderful in Rear Window....he is missed.
If you can find a copy of it, see "A Cry in the Night", with Burr as a mentally ill momma's boy who kidnaps and torments Natalie Wood. Made in 1956, also starring Edmond O'Brien.
Gaaah! The closing theme! The wide latin font with razor-wire corners! The stylized drawing of Justice wielding that double-edged sword and the scales! "What happened to her eyes, mom?" The CBS fanfare applying the coup de grace featuring the background with a thousand CBS eyes! No wonder I soiled myself emotionally whenever this came on!
Who would win in a fight: Perry Moore vs Phoenix Wright? A battle of wits.
ktkmtbb11 1 month ago
Pede mais um
LucasNascimento51 4 months ago
He probably lost a bunch of cases but we only saw the ones that got tried on Saturdays.
OrodesIII 5 months ago
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Go fuck a goat !
IDoNotUseFlourToCook 5 months ago
Chris Rock was frighten by that !
Mattpolay 6 months ago
Bom esse programa do Pede mais Um!
MegaPatrickLima 6 months ago
From season 7 one of the last espiodes Ray Collins as Lt Tragg appears as he was very ill.
Blassieboy 6 months ago
From season 7 one of the last espiodes Ray Collins as Lt Tragg appears as he was very ill.
Blassieboy 6 months ago
Which season was this intro from?
bashbizznet 7 months ago
@LowOIL edgar wright, the director of scott pilgrim, tweeted about his death.
kascnef82 7 months ago
RIP Fred Steiner
kascnef82 8 months ago
Without Perry Mason, there would not have been an 'L A Law'--both have theme songs that stick to me like, well, you get the idea.
Juliaflo 8 months ago
I've always loved this theme. This tune has stayed with me for years like an old friend.
bolder2009 9 months ago
@jeffmaylor I don't want to get into 'race' politics, but the "overwhelming Whiteness" you refer to as 'America' isn't exactly something to be proud of. That land was inhabited by people of darker hue long before Europeans migrated there and marginalised the native American Indian. And lets not forget the elephant in the room. That dirty word....Slavery. Saying goodbye to that 'America' is infact, a cause for celebration.
bolder2009 9 months ago
@bolder2009 The Native Americans were involved in vicious wars with each other for thousands of years, as were all hunter-gatherer tribes. The death rate among males from battle was extremely high. Now, they were not worse than other groups on earth in a similar state of development, but they were not any better either. And they also practiced slavery. They also wiped out many large animals groups (the buffalo and bison being some that survived). This was not some "Eden" that was "ruined".
Jasonlittlex 7 months ago
@Jasonlittlex Even so, two wrongs don't make a right. My point is jeffmaylor has a romantic notion of how America used to be, which isn't an America to proud of. Regardless of how he may feel about the other ethnic groups in the so called 'land of the free', the country didn't live up to its promise of liberty. It denied equality to a significant number of its citizens. America doesn't just belong to one 'race' of people. Its America's shame.
bolder2009 7 months ago
Amazing piece of shit. This is the shit that I call music not today is retarded shit they call rap. Can someone pls recommend me more music like this I was born during the 1990s so I'm not to familiar with music like this from the past
Demeterix 10 months ago
@Demeterix Look up the Peter Gunn theme, Mike Hammer, and Hawaii Five O.
ClassicTVful 6 months ago
perry bond 007 at the end lol
merritt2014 10 months ago
I love the music to this series. TV shows today don't bother with great themes anymore. Too bad.
farnumbp 10 months ago
ozzy
bioghostkid 1 year ago
boring..........
1tracymcgrady1 1 year ago
this is just an unbelievable piece of music. indescribably perfect.
MisterBouncyBounce 1 year ago
@MisterBouncyBounce sure
fghjkk1 1 year ago
@MisterBouncyBounce i see you are trolling me around youtube. well look and learn kid, look and learn.
MisterBouncyBounce 1 year ago
This was America at its peak. Note the overwhelming Whiteness of this America compared to now. What you see here - the intelligence, the courage, the healthy culture - is all dead now. Half of all children under the age of 5 are non-White in America and it will get worse rapidly. Social scientists now know that higher ethnic diversity equals a low trust society – more depression and criminality. And IQ and behavior is linked to ethnicity. This was America. Say goodbye to it
jeffmaylor 1 year ago
@jeffmaylor
Obviously it's the culture of white males that's declining. Perry Mason stood for justice for all. Glen Beck would see Perry as a moonbat liberal.
