Rota 66 - Route 66 - 1960

[ValdirD20]

Qual o nome desta música?

[mrstevehartman]

1 Adam 12, please respond in your Vette !

[linusvanpelter]

What has happened to America's good taste and breezy coolness?

[atlantic1952]

My god, the good times had come and now they have gone, it didnt last long enough, so sad.....

[1957thack]

Classic Theme Song! Really gets the desire and juices flowing to Drive a cool convertible around.

[coololds85]

Molly from ADAM-12 I didn't know he appeared in route 66 damnn

[sodbuster925]

one of my favorite shows when i was a kid -------god 51 yrs ago

[mouseinthehouse09]

What fantasy world did you live in? My dad had to work as many as four jobs at a time to keep his house and support a family. My mother largely raised my mentally retarded sister AND worked part-time in a department store. Me? I was oblivious ... being 11 years old. You guys remain oblivious and I suspect you're quite a bit older than 11.

[jazzfan19605]

@CADtekk U-Betcha!

[schizzie345]

My all-time favorite t.v. show.

[slapbush]

my introduction to jazz!!!

[annerosemay]

No Clean Air Act here.

[jd55192]

@annerosemay And the life expectancy was 10 years fewer than now. Oh, how I miss the past!

[dukes0916]

@annerosemay Took the words right out of my mouth! Mr. Milner is smiling as if he's basking in the majestic beauty of America's open roads... and the sky looks like a scene from The Day After! (On the plus side... at least the factories are still open!)

[reddnec]

Lol...wow thx.

[jazzfan19605]

OMG! Is that Jazz playing on TV? Must put an end to this right now. I'm going to write my congressmen.

[brickchruch]

The best tv show theme song ever

[delmardon]

This is what Martin Milner once described as the first of what would become a very successful formula. The " town to town dogooders" ie The Incredible Hulk, The Fugitive and more...Over 40 shows a year shot on location....

[rotoclip]

some s.o.b. in hollywood would make these guys out to be gay now days.was fun to watch.

[ftsjr]

I was just a child when this was originally on, but I used to watch it on Nickelodeon in the mid-80s. I became a huge fan. I wish Nick at Nite or TVLand would show it again.

[WOWJBEOWULF]

The superhighways were brand new in post World War Two; the wagon ruts became stories of our grandparents, with some still around in the 1960s. Route 66 is the route from Los Angeles to Chicago that follows the winter train route, for a year long access. I remember looking at the old maps, and it wasn't until the 1980s we see the superhighways completed, as sections of the roads were still the old ways and followed the frontier trails and train routes: Many new ghost towns afterward.

[slinky460]

I was 10 years old then, Dad worked on the railroad, mom was a house wife. The father could support a home, a Chevy station wagon wife, 2 kids, no problem. Yes there was pollution, as seen here in this video and the cold war, but over all, life was good. There was always good paying jobs, if you wanted to work hard. I don't remember any 18-35 years old kids living at home with mom and dad like you see now. You were taught to make it on your own, support yourself, become a responsible adult.

[BlueRoseRocketBand2]

it was a unique place in time. Between the beatnik and the hippy era. Where wandering and the open road was a rite of passage. Those of us who lived it understand.

Where the future is an open book with all kinds of possiblities and one follows the setting sun till it meets the sea.

[hotoldies]

I loved this show and the theme song. I heard sometime ago that Count Bassie was the piano player.

[56Packman]

@hotoldies --Basie was not the piano player, it was most likely Paul Smith, Bill Miller or Stan Freeman, pianists that Nelson Riddle used most often.

[htrrz]

when tv had shows with a story, good stars, theme music, guest stars, those were the great days of tv.

[dinamarcamatt15]

I agree!A time of excellent histories with an ethic moral,pure vision of life,good actors,a gold age of films and unforgettable musics,this one of Route 66 was my favorite when I was a child,about ten years.I love it!!!!!still I love it!!!!!!

