John Sebastain and Our Viral Moment
Kristin Nilsen 0:01
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Unknown Speaker 0:57
Welcome back to dreams.
Michelle Newman 1:04
Welcome everybody to this encore of an episode from summer of 2021 that we decided very last minute to rerun to date because of something bonkers that has happened very recently. So around two weeks ago, we noticed a large jump in Instagram followers like a few 100 and a couple of days, which for us is significant. And while we were of course happy with that, we didn't really question why because let's be honest, we stopped trying to understand Instagram algorithms years ago, right? But then, over the next week, those 100 changed to 1000s like multiple 1000s. And we were like What the hell is happening? How? Why? So we noticed that all of the new followers came from a real we'd posted on May 8, was just a cute little reel of John Sebastian singing his hit song Welcome back to commemorate the day in 1976. That song hit number one. But as longtime listeners know, over the years, John Sebastian has become almost a godfather to the PCPs. In fact, one of our loyal listeners says we should just probably start referring to him as Uncle John. Right
Carolyn Cochrane 2:23
or maybe St. John. He has come up and so many different ways that have shocked us as we have done this podcast. So, again, longtime listeners might remember when we first talked about him, we were shocked to find out that his godmother is Ethel Mertz aka Vivian Vance and his godfather, Garth Williams, children's illustrator of the little house book series. And Charlotte's Web. So right then we're like, we love this man. Well, you know why else we love this man and we're LT turned up hero.
One of our favorite Shaun Cassidy ditties was first recorded by the lovin spoonful, and it was written by John Sebastian. So he wove his way into our lives that way. So it's been moments like that, where we're all of a sudden, like, what the heck, this guy he is our the patron saint of the PCPs. Let's call him that, for
Michelle Newman 3:29
sure. So much so that now over you know, 170 episodes, anytime one of us will say you'll never believe who you know, blah, blah, blah, the other two. Without question shout Johnson as shit.
Kristin Nilsen 3:41
And it was really our first year of podcasting. When this started to happen, like John Sebastian would just pop up as the answer to every question that we had. It was always John Sebastian, right. So as our numbers of followers are growing quite rapidly, because of this post, we start to dig in a little bit on who it is that's doing the following. And it was interesting. So first, the first thing we notice, it's all men. And we certainly have listeners who are men. But as you probably get the primary, the primary target audience for us is women. And so we're like 100% of men. This is so interesting. So then as we continue to look, no, no, it wasn't just men, it was very specifically black men. Again, as you can imagine, a lot of women, we are women in our 50s, who talk about the pop culture of the 70s and the 80s, which is a lot of white people. So we're like what is um, that's just because of circumstances of how entertainment worked in the 70s. Right? So are like what is it? Why is this all black men that are following us? So then we start noticing that there are some really big names of people who are liking this Post people like Cedric the Entertainer, Eric McCormack from Wheeling grace, Bill Burr, and again, really what is going on? So at one point, we get one person who reposted this and Carolyn is going to tell you about him in a second, who has a whole lot of followers and we start getting even more attention. So we start digging into the comments of this person who reposted the John Sebastian reel that we posted. And oh my god, the things that we learned. Oh, this was like a little puzzle a little present that we were unwrapping little by little here's what we learned in the comments. A lot of the people who are looking at this John Sebastian real are for the first time realizing that the guy singing welcome back the theme to welcome back. Kotter is a white guy. They're like, Whoa, I had no idea. The reason they they are surprised that he's a white guy is because so many of them thought that the person singing the song was Freddy boomboom. Washington, one of the sweat hawks from Welcome back. Kotter who was played by Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, he was a teen idol of the day and he was very popular and they everyone thought that booboo was saying the song. It's so funny. It's so hilarious. But that's just one of the things that makes this so interesting. Here's another thing we discovered in the comments is that people kept saying, Welcome back, Carter, welcome back. Carter. Welcome back. Carter. Like no, no, it's Carter. Carter. Well, here, Kristen. I gotta check myself here. I'm thinking people are getting caught or mixed up with Carter. No, this is because I'm not a football fan. I don't follow ball sports. So apparently, this is a reference to Vince Carter, who other people might know is like an NFL player. No, he's
Carolyn Cochrane 6:53
an NBA back just.
Kristin Nilsen 6:55
I'm sorry. Yes, I'm already missing it. So this is just exposing me. NBA. Basketball is not the same as football. I just want to make sure everybody knows that there to different sports. So anyway, when Vince Carter came back to some basketball team, not football, it's not the same. And then they would play Welcome back as his like theme song. So the whole NBA community now is latching on to this song. See, the more you know, Kristen, right expanding your world every day.
Carolyn Cochrane 7:29
So it was so fun when we saw that NBA All Star four time NBA Champion John Salley liked our real. I was mind blown, mind blown. That might have been more for me than Eric McCormack or Cedric the Entertainer. John Salley. Yeah, I mean, it was just amazing. This whole thing has been a trip for us totally.
Michelle Newman 7:55
And it's ongoing. It's ongoing. I just checked before we came on to record and I was like, Oh, my God, mind just keeps getting blown. See, Carolyn
Kristin Nilsen 8:03
does snowball sorts, I guess.
Carolyn Cochrane 8:06
Girl I know. So balls. I know my ball. Sport sports. Oh, goodness. So the person that reposted our real of John Sebastian was a gentleman named Pete Rock. Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't really know who pete rock was. Let me tell you who pete rock is people. Okay. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time. Okay. Huge. He is a music producer, a DJ, a rapper, he's got over 1 million followers. So all of a sudden, our little reel of John Sebastian is going out to the masses. And because of that, people are finding us and I want to give you a couple of stats. Our reel has reached 153,991 accounts. So that's eyes that have seen this reel. Okay, people have interacted with it 23,919 times. And 2017 of those have visited our profile. It's been played 387,000 times it's been liked 18,000.6 times. It has 950 comments on our reel that doesn't count the comments and the likes that Pete Rock got on his account when he posted 6550 shares and 1537 saved you guys this is in SAS This is crazy. This is nutty, so crazy. All thanks to Pete Rock we gained 2017 follows from this real Okay, well let that sink in everybody.