BTX61 1 year ago
@BTX61 It is interesting that you implicitly acknowledge that culture has an underlying biological and genetic basis (your reference to "white male" culture) yet people on the Left totally deny the power of biology in other circumstances. Of course, if there is an eclipse of White Male culture, you can say goodbye to a bright future for your children. You can forget about the visions projected by science fiction of a technologically advanced civilization. It will never happen.
jeffmaylor 1 year ago
@BTX61 It's also interesting that you are so comfortable with your own hatred and bigotry toward White men. So blinded are you by hate that you fail to understand that even your ability to post on an internet site like this was made possible primarily by White males. Hate is a corrosive force, you are willing to destroy your own future just to see Whites suffer.
jeffmaylor 1 year ago
@jeffmaylor
My future's just fine. It's yours I won't mourn.
BTX61 7 months ago
@BTX61 Sounds like you are salivating at the prospect of White Genocide - cultural if not literally genetic. You might take some quiet time to examine the hate in your heart.
Jasonlittlex 7 months ago
You can always buy the box set of 'Mad Men' and relive that America.
bolder2009 9 months ago
Used to love this show! However it's truly a shame in real life he had to hide his true self.
xaviervonrottie 1 year ago
I watch thes show on the Chanel called metv. try Chanel 19 or 63.
bugsbunnybuddy 1 year ago
I love this old series. If you happen to find it on TV nowadays, and watch it again, chances are you'll see quite a few people who, in the ensuing decades, became major stars on TV, and on the big screen.
ftsjr 1 year ago
I love this show. It's hardly on anymore, unfortunately. The last time I saw it, it was no the Hallmark channel. It's funny how, if you watch these old episodes, chances are you'll see quite a few actors who later became big TV stars themselves, in the 60s & 70s.
ftsjr 1 year ago
This was America at its peak. Note the overwhelming Whiteness of this America compared to now. What you see here - the intelligence, the courage, the healthy culture - is all dead now. Half of all children under the age of 5 are non-White in America and it will get worse rapidly. Social scientists now know that higher ethnic diversity equals a low trust society – more depression and criminality. And IQ and behavior is linked to ethnicity. This was America. Say goodbye to it
jeffmaylor 1 year ago
@jeffmaylor - If you ever saw a "Perry Mason" episode, you'd notice that all those white people you glorify so much were evil, scheming, immoral SOBs who drank like fish, obsessed with money and sex, and plotting how to get them illegally. Most of them were either smug jackasses who thought they could get away with their crimes, or dopes who didn't know their butts from Adam and Eve, and were lucky Perry was to keep them from the gas chamber. Is this what you admire so much?
WSenator1 1 year ago 2
This theme music is almost haunting.
sophiapuppy 1 year ago
Sides its not what it seems. Its a old score and it needs to be settled in Harlem. Yea papa don't take not mess, no mess no more.
hangemhigh2000 1 year ago
@hangemhigh2000 Yea papa don't take not mess, no mess no more.......Um, What the f*ck??? Do you speak English, Dude? Jeezus!
Nemesis7293 1 year ago
When I was a kid, I could never figure out what was on the paper that made him smile. Then one day I realized: the paper helped him put together the evidence to not only absolve his client, but also to totally bone Tragg once again!
berserkley 1 year ago
@berserkley Oops! I meant Burger, not Tragg. Tragg was perfectly capable of boning himself, seeing as he always managed to arrest the WRONG person every week!
berserkley 1 year ago
Just heard this on "Dancing with the Stars" and wanted to see if we were right. Thanks for uploading.
411NewYork 1 year ago
Perry Mason: ACE ATTOURNEY!
someone do it! someone has to make a phoenix wright parody with parry mason! the guy IS phoenix!
InfernoDragon1 1 year ago
I read that he is seen losing a case once, and that there was a flood of indignant letters.
willpurry 1 year ago
As a kid in the 60's this theme song scared the crap outta me. I can't figure out why but it use to give me the creeps especially if I were alone in the living room.
