Dam i miss TV from that era...i always say TV peaked when Miami Vice went off the air....it went downhill from there......miss Man from U.N.C.L.E. Mannix Wild Wild West...MagnumP.I. etc...
I find it interesting that three of the stars of this series made appearances on the original StarTrek. Robert Brown (Jason Bolt) portrayed time traveler Lazarus, David Soul (Joshua Bolt) was an alien native, and Mark Lenard (Aaron Stempel) left his mark as Ambassador Sarek, father of Mr. Spock.
I did not live in Seattle until way after this show was off the air, but I remember really liking the fact that the leading actess' character name was Candy, a version of my real name.
;-)
Kandie Le Britain Webster in Washington State ~ jazzylover59
The group listed in the show's closing credits is called "The New Establishment", but I have no info on them. When the Family Channel showed these in the 1980s, they used the same instrumental version for all, both seasons 1 and 2 (which I believe is the background track for the vocal version). My guess is the vocal track probably got removed in the 60's over some copyright issue w/ The New Establishment's record label... maybe Screen Gems didn't want to keep paying royalties(?).
Antennae TV is showing this series. I just discovered it a month ago, and now I look forward to watching it and IRON HORSE every Sunday morning. Good way to start Sunday, before doing chores, running errends or whatever :)
I am generally full of nostalgic appreciation for TV shows from the late 1960s and very early 1970s, but for some reason, I never could get into "Here Come the Brides." It was certainly innocuous enough and far more suitable fare than the garbage Hollywood cranks out today. Still, I'd have to rank "Here Comes the Brides" down there with "The Ghost & Ms. Muir" and "The Courtship of Eddie's Father."
Hey. I remember liking "Ghost and Mrs. Muir" when I was a little kid.
On the other hand, it's sort of a regular experience these days to see one of these shows in syndication somewhere and think, "Ew, I really remember it as way better than that. Maybe it's because I was about 7 or 8."
This was really a wonderful TV show...not full of sex, drugs and other undesirable garbage you see on TV nowadays. I was wondering how long did it last? I believe only two seasons, but I don't know. I was at Cape Kennedy, Fla. and watched the mighty Saturn V moon-rocket lift-off to the moon. (my uncle worked for NASA). That night I watched this show-I really loved it. Even though I was a pre-teen in that wonderful year of 1969! Hippies, Beatles, Moon-shot the war in South Vietnam. That was 1969
When I was a little kid I used to watch this show. I had a crush on Bridget Hanley the actress that played Candy Pruitt. I just saw on Wikipedia that she is now 70. I’m feeling really old now.
Candy's brother and sister appeared at the beginning of Season 2. I loved, loved, loved this song! I remember the vocals for the title credits as always being there (and the show only ran 2 seasons) when originally broadcast. Don't know why they don't have them in the DVDs. I was pretty disappointed in that. *sigh*
Just one technical in that song. Seattle has FIR trees . . . not PINE trees. LOL
I had forgotten Mark Leonard was in this. He was a very nice man and I was able to talk to him at a convention in 1992 I think. Bur I remember him for another roll he played. Two rolls really, on one TV show,
The opening sequence they show on WCIU is just with music yet in the end credits they say who sang the lyrics. Could there be some copyright or residual issues that prevents presenting the title sequence being presented as it was originally? Also, anyone know when Candy's brother and sister joined the cast?
NEW UPDATE - IT FINALLY HAPPENED. They added the vocals to the television broadcast on the
"ME-TOO" channel. (Perhaps someone in charge, saw our little youtube clip, and how many people want it.) However, I still have yet to see the season 2 intro.
I just rediscovered this show on DVD...I thought the lyrics were on both seasons. I was surprised to watch the first epidodes and not here the words. I have both Perry Como's and Bobby Sherman's version of this song and I hope season two does get released. My wife never saw the show and is enjoying watchng it with me.
IF you want the REAL story this show is based on, get the book "The Sons of the Profits -the First Fifty Years of Seattle". It wasn't brides so much as hookers, and specifically the importation of the first high class hookers to Seattle, with French airs and perfumes and laces. It was Seattle's first step towards being a respectable west coast metropolis, like San Francisco, or Portland.
Thank you so much for posting! I haven't heard/seen this since Spring 1970 -- forty years ago! I loved this show so much. They don't make 'em like this anymore! I still remember the show about the Jewish bride. I had a Jewish friend growing up, and it helped me understand her culture.
If any of you want to hear the original Seattle song, it was recorded by Perry Como in the mid-60s. The TV show just used his song and altered the lyrics.
I'm getting teary eyed. I haven't seen the opening of this show since I was a child many years ago. I don't know where the years went. That was beautiful. The shows were clean, and they had substance, and they weren't full of "issues" and garbage like today's shows. Thanks for posting this. Very nice memories of a simpler time. God Bless!
