Love and the Happy Days
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Wouldn't this make "Happy Days" the most successful spinoff of all time?
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Does anyone have access to the original Seasons 2-4 theme song (NOT the Cowsills version), with the single screaming firework exploding (visually only) after "Looove, love" and then the short skit, followed by the main theme, which, after the "LAS" logo, was followed by "Tonight Starring"? ("Starring" was shoved in there for the daytime reruns.) Would really love to see this restored version.
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I miss those great theme songs on shows. I hate they have to produce tv now for a.d.d. idiot kids who cannot concentrate for more than a minute on anything. Creative original music is really disappearing from tv.
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I remember that February night, I think it was a Friday night and, I was nine years old turning ten in just a few months, AAAHHH the MeMOries!
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Great bit of Americana. Wish we could get the whole segment from the show. I remember watching it live back then. Geez... who knew, right?
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"Love and the Happy Days" was merely a little Love American Style skit. But, it did so well that they decided maybe they had a series,....and so it is that Happy Days the show came to be. Just think, ...without that first little skit we would have never had Happy Days, Lavern & Shirley, or Mork and Mindy.
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Oddly enough, two of Roberta Flack's songs ("Killing Me Softly," "Together Through the Years") were composed by the very person who made this theme song (Charles Fox). Who knew? :oP
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I'd say HAPPY DAYS opening FTW.
The love american style just doesn't fit the show.
You are partially correct. The theme song was originally sung by the The Cowsills in Season 1. Starting in Season 2, the theme song was sung by The Charles Fox Singers(which consisted of John Bahler, Tom Bahler, and Ron Hicklin)and was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as on all episodes in syndication.
i1custd 4 years ago 3
I would assume this genre of music would have gone out of style around 1976-77 about the time Disco became the hot trend, the opening theme to shows such as Angie and Love Boat had more of a Disco beat. The Love American Style theme song was somewhere between Folk music and Disco. This style was a lot more innocent and more sing along kind of music with nice harmonies. I miss the days of good TV theme music.
cygnusixion 3 years ago