OldMrMemories 1 year ago 2
@OldMrMemories I made a similar comment to another version here. There's a version of the theme with a pullack from Mason on the sword of the "blind justice" that gave me nightmares as a kid with that "ghost" chasing me around with her sword and scales.
pbanta62 1 year ago
@OldMrMemories It has a very dark, suspenseful tone. It used to bother me too, because I used to watch the original Twilight Zone, and the way that TV channel aired the programs, this came on right after it! Even though it was in the middle of the day, it got me feeling freaked. LOL!!
tall32guy 1 year ago
@tall32guy - Scared me too, when I was a boy and my folks watched the first-run episodes. When I heard that theme, I'd run like hell to the next room! When I saw the reruns as a college student, I loved every show I saw, and still to this day.
WSenator1 1 year ago
My Mom or dad used to watch Perry Mason . They said he lost one case. But they don't remember what season.
Sheri451 1 year ago
@Sheri451
Yes, in one episode, after Perry's client was convicted, Hamilton Burger provided assistance to Perry which ultimately led to having the verdict reversed just as Perry's innocent client was being prepared for the gas chamber.
OrodesIII 1 year ago
F. Lee Bailey? Robert Shapiro? Johnnie Cochran?? Nah!! Perry Mason was the man. I bet he did inspire a generation of trial lawyers. Great tv series, thanks for posting.
billace90 1 year ago
I wonder if Phoenix Wright was inspired by this
Iori400 1 year ago
it may sound as a silly or strange question; but what does this music mean? Purely...what could be its aim or main feelings ?
Ahmedabdelreheem 1 year ago
Funny you should mention that, because the heavy music, combined with the stark b+w photography, made this show terrifying to me when I was a kid. In the 80's my dad would fall asleep to it at lunch time every day in the next room and it made me nervous as hell, ha ha...
monkynmee57 1 year ago
If I was a felon, I'd want Perry Mason as my lawyer.
leafyutube 2 years ago
I bet Perry won the case...there is no one else in the courtroom. Did he ever lose one?
thomas58ish 2 years ago 3
@thomas58ish Look at the YT clip. In "The Case of the Deadly Verdict." He almost lost the case.
pressmin 2 years ago
@thomas58ish The case of the typist I think. I don't think he was absolutely misled by his client. He wanted to loose the case.
Ypipable 1 year ago
@thomas58ish No, except for a near miss in "The Case of the Deadly Verdict", which he won when he managed to catch the real killer. The reason Perry Mason never lost a case on TV was because it was a condition that the late Erle Stanley Gardner (his creator) imposed on the writers before he allowed them the rights to Mason. And in all of the Perry Mason novels Gardner wrote, onle ONE legal technical error was ever made, & he wasn't a lawyer by trade. Thanx
TheSV3 6 months ago
@thomas58ish he lost the case of the Terreified Typist
jeferonis 3 months ago
Did we know....
Raymond Burr was a WW2 Navy Corpsman and wounded on Okinawa, shot in the stomach.
He has several Military Awards.
Dude was a STUD.
actonbath 2 years ago
@actonbath and raymond burr was also gay!
renman103 1 year ago
Perry Mason was one of the all time great shows, and the cast were all fine actors. The classic theme song makes it that much greater.
rolex452 2 years ago
This theme is chiseled in my memory - I would hear it from my bedroom and I knew my mom and dad were watching it together, safe at home. I transport when I hear ths song.
thmoorer 2 years ago 5
Perry Mason, Raymond Burr was the coolest. He was not gay, he was Perry. It was a time when defending clients could quite possibly be "innocent"
Danapaull 2 years ago
@Danapaull Yes he was gay.....I am almost finished reading his book....A biography.........What does it matter anyway?? Love is love.....
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
I love this tune, lol
peggy1au 2 years ago
I went to Raymond Burr's Orchid Garden in Fiji. It was awesome. It's a amazing that someone who portrayed such a stern, hard-core criminologist could nuture the beauty of flowers.
ViewPoynt 2 years ago
Being gay helped.
nsra1933 2 years ago
Just cause your queer, dosent make all others think like you.
Danapaull 2 years ago
Burr was gay.....get over it. And my comment was about his Orchid Garden. Distinquish between reality and fantasy.
nsra1933 2 years ago
Perry Mason kicked arse back then, and during the made for tv movies later on. Raymond Burr was a great actor. If he wanted to he could've have been Perry Mason in real life. He was smart enough and could take in all the needed legal information to become a great attorney.
