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.

-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.

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.

Even the I Love Lucy theme wasn't spared from being disco-ized.

The theme tune for the series was written and performed by The Divine Comedy, and was later reworked into " Songs of Love ", a track from the album Casanova.

' Love and honor ' is an early theme in Mitchell's writing, as in The Knight and the Lady ( c. 1909 ), where the " good knight " and the " bad knight " duel with swords for a lady.

Engrish has featured occasionally in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone cartoon South Park, such as the song " Let's Fighting Love ", used in the episode " Good Times With Weapons ", which parodies the poorly translated opening theme sequences sometimes shown in anime, and in Parker and Stone's feature length Team America: World Police where the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is depicted singing the song " I'm so Ronery ".

The melody of the popular song No Other Love was later taken from the ' Victory at Sea ' theme entitled " Beneath the Southern Cross ".

" is the theme song for the US television series Charmed and, in a cover version, for the 1996 Columbia Pictures feature film, The Craft, in which it is played under the opening credits by Love Spit Love.

The first theme, " I Love Hollywood ", and its accompanying music cues were composed by Jennifer May Mauldaur & Paul David Weinberg, with the main theme vocals by series regular / co-producer Whoopi Goldberg and was used from 1998 to 2002, with a remixed version used for the 2001 – 02 season.

Before 1987, the show's theme song was the Hank Snow hit " Hello Love ".

After that, his remaining screen roles were broad caricatures of himself, as in The Great Profile ( with " Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love " as his theme music ) and World Premiere.

* " Evergreen ( Love Theme from A Star Is Born )", movie theme of A Star is Born ( 1976 ) by Barbra Streisand

When asked by critics as to an overarching theme for the film Hitchcock responded: " Love and good order is no defense against evil ".

The theme song played during the opening, " Love Is All Around ," was written and performed by Sonny Curtis.

The band's recent albums, i ( 2004 ) and Distortion ( 2008 ), both followed the album theme structure of 69 Love Songs: The song titles on i begin with the letter ( or, in the case of half the songs ' titles, the pronoun ) " I ", whilst Distortion was an experiment in combining noise music with their typically unconventional musical approach.

Similar in plot and characters to both Love is Colder than Death ( 1969 ) and The American Soldier ( 1970 ), Gods of the Plague ’ s theme of homoerotic love would reappear repeatedly in the director's films.

It included the hit singles " If You Love Somebody Set Them Free ", ( backed with the non-LP song " Another Day ") " Fortress Around Your Heart ", " Love Is the Seventh Wave ", and " Russians ", the last of which was based on a theme from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite.

The sentimental and upbeat theme song, " Love is a Many-Splendored Thing " was one of the first songs written for a movie to become no.

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

) Love Story ", the theme from the 1970 film Love Story