[o1kric]

that's just what i was thinking - sheesh! - to climb in a car and just motor away, and be able to exist financially! boy-o-boy those must have been the days!

great clip / vibe / sounds - love it :)

[redfoot2009]

Ola. When I was little, I would watch this show with my family gathered around the B&W TV. But the theme always made me uneasy because when they played it at the end of the episode, I knew the next show would be "The Twilight Zone." And I was terrified of that. To this day when I hear the theme (which I love) it still makes me a little anxious. Funny,

[tubewart]

Best part was driving the Vette!

[britfrenir]

I saw this show is on Me Too in Chicago.

[mancalledT]

Driving the Vette................

[00ai10]

懐かしいとても好きな曲です。

[appapo3]

I always watched this show, even after George quit. I don't remember seeing smoke stacks along rt 66. I would really love to see the smoke stacks any place ,and soon.

[jefferzone61]

Hard to imagine road trippin' without sunglasses.....

[andreasskol]

nice

[misteromeara]

This show was a cheesy ripoff of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" which the producers couldn't buy the rights to. Milner is supposed to be Neal Cassidy and the dark haired one is supposed to be Kerouac.

[sweetcurmudgeon]

@misteromeara

Seriously? Man, did they ever miss their mark!

[paullubliner]

@misteromeara Uh huh.

[joncates2838]

we watched every episode.

[belair55zz56]

I remember this series, I wanted a vette after that.

[desertnub]

One of the coolist TV theme songs. Just thinking about the other day...

[ftsjr]

The theme is an absolute CLASSIC! It really gives you the feeling of cruising down the highway.

[ezandycle]

Great intro that stood the test of time. In the 80's, Fred Norris used it as background for live ad reads on the Howard Stern show.

[brickchruch]

What a great time to be a kid the tv shows on 3 stations 2 4 and 7 route 66 my alltime fav theam

[mmangum4444]

@brickchruch

so true, so true!

[kokodronmaldonado]

y eso que contaminaban rico en los sesenta como habrá sido después...vaya los gringos son unos conchudos...

[raulcha1972]

que bestias para contaminar el medio ambiente y todavia lo filman

[Fussmaster1]

Amazin! American industry? What's that? No Chinese or Indians around. Now we're a nation in decline.

[bobbywason]

@Fussmaster1

And no Japanese or foriegn cars???? I can't believe it happened back then in the good ole days.

[Phiguezy88]

This opening scene was filmed on Poland Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio. The clip is cut off, but the next scene showed the 'Vette making a right hand turn onto the Center Street Bridge. The fight scenes in this Route 66 episode were filmed in the field house at Struthers High School - back when gasoline was about 28.9 cents a gallon, and JFK was president...The presumptive connection Struthers had with Route 66 was Ohio State Route 616 which ran through the town.

[paullubliner]

Phiguezy88; How much of the railroad yard is left these days?

[Phiguezy88]

The railroad tracks are still pretty much there - but the steel mill facilities are long gone - some new stuff there now. If you want to see for yourself, use Google Earth to take you to 41deg 04 '02.74" N and 80deg 36' 26.50" W (approx. location of the 'Vette on Poland Ave in the opening scene).

[Soujurn]

Great time in America. Gas was cheap. You could find work almost everywhere. Cafe food was tasty and affordable.

I wish I could live that lifestyle now.

[Spartacus217]

@Soujurn You're right, and it's depressing me.

[HerrLeutnant67]

@Soujurn

Those were the GOOD OLD TIMES ! When America was at its BEST !

[orangechallenger]

@Soujurn unless you are pure white

[OldsVistaCruiser]

@orangechallenger - You're right. When this show aired, from the last couple of months of the Eisenhower administration to the beginning of the LBJ administration, at least two of the 8 states (OK & TX) that the real US 66 went through still had Jim Crow laws. OK even had a law which allowed segregated phone booths!

[camarosbob]

@Soujurn In one sense you are right, but sometimes it appears that the grass is greener. I'm sure there were a lot of problems in the 60's and it wasn't always so pleasant depending on your circumstances.

[holmsatlarge]

@Soujurn Wish i could go back to it!!

[Mickagume]

@Soujurn Don't we all?!....

[JettRink50]

That show rarely filmed on Route 66.

Been t here and it's gone.

[usdanyo]

I was thinking it was Gary, Indiana. I don't think I'd drive through there in a convertable nowdays.