Michelle Newman 9:52
Okay and understand listeners. For us. That's huge. Like you might be thinking of like a lot of these Instagram influencers. There's how not Kardashians I know we might we might look like it but for us who we get all of our you know followers organically we engage with you guys we we don't buy bots or whatever. So to us this is significant is
Carolyn Cochrane 10:16
huge. So why why is this resonating so much with Pete Rock and then all of his followers? Well I can tell you. So Pete Rock was born in 1970 in the Bronx, so he's growing up in the same neighborhood that welcome back. Kotter is set in he relates to this area, also, and this is a big one, you guys. So 28 years after Welcome Back, Kotter. The theme song hit number one. It was sampled in mazes. He's a rapper, a hip hop artist. He sampled it in his song, welcome back. And it was a huge pat on
Unknown Speaker 10:54
the back to back. Games have changed since I've been around. But the game.
Carolyn Cochrane 11:24
In 2004, this song saw a whole new life and so many people that have also made comments would say, love it, or love Mays, and they'd have mhsc. And I'd be like, now I know he is a famous hip hop artist rapper who sampled the song. And again, it was a hit. So we know that John was onto something. This
Kristin Nilsen 11:46
is so fascinating to us, because it's something huge that was taking place under our nose, and we didn't know about it. So when this whole thing explodes, we're like, what's happening? We don't know. Well,
Carolyn Cochrane 11:59
and I am so grateful. I mean, I've learned so much. And that's what's so great about our podcast is so often we learn things that we never knew that are so interesting. And I found all of this so incredibly interesting. And specifically, there's actually at least four rap songs that I have found that sample. Welcome the Welcome Back Kotter theme, this was the one that kind of hit it the largest for Yes, I am going to say now I'm also going to crown pete rock is another patron saint of the pop culture Preservation Society, because he brought folks to us well, because I found out all these interesting facts about pete rock and about the theme being sampled and these hip hop songs. Of course, I had to travel down Carolyn's rabbit hole, rabbit hole rabbit hole, let's go down the rabbit hole with Carolyn. Okay, there we go. Okay, so here we go. I'm gonna highlight a few that some of our listeners might already be aware of, and then I'm gonna shoot a few more your your way. Okay. John Sebastian, born to do parents born to do parents, just so happened his dad was a famous classical harmonica player, not just a harmonica player, a classical harmonica player. I think that's important, because John Sebastian then grew up with music in the home and musicians everywhere. Burl Ives could be found at his home on many occasion for our lives, you guys remember? Then
Speaker 1 13:35
sitting in the water a little while doing mariotta.
Carolyn Cochrane 13:40
So there we go. We have burl lives. We have Woody Guthrie hung out at his house. We have across the hall. Eleanor Roosevelt is living across the hall from John Sebastian. This guy, I believe, like First
Michelle Newman 13:55
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Yeah, right.
Kristin Nilsen 13:57
I will say in a New York apartment. She doesn't like have a bedroom in their house or anything like that. It's a building. She lives across the hall. Yeah, this is true. They weren't roommates.
Carolyn Cochrane 14:07
So obviously, John grows up around music. It's only natural he would become a musician. He becomes the lead singer of lovin spoonful and we have John Sebastian to thank for do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart? Because he wrote that song lovin spoonful was the first to record that song. And here's another little fun fact for you. The intro of that song, he actually sped up the three chord introduction from Martha and the Vandellas heat wave, heat wave. If you listen to heat wave, you'll you'll hear the similarity.
might be interested to know that John is has been married three times. But his first wife, Jean, but she Weber, later known as butchy, Denver. Did she marry John Denver? No, she did not marry John Denver. She married Bob Denver. She married Gilligan Gilligan. So Jonathan bastions first wife married Gilligan. Neat. I mean, is that not pop culture? Fun fact? extraordinaire? I mean, that is pretty incredible. No kidding. And lastly, you guys, we're going to start a GoFundMe you might not know this, but John Sebastian wrote a stage musical production of Charlotte's Web, including 20 original songs, but it was never produced. Okay, how about my CPS? GoFundMe account that we get John Sebastian's musical of Charlotte's Web produced? What do you say? I would love that
Kristin Nilsen 15:55
okay. And the full circle with him being Garth I'm gonna say Griff, Brooks's Williams is the amazing illustrator, Charlotte's Web, his godson, and now he's gonna produce a musical Charlotte's Web. I can't even take
Michelle Newman 16:09
it. I know also, I can picture that musical you guys. Yeah, she's so cute. Could you see a little fern? Oh God. So because we are certain John Sebastian godfather of the PCPs Uncle John St. John, somehow orchestrated all of this craziness. Today, we are replaying the first episode, we think where he was mentioned, which was coincidentally or not because of his beloved song, welcome back. So welcome to everyone who has recently found us and welcome back. loyalists Welcome back
Carolyn Cochrane 16:56
and I want to say again, it's about the feeling that I get which is almost indescribable. I've tried to name it and I'm going to tell you what I've come up with for right now. I would probably call it the Little House on the Prairie warming sensation effect that it just gave me a warming sensation.
Michelle Newman 17:14
Viral year old standby nipple like nipple lightning it's
Carolyn Cochrane 17:18
it's deeper than nipple lightning. I mean, it's it is it's a song that was saying. Come on again.
Unknown Speaker 17:34
We're gonna be breaking will make you
Carolyn Cochrane 17:39
welcome to the pop culture Preservation Society. The podcast for people born in the big wheel generation, who definitely at some point changed the channel with a set of pliers.
Michelle Newman 17:50
We believe our Gen X childhoods gave us unforgettable songs, stories, characters and images. And if we don't talk about them, they'll disappear like Marcia will and Holly on a routine expedition.
Kristin Nilsen 18:02
And today, we will be saving the songs that told us our favorite show was coming up next, with a countdown of the best TV theme songs of all time.
Carolyn Cochrane 18:10
I'm Caroline.
Kristin Nilsen 18:11
I'm Kristen.
Michelle Newman 18:13
And I'm Michelle and we are your pop culture preservationists.
Kristin Nilsen 18:21
There are songs that trigger memories of spending hours in front of the idiot box after school or sitting on the couch with your whole family waiting for some big weekly event. And later maybe it's a late night show a sitcom that came on after the news every night that signal the day was done. These songs are like portals into our childhoods and they take up serious real estate in our brains.
Michelle Newman 18:42
Just gonna say the word TV theme song. You sing the first thing that comes to mind.
Speaker 1 18:47
Then n n n n n n n n n n any naming that's
Michelle Newman 18:54
that's very respectable. Yeah, TV theme song. What's the first thing comes through?
