Don’t know if you’re still around or not Tia, but if you are, hopefully all is well with you. Especially with how things are going currently. Stay safe.
Family Matters was a great show with good family values!!!! This theme reminds me of a more simple time in my life. I remember growing up in fhe 90s and watching TGIF on Friday nights. Full House Step By Step Boy Meets World and many other great shows from the 90s were some of the best sitcoms of the times. I feel nostalgic when I hear this theme. I long for those special days on my life!!!
I use to love the ending to all the Family Mattters episodes I would watch the ending credits all the way till the last second, it was such a soothing sound. 90s good times!
Yet Family Matters would eventually quite using the ending theme. First in the fourth season partially, then in the seventh season entirely. They would instead use bonus scenes in the closing credits.
I have some vague, and faint, memories of being a toddler in 1995/96 and watching Family Matters in syndication on cable TV with my family, especially during the evening hours, and hearing this end theme play, especially the version 0:39 to 1:19 with Reginald VelJohnson's narration. It is forever etched in my memory...and for that I am eternally grateful! Those were simpler time I wish we ALL could re-live over and over again.
oh yeah. Tuning in to the family matters theme song, running around like a chicken with its head cut off during the rest of the show, and only settling down long enough to hear the end credit team. That was my childhood.
I alwayz loved Family Matters beginning and ending them song it still is such a soothing sound to hear. I jus hate the way the show ended; Family Matters is the second longest-running U.S. sitcom with a predominantly African American cast and it deserved a tenth and final season in which Laura and Steve finally get married that would have been a great ending to a long journey. I had the biggest crush on Laura I watched her grow from a smart, cute lil girl to an goal oriented, mature, sexy young woman, Steve was hilarious till the end, Eddie was Mr. suave smooth but he was alwayz into somethin, Rachel who was a loving mother & Maxine who was a good friend to Laura were both hopless romantics who was beautiful at the sametime, Myra was lovestruck crazy, Waldo was the resident idiot, but he was a good friend to Eddie. I never really got to know Judy because she disappeared so sudden and her departure was never explained, Richie was a smart, cunning kid, mother Winslow remided me of my own loving grandmother and Carl and Hariette were both working class loving parents that instilled the best of themselves into their children and it clearly showed throughout the 9 year run of this series. There never will be another show like it.
The shot focuses on 1516W Wrightwood, 60614 When the helicopter did the fly-over from Wrightwood Park, we were sitting on the porch at 1620W Wrightwood on the corner Bungalow stairs which they cropped out. I used to live a block east back then.
It's crazy the memories these old themes bring back. I looked this up because I ended up finding Facebook pages that have tons of full Family Matters episodes however the end themes are cut out. You didn't get a chance to hear the end themes often because most episodes either had a closing credits scene or bloopers during the credits. Been awhile since I heard any of these three
The original ending theme song is my style but I still gotta give props to the later ones for sounding fresh and 90s still. Gotta give props to Jesse Frederick - this guy wrote a lot of our favorite TGI Friday show jingles!!
really brings back old memories, i love this show, it changed a lot over the years, but there's a certain innocence about that 1st theme music that i like :)
I really, really enjoyed watching Family Matters a while back! It brings joyous memories of my childhood..especially those TGIF years. Looking back at this nostalgia makes me feel old...even though I’m not that old. Like where does the time go! Anyway, it’s such a good feeling to reminisce all those good moments in watching those sitcoms
Alereyia Hopkins here's how your weekend goes: Thursday on NBC: Cheers, Family Ties, The Golden Girls, Night Court, The Cosby Show Friday on ABC: Full House, Family Matters, Sabrina, Step by Step, Perfect Strangers, Hangin with Mr. Cooper Saturday morning cartoons Sunday night football
Out of all these versions, I think the themes from seasons 1-4 are the absolute best. Also, I think the Voiceover in the end logos really spices the credits up in the end.
I remember there was one that literally scared me the most because it was the first time I've seen, and it was the one that they had dedicated a episode to someone's memory, after Carl mentioned Family Matters is a Miller Boyett Productions, and there was a break gap, and they had fade to black, and then he finished saying The Warner Bros. Television.
We watched this as a family on TGIF, which I don’t really remember cause I was only 3 and 4 years old. But then in the early 2000s, my siblings and I used to watch, which I remember a lot more!
The last one kinda sucks. The first was the one I loved most, without the voiceover. It brings back memories, watching TV on cold winter Friday nights in Brooklyn, NYC when I was in high school.
+Marcus Pendergraft He was only supposed to be in the show one time. In the first half of the first season Steve wasn't there, they brought him in as a guest star and became a huge hit so they added him in as a regular.