[daikaiju20]

gracias amigo! i dont know this show but that is really a classic theme!

[floodstrand]

It winds from chicago to LA more than 2000 miles along the way, goes from st louis, joplin mo, oklahoma city looks mighty pretty, see amarillo, gallup new mexico, flagstaff az, dont forget winona, kingman, barstow, san bernadino! : )

[Gopherreznick]

I remember only needing high school to get a good job.. I grew up in Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville).

[jeffpolara]

Right after this America started its decline. I miss those days when you did not need a masters degree to make good money, own a house, have wife stay at home and buy cool cars.

[jcross21]

WTF? a stay at home wife? Have you ever tried to have a conversation w/ a stay at home wife/Mom? The View & Oprah is the main source for info. Why would any man want a women that dumb? Only to make him look more worldly & wise? He must have a small penis to be that insecure!

[jeffpolara]

Your correct going through life with only 8" has mentally disturbed me. Ever try to talk to a working woman. They act like they have balls and are more shallow than any stay at home mom.

[monorailred1]

What? Not this stay at home mom. I hate The View and Oprah, haven't even seen an episode of her's and The View is for so called modern liberal fools who have forgotten morals and values. I work hard to take care of my family and stopped my career to stay at home w/ my kids vs letting some daycare center raise them.

[PalaniRides]

@monorailred1 "Liberal fools?"Forgotten values like Craig,Vitter,Foley,etc did? What kind of morals and values did Dubya employ in sending this country off into a deadly,costly,illegal war in Iraq? I'm sure with views like yours,your kids are really going to turn out well adjusted. People like you who view this country's citizens in such black and white terms are an embarrassment to this country.Keep your politics out of threads such as this.There are political threads for this.

[suspekt29]

@jeffpolara I have a Masters degree and I don't make good money :).

[micmac99]

@jeffpolara We can get back to that again, but Congress and Wall Street would rather get paid.

[edmilan1]

@jeffpolara You are so right about what's happened to America.

[lumpagogo]

Route 66

Natural "fix"

Open car

we saw the stars

And we behaved

Like Burma Shave

[gorgnaga]

Do you guys remember the onion episode? Season 3, it was only shown once, but hard to find online, axxo might have it but still hard to get.

[nanlisa]

Ah, the early Sixties! Yes, when Kennedy was president and when I was just a little girl.

[estelle715]

I loved your comment b/c everything you said applies to me,too! I actually saw Kennedy when he came to out town. Yes, sometimes I wished we could turn the clock back and re-live those days again!

[gorgnaga]

and I also was a little girl but now a proud man!

[akytilop]

This brings back memories of a round trip my 3friends and I made on Route 66 in 1965. The four of us were recently out of the military so we decided to travel from Pennsylvania to California and back. We had a great time.

[britfrenir]

I only went on what was left of it in the 90's. I was born in 1965.

[robtcf]

For those who are interested, several episodes of Route 66 are available on DVD. You can obtain them from Netflix, if you wish.

I watched many of them recently and was impressed with the quality of the show, especially the "on location" filming and the earthy scripts. It was nostalgic seeing America in the early 1960's again, and of course, the theme song is always great to hear.

[whizbang47]

Nice to hear the theme again. One episode they went to work for a cropduster outfit and brought them bad luck. Stearman hit power lines and load blew up. Memorable, you might say.

[yaknbo]

What were two men doing spending so much time together traveling around in the same car?

Boy love?

[IanHunedoara8]

Love the strings and blues piano playing off each other-- a true classic!

[ArkyMalarkey]

The stars, the cars, the series, the theme songs....the early sixties, America at its very, very best.

[BlueRoseRocketBand2]

great show great music nealson riddle wrote the theme always loved it heard a jazz band played it once long time ago wow. great chord pattern for improv. main melody is a great lesson in jazz/blues line. no shows like this no more. it was obviously done with a care that is lost now a days. one writer did most of the shows went on to do many hit movies. late 50s early 60s was a cool time. writers,poets, thinkers, musicians right before the era of vietnam.then the world changed. what if?