@Beautifulmusiclistnr Don't forget, there were issues in real life back then. Kids were running away from home because their parents were more concerned with standard of living than with quality of life. There was a war in Vietnam that divided our nation. We were still hurting from the assassination of JFK. Psychedelic entertainment was influenced by drugs. Good old days? Let's cope with today and create our own beauty where we can.
@wdd3141 You missed my point totally. My post said shows were clean, and they weren't "full" of issues. It means they weren't full of crap like today's shows. You're wrong about how people weren't concerned with quality of life. I had quality of life with a low standard of living. Today, people are concerned with standard of living and "keeping up with the Joneses". You need to cope with your past so that YOU can move up to today. I'm sick of shows that have to have freaking issues!
@Beautifulmusiclistnr seventies shows had no issues? his name was Norman Lear. Not to mention after school specials. You were not paying attention. Frankly, you still don't have to. All the fluff you want is out there.
@emsguybob Yes, I watched the Norman Lear shows, and you were the one who wasn't paying attention. I didn't say they didn't have "any" issues. I said they weren't "full" of issues like today's shows. Even the Brady Bunch had an episode where Greg smoked one time just to try it, and he didn't even want to smoke. They didn't make it a week to week thing where Greg was smoking one week and then toking another week and doing something else another week. It was just simple fun by and large.
Same here--watched it every week as a kid. I actually do think they covered "issues" at times, like Bonanza did--just not in a heavyhanded or obvious way. For sure, they weren't overconcerned with having a show that was just a construct for superimposing "issue" themes.
@emncaity I agree. Bonanza and other shows covered issues, but they weren't overly concerned, like you say, about them. Ben Cartwright was a 3 time widower, and that could have been made more of an "issue" than what it was. Today's shows want to overstep their boundaries and over dramatize an item. That just gets ridiculously silly. I miss the shows of yesteryear! Thanks for your post.
@dlsofsetx I don't know. For such a good show the only cast member I really remember hearing about afterward was David Soul (Joshua Bolt) mainly because of Starsky and Hutch and also a couple of pop tunes he did in the late '70s. I wish they'd do a reunion show of Here Come the Brides.
@ridgerunner721601 I know Bobby Sherman did a show that only ran for 13 weeks in ABC's disasterous 71-72 season.Susan Tolsky(Biddy) was in several ads.Mark Lenard was an active character actor until his death,also doing voice over work in several ads & shows.A reunion would be nice.
@dlsofsetx I did a little research and found out Susan Tolsky is from Houston, about 120 miles west of my hometown.....LOL. I always thought she sounded more like somebody from my region of the country than somebody would from Massachusetts. I used to work with a guy from Worcestershire, MA and it was almost like we spoke two different languages. Anyway, I imagine Susan is still in California, but if she ever comes back home I'd like to get her autograph.
@ridgerunner721601 She was the funniest one on the show.I live about 100 miles east of Houston.BTW,she did some game shows at that time,she was rather intelligent
@dlsofsetx You must be around Beaumont then? Ha ha...it's good to meet somebody from nearby. I'm in Lake Charles, just across the state line. In fact there wasn't an ABC affiliate station here, still isn't for that matter and I used to watch the good old shows like 'Here Come the Brides' on Channel 12 out of Beaumont/Port Arthur when I was a kid. And I'm wondering what part of Houston Susan was from. They consider towns like Alvin or Anahuac to be Houston when they're writing bios.
@dlsofsetx I guess it is a small world. Back in the early '80s I went out with a girl from Vidor a few times. Then I ran into her a few years back and she said she had married a guy from Lumberton. Nowadays I go to Astros games in Houston whenever I get a chance and always stop off in Vidor or sometimes Winnie to eat. That Minute Maid Park food costs an arm and a leg....LOL.
@dlsofsetx I saw where Bobby had gotten out of show business and started doing work with the Sheriff's Dept. in Los Angeles. I think that's pretty great for somebody to know they'll be making less money as a policeman than they would be in show business, but doing it anyway, because it's a job that has to be done. I sure have a lot more respect for Bobby Sherman than some of these Hollywood meatballs nowadays who don't do anything but disparage the country and ordinary Americans.
@dlsofsetx I don't know. I want to say I had seen Robert Brown on an old episode of Bonanza or Little House on the Prairie on TVLand a couple of years ago. I thought to myself, "hey, that's Jason Bolt from Here Come the Brides"....LOL. And I remember having a crush on Bridget Hanley when I was a kid. I wonder where she is too. I can see why Jeremy was always tongue tied when he wanted to ask Candy out.....LOL
@ridgerunner721601 Brown was also in the Star Trek episode The Alternative Factor.Of course Mark Lenard played Spock's father,probably his best known role.David Soul was in the episode The Apple.I think any straight male who saw that show had a crush on Bridget Hanley.
@dlsofsetx LOL....That's true!!! Hey, I was only 10 or 11 years old though. Bridget was a lot more of a turn-on than the little girls in Mrs. Dorgant's 6th grade class that I'd see everyday. And I remember all the girls back then were in love with Bobby Sherman and Donny Osmond.....lol.
