WKRP closing credits explanation

((continued from below)) On the spot words?? No. Studio time isn't cheap. Musicians can't afford risking cost and time overruns because they were not prepared, and preparations include BOTH music and words. But hey, that's my opinion, and "wikipedia" is the current "god" of all knowledge. What do I know?? It's still a fun song, and a fantastic TV show!!!

As a musician myself, it is EXTREMELY difficult to create words "on-the-spot" to a song like WKRP's. With all due respect to "wikipedia" (some of us are decades older than "wikipedia"), think of this: Jim and the other session musicians did not simply go into the studio and fire up that song, first take. It was thought out. Jim probably had words PREPARED IN HIS MIND that matched the song characteristics. ((continued))

this was a thought /obsession as a child. I used to watch the show, want the voiceover to go away, and hear the song...yes I allways wondered about the words...but then the documentaries came on such as Entertainment Tonight, and WIkipedia. SOmetimes in Syndication, there would be no voiceover. Now they have it on DVD and an explanation on WIkipedia, also check out the 1978 film "FM"!!!

read wikipedia about this; the nonsense words were a comment on you cant understand the words to rock songs...

lets go drinking at 'the bad tooth bar!!" woohoo

From Wikipedia: The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits", was a rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs

Quad ROFL! Poodle had a lid on. Pure genius!

Yeah, gibberish was the only alternative possibility. I just love this video, though. I was laughing so hard I thought I'd wake the kids.

Moose...if only I drank!! As I said, just my opinion. Yes, a couple of words need tweaked. But for over 30 years I've been deciphering sounds, information, and other "interesting stuff" from worldwide radio transmissions...."spooky, eh??"!! Anyhow, how 'bout YOU and all the 'KRP fans here having a Shot 'o Bourbon, I'll raise a glass of Cranberry, and we'll toast WKRP!

You'd need to have at least one shot of bourbon before you could come up with any lyrics for that.. perhaps more than one for good measure.