Speaker 2 18:58
Here's the story of a man named Brady. He was living in a house with lots of kids.
Michelle Newman 19:09
TV theme song What's the first thing that comes to your mind?
Speaker 1 19:11
We're moving on up moving on up to the sky. We're moving on up to the top. We finally got herpes.
Michelle Newman 19:27
Seeing the first TV themes that comes to your head,
Speaker 1 19:30
believe it or not. I'm walking on air on air but thought I could be debt free.
Kristin Nilsen 19:38
If you ask most people, and by people I mean grownups born anywhere from 1940 to 1980 to sing a TV theme song, any TV theme song off the top of their head. It might sound something like that.
Carolyn Cochrane 19:53
It might or it might sound like my husband who sang the theme song from Beretta
Speaker 2 20:03
don't do the crime if you can do the time. No, no. Don't do it.
Kristin Nilsen 20:10
That was the came to his mind.
Carolyn Cochrane 20:12
That's the first one that yes mine.
Kristin Nilsen 20:14
So we Gen Xers and Boomers to for that matter. This is a shared knowledge we we know the words our age mates know the words. That's why we sing the songs on the bus, right Flintstones made the Flintstones, we're What do our kids sing on the bus? Yeah, there was a golden age of TV theme songs. And according to Paste Magazine, it ended in 2008. But
Carolyn Cochrane 20:38
I think there's something to be said for just the kind of television shows that happened after 2008 They're just the family friendly. Let's all sit down together. They just weren't existing as much anymore.
Kristin Nilsen 20:52
That's the siloing right? Yeah, there isn't a show that is for a group of people of various ages. It's very hyperfocused that first
Carolyn Cochrane 21:00
hour of TV used to be very wholesome. And of course, you'll sit down and watch the Waltons and Little House on the Prairie and we're eight 910 and 11 I just think in terms of my whole television evening experience as a child which is kind of what we're talking about that our childhood there just wasn't anything that for a long time, even to me in the after the growing pains family dies kind of generation of TV that really ever happened again.
Michelle Newman 21:33
Well, and for me at least and I'll be able to share some of this when we're talking about our choices for Best TV theme songs. I looked as forward to the theme song as I did to the show I was gonna watch Yeah, does that make sense? Yeah, these are some of the theme songs that broke into the top 10 So these Yeah, big hits. Okay, we have The Rockford Files was number 10 and 1975
those Street Blues number 10 and 1981.
Happy thing from Happy Days rock around the clock was number five and 1976 making it do you remember that show me making it oh you do
okay, I want everyone to do if you want the biggest form of entertainment tonight is I want you to go on YouTube. And I want you to I want you to search the theme from making it and watch the boys watch the man sing it and he he was the star of the show too. And he groups behave and not with you'll remember David nuttin so the show only lasted nine episodes making it and it is TV guides list of the worst TV Shows of All Time. And my god you're tweeting about nope
Kristin Nilsen 23:03
it's actually it's a good song the show may have been super shitty but the song is really good. But
Michelle Newman 23:08
watching him groove because because it opens with like three solid minutes of just music and he cannot just go more than he's just going and that
Kristin Nilsen 23:17
is definitely on cocaine. I'm gonna say because he just walks and back and forth like a caged bear a cage bear with an Sundance in his pants.
Carolyn Cochrane 23:26
Okay, it's like a Dr Pepper commercials he's
Kristin Nilsen 23:29
the guy was wanting to like to be
Unknown Speaker 23:40
you liked to be okay.
Michelle Newman 23:42
All right. Okay, we digress but that was good. That was a good rabbit hole. So making it was number five and 79
Carolyn Cochrane 23:51
Hawaii Five o
Michelle Newman 23:52
number four in 1969.
And Greatest American Hero reached number two in 1981 Whoa, drumroll please. So okay, but there were two songs that I found that actually hit number one and one of them in 1976. Actually both of these were in 1976 1976 was a big year for themes. Some of the top 10 the theme from swats
trying to 76 because it was very disco very funky. And that was the height of disco and it's a great great song.
Kristin Nilsen 24:39
I always get it mixed up with the theme from shaft.
Carolyn Cochrane 24:42
Oh, Andy can do the theme from shaft shaft Kojak. Well, he does like the music and stuff like it's like a beatbox or something.
Kristin Nilsen 24:52
I want to see this.
Michelle Newman 24:54
Do you guys want to guess? There was another number one song this is a lyric song and 1976 that reached number one on the Billboard charts
Kristin Nilsen 25:02
another 176 and it will make Did you say what number one
Michelle Newman 25:06
it hit number number one now
Kristin Nilsen 25:07
I am coming up with a total blank What else could it be a number so
Michelle Newman 25:11
means we had to hear it a lot you guys just want me to sing it.
Kristin Nilsen 25:14
I do want you to sing it actually.
Michelle Newman 25:16
Welcome back.
Carolyn Cochrane 25:17
Oh, oh, I didn't know.
Michelle Newman 25:21
Welcome back caught the theme from Welcome Back Kotter. You choose 76
Kristin Nilsen 25:26
Did and furthermore you need? Yes. Okay. So then you had so those were songs were that were like theme songs that were actual songs and they played on the radio constantly. That's why we love them. So then you have songs that actually explained the premise of the show. And the master of this was Sherwood Schwartz, who created the Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island who wrote his own theme songs in order clearly to tell the watcher what was coming and they generally started with something like here's a story so I'm just gonna I'm gonna send you a couple and see if you can name the show so of course there's here's a story of a lovely lady named Brady Elena Okay, so obviously the sit right back and you'll hear a tale a
Michelle Newman 26:10
tale of I love a fateful trip. There you got start Gilligan's Island Gilligan's
Kristin Nilsen 26:14
Island okay? Then there's listen to a story about a man named age. Family family bad person food now. Then came the bubble and crude
Michelle Newman 26:27
oil and crude oil
Unknown Speaker 26:29
that is black
Michelle Newman 26:31
gold,
Kristin Nilsen 26:32
Texas GE and they didn't always start with here's a story or let me tell you or here's a tale view but they told you the story anyway, you knew what was happening. So like, here's one that doesn't say here's a story, but it has in it. Darling. I love you by giving me Park Avenue. Oh
Michelle Newman 26:47
yeah. Your screen? Yes. But to say
Kristin Nilsen 26:50
makers, for me, for me tells you the whole setup in the song. Tell you the whole story. Okay, so then you have the iconic instrument. There are things with no words, but they were drilled into our minds and not only do we know them and can sing them, we heard them on the radio. What about
Michelle Newman 27:11
Dallas? Dallas
Carolyn Cochrane 27:21
I have the Waltons down that was on my chopping it Carolyn sing it
Kristin Nilsen 27:26
at Anna I
Michelle Newman 27:37
think every band every kid who was a band member in the 80s had to play and probably still had to play Hawaii Five O and every cheerleader did a routine to Hawaii Five. Oh,
Kristin Nilsen 27:49
did you know that the Hawaii Five o theme is the unofficial fight song of the University of Hawaii. No,
Michelle Newman 27:54
no.