X3pqRenQ 2 years ago 2
i remember this show from when i was a kid.
havocfear 2 years ago
Fantastic theme song.
copifo 2 years ago 15
I love the theme song so much, but I didn't know what show it belonged to. Classic.
TheSunnyStar 2 years ago
I know! When I was a kid I would always hear this theme on the television, and I always loved it and got it stuck in my head randomly over the years, but I never knew what it was from! I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be interested in actually watching this show either, but the theme's still fantastic.
surepromise 2 years ago
I've always liked this theme song.
snoops71 2 years ago
Raymond Burr is a bad ass.
Nightowl358 2 years ago 5
Barbara Hale was good - looking
rickeymoses 2 years ago 12
My father had a thing for her I think... her and Rosemary Clooney!
exackerly 2 years ago
I'm 18 and I have a thing for her ; P
BOSOX9004 2 years ago
@rickeymoses - THAT'S no lie!
WSenator1 1 year ago
Love watching those looks on his face. Masterful.
DivineFellowship 2 years ago 3
yeah, what about Ironside?
randog69 3 years ago
Someone already posted the intro for that tv show. Use the search engine to find it.
pressmin 3 years ago
is that what you can call : jazz music?
ilovesexilovenaked 3 years ago
Great theme song. But even better, you pulled it off of the single best Mason TV eposide: TCOT Deadly Verdict.
greensox57 3 years ago
guaranteed hit if some sampled this.
randumbusername 3 years ago
incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial
marionettehymnal 3 years ago 2
This theme and the theme from Sea Hunt are two of my all time favorites -- losts of counter melodies and evocative images. Great stuff.
mqblues 3 years ago
Does anyone else think that this sounds like a Town Without Pity?
glimmer2158 3 years ago
I do.
It is more or less the same vintage.
zencello 3 years ago
You know, you're right!
humankaraoke 3 years ago
Someone...tell me WHY, WHY, WHY, anyone cares if someone is GAY!!!
And as for the music,,awesome for it's time ...ONE OF THE BEST!
1ampixie 3 years ago 2
i know he was gay but hes still hott
luvofdbmw 3 years ago
This Perry Mason theme music was composed by Fred Steiner and was originally entitled "Park Avenue Beat."
madamerotten 3 years ago
who can we get on the case? we need peeeeeeerryyyyyyyy maaaaaaaasooooooon!!!
keroberos333 3 years ago
Beatiful memories!
Could anybody tell me if on YT I can find THE DEFENDERS tv theme with E.G. Marshal and Robert Reed?
marghellina 3 years ago
My dad met Raymond Burr in an elevator in Nassau the Bahamas back in the late 50s, early 60s, what a surprise, that was his favorite tv show, I have old color 35mm slides of him.
CreativeCritisizm 3 years ago
Can anyone help me find the episode The Case of the Spanish Cross? I need to know the exact explanation Perry gave the young man for why he was helping him. The young man was accused of stealing a valuable cross.
cdishmo 3 years ago
lyrics: Thr D.A.was Berger. The cop was Tragg. Della was the secretary. Drake sat on the desk with Perry....
houndz11 3 years ago
When I was a little kid just learning my first memories, this is one of the first & it scared the ever living shit out of me !
CreativeCritisizm 3 years ago 2
Hahah my parents would send us kids when this came on. It was too mature.
cycimian 3 years ago
I would hear this coming from the living room and it scared the crap out of me because I was 6 yrs old & didn't know what kind of show it was.
HUTINAK 3 years ago
Perry Mason is the most famous fictional lawyer of all time -- a bit ironic, considering that the show barely dealt with the practice of law. The stories were really mysteries, whodunits, and Perry acted more like a detective than a lawyer. Nonetheless, it's a classic.
scotpens 3 years ago
Perry would always get the killer to confess on the stand at the end of the show, and as a kid I would always scream out to the TV, shut up! don't confess! True story, lol.
verbusen 3 years ago
Trust me on this: The best of all the Perry Mason theme selections here on YouTube is to be found on a bright blue screen w/ the words "Theme from Perry Mason" because it is just the right length (1:15)and incorporates all those familiar elements we've come to love in the theme. Now all we need is that stack of Corpus Juris Secundum books at the end credits instead of an empty blue screen!