[TubeGunner]

This show was cool. I'm not old enough to have seen it in the sixties and remember it, but I used to watch it all the time in rerun for about 20 years, but I don't see it on much anymore. They would tool around the country in that Vette, and the stories and co stars were good. It wasn't the same after George Maharis left, but then later I saw Martin Milner back behind the wheel, and this time in LAPD black and white. :-D

[pitts64]

I asked around and there was a show done here in Pittsburgh. I know those mills.

BTW there is a rt 66 here, it goes up through Ford city...

[delbard1]

I think that mill they showed was the J&L @ Alliquppa. The mill was on one side of the Ohio River. The highway was one the other. (posted by a Yinzer).

There was one episode that was shot a the La Mount restaurant. from Mt Washington section of the the city.

(for non-Pgh residents): There is an escarpment that overlooks downtown Pgh. The street is called Grandview Ave.

some resteraunts are along the side overlooking downtown.

[pitts64]

That looks like Pittsburgh!

[emtube]

Wow, time slip city! I remember watching this as a kid. This and 77 Sunset Strip were about the 2 coolest shows I watched at that time. This music has a really sophisticated touch.

[ShockDoc]

Wonder why they didnt just use the Bobby Troup song, ROUTE 66? Nat King Cole

[art4life4me]

I think--or so I've heard--

Silliphant and Leonard (the producers) didn't want to spend the money it would cost to use Cole's version of Troupe's song, so they hired Nelson Riddle to write an original. Lucky for us, because this is one of the best TV themes ever done.

[arjonapapi]

Hey! Someone had the intros from "Bronson" or "The Inmortal" with Christopher George?

[wahoo76]

"Route 66" (1960) First season, Episode 28 -- "The Opponent" -- Buz visits and inspires his boyhood hero, a former boxing great (Darren McGavin) who is now on the skids.

[jkmlight]

Where is "route 66" today? I travel down I-95 south.

[OldsVistaCruiser]

Once called "The Mother Road", which went from Chicago to LA, U.S. Route 66 was decommissioned in 1985.

Many segments still exist, though, and portions in several states are still designated as state route 66. Movements are afoot to reinstate it as a US highway.

Its replacements, from Chicago to LA, are: I-55 (Chicago to St. Louis)

I-44 (St. Louis to Oklahoma City)

I-40 (Oklahoma City to Barstow, CA)

I-15 (Barstow to San Bernardino, CA)

I-210, CA 2/I-10 (San Bernardino to Santa Monica)

[bowlingballheadz]

Nelson Riddle Route 66

[VanderleyAntiqueira]

Muito bom rever esta abertura e este piano inesquecível. Hoje em dia não se faz seriados com esta qualidade. Obrigado por postar!

Very good to review this opening and this unforgetable piano. Nowadays they don't make series with this quality. Tanks for post!

Vanderley-Brazil.

[juskisiberiano]

Gracias; es una excelente serie; de lo poco realmente bueno que ha habido en TV.

[VicenteSanabria]

¿Sabían que esta serie nunca fue filmada en la llamada Ruta 66 de Estados Unidos?

[mancalledT]

Do you have more??? !!!!! What a great show!!

[33Mark221]

It was this show, "The Fugitive" and "Ben Casey" that I discovered in the 1980s when they began to re-run them. I loved 'em all. Today's shows are all dreck in comparison.

[chardtomp]

In the mid 80s I was stationed in Newport RI with the Navy and some local channel showed this late at night. I was surprised how entertaining this show was.

[r26y871]

Fell in love with that show when they showed the re-runs on Nick-at-Nite in the 80's! Thanks for posting that! Brings back great memories!

[GenericGene]

Long time no see - great post.

[AtterseeSommer]

send more.

[EONSFTFAN]

Nice to see someone saved MY original video clip after I removed it. After You Tube removed my I Spy close, I took this opening down along with all the closes for Route 66 I had posted.

[nanlisa]

They just don't make good shows like this anymore. I don't even care for today's prime time shows.

[dharmamark]

Great Corvette!

[assbreath33]

I loved that show

[KAIJUG]

One of my all time favorite shows

[jamesdelude]

would like to see clips from 77 Sunset Strip.