Kristin Nilsen 27:55
I love that
Carolyn Cochrane 27:57
I love man fact is not a fun fact.
Michelle Newman 27:59
I also like I like this one. This is one I wrote down because this was a show that I've mentioned it before on the podcast. I got to stay up and watch with my mom and loved heart to heart and after he says and my name is Matt and I take care of both of them which they need. Because when they met it was
Carolyn Cochrane 28:24
and then there's mash. But mash was an instrumental when we watched on TV, but it has words so was mash a movie first mash
Kristin Nilsen 28:33
was a movie and the lyrics. So I think okay, IMHO, I think this is the most iconic of all instruments
so yeah, it was a movie first. And they did have the lyrics with the movie. But then when they did the TV show, they removed the lyrics quite wisely. Some say because the title of the song is suicidal.
Carolyn Cochrane 29:08
That's with me. Yeah, yeah.
Kristin Nilsen 29:10
I think so. This is a song beloved by all Junior High flute players, right? Yeah,
Carolyn Cochrane 29:16
I was gonna say that right. And, and I have
Kristin Nilsen 29:18
there is one little instance like a microsecond in the opening to mash that gives me goosebumps every single time. And it's this scene where these women dressed in their fatigues are just like running like hell. Oh, yeah, just running their asses off like this tight little cluster of Wonder Women and they're gonna kick some ass they're gonna save somebody's life. And I just like, I love it so much. And when I watch it with Mike, if I'm not in the room yet, he'll be like, he'll call out the ladies are running. Okay, do you do also know who wrote the lyrics for the theme to mash up? Huh,
Unknown Speaker 30:00
no.
Kristin Nilsen 30:01
Okay, so what's your lyrics which we don't hear in the TV show, but we do here in the movie, were written by Robert Altman's 14 year old son, Robert Altman was the director of the movie. He's 14 years old. And it was like some poem he wrote in his journal and his dad like, dang, that's good. Let's make put this into a song. And then that child that kid has made over a million dollars in royalties.
Unknown Speaker 30:24
Wow.
Carolyn Cochrane 30:27
I know. Songwriter or anything. Do we know I don't think he did. I don't
Michelle Newman 30:32
think he did. sells insurance and
Kristin Nilsen 30:35
boy Altman, we would go get
Michelle Newman 30:39
our hands. proud of him.
Kristin Nilsen 30:40
Okay, how about this for like, you know, you know, a song as iconic when you have a neighbor. With an old jalopy full of junk and every time it drives past your apartment, you go Merner.
Carolyn Cochrane 31:02
Very good.
Kristin Nilsen 31:05
Person, birchbark. Burner. Which of course is Sanford and Son.
So, when Mike was like a newly minted adult, and he lived in this apartment with like, 19 other guys, and they'd sit out on the porch. And every time that jalopy drove by one of the guys would go
Carolyn Cochrane 31:29
see, and everyone knew what he was doing.
Kristin Nilsen 31:31
And everyone knew exactly what he was referring to. Yes, right. That's exactly right. Yep. It's impossible to talk about instrumentals without at least mentioning Mike Post. This is
Carolyn Cochrane 31:43
true and I'm going to do a little more than mentioned it because my goodness, that's a rabbit hole, right? Yes. Oh my gosh, was it a rabbit hole? I'm excited.
Michelle Newman 31:50
I've never heard his name. Well, oh, here we go.
Kristin Nilsen 31:54
Nice. Phil a semicolon.
Carolyn Cochrane 31:57
He is worth maybe an entire episode of he really impatient society. So what John Williams is to the music, movies. So the music movie composer, you know, John, John Williams, Star Wars, all that stuff? Yes, that is what Mike Post is to television then 1974 He wrote The Rockford Files, as Michelle has told us that became a top 10 hit. He actually won a Grammy for that in 1975 for Best Instrumental arrangement.
Kristin Nilsen 32:28
So not that it wasn't a word wasn't an award for a TV show. Song. It was
Carolyn Cochrane 32:33
just an award a Grammy. Yes. Guest instrumental arrange for you. Mike Post went on to win two more Grammys for instrumental arrangements, Hill Street Blues and La law. Were also my post creations. All right, he wrote the TV theme song for Magnum PI. It's especially fun that he did this you guys because guess what? He was childhood friends with Tom Selleck. He graduated in the same high school class with
one of my favorite absolute favorite TV theme songs happens to be a Mike Post composition. You guys might not even know that. No, he co wrote the theme song. The Greatest American Hero Joe Scarborough only saying
Kristin Nilsen 33:24
it yes he did not know that.
Carolyn Cochrane 33:28
I want to read you now a quick list. I'm going to try to do it in one breath. I don't know no fan of some of his I don't even know if I'm including all of them. But these are TV theme songs that Mike Post has given us. Here you go. The 18th Baa Baa Black Sheep blossom the commish. Doogie Howser MD. Hardcastle and McCormick Huberman Hunter Magna pie News Radio profit Quantum Leap, renegade silk stockings, Stingray tails of the Golden Monkey 10. Speed, round 10 speed and brown shoe the white shadow and Wiseguy.
Michelle Newman 34:03
Can you believe that I love to do these theme song
Unknown Speaker 34:07
I love doing.
Kristin Nilsen 34:19
We think we're growing up to the Bee Gees or whomever but really, we're listening. We're growing up to Mike Post and we don't even know it exists. Yeah, it's the music of our coming into that list.
Carolyn Cochrane 34:29
Uh huh. Amazing.