JoeTownley 3 years ago
Als der Vorspann im Fernsehen zu sehen war, gab es mich natürlich noch nicht. Aber das Schwarz/Weiß gab jeder Serie noch das gewisse Etwas
2008reziser 3 years ago
Don't know if anyone has ever noticed. But in the James Bond Film "Tommorrow Never Dies". Sheryl Crow took a little of this Perry Mason theme on the piano and added it to the opening title. Listen to the theme to "Tommorrow Never Dies".
larrypurtell 3 years ago
When this came on in the 60's it was past my bedtime. I'd always get up to get a drink and my dad would be watching it, and he'd say "get back in bed". We spend our childhood trying to be adults, and now that we are, we long for the childhood years again.
nsra1933 3 years ago 4
Sounds like when Dallas was on.
Ntittare 3 years ago
In the early 60's when I was a smal kid,this TV theme use to scare the daylights outta me. I just can't figure why that was.
primeralives 3 years ago 3
I was never scared of the theme, but I do recall stopping whatever I was doing when I would hear it as a small child. There was something particularly compelling about it that eluded other television programs.
As I grew older, it became one of my favorite themes of all-time and still is.
I first saw this intro around 1970 on WPIX when I was 4 or 5. Though "Perry Mason" had numerous openings, this is the one that always comes to mind first.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
I think the emotional impact of the Perry Mason theme comes from its minor key, repeated phrases with variations and its 6/8 or double-waltz time signature. That rhythm conveys both a sense of urgency and a spinning, slightly disorienting sensation. Think of Bernard Herrmann's main title music for "Vertigo," for example.
scotpens 3 years ago
I have to say that you certainly articulated my feelings about the theme better than I did in my earlier post. :-) I also agree that the theme from "Vertigo" is very similar in its impact upon this listener.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
mason of cider of pear is thus freaking fresh. it is man more powerful to have be never on TV. that I wish I could to maintain it, pleasure he, if is this what it required ego. but I am old now, thus I do not know if it would find me attracting particularly. somebody said to me that that the pear cider was a merry man, but me refuse to believe that - he was simply too powerful, in a way raw and male; its eyes are cold steel, his face which of a god, adore it.
DyingOldPeople 3 years ago 2
You might want to phone your pharmacy and make sure you got the right medication!
scotpens 3 years ago
no way, dude, this guy is the definition of mental health. i think he's saying that burr is great and powerful, that we should all suck at his cock, that we might draw from it the power of the gods. what could be more sound, more wholesome than that idea?
freakheavy 3 years ago 2
Uh . . . right. Whatever.
scotpens 3 years ago
so you agree with him? i'm not sure how i feel about it. i've never sucked at a man before, but burr is so powerful, i just might have to surrender to the thought, as you've done. i need money. this has nothing to do with any hurricane. please send it to me in grover, utah, c/o andy's diner - they know who i am. god bless.
freakheavy 3 years ago
So THAT is the show behind that score. That music has been haunting me for years, and the last Perry Mason episode I've seen was when I was 6. (I'm 20 now.)
vampman87 3 years ago
Per-RY! Perry baby!
(dig that smile! he knows the score! you can't scare Perry Mason! what a kick-ass show!
Damn, this makes me wish I could afford the series...
primitivelink 3 years ago
Im still scared.
algavin47 3 years ago
When I think of TV legends, Raymond Burr's name is among many on my personal list, "Perry Mason", a bona fide TV classic, no courtroom drama ever made since comes close to the mystique and essence of Perry Mason..."Ironside" was off the chain, too, I have season one of it on DVD, and loving every minute of it. I miss Raymond Burr to this day, he truly was one of a kind.
BisonAP 3 years ago 3
I love Raymond Burr and the first time I saw him was in Perry Mason, where I fell in love with his intelligence and the fact that he always got his man and saved a damsel or two. I was sad when he passed. I did a tribute video for him on Youtube - should you have time, check it out. There will never be another Raymond Burr.
dakota521 3 years ago 2
This song scared the CRAP out of me when I was young!!
sticksrossi 3 years ago 4
Agreed!
kmbkb 3 years ago
Same here!
thedreamsdream 3 years ago
He's a british MP looking at his expenses cheque - thats why he smiles to himself
kalcom2 4 years ago 2
I have alot of Perry Mason DVDS. I have season 1,2,3. I just love him myself. It is a shame that he is no longer with us.
