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  • Folk Songs for Yuppies

    Shockwave Radio Theater regularly plays "Folk Songs for Yuppies". TV theme songs. Sometimes, covers of tv theme songs. I have loads of fun slipping in and out of eras and mental images . Many people have mentioned some of favorites, and I'll try not to repeat, but here are some more that stick in my mind:

    Of the current shows, I really love Two-and-a-half Men, the occasionally used opening with the 2 1/2 of them in tuxes lip syncing the great (and short) theme.

    The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

    Green Acres

    The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (oh, those teletypes!)

    The Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck Show (Overture, curtain lights! This is it, we've hit the heights...)

    It's About Time (It's about space, about two men in the strangest place...)

    Did you know that Desi Arnaz wrote lyrics to the theme to I Love Lucy? Great stuff. Better than the Gene Roddenberry lyrics to Star Trek, or the Bonanza words...