Kristin Nilsen 34:30
So just like our Barry Manilow episode earlier this season, we asked our social media followers to send us their favorite TV theme songs of all time. And they ponied up with over 50 TV shows many of them mentioned over and over and over you can only imagine right? And then Carolyn and Michelle and I all created our own personal top 10 lists and also asked the people around us to share their favorites as you heard Michelle doing and every mentioned counted whether it was in person or online and I then put my math Ramadan and I came up with a definitive ranking of the top 10 TV theme songs from the Golden Age of TV theme songs. As long as you don't ask me to check my work. And there will be ties, there will be ties, because math is math. That's just right. That's right. And so now, as Casey Casey would say, on with our count in the number 10 spot, we have two songs, I said that there would be ties right, we have two songs that made a moderate showing in the race but squeaked into the countdown with the help of their very strong showing on Michelle's and my personal Top 10 lists. For me, it was The Courtship of Eddie's father.
Michelle Newman 35:46
For me, it was family ties. So
Kristin Nilsen 35:49
The Courtship of Eddie's father is by Harry Nelson, and I'm a Nilsen so I have a lot of feelings. They've special feelings for Harry Nelson. And the song is called Best Friend. People. Let me tell you about my best friend. Person. In the sequence, the opening sequence of the show starts with the two of them walking on the beach, Bill Bixby and his little boy Eddie walking on the beach and Eddie will ask a very earnest childlike question and Bill Bixby is all sexy and his bell bottoms and his skin tight Venus sweater with the wide collar and he's got his tinted aviators on and they run on the beach, and they climb rocks and they play airplane. It's like your romantic fantasy translated into a parent child relationship. It'll break your heart, and Harry Nelson captures it perfectly. And when I was little, I would watch this portion of the show and I would cry. He was a little teary eyed. loved it so much. Okay.
Michelle Newman 36:52
And for me, this song came in for me at number four, which I actually after I sent it, it might even be higher. But I mean, the theme from family ties, the song makes me tear up every time I hear it because the lyrics are so sweet. And it's set to these photos from the family album that are just kind of going from when especially in season one and two when Steven and Elise meet through when they're hippies. And then when she's pregnant. And then they have the babies and the lyrics are just so beautiful. And that's the whole what would we do maybe without us
and then you guys it's Johnny Mathis with that sweet so it liquid gold voice and Denise Williams of you know, let's hear it for the boy fame. Yeah, their voices just blend together so beautifully. And I will say that I know Pete, people listening right now are agreeing with me that that is just a beautiful, beautiful theme song and what made it it's a beautiful song on its own. But the images they put with it. It just It did. It was a song that made me very emotional still does because I think I've told you guys I've been watching it on Paramount plus, it makes you
Kristin Nilsen 38:14
love that family. All right in the number nine spot. Michelle is the one who rated this next song the highest on her countdown. And since her husband serenaded us with it I think she should tell us what we have in the number nine spot.
Michelle Newman 38:27
Yes, coming in for me at number five is believe it or not the theme from The Greatest American Hero and some
Unknown Speaker 38:46
thought
Kristin Nilsen 38:53
it was number five on your personal top 10
Michelle Newman 38:55
on my personal Top 10 It's number nine here. Sorry, number nine. And it's just it's so simple. I do have to tell you a funny story. So when I was asking and Brian saying that immediately. He then reveal later. He's like, I don't know why that popped into my head. I've never even seen that show.
Kristin Nilsen 39:11
I don't care, but I can sing it. I'm totally on the same page. There are lots of shows. I did not watch regularly but I can sing the songs. Yeah, it comes down to that fact that we didn't have as many shows, so we didn't know the songs. Okay, number eight of the three of us. I am the only one who had this next song in my top 10 You guys I cannot even believe this. But our followers chimed in with enough enough votes to push it into the number eight spot number eight you guys it's a theme song How could I not put the Partridge Family on your top 10 Come on get Harris
Michelle Newman 39:47
is embarrassing. I
Kristin Nilsen 39:48
can't even believe it come on Did you know There were two versions of that song. I did not. So in the first season, it was more of a storytelling style. It's the same exact tune, but it wasn't come on get happy. It was called when we're singing. And it was come on down and meet everybody and hear us sing. There's nothing better than being together, when we're seeing in five of us. Oh, the whole performance right, five of us and mom working all day, I knew we could help refer Music Good play, Danny got Ruben to sell our song. And it really came together when mom sing along. So it was actually written by a fifth grader.
Michelle Newman 40:36
I think it's adorable. It
Kristin Nilsen 40:38
is adorable, but it is not professional. So I mean, it's like they're trying to retrofit the words into the rhythm of the song. So then by season two, you have again, the same tune new lyrics, hello, world, here's a song that we're seeing. Come on, get happy, a whole lot of love. And here's what we'll be bringing in will make you happy. I just think it's better. It's just, we had a dream go traveling together, we spread a little love, and then we keep moving on. So that's what happens whenever we're together. That always
Michelle Newman 41:09
happens whenever we're together. And we spread a lot of love. That's exactly why we chose that song as our theme song for those listening. So we looked at the lyrics of a lot, we knew we wanted to have something recognizable. And so we looked at the lyrics of a lot. We thought a TV theme song would be funny. And and because we had the little we knew we wanted the TV image such as way back, you guys and like was September, and we had way back. So long. time ago, we've come a long way since then. Yeah. But we wanted a TV theme song and we thought this actually Christian just so all of you listening, Christian wanted us to sing it right away. But anyway, we the lyrics of Come on, get happy, not because we wanted to make everybody happy. That was our mission. We wanted to bring joy and something always happens as long as we're together was so true to because we all had such a good time talking about genetic stuff every time we were together. And that's yeah, there you go.
Kristin Nilsen 42:04
There you go. Okay, number seven. And number seven, we have another tie between The Love Boat and the facts of life.
Carolyn Cochrane 42:14
Well, mine was The Love Boat. That was my
Unknown Speaker 42:22
exciting
Carolyn Cochrane 42:27
as we prepared for this episode, I listened to it and I got the same feeling inside. And it's more about the experience of that song and what how it makes me feel that I put it on my list. Because it's this feeling of anticipation as I have stated to you guys many times, I had this thing that I loved about seeing a celebrity from Yeah, one place show up somewhere else like Battle of the network stars. Or in this case, the Love Boat, and they were a different character. And I just love that. And so that's when we learned while that theme song is playing the little portholes which show which guest stars faces and so yeah, who was going to be on you know, was it going to be elke summer who
Kristin Nilsen 43:16
was never in anything except game and The Love Boat.