@ridgerunner721601 I was about he same age when it aired.My feelings were the same.Sherman also was popular with young boys then.He was a bit of a role model.When David Cassidy came on the scene he faded.He was not as effeminate as many others in that genre of music,e.g. Cassidy or today,that super sissified Justin Bieber.
@dlsofsetx Well, what passes for music nowadays is little more than noise pollution anyway. I remember when I was a kid we had guys like Michael Landon (Little Joe Cartwright) and Ken Curtis (Festus) would come to the old McNeese Auditorium during rodeos and then put on a show and sign autographs after. The last concert I went to was when Jerry Reed came to Harrah's Casino by the Civic Center. Most of them nowadays, I wouldn't go see if the tickets were free.
@ridgerunner721601 Many of thesame people came to Beaumont for the YMBL Rodeo & Spindletop Horse Show.I saw Homer & Jethro one year at the rodeo.Another year I saw Alan Hale,Jr. & Bob Denver.
@dlsofsetx I imagine that since it's such a short trip between Beaumont and Lake Charles they would come to this region at the same time. Hey, I remember when I was a kid I thought anybody who was on TV was a celebrity, even the guys who would tell the news on the local stations or the guys like Cowboy John who would show cartoons in the afternoon on Channel 4 out of Port Arthur.....LOL.
@ridgerunner721601 I was a huge fan of Cowboy John.On my 10th birthday he announced it on the air,I was on cloud 9!I miss the local celebrities like those people were back then.Very little local programming is done today except for news.
@dlsofsetx Ha ha....I was probably watching that day. I remember he always had kids on from all over southeast TX and a few from southwest LA. I wish they still had local shows like that on TV. I think back in the '60s every city must have had shows like that. Cowboy John in Beaumont, Kartoon Kapers in Lake Charles and Polycarp in Lafayette....LOL.
@ridgerunner721601 Channels 6 & 12 had similar shows also.Uncle Willie was on 6 until about 1965 until he retired,they just ran cartoons afterward.Bill Hammond did Uncle Willie on KFDM radio for years before going on TV.About the same time the radio station was sold & became KLVI.Colonel Candy Cane was on 12 form 1963-5,Henry Larcade moved to 4 & they only showed cartoons in the time slot for several years later.I miss those shows,too.
@dlsofsetx I never realized KLVI used to have the same call letters as the TV station. When I was a kid very few Astros games were televised and I used to listen to Gene Elston and Loel Passe do the games on KLVI. That was back around 1970 or so. I can't believe it's been 40 years.
@ridgerunner721601 C.Blakey Locke owned them both.He sold the radio station in 1964 or 5 which meant they had to change their call letters.Channel 4 was originally KPAC like AM 1250 but changed their call letters to KJAC when Jefferson Amusement Co. bought the TV station about a year later.
@dlsofsetx It was probably KPAC when I first started watching TV as a little kid. I remember my parents had a Zenith black and white with a rabbit ears antenna on top. Then we got an outdoor antenna and a color Zenith around 1967 or 68. Now with cable and countless stations to pick from I can't believe we only had the choice of a few local stations in Beaumont, Lake Charles and Lafayette at one time. But you know what, I think the programming was better back then. No MTV or BET garbage.
@dlsofsetx Yeah, I know. I even called Communicomm, which is the cable company here and asked them if I could get a better deal by cancelling stations like MTV, BET and MSNBC.....stations that I never watch. But there's no way out. Seems like it's all or nothing with these cable companies. And they keep going up in price every year too. I'm about ready to start considering going to a satellite dish.
Once met a woman from Seattle. I started singing the first two lines in the form of a question. She was familiar with the show and just joined right in. She said she was a Bobby Sherman fan when the show was aired.
I always thought the vocals were off with the music's beat. It sounds like they had to match the lyrics to the music and almost rush through it. Its not bad, and I like the nostalgia. I like Bobby's regular version also, where the backup vocalists are the same people who did the Partridge Family vocals. All I think of while hearing Bobby perform "Seattle" is Shirley and the kids backing them up. LOL
"Here Come The Brides" had one of the greatest TV themes of all time, both with and without vocals. Had the show been a bigger hit, lasting several seasons and remembered as a TV classic, the theme would be remembered as such.
@frightfan1 I liked the vocals for this too, It was one of the best Television themes in the entire 1960's. Also, I felt the same way as a teen about Susan Tolsky, and still wonder what she is doing with her career today,.
Well, wait in line behind me- I hat the hots for her first. Take a number, pack a sack lunch, sit down,,,I'll be awhile. Probably a very long while- all of the 20 seconds it'll take her staff to throw me out of the Whidbey Island Theater Group near Seattle where she teaches her skills and does work now she's retired.
Thank you!!! I remembered the vocal version of this TV theme and was very frustrated when the first DVD reissue didn't include it. This was one of my favorite shows from two very busy TV seasons (though it was considered un-cool for males to admit liking this series -- maybe because of the title and the fan magazines' focus on Bobby Sherman and Bridget Hanley).
