it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.

Another famous example of emulating instrumentation instead of singing the words is the theme song for The New Addams Family series on Fox Family Channel ( now ABC Family ).

Passing through: The theme song to the 1960s U. S. television comedy series Car 54, Where Are You?

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.

The theme from Field of Dreams was played at the last game at Memorial Stadium in 1991, and the song " Magic to Do " from the stage musical Pippin was used that season to commemorate " Orioles Magic " on 33rd Street.

* Constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by The Four Lads and later covered by They Might Be Giants and many others entitled " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

The show's theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain, " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", as the show's tagline.

The Car Talk theme song is " Dawggy Mountain Breakdown " by bluegrass artist David Grisman.

Episodes are called " sessions ", each of which follows a different musical theme, and episode titles are borrowed from notable album or song names ( e. g. " Sympathy for the Devil ", " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " My Funny Valentine ") or make use of a genre name (" Mushroom Samba ", " Heavy Metal Queen ").

MFSB released " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", a 1974 hit recording featuring vocals by The Three Degrees, which became the first disco song to reach number one, after " Love's Theme ", on the Billboard Hot 100 ; it was written as the theme song for Soul Train.

" ( Brubeck wrote, and the Quartet performed, the theme song for the Craig Stevens CBS drama series ; the music from the series became material for the " New York " album.

" The first episode of The Doris Day Show aired on September 24, 1968, and, from 1968 to 1973, employed " Que Sera, Sera " as its theme song.

The song " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps " was included in the soundtrack of the Australian film Strictly Ballroom, and became a theme song for the British TV show, Coupling, with Mari Wilson performing it for the title sequence.

The Blue Men play a short snippet of the show's theme song, and one dons Doraemon's beanie.

Lee Jackson's theme song Grabbag has elicited many spin-offs and remixes over the years by both fans and professional musicians, including an officially sanctioned studio version by the popular thrash metal outfit Megadeth.

" 9 to 5 ", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit.

It was poorly received by critics, but Bowie's theme song rose to number two in the UK charts.

* Paul Gordon: Co-Composer for the English language theme song.

* Kouji Wada: Performer of the opening themes of Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier, the second opening theme of Digimon Savers, and the evolution song of Digimon Xros Wars

The club's theme song is called " See the Bombers Fly Up " and is based on the tune of Johnnie Hamp's 1929 song " Keep Your Sunny Side Up " at an increased tempo.

Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.

The theme of glorious summer coming after a long winter of discontent and repression was, he has told us, congenial to his artistic sense.

Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

The main theme has a distinct 1960s feel to it and is known to be a highly complex piece of music due to the quick playing of the Violin.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

For example, his engraving of The Last Supper of 1523 has often been understood to have an evangelical theme, focussing as it does on Christ espousing the Gospel, as well the inclusion of the Eucharistic cup, an expression of Protestant utraquism, although this interpretation has been questioned.

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

Joshua takes forward Deuteronomy's theme of Israel as a single people worshiping Yahweh in the land God has given them.

This chiastic grouping of chapters having the same theme has implications when it comes to the chapters containing prophecies ( A, A ', A ", A '").

The contents are correspondingly varied: a confession of sin and a plea to God not to maintain his anger forever ( ch. 63: 7 – 64: 11 ); a poem on the theme that God has no need of a temple because Heaven is his throne and Earth his footstool ( Isaiah 66: 1 – 2 ); verses setting out conditions for admission to the community ; complaints of sin, incompetence and paganism ; and distinctions between the " righteous " and the " sinners ", foreshadowing the categories used in much later Judaism and early Christianity.

( The statement that Israel has a certain period of peace after each judge is a recurrent theme )

Instead of a tightly unified storyline, Gerald Mast has seen Chaplin's films as consisting of sketches tied together by the same theme and setting.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the ' Clark Ashton Smythos '.

A theme in the development of this field has been to duplicate the abilities of human vision by electronically perceiving and understanding an image.

More recently, beginning at the 1997 CHOGM, the meeting has had an official ' theme ', set by the host nation, on which the primary discussions have been focused.

Although it has a unified theme in its emotional content, the writers ( Brian Wilson and Tony Asher ) have said repeatedly that it was not necessarily intended to be a narrative.

However, there is also a ditheistic theme within traditional Wicca, as the Horned God has dual aspects of bright and dark-relating to day / night, summer / winter-expressed as the Oak King and the Holly King, who in Wiccan myth and ritual are said to engage in battle twice a year for the hand of the Goddess, resulting in the changing seasons.

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

Most of Dartmouth's buildings are designed in the Georgian American colonial style, a theme which has been preserved in recent architectural additions.

The institution of the Eucharist has been a key theme in the depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art, as in this 19th-century Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | Bouveret painting.