Carolyn Cochrane 43:20
And so I just loved the feeling I still can get inside when I hear that song. It was kind of this anticipatory like, Oh, who's gonna be on this week? And that's why I chose that song. So it wasn't as much the lyrics or anything like that because again, cheesy and Jack Jones Yeah,
Michelle Newman 43:40
but I Letterland that's just as important. I think the feeling you get from the theme song is equally as important as you picking one because I loved the lyrics or I love to be I mean for sure that's why I picked most of mine. I mean, family ties in this next one the facts of life is the same a lot I love the show.
Speaker 3 43:57
You take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have the facts of life. The facts and also
Michelle Newman 44:04
Facts of Life guys, just to remind you is tied at number seven with a Love Boat. And I loved the show one of my favorite shows in fifth and sixth and seventh grade. And we loved to sing the song at recess in fact, I'm a little disappointed it wasn't in my day in the life because we would play Foursquare and sing you know we knew we were so proud of the fact we knew all the words we even knew the the lesser known trickier verse when the boys are used to date you hate it seems your best investigate the facts of life. It was that was not always show that was only a longer versions of the title of the theme song so it's just a fun happy song. Do you guys like facts of life?
Kristin Nilsen 44:41
I loved Facts of Life, particularly in that first year and I think those are the words to that song. Were kind of speaking to us exactly. Because this was pre adolescent and teen girls speaking to us pre adolescent and teen girls. And wouldn't you have liked to hang out in a house with all your buddies 100% of The time with no parents around. And
Michelle Newman 45:02
then George Clooney is gonna move in next door right? Or help run the candy shop next door. Yeah,
Kristin Nilsen 45:07
totally. And we just a candy shop, just the fact there's a candy shop. Okay, in the number six spot, we have another tie. Good thing I warned you right? In the number six spot. The first one was on all three of our lists roughly in the same spot. So we're all on the same page here. And the second one was really high on Michelle and Carolyn's list, but never even occurred to me, which I think is kind of funny. So all three of us have big feelings about one day at a time and the two of you are both in love with
Speaker 4 45:36
Little House on the Prairie.
Carolyn Cochrane 45:41
I'd love that. And that's another put in.
Kristin Nilsen 45:47
So you're talking about the opening sequence? Not that that that?
Michelle Newman 45:51
Oh, no.
Kristin Nilsen 45:52
It's the opening.
Carolyn Cochrane 45:53
I love the ending to the opening. I've got
Kristin Nilsen 45:57
one. Yes. Okay. It
Carolyn Cochrane 46:00
was iconic for French more notes in the beginning.
And I want to say again, it's about the feeling that I get, which is almost indescribable. I've tried to name it and I'm going to tell you what I've come up with for right now. I would probably call it the Little House on the Prairie warming sensation effect. That it just gave me a warming sensation. You're
Michelle Newman 46:36
gonna go back viral. Your old standby nipple. Nipple lightning,
Carolyn Cochrane 46:40
it's, it's deeper than nipple lightning. I mean, it's like, yeah, it goes to my toe.
Michelle Newman 46:50
Warm Royden. Everywhere. I wrote that down on my paper, it says it right here I wrote, I just have a lot of feelings associated with the show. And like that, for those of you listening, go back and listen to our Little House on the Prairie episode from season one. We talk a lot about those feelings, but I just have a lot of feelings associated with the show and the theme that that yeah, the French horn and the music that just amplifies those feelings. One day
Kristin Nilsen 47:19
at a time is just a good song. It's just a good song. And I'm surprised it wasn't on the radio. How could that sorry, I have not been on the radio. And I have a very distinct if you recall, it starts like this
have a ball. Really? I don't know all the words. But what I do have is a memory. Oh God, my mom's gonna kill me. My mom loved the song. Also, she loved this show. She loved Bonnie Franklin, and she would stand up and she would dance and she would do almost like she's jogging a little bit. And then she would smack her ass. She's gonna kill me. Smacking her haunches. I used to have this ongoing argument with one of my roommates. Martha Hello Martha who swore so the line is so up on your feet up on your feet somewhere there's news play and Martha swore it was so walk on the beat. So why wait Carolyn? You thought it was walking on the beat?
Carolyn Cochrane 48:25
I don't know if I thought about the whop but I definitely did on the beat I'm not sure what it was I was last night years old when I realized that those were not boards I just want everyone
Michelle Newman 48:39
I think I always thought it was so up on your feet so up
Kristin Nilsen 48:42
on your feet like up on your feet up ya know ya know why? She thought it was a walk on the beat it's up somewhere
Michelle Newman 48:49
there's music Well it makes sense don't chase somewhere
Carolyn Cochrane 48:54
take a beat make
Michelle Newman 48:55
no there's no beat
Carolyn Cochrane 48:57
I think it was I thought to jump on the beat it was where there's Don't worry now our listeners can contribute at a time
Kristin Nilsen 49:14
it's just a good song. It's just a really good song. Oh
Michelle Newman 49:16
my god everybody who's listening stopped screaming at us yes cannot hear you you know they are okay.
Kristin Nilsen 49:26
Here's another one that was on all of our lists all three of us because it's awesome. In the number five spot we have schlemiel parade
Carolyn Cochrane 49:41
we need to do a real with us doing I would do the choreographed thing with my sister and she'd be surely down and go up and down and then go off with
Kristin Nilsen 49:52
the choreography that's going on right now. So did we name the show is Laverne and Shirley if you didn't know In the number five spot is Laverne and Shirley. And also just an awesome, awesome song and it was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Foxx, who also wrote the happy days theme, and Penny Marshall contributed that they call it a hopscotch chant. I didn't know what the hell that was what the Haas and Pfeffer incorporate. I did not know what that was, but apparently that was thanks to Penny Marshall. And here are your vitamins for the day. Get ready. By shlemenko means a habitual bungler Ashleigh Mazel is an extremely unlucky or inept person. This is Yiddish, I'm assuming Hossam Feffer is rabbit stew and why they put incorporated on the end I have no idea what
Carolyn Cochrane 50:42
you need to do now and everyone listening needs to do because I discovered this last night and it was it just made my heart happy. It's a YouTube video of a concert that the killers who I didn't really know who the killers were seeing them and but now I do and now I love them. They brought the violent femmes up on stage in Milwaukee and they sing this song and it is so fun and cute. Yes, I will link in the show notes. It was so great. It was like there was to the City of Milwaukee but it was it was yeah
Kristin Nilsen 51:18
okay this is also this I did not know these guys that wrote Laverne and Shirley and happy days also wrote the Wonder Woman theme, which did not get a single vote not one person said Wonder Woman is a kick in the pants one to one right that is a good song. It's like this hard driving feminist anthem. And I never really heard the words before like Wonder Woman in your satin tights fighting for your rights and the red white and blue
Unknown Speaker 51:53
All the world is waiting for you to power up in your sad times, fighting for your rights
Kristin Nilsen 52:10
Sirius Sirius and that's a good example of a show. I really didn't watch that much. But I loved the theme song. I knew that theme song number four. Carolyn, would we ever number four.