Dvideon, your recreation of first season opening is MUCH appreciated. The only time I heard the vocal version of this after the first season reruns, was on a radio station in Colorado Springs playing old TV themes, and that was in 1999 !!!!!!!!!! Again thank you for finding this audio.
Yeah, I'm willing to believe you Desertboi. But Sony released Season 1 on DVD, with the same non-vocal opening for all 26 episodes. And some fans believe only the 2nd season had the vocals. I remember Biddie's picture being added. But not exactly when or in which season. I wouldn't put it past Sony to cheat. If they ever do the 2nd season DVDs. It wouldn't surprise me if the vocal song was still MIA.
this isn't the correct opening sequence for the theme version with lyrics ... season 2 had new cast pictures & included biddie & clancy in the sequence ~ but i just read your note/info so now i understand why it's incorrect ;p FYI : good job - very enjoyable - i hope it doesn't get deleted! :)
yes you are correct ~ when the lyrics were added half way through season 1 the cast images were also updated plus 'biddie & clancy' got a frame credit as well ~ it stayed that way & was not updated or changed during season 2 :)
listen to the cymbal is quick I play percussion
Syzygy60 1 month ago
@weightfeather1 Hi,
You can find Both the Bobby Sherman and Perry Como versions on Itunes. So much fun to listen to after all these years.
priswishes 1 month ago
Dam i miss TV from that era...i always say TV peaked when Miami Vice went off the air....it went downhill from there......miss Man from U.N.C.L.E. Mannix Wild Wild West...MagnumP.I. etc...
miamimann1 2 months ago
That is what I remembered when I saw that show when I was a little boy. Brings memories.
Soulthinker2007 2 months ago
I hate the vocal. I'm sorry, but I do. The original instrumental was/is far and away superior.
TheCatgirl6 2 months ago
I find it interesting that three of the stars of this series made appearances on the original StarTrek. Robert Brown (Jason Bolt) portrayed time traveler Lazarus, David Soul (Joshua Bolt) was an alien native, and Mark Lenard (Aaron Stempel) left his mark as Ambassador Sarek, father of Mr. Spock.
H2R504 3 months ago
I did not live in Seattle until way after this show was off the air, but I remember really liking the fact that the leading actess' character name was Candy, a version of my real name.
;-)
Kandie Le Britain Webster in Washington State ~ jazzylover59
jazzylover59 3 months ago
i luv this show!
leonardnimoylover1 3 months ago
I loved Bobby Sherman back then.
momdiane 3 months ago
The new establishment had a song "One of these days, Sunday's gonna come on Tuesday.". Not exactly a hit, but I remember hearing it on the radio.
ThePantherproof 4 months ago
The new establishment
ThePantherproof 4 months ago
If you look on iTunes, there is more than one version of this song. One by Como, the Bobby Sherman version, but who did this version?
akampfer 4 months ago
@akampfer
The group listed in the show's closing credits is called "The New Establishment", but I have no info on them. When the Family Channel showed these in the 1980s, they used the same instrumental version for all, both seasons 1 and 2 (which I believe is the background track for the vocal version). My guess is the vocal track probably got removed in the 60's over some copyright issue w/ The New Establishment's record label... maybe Screen Gems didn't want to keep paying royalties(?).
MKIVWWI 4 months ago
LOL -- I remember this from when I was a child. I preferred the instrumental version of the opening. I remember Perry Como released this as a single.
thatsmisterrobert2u 4 months ago
Spock's dad. The villain.
sherriffnoldie 5 months ago
These vocals are awful. And you won't find a bigger fan of the show than I.
Phillster2015 6 months ago
Antennae TV is showing this series. I just discovered it a month ago, and now I look forward to watching it and IRON HORSE every Sunday morning. Good way to start Sunday, before doing chores, running errends or whatever :)
spider9137 6 months ago
Never heard of this one.
StuntmanJackR 7 months ago
This was one of my all time favorite shows on tv. Back then my parents only allowed us 2 hours of tv a day. Thank you so much.
diannacovergirlsmith 7 months ago
I wonder where Aaron Stempel stands on the Coridan Issue.
KatellaGate 7 months ago
@KatellaGate A classic of really obscure geekdom. But I knew what it meant...
50zcarsman 3 months ago
I remember this show, and the song...
Now that I live in Seattle, I realize what a farce those lyrics are!
We get two seasons - rainy season & 5th of July.
KanzlerM 7 months ago
I am generally full of nostalgic appreciation for TV shows from the late 1960s and very early 1970s, but for some reason, I never could get into "Here Come the Brides." It was certainly innocuous enough and far more suitable fare than the garbage Hollywood cranks out today. Still, I'd have to rank "Here Comes the Brides" down there with "The Ghost & Ms. Muir" and "The Courtship of Eddie's Father."
