Television's Greatest Hits, Volume II: 65 More TV Themes From the 50's and 60's

Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 2: 65 More TV Themes from the '50s & '60s
Compilation album
Released1986
Length72:30
LabelTVT Records
chronology
Television's Greatest Hits: 65 TV Themes! From the '50s and '60s
(1985) 		Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 2: 65 More TV Themes from the '50s & '60s
(1986) 		Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 3: '70s & '80s
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Television's Greatest Hits, Volume II: 65 More TV Themes from the '50s & '60s is a 1986 compilation album of television theme songs from the 1950s and 1960s released by TVT Records as the second volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series.

The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Los Angeles-based Oglio Records announced they were releasing the Television's Greatest Hits song catalog after entering into an arrangement The Bicycle Music Company.[2] A series of 9 initial "6-packs" including some of the songs from the album has been announced for 2011.[2]

Track listing[edit]

NOTE: An asterisk (*) donates a track that was re-recorded for the album.

  1. The Three Stooges ("Three Blind Mice")*
    Composed by Thomas Ravenscroft, arranged by Spud Murphy
  2. Merrie Melodies ("Merrily We Roll Along")*
    Composed by Eddie Cantor, Charles Tobias and Murray Mencher
  3. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
    Composed by Frank Comstock
  4. Huckleberry Hound
    Composed by Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
  5. Mighty Mouse Playhouse ("Mighty Mouse Theme (Here I Come to Save the Day)")
    Composed by Marshall Barer and Phillip Scheib
    Performed by The Sandpipers
  6. Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse*
    Composed by Johnny Holiday
  7. The Pink Panther Show ("The Pink Panther Theme")*
    Composed by Henry Mancini
  8. The Road Runner Show*
    Composed and performed by Barbara Cameron
  9. George of the Jungle
    Composed by Stan Worth and Sheldon Allman
  10. Jonny Quest
    Composed by Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
  11. Spider-Man
    Composed by Bob Harris and Paul Francis Webster
  12. Underdog*
    Composed by W. Watts Biggers, Chet Stover, Joe Harris and Treadwell Covington
  13. Looney Tunes ("The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down")*
    Composed by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin
  14. Peanuts ("Linus and Lucy")*
    Composed by Vince Guaraldi
    Performed by Vince Guaraldi Trio
  15. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ("Won't You Be My Neighbor?")
    Composed and performed by Fred Rogers
  16. The Odd Couple
    Composed by Neal Hefti
  17. The Courtship of Eddie's Father ("Best Friend")
    Composed and performed by Harry Nilsson
  18. The Mary Tyler Moore Show ("Love is All Around")
    Composed by Sonny Curtis
  19. Gidget ("(Wait 'Til You See) My Gidget")
    Composed by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield
    Performed by Johnny Tillotson
  20. That Girl
    Composed by Sam Denoff and Earle Hagen
  21. Bewitched*
    Composed by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield
  22. Love, American Style
    Composed by Charles Fox and Arnold Margolin
    Performed by The Cowsills
  23. The Honeymooners ("You're My Greatest Love")
    Composed by Jackie Gleason and Bill Templeton
  24. I Married Joan*
    Composed by Richard Mack
  25. The Monkees ("(Theme from) The Monkees")
    Composed by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
    Performed by The Monkees
  26. The Brady Bunch
    Composed by Frank De Vol and Sherwood Schwartz
    Performed by The Brady Bunch
  27. The Partridge Family ("C'mon, Get Happy")
    Composed by Diane Hilderbrand, Danny Janssen and Wes Farrell
    Performed by The Partridge Family
  28. My Mother the Car*
    Composed by Ralph Carmichael and Paul Hampton
  29. Car 54, Where Are You?
    Composed by Nat Hiken and John Strauss
  30. It's About Time*