Carolyn Cochrane 52:22
Well, you guys, we have another classic wonderful one. Welcome Back, Kotter.
Unknown Speaker 52:27
Oh, yeah, welcome back. Your dreams are your ticket to that same place.
Carolyn Cochrane 52:41
And as Michelle pointed out that actually hit number one on the Billboard chart. So that's I think maybe we're the only TV theme song that hit number one because gracemere can hear it was number two. I've got some fun facts for you about the song. Good. So you guys. So it's sung by John Sebastian. John Sebastian Sebastian was an original member of the lovin spoonful. I didn't know that. So then they had kind of broken up. And he had gone on his own way. And he had really not been doing much before he wrote that so there was the lovin spoonful days and then there was all of a sudden he's back in the back in the group because he wrote and sang the Welcome Back Kotter song. I think it's because he was very lucky his godparents were looking down on him. Guess who his godparents are? Oh my god, you'll never post my his godmother is Vivian Vance. His grandmother, Ethel. Yes. from I Love Lucy. his godfather. Is Garth Williams. No stranger. No. What are you traded the Little House on the Prairie books Charlotte's Web Stuart Little and a lot of little golden books. Can you believe that?
Unknown Speaker 53:59
That's crazy. I
Carolyn Cochrane 54:01
know. Absolutely. Garth Williams.
Kristin Nilsen 54:03
Yes.
Carolyn Cochrane 54:05
Not so I think. No, not interesting
Michelle Newman 54:07
family, though, that Vivian Vance and Garth Williams were in their circle of friends. That's a very eclectic circle.
Kristin Nilsen 54:16
Both of those people.
Carolyn Cochrane 54:18
How fun is that? Job, Carol. Not to mention those are great lyrics in that song. I love love. Love that song. And
Kristin Nilsen 54:25
don't you wonder since it was such a big hit, how many more viewers did the show get because of that song being on the radio and being it was such a good sign. I mean, people are gonna be like, I'm gonna watch that show. The two of you need to introduce our number three song because you both put it in the number one spot on your list. And we did these lists confidential contest. Yeah, this was the number one for both of you.
Michelle Newman 55:00
It isn't like Glasgow. I mean, when we talked about when, again, we have an Adas enough entire podcast episode, people go back and find it. It's a good one. And we talk a lot about that theme song. It's beautiful and it gives us all the feels and it it we're not the only ones. I know every many, many of you listening feel the same way because when we did the Eight is Enough theme song. We got a lot of comments about that the theme song, the theme song, so it's, um, it's
Carolyn Cochrane 55:29
number three on our list. I
Kristin Nilsen 55:30
mean, number three, and I think it's a theme song that got buried. I think once you trigger people's memory about it, they're like, Oh, my God, the theme song. And they really really go back in time and remember how much they loved
Michelle Newman 55:42
it. Oh, and the golden pipes of grant goodies. Oh, sweet. Hers. His voice is just as pretty as his face. Yep.
Kristin Nilsen 55:51
With his ski jacket on number two, let's move on. Number two it this whole experiment really was really a contest between the next two songs it was a nail biter. But in the end, one of them took a definitive lead. And a number two, we have the song that I put in my number one spot. Oh, moving on up moving on up to the Okay.
Okay, so moving on up from the Jeffersons starts, it's basically a storytelling song, like we talked about in the beginning, it tells you exactly what the show is about. And you have Jordan Wheezy on the sidewalk, and they're looking up right at their new apartment. They're moving on up to the east side. And this is how I learned of the cachet of living on the top floor that that was significant that that meant you were really making it in the world. And I understood the double meaning I was like, Oh, that's so clever, where they were moving on up in life. And they were moving on up to the top floor of this new apartment building. And I just thought that was so clever. I loved it. I mean, just try not to clap along to that song. Right? You can't Oh, yeah, some possible and you might have to stand up to
Michelle Newman 57:20
I think a lot of your conscious, like Linda.
Kristin Nilsen 57:24
You're harsh. smack your branches while you jog. It's a jogging dance. So a lot of people know this already. But it was sung by Janae Dubois who played willona on Good times. Good times was actually that was my number nine pick.
Michelle Newman 57:37
That's a very good
Kristin Nilsen 57:42
temporary layoffs really disappointed it didn't make it into our top 10. Okay. And now for the number one TV theme song of our shared TV history as voted by you the members of the pop culture Preservation Society.
Carolyn Cochrane 58:05
Ladies and gentlemen, this song features our beloved hometown of Minneapolis and our hot tossing Saturday night bestie Mary Richards the number one song is the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show first
Unknown Speaker 58:29
and certainly good that you go and you should know these grants grandson's.
Kristin Nilsen 58:52
That fine is Minnesota to me, it's the beauty of my new home. When I moved here, it's the beauty of my new city, this place that I was going to be going to and this is how my mom's sold it to me. We're going to the place where Mary Richards live.
Unknown Speaker 59:05
Oh, yes.