65kowalski 7 months ago
@65kowalski
Hey. I remember liking "Ghost and Mrs. Muir" when I was a little kid.
On the other hand, it's sort of a regular experience these days to see one of these shows in syndication somewhere and think, "Ew, I really remember it as way better than that. Maybe it's because I was about 7 or 8."
emncaity 7 months ago
This was really a wonderful TV show...not full of sex, drugs and other undesirable garbage you see on TV nowadays. I was wondering how long did it last? I believe only two seasons, but I don't know. I was at Cape Kennedy, Fla. and watched the mighty Saturn V moon-rocket lift-off to the moon. (my uncle worked for NASA). That night I watched this show-I really loved it. Even though I was a pre-teen in that wonderful year of 1969! Hippies, Beatles, Moon-shot the war in South Vietnam. That was 1969
59Skott 8 months ago
When I was a little kid I used to watch this show. I had a crush on Bridget Hanley the actress that played Candy Pruitt. I just saw on Wikipedia that she is now 70. I’m feeling really old now.
michaelterry1000 8 months ago
@michaelterry1000
Seriously, she was one of the best-looking girls ever on TV.
emncaity 7 months ago
Thank you! This was driving me crazy!
leah1959 8 months ago
Me encantaba y sigue encantando la música de presentación de esta serie.
KLINGUBA 9 months ago
I spied Spock's father Sarek of Vulcan in the credits.
digitalArtform 9 months ago
Oh, I remember - this is when television was good~~~
brandemour 9 months ago
WHY DONT THEY RELEASE SEASON 2 ON DVD?!?
Mariposa0416Annie 9 months ago
Incrível! Esses vocais não se ouviam na abertura que passava aqui no Brasil!
samuel63867 10 months ago
"HERE COME THE BRIDES" was again,a superior product of Screen Gems,,years
before the unthinkable happened,when Sony re-instated it as a motion picture
division in 1999-and today,the garbage that they have released,just sickens me!
so for some of you Baby Boomers out there will recollect,that Screen Gems back
in the 50s,60s and mid 70s(before it was changed to Columbia Pictures TV) did
some of the BEST TV ever!! and This 1968 ABC series was proof-as was other
series,like "BEWITCHED"and "HAZEL"
MONGOOSE1ful 10 months ago 3
What a blast from the past. I used to watch this show all of the time.
Levigizmo 10 months ago
in houston, antenna tv is channel 39.2
sexymama1966 10 months ago
NO ITS ANTENNA TV KTLA 5.2 SUNDAY @10 A. M. BRIDGETTE HANLEY IS SORT OF HOT , FOR BACK THEN
RUBIDOUXTIM 11 months ago
Antenna Channel (a cable station of WPIX 11 in NYC) airs HCTB at 1 pm on Sunday.
dspecoraro 11 months ago
Candy's brother and sister appeared at the beginning of Season 2. I loved, loved, loved this song! I remember the vocals for the title credits as always being there (and the show only ran 2 seasons) when originally broadcast. Don't know why they don't have them in the DVDs. I was pretty disappointed in that. *sigh*
Just one technical in that song. Seattle has FIR trees . . . not PINE trees. LOL
susankmarlow 11 months ago
Thank you for this gift. My favorite tv show and I went back there just now. Sorrow is our lost joy remembered but these tears feel sweet.
w2npjvve 1 year ago
I had forgotten Mark Leonard was in this. He was a very nice man and I was able to talk to him at a convention in 1992 I think. Bur I remember him for another roll he played. Two rolls really, on one TV show,
MyDaddyCool 1 year ago
The opening sequence they show on WCIU is just with music yet in the end credits they say who sang the lyrics. Could there be some copyright or residual issues that prevents presenting the title sequence being presented as it was originally? Also, anyone know when Candy's brother and sister joined the cast?
AliceFan1 1 year ago
UPDATE - HCTB is now on Sunday mornings at 9AM CST
on WCIU's "Me-TOO" channel.
Dvideon 1 year ago
UPDATE ADDENDUM - HCTB is also on Sunday mornings on Antenna TV.
Dvideon 8 months ago
NEW UPDATE - IT FINALLY HAPPENED. They added the vocals to the television broadcast on the
"ME-TOO" channel. (Perhaps someone in charge, saw our little youtube clip, and how many people want it.) However, I still have yet to see the season 2 intro.
Dvideon 6 months ago
@Dvideon SECOND SEASON COMING ON DVD IN FEBRUARY! Check out Amazon....
MKBaughan 3 months ago
I just rediscovered this show on DVD...I thought the lyrics were on both seasons. I was surprised to watch the first epidodes and not here the words. I have both Perry Como's and Bobby Sherman's version of this song and I hope season two does get released. My wife never saw the show and is enjoying watchng it with me.
kennetzel 1 year ago
Lovely video. Thanks for that trip down Memory Lane!
cbhagman 1 year ago
IF you want the REAL story this show is based on, get the book "The Sons of the Profits -the First Fifty Years of Seattle". It wasn't brides so much as hookers, and specifically the importation of the first high class hookers to Seattle, with French airs and perfumes and laces. It was Seattle's first step towards being a respectable west coast metropolis, like San Francisco, or Portland.
ryoushii 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting! I haven't heard/seen this since Spring 1970 -- forty years ago! I loved this show so much. They don't make 'em like this anymore! I still remember the show about the Jewish bride. I had a Jewish friend growing up, and it helped me understand her culture.
