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For those interested -
This CD features the "real" Melrose Place theme, the one heard over 200+ episodes, for seven seasons, from 1992 to 1999 on the FOX network. It's not the awkward alternate version from the compilation "Television's Greatest Hits: Cable Ready", nor the jazz version from the Melrose Place Jazz CD, but the televised version, the best one. I know this has been a source of much fustration and annoyance for fans trying to locate and acquire the correct version, but it's here now.
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I grew up in the 1970's and 80's and watched most of these shows. Just like a favorite song from a period in your life can take you back to that time, these theme songs can do the same. I originally purchased this item for the radio station that I work for, to use as "beds" for the DJ's to talk over. A great product.
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The Munsters are known for their great theme song. Why isn't it on here? As for the 100 "Greatest" TV themes, I wouldn't say they are the "greatest", but just 100 different TV themes.
Besides, a lot of the themes on this CD, you can download at sitcomsonline.com
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As a fan of TV themes from way back, it's good to hear that in this compilation TVT Records finally went authentic instead of using the many "re-creations" they have issued in the past.
Now, someone needs to introduce those folks to a little bit of technology I like to call an "equalizer". The "classic" themes on this set sound mostly like someone stuck a microphone up to a TV speaker to record them. (Maybe TVT Records found the tape I made of TV themes back in the 60s?) A LOT could have been done to make the songs sound a whole lot better than they do here. And it wouldn't be inauthentic--that shrillness in so many of the old themes was installed to counteract the effect of land line distribution way back when, not because the producers wanted to pierce your ears from the inside.
A couple of inauthentic edits have been applied, too: The Mary Tyler Moore theme has the MTM logo "meow" spliced in, in place of the final note. Cute, but it doesn't work. The Addams Family theme (which suffers from too much noise reduction, btw) and The Jetsons theme have the beginning and ending themes spliced together.
With the older themes, a lot of times TVT has given us the ending theme only, which is going to sound wrong to a lot of people. You won't hear Rod Serling on the Twilight Zone theme. And I don't know what exactly went wrong with the Flinstones theme, but it ain't right.
Nitpicks? Maybe. But TVT Records wants to splash "All Original" on the cover, so I think it's fair to point out these things.
I won't argue over whether these are truly the 100 greatest TV themes. They definitely got some of the good ones. THE greatest TV theme, in my opinion, isn't here, but you can hear it at my web site (see my sig line, above).
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