    Composed by Sherwood Schwartz, George Wyle and Gerald Fried
  31. My Favorite Martian
    Composed by George Greeley
  32. Jeopardy! ("Think!")
    Composed by Merv Griffin
  33. Hogan's Heroes
    Composed by Jerry Fielding
  34. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
    Composed by Earle Hagen
  35. The Rat Patrol
    Composed by Dominic Frontiere
  36. 12 O'Clock High
    Composed by Dominic Frontiere
  37. The Time Tunnel
    Composed by John Williams
  38. Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea ("The Seaview Theme")
    Composed by Paul Sawtell
  39. Sea Hunt ("The Sea Hunt Theme")*
    Composed by David Rose (as "Ray Llewellyn")
  40. Daktari*
    Composed by Shelly Manne and Henry Vars
  41. Tarzan
    Composed by Sydney Lee and Walter Greene
  42. The Adventures of Robin Hood ("The Adventures of Robin Hood (Closing Theme)")
    Composed by Carl Sigman
    Performed by Dick James
  43. Rawhide
    Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington
    Performed by Frankie Laine
  44. Bat Masterson*
    Composed by David Rose (as "Havens Wray") and Bart Corwin
  45. Maverick*
    Composed by David Buttolph and Paul Francis Webster
  46. Wagon Train
    Composed by Henri René and Bob Russell
  47. Have Gun – Will Travel ("The Ballad of Paladin")*
    Composed by Johnny Western, Richard Boone and Sam Rolfe
    Performed by Duane Eddy
  48. The Virginian*
    Composed by Percy Faith
  49. The Rebel ("The Rebel (The Ballad of Johnny Yuma)")
    Composed by Richard Markowitz and Andrew J. Fenady
  50. Peter Gunn*
    Composed by Henry Mancini
  51. Route 66 ("Route 66 Theme")*
    Composed by Nelson Riddle
  52. I Spy
    Composed by Earle Hagen
  53. The Avengers*
    Composed by John Dankworth
  54. The Saint*
    Composed by Edwin Astley
  55. Hawaiian Eye ("The Hawaiian Eye Theme")*
    Composed by Jerry Livingston and Mack David
    Performed by Warren Barker
  56. The Green Hornet ("Flight of the Bumblebee")
    Composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Billy May
    Performed by Al Hirt
  57. The Outer Limits
    Composed by Dominic Frontiere
  58. Dark Shadows
    Composed by Bob Cobert
  59. Ben Casey
    Composed by David Raksin
  60. Medical Center*
    Composed by Lalo Schifrin
  61. The NBC Mystery Movie*
    Composed by Henry Mancini
  62. ABC's Wide World of Sports
    Composed by Jack Shaindlin and Irving Robbins
  63. The Jackie Gleason Show ("Melancholy Serenade")*
    Composed by Jackie Gleason
  64. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ("The Brothers Theme")
    Composed by Mason Williams and Nancy Ames
  65. Monty Python's Flying Circus ("The Liberty Bell")
    Composed by John Philip Sousa
    Performed by Band of the Grenadier Guards

Credits[edit]

  • Steven Gottlieb - Executive Producer

Reception[edit]

Alongside Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 1, the compilation was described by CD Review as "organized as a theoretical average viewing day". CD Review jokingly commented that the compilation would be "highly effective during interrogations" by the FBI.[3]

According to Allmusic, "There are 65 television themes here, and apart from the little mistakes, they're almost all interesting. Among the strangest material here is the music from some of television's failures, such as It's About Time (one of the longest theme songs ever done for TV) and The Green Hornet. Also pleasing is the fact that the producers have used opening and closing theme versions of this material grafted together, so we hear the fullest possible versions of the themes from Ben Casey."[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Eder, Bruce. "Television's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: Original TV Soundtracks". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
  2. ^ a b "Television's Greatest Hits - TV Theme 6-packs". Oglio Records. September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
  3. ^ Taylor, Andrew (March 1987). "New Releases Spotlight". CD Review. 3 (7): 80. Retrieved June 12, 2017.

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