Diana1914
diana1914 4 years ago
Correction, the Perry Mason DVD's are NOT season 1,2,3. It is Season 1, Vol. 1-2. and Season 2, Vol. 1-2. 50th ann. edition will be released in April, 2008.
pressmin 4 years ago
I got season 1 volume 1, and season 1 volume 2, season 2 volume 1. I think there is more but I can't find them here in Alaska.
Diana1914
diana1914 4 years ago
Now released Season 2 Volume 2, Season 3 volume 1, season 3 Volume 2. There is a Fred Meyer store in Alaska if this helps.
pressmin 3 years ago
I can't believe I just discovered this gem of a show this year.
MrPogle 4 years ago
I love this show
TeminatorX666 4 years ago 2
I noticed that this opening was from the episode "The Case of the Deadly Verdict". That episode was notable in that it was the only case that Perry LOST! He did, however, manage to find the real culprit at the end of the episode.
retrovideoman 4 years ago
i love this show
ClynSvin 4 years ago
I could never work out why the prosecutions service kept Hamilton Burger on as chief prosecutor in the Perry Mason series. In 150 episodes he lost every single case. The cops were no better arresting 150 innocent people.
JemMackie 4 years ago 4
We never saw the follow-up trials where Burger got to nail the real murderer Mason exposed!
DesiluTrek 4 years ago
To true. Most of the trials wouldn't have happened as they plead guilty in the courtroom (they were always in the courtroom) when Perry M exposed them.
Still in those days good viewing.
JemMackie 4 years ago
As Raymond Burr once told a fan, "You never saw the cases I tried other than on Friday night."
ttlms 4 years ago
Wow! tout simplement wow!
lifehouse88 4 years ago
Download 32 episodes from Perry Mason's first season for free at Stage 6. Get them while they're still uploaded!
11thReality 4 years ago 3
I just watched "Rear Window" last night which was shot at least two years earlier. Burr played Lars Thornwald, the suspicious man living across from Jimmy Stewart. It's amazing how much younger and trimmer Burr looks here. He must have dropped 25 pounds to play this part.
davevanfunk 4 years ago
Raymond Burr was such a gifted actor. Perry Mason is still a great favorite of mine, watching the Season 1 DVDs right now ;) He was wonderful in Rear Window....he is missed.
bartolemeo 4 years ago
If you can find a copy of it, see "A Cry in the Night", with Burr as a mentally ill momma's boy who kidnaps and torments Natalie Wood. Made in 1956, also starring Edmond O'Brien.
ttlms 4 years ago
This is a fantastic show with a great theme.
MrPogle 4 years ago
I love the tv show though
elfndad1529 4 years ago
Oh my god this theme scared the hell out of me when i was a kid!
dominique777 5 years ago
Me too. It creeps me out a little even now!
threegtrz 4 years ago
The closing theme was worse cause the credits were so drawn out and long, followed by the CBS fanfare afterwards...Scary...
But it gets worse when you something the Viacom V of Doom (or The Silver V) after that! ^__^
tbone2004 4 years ago
Gaaah! The closing theme! The wide latin font with razor-wire corners! The stylized drawing of Justice wielding that double-edged sword and the scales! "What happened to her eyes, mom?" The CBS fanfare applying the coup de grace featuring the background with a thousand CBS eyes! No wonder I soiled myself emotionally whenever this came on!
threegtrz 4 years ago
It wasn't just "The Pendelum". There was another background that featured Perry Mason with his arms folded, with the same CBS Eye-Background.
I have the closing credits from that era, but Viacom would most likely delete it, because it features The Silver V logo at the end...
tbone2004 4 years ago
I used to think it was from a horror show!
Philflash 4 years ago
Why did I say #2 instead of #1? Someone posted the other intro opening for this popular TV lawyer show "Perry Mason."
pressmin 5 years ago
There is an older intro than this, so it's appropriate to call it # 2. The older one has all five of the main cast members.
ttlms 5 years ago
Is the older theme posted somewhere?
Kronamalasa 4 years ago
If it has, I haven't found it
ttlms 4 years ago
I believe I've found it. Try, "Télé Série U.S.A. 1957 - 1966".
Kronamalasa 4 years ago