Michelle Newman 59:07
I didn't know that. Yes,
Kristin Nilsen 59:08
absolutely. And I know and I just I get very warm and fuzzy feelings about that. I thought Mary was going to be like sitting on my doorstep when I arrived. But it's also a bedtime song for me because I would be all tucked in and cozy in my bed. And Mary Tyler Moore came on every night at 10 o'clock after the news and my parents had the little portable Panasonic TV on their dresser and I could hear that that the theme song beginning and it it was an every night nightly thing like it was it was my lullaby. It was putting
Michelle Newman 59:39
me so you have a feeling with
Kristin Nilsen 59:42
absolutely yeah, it's a warm cozy tucked in feeling. So Mary Tyler Moore was the clear winner by a long shot. She she really weighed got way out ahead of the Jeffersons after a while they were neck and neck for a while. But then maritimum were pulled ahead, but there were many many songs submitted To assess favorites and just because you didn't hear yours in the countdown does not mean it's not one of the best TV theme songs of all time. And we want you to feel heard. And so here's a list of all the TV theme songs submitted to the pop culture Preservation Society as people's favorites people let us know what is their favorite and here are all the votes they submitted. That girl starring Marlo Thomas Good Times chips, the Hardy Boys, the Waltons moonlighting family ties mash love American style. I tried not to sing it I did that on purpose. Love American style. Okay, couldn't drill again. Laverne and Shirley Wk ARP, The Rockford Files All in the Family taxi, Barney Miller which has one of the most recognizable baselines I think of all time really doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo. Did it edited Bosom Buddies? What suppose I'm buddies. Do you remember? If I heard it? I would. But I can't. I think it's a song. I don't think
Michelle Newman 1:01:02
oh, it's um, yeah.
Kristin Nilsen 1:01:05
Billy Joel Miley. Yes, it's my life. Got it. Dallas, The Muppet Show Little House on the Prairie BJ and the bear which we used to call BJ in the boobs. The Facts of Life. The monkeys, Hawaii Five o The Odd Couple. The Brady Bunch Beretta, The Courtship of Eddie's father. Welcome Back, Kotter. The Greatest American Hero Sanford and Son. Cheers. Hill Street Blues, Swat, heart to heart, Alice, which thank you for reviving Alice for me, Michelle because that really is a fantastic thing. So happy days. Love Boat Three's Company, the Jeffersons the Partridge Family. Eight is Enough. One day at a time, The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Bob Newhart Show China Beach, which I think was a Motown song. The Bugaloo there in the everywhere segment in the sea monster and Johnny and Scott are friends. The Beverly Hillbillies, Sesame Street, the electric company. And there I just have there a couple things that I have to bring up that didn't get a single vote that kind of surprised me. Mr. Rogers? Nobody said what? Yeah, nobody isn't Mr. Mr. Rogers. Nobody said the monsters which is like the surf rock thing. Don't that at that at that that is done in Batman, which is pretty iconic on aironet. Anna, do you guys remember square pegs?
Michelle Newman 1:02:28
Yeah, I don't. I remember the show. Webpage peg square. Like,
Kristin Nilsen 1:02:33
oh my god, right square peg square pegs. That was by the waitresses. And then we did talk about making it No, I'm the only one who said anything about making it with the Dr. Pepper guy. Hey, Angie, do you remember the theme song to Angie, it was by Maureen McGovern and that actually charted to that was I think number a number eight song,
Carolyn Cochrane 1:02:56
baby by Helen.
Kristin Nilsen 1:02:58
That was my mistake. I just made the assumption that Angie baby by Helen Reddy was about the show about Costco. But no, it
Michelle Newman 1:03:05
was not. I have a big one that got left off the list. So I'm gonna put this on as an honorable mention.
Kristin Nilsen 1:03:11
It wasn't on your list was that on your top 10
Michelle Newman 1:03:14
I didn't put it on my list. Only if you're a runner. I didn't want to be ridiculed. Oh, it's a very honorable mention that cannot be left unmentioned. It was one of my very favorite theme songs of all time. It's a bit of a sleeper, but I'm very proud that I can still sing the entire thing you guys it's seriously like my adult party trick.
Kristin Nilsen 1:03:33
Do you wanna do this? Yes, do it.
Michelle Newman 1:03:35
Well, you know what, I'm gonna sing it. Okay, and I'm gonna sing the entire thing I'm gonna sing it sped up and so don't even try to cut me off all right, okay, I'm gonna be really hard to keep my mouth shut for those of you listening for those of you listening out there I know for certain there are many of you who will know this when I started singing it and her gonna be shouting it out. So please, I'm encouraging you sing along with me. Please, I you know I need I need some backup. Okay, so here we go. Picture this. And you are the only one who look these words up. But picture this there's a a solo spotlit piano and an empty bar and some very mediocre vocals at best. summed the magic and the way you hold me in your eyes. Here comes a female who we hate. No one ever wore me love just takes you by surprise about saying don't know what's come over me. You got me hypnotized when you look at each other. Look at me. music swells you look at me soft as any touch can be. And suddenly there's magic. When you look at me. I feel like I'm in heaven every moment when harmonize you look at me Keychange you look at me music smelling and suddenly I'm captured in your eyes your drums for comes the horns. You love doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo me None done on nananana nananana they're holding out that they're holding up the last note me and then everybody's applauding
Kristin Nilsen 1:05:13
I thought Oh yes, I know exactly if it isn't the note that I was going to sing along and now I have no
Michelle Newman 1:05:20
kidding. I don't know what
Carolyn Cochrane 1:05:22
was that?
Michelle Newman 1:05:23
What was the theme song from Joanie Loves Chachi
Kristin Nilsen 1:05:27
oh wait, do Scott Bayeux and Erin Moran sing that song
Unknown Speaker 1:05:35
yeah
Michelle Newman 1:05:47
magic in the in the theme, he seems it to Aaron Moran. But in real life, he was singing it to me. And he sings through some of the magic and the way you hold me in your eyes, and I want you guys to go back and watch it. And I want you to notice how off key he is. At the time. I thought it was the best thing I've ever did you guys not watch was Chachi religiously? Yes,
Kristin Nilsen 1:06:13
sure.
Michelle Newman 1:06:14
You know what, everybody listening? I'm gonna have to find a new job. That's it. I don't throw all my papers in there. Can I just beg you, those of you out there who knew that song that are listening? Even if you couldn't sing it with me if you knew it, please let me know because I'm feeling very alone here in my closet.
Kristin Nilsen 1:06:31
Oh my goodness. And that my friends concludes our countdown of the top 10 television theme songs in all the land. Thank you for joining us and remember to keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. And
Carolyn Cochrane 1:06:44
join us next time for what might be my favorite episode that we'll ever ever do. We will be preserving the 70s version of reality TV battle of the network stars.
Michelle Newman 1:06:59
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Kristin Nilsen 1:07:23
the meantime, let's raise our glasses for a toast. Straight from the apartment of Jack tripper Janet would increase the snow where the kisses are hers and hers in his two good times, to
Speaker 4 1:07:35
happy days. To Little House on the Prairie. Cheers Cheers.
Kristin Nilsen 1:07:43
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