Treebard 1 year ago
If any of you want to hear the original Seattle song, it was recorded by Perry Como in the mid-60s. The TV show just used his song and altered the lyrics.
InRick463 1 year ago
Someone's gotta remake this song, nice and slow. It's really a great song!
eat2evolve 1 year ago
Thanks so much for uploading this!
Greenspots84 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 True.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
Thank you so much for restoring the original vocals. This is the way I remember it from when the series originally aired.
SciFiGuy1x 1 year ago
I used to have a copy of the Bruce Lee episode on tape. Set the timer for it in the eighties every night until I finally got it.
thebes56 1 year ago
I'm getting teary eyed. I haven't seen the opening of this show since I was a child many years ago. I don't know where the years went. That was beautiful. The shows were clean, and they had substance, and they weren't full of "issues" and garbage like today's shows. Thanks for posting this. Very nice memories of a simpler time. God Bless!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago 15
@Beautifulmusiclistnr You took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn't agree with you more.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@Beautifulmusiclistnr And they had hot men!!!.
TVwriter23 1 year ago
@Beautifulmusiclistnr Don't forget, there were issues in real life back then. Kids were running away from home because their parents were more concerned with standard of living than with quality of life. There was a war in Vietnam that divided our nation. We were still hurting from the assassination of JFK. Psychedelic entertainment was influenced by drugs. Good old days? Let's cope with today and create our own beauty where we can.
wdd3141 1 year ago
@wdd3141 You missed my point totally. My post said shows were clean, and they weren't "full" of issues. It means they weren't full of crap like today's shows. You're wrong about how people weren't concerned with quality of life. I had quality of life with a low standard of living. Today, people are concerned with standard of living and "keeping up with the Joneses". You need to cope with your past so that YOU can move up to today. I'm sick of shows that have to have freaking issues!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago 4
@Beautifulmusiclistnr seventies shows had no issues? his name was Norman Lear. Not to mention after school specials. You were not paying attention. Frankly, you still don't have to. All the fluff you want is out there.
emsguybob 1 year ago
@emsguybob Yes, I watched the Norman Lear shows, and you were the one who wasn't paying attention. I didn't say they didn't have "any" issues. I said they weren't "full" of issues like today's shows. Even the Brady Bunch had an episode where Greg smoked one time just to try it, and he didn't even want to smoke. They didn't make it a week to week thing where Greg was smoking one week and then toking another week and doing something else another week. It was just simple fun by and large.
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
@Beautifulmusiclistnr
Same here--watched it every week as a kid. I actually do think they covered "issues" at times, like Bonanza did--just not in a heavyhanded or obvious way. For sure, they weren't overconcerned with having a show that was just a construct for superimposing "issue" themes.
emncaity 7 months ago
@emncaity I agree. Bonanza and other shows covered issues, but they weren't overly concerned, like you say, about them. Ben Cartwright was a 3 time widower, and that could have been made more of an "issue" than what it was. Today's shows want to overstep their boundaries and over dramatize an item. That just gets ridiculously silly. I miss the shows of yesteryear! Thanks for your post.
Beautifulmusiclistnr 7 months ago
did perry como's version ever appear on the show?
jwmellott 1 year ago
What ever became of Robert Brown & Bridget Hanley?