I don't know if she was originally written in as a regular on the show or not, but the Kimmy Gibbler character from Full House is similar to Steve Urkel
Family Matters is one of my favorite shows. It became a television series in 1989(3 years before I was born). It had its last season in 1998(not long before my sixth birthday). This is why it was part of my early childhood.
The smaller they appeared from the window and how small that house got use to make me sad as a kid It felt sorta like when all your siblings or cuzzins when to six flags and you was left behind because of punishment
1991- 1993 of seasons 3-4: "Bickley- Warren Productions" print seen before the announcer Reginald VelJohnson says: Family Matters is a *Miller- Boyett* production in association with *Lorimar Television* , and is distributed by *Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution* .
I always liked how funky, and pretty the song sounds. At first it's very funky, before suddenly becoming heartwarming right at the end. The later ending theme isn't as good, but is still nice to listen to, as well. Kinda wish the show got one more final season at least, so we could see how things turned out with Steve and Lara.
Yeah while there's some good episodes in the last two seasons it did become too over the top and also just the Steve and Laura romance show as characters like Richie, Waldo, Maxine and Mother Winslow just vanished like Judy did early on (Maxine actually outlasted a lot of the main cast despite never being an official cast member and just a recurring character). Carl, Eddie and Laura are the only ones to be main cast members the whole series. Well Harriet too I guess even though they changed her for the last five or six episodes I did like the story with Carl conflicted with Eddie trying to be a cop towards the end. Steve was also his most entertaining when kept away from Laura and paired with the other characters
thet first season closing theme is just so much win. Miss the days where TV had themed opens and closing credits without promos, if any at all. Probably why I dont watch TV any more.
I always loved how the the city looked like, as the camera zoomed out.
I listen to this end credits all the time when I want to think of the great days of my past..
tony davis And here I was thinking I was the only person who did this. I even went to Chicago just to relish this song and visted the Winslow House.
Same. Are we sad?
BarrettTV im sad
same , I do this often ....
tony davis I remember it was TGIF Friday. Steve Uriel
It's a shame I have to look back at old theme songs to make my day better. It just shows you how messed our world today is.
Exactly.
I may not be aware of it but maybe I'm doing the same thing for the same reasons (except the last version: hate it).
Don’t know if you’re still around or not Tia, but if you are, hopefully all is well with you. Especially with how things are going currently. Stay safe.
@@JunebugPresents me to i hate the last one!!! Ugghhhh
I'm here to escape reality for a sec
For a 4th grader there was no better place to be than a Friday night watching TGIF with the family.
That saxophone part is powerful 🔥🔥🔥
that sax solo is dope
So is that blistering guitar solo. I can think of four other Warner Bros. shows that mastered this musical motif rather well.
Oh man! Words can't describe seeing and hearing the outro to this.
This song defined 90’s sitcoms
Believe it or not, the ending music at 0:00-1:19 makes me cry. But when I listen to it, I don't feel sad, I always feel happy listening to it.
Family Matters was a great show with good family values!!!! This theme reminds me of a more simple time in my life. I remember growing up in fhe 90s and watching TGIF on Friday nights. Full House Step By Step Boy Meets World and many other great shows from the 90s were some of the best sitcoms of the times. I feel nostalgic when I hear this theme. I long for those special days on my life!!!
Man this reminds me of when I was a kid in the 90's. I miss those days.
I haven't heard this sense I was a kid it makes me want to cry
It’s the nostalgia. You have to make new memories
I use to love the ending to all the Family Mattters episodes I would watch the ending credits all the way till the last second, it was such a soothing sound. 90s good times!
Exactly what I was trying to explain....yes, that feeling of hearing the outro especially the early year version, you described it perfectly.
Except for the last version. The first one(two) is magical.
Yet Family Matters would eventually quite using the ending theme. First in the fourth season partially, then in the seventh season entirely. They would instead use bonus scenes in the closing credits.
Man this makes me cry I miss these days so much I wish we could go back in time
I just had this moment hope your alright 💯Stay away 💪🏿💪🏼🙌🙏
Man I appreciate this just seen your comment life is so crazy
I like how they got Carl on the end credits dope
I have some vague, and faint, memories of being a toddler in 1995/96 and watching Family Matters in syndication on cable TV with my family, especially during the evening hours, and hearing this end theme play, especially the version 0:39 to 1:19 with Reginald VelJohnson's narration. It is forever etched in my memory...and for that I am eternally grateful! Those were simpler time I wish we ALL could re-live over and over again.
oh yeah. Tuning in to the family matters theme song, running around like a chicken with its head cut off during the rest of the show, and only settling down long enough to hear the end credit team. That was my childhood.
I absolutely love both versions.
watching this really makes me think about how better