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx I don't know. For such a good show the only cast member I really remember hearing about afterward was David Soul (Joshua Bolt) mainly because of Starsky and Hutch and also a couple of pop tunes he did in the late '70s. I wish they'd do a reunion show of Here Come the Brides.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 I know Bobby Sherman did a show that only ran for 13 weeks in ABC's disasterous 71-72 season.Susan Tolsky(Biddy) was in several ads.Mark Lenard was an active character actor until his death,also doing voice over work in several ads & shows.A reunion would be nice.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx I did a little research and found out Susan Tolsky is from Houston, about 120 miles west of my hometown.....LOL. I always thought she sounded more like somebody from my region of the country than somebody would from Massachusetts. I used to work with a guy from Worcestershire, MA and it was almost like we spoke two different languages. Anyway, I imagine Susan is still in California, but if she ever comes back home I'd like to get her autograph.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 She was the funniest one on the show.I live about 100 miles east of Houston.BTW,she did some game shows at that time,she was rather intelligent
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx You must be around Beaumont then? Ha ha...it's good to meet somebody from nearby. I'm in Lake Charles, just across the state line. In fact there wasn't an ABC affiliate station here, still isn't for that matter and I used to watch the good old shows like 'Here Come the Brides' on Channel 12 out of Beaumont/Port Arthur when I was a kid. And I'm wondering what part of Houston Susan was from. They consider towns like Alvin or Anahuac to be Houston when they're writing bios.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 I'm from Beaumont,now live in Lumberton
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx I guess it is a small world. Back in the early '80s I went out with a girl from Vidor a few times. Then I ran into her a few years back and she said she had married a guy from Lumberton. Nowadays I go to Astros games in Houston whenever I get a chance and always stop off in Vidor or sometimes Winnie to eat. That Minute Maid Park food costs an arm and a leg....LOL.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx I saw where Bobby had gotten out of show business and started doing work with the Sheriff's Dept. in Los Angeles. I think that's pretty great for somebody to know they'll be making less money as a policeman than they would be in show business, but doing it anyway, because it's a job that has to be done. I sure have a lot more respect for Bobby Sherman than some of these Hollywood meatballs nowadays who don't do anything but disparage the country and ordinary Americans.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 Me,too.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx I don't know. I want to say I had seen Robert Brown on an old episode of Bonanza or Little House on the Prairie on TVLand a couple of years ago. I thought to myself, "hey, that's Jason Bolt from Here Come the Brides"....LOL. And I remember having a crush on Bridget Hanley when I was a kid. I wonder where she is too. I can see why Jeremy was always tongue tied when he wanted to ask Candy out.....LOL
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 Brown was also in the Star Trek episode The Alternative Factor.Of course Mark Lenard played Spock's father,probably his best known role.David Soul was in the episode The Apple.I think any straight male who saw that show had a crush on Bridget Hanley.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx LOL....That's true!!! Hey, I was only 10 or 11 years old though. Bridget was a lot more of a turn-on than the little girls in Mrs. Dorgant's 6th grade class that I'd see everyday. And I remember all the girls back then were in love with Bobby Sherman and Donny Osmond.....lol.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 I was about he same age when it aired.My feelings were the same.Sherman also was popular with young boys then.He was a bit of a role model.When David Cassidy came on the scene he faded.He was not as effeminate as many others in that genre of music,e.g. Cassidy or today,that super sissified Justin Bieber.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx Well, what passes for music nowadays is little more than noise pollution anyway. I remember when I was a kid we had guys like Michael Landon (Little Joe Cartwright) and Ken Curtis (Festus) would come to the old McNeese Auditorium during rodeos and then put on a show and sign autographs after. The last concert I went to was when Jerry Reed came to Harrah's Casino by the Civic Center. Most of them nowadays, I wouldn't go see if the tickets were free.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 Many of thesame people came to Beaumont for the YMBL Rodeo & Spindletop Horse Show.I saw Homer & Jethro one year at the rodeo.Another year I saw Alan Hale,Jr. & Bob Denver.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx I imagine that since it's such a short trip between Beaumont and Lake Charles they would come to this region at the same time. Hey, I remember when I was a kid I thought anybody who was on TV was a celebrity, even the guys who would tell the news on the local stations or the guys like Cowboy John who would show cartoons in the afternoon on Channel 4 out of Port Arthur.....LOL.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 I was a huge fan of Cowboy John.On my 10th birthday he announced it on the air,I was on cloud 9!I miss the local celebrities like those people were back then.Very little local programming is done today except for news.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx Ha ha....I was probably watching that day. I remember he always had kids on from all over southeast TX and a few from southwest LA. I wish they still had local shows like that on TV. I think back in the '60s every city must have had shows like that. Cowboy John in Beaumont, Kartoon Kapers in Lake Charles and Polycarp in Lafayette....LOL.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 Channels 6 & 12 had similar shows also.Uncle Willie was on 6 until about 1965 until he retired,they just ran cartoons afterward.Bill Hammond did Uncle Willie on KFDM radio for years before going on TV.About the same time the radio station was sold & became KLVI.Colonel Candy Cane was on 12 form 1963-5,Henry Larcade moved to 4 & they only showed cartoons in the time slot for several years later.I miss those shows,too.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx I never realized KLVI used to have the same call letters as the TV station. When I was a kid very few Astros games were televised and I used to listen to Gene Elston and Loel Passe do the games on KLVI. That was back around 1970 or so. I can't believe it's been 40 years.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 C.Blakey Locke owned them both.He sold the radio station in 1964 or 5 which meant they had to change their call letters.Channel 4 was originally KPAC like AM 1250 but changed their call letters to KJAC when Jefferson Amusement Co. bought the TV station about a year later.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx It was probably KPAC when I first started watching TV as a little kid. I remember my parents had a Zenith black and white with a rabbit ears antenna on top. Then we got an outdoor antenna and a color Zenith around 1967 or 68. Now with cable and countless stations to pick from I can't believe we only had the choice of a few local stations in Beaumont, Lake Charles and Lafayette at one time. But you know what, I think the programming was better back then. No MTV or BET garbage.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 Funny how with all those channels & all show garbage.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@dlsofsetx Yeah, I know. I even called Communicomm, which is the cable company here and asked them if I could get a better deal by cancelling stations like MTV, BET and MSNBC.....stations that I never watch. But there's no way out. Seems like it's all or nothing with these cable companies. And they keep going up in price every year too. I'm about ready to start considering going to a satellite dish.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 Unfortunatly,they're similar.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
@ridgerunner721601 Thanks for sharing your memories--certainly a lot posting here with these old shows
windstorm1000 1 year ago
What memories this brings back!
sonnywestfan1 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing this!
GregInCalifornia 1 year ago
Once met a woman from Seattle. I started singing the first two lines in the form of a question. She was familiar with the show and just joined right in. She said she was a Bobby Sherman fan when the show was aired.
jtiptree 1 year ago
Just remembered. Until tonight, the last time I heared the vocals to this was Wednesay night July 16 1969.. the day Apollo 11 went the to the moon.
Mr76Yearsago 1 year ago 5
I always thought the vocals were off with the music's beat. It sounds like they had to match the lyrics to the music and almost rush through it. Its not bad, and I like the nostalgia. I like Bobby's regular version also, where the backup vocalists are the same people who did the Partridge Family vocals. All I think of while hearing Bobby perform "Seattle" is Shirley and the kids backing them up. LOL
regency98us 1 year ago 2
Dvideon- would you be kind enough to post the same opening WITHOUT the words?
Everyone else who's attempted this has screwed up with very poor audio quality- sounds like you could be a hero and fix this?
Thank You for your hard work-
Trailltrader 1 year ago
Excellent- if I remember right this was only used for one season, and then the other season didn't have it but I've forgotten which got which.
Excellent audio, excellent video considering the other crap that people have posted
Trailltrader 1 year ago
Thanks for doing this! I loved the show when I was a kid! Too bad it only lasted two seasons!
stlgtrace 1 year ago
"Here Come The Brides" had one of the greatest TV themes of all time, both with and without vocals. Had the show been a bigger hit, lasting several seasons and remembered as a TV classic, the theme would be remembered as such.
signcrash 1 year ago
Always loved the vocals by The New Establishment,and this series. I too had serious pre-teen love for Bridget Hanley from 1968-1970.
frightfan1 1 year ago
@frightfan1 I liked the vocals for this too, It was one of the best Television themes in the entire 1960's. Also, I felt the same way as a teen about Susan Tolsky, and still wonder what she is doing with her career today,.
Mr76Yearsago 1 year ago
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Mr76Yearsago 1 year ago
Haven't heard this in years! Thanks :)
dlafga 1 year ago
Perhaps one of my favorites from years ago. I had the "Hots" for Bridget Hanley then and I was just a kid!
SaddlebackMacUSMC 1 year ago 2
@SaddlebackMacUSMC
Well, wait in line behind me- I hat the hots for her first. Take a number, pack a sack lunch, sit down,,,I'll be awhile. Probably a very long while- all of the 20 seconds it'll take her staff to throw me out of the Whidbey Island Theater Group near Seattle where she teaches her skills and does work now she's retired.
To meet her is on my "bucket" list...
Trailltrader 1 year ago
Thank you!!! I remembered the vocal version of this TV theme and was very frustrated when the first DVD reissue didn't include it. This was one of my favorite shows from two very busy TV seasons (though it was considered un-cool for males to admit liking this series -- maybe because of the title and the fan magazines' focus on Bobby Sherman and Bridget Hanley).
AGGeiger 2 years ago 2
Dvideon, your recreation of first season opening is MUCH appreciated. The only time I heard the vocal version of this after the first season reruns, was on a radio station in Colorado Springs playing old TV themes, and that was in 1999 !!!!!!!!!! Again thank you for finding this audio.
impassee 2 years ago
Yeah, I'm willing to believe you Desertboi. But Sony released Season 1 on DVD, with the same non-vocal opening for all 26 episodes. And some fans believe only the 2nd season had the vocals. I remember Biddie's picture being added. But not exactly when or in which season. I wouldn't put it past Sony to cheat. If they ever do the 2nd season DVDs. It wouldn't surprise me if the vocal song was still MIA.
youtub3k 2 years ago
this isn't the correct opening sequence for the theme version with lyrics ... season 2 had new cast pictures & included biddie & clancy in the sequence ~ but i just read your note/info so now i understand why it's incorrect ;p FYI : good job - very enjoyable - i hope it doesn't get deleted! :)
desertboi84 2 years ago
Thanks for the compliments. It was a lot of work, but the end result was well worth it.
I understand that they added the vocals sometime midway of Season 1. I was wonder if they changed the visuals at that time, or waited until Season 2.
Dvideon 2 years ago
yes you are correct ~ when the lyrics were added half way through season 1 the cast images were also updated plus 'biddie & clancy' got a frame credit as well ~ it stayed that way & was not updated or changed during season 2 :)
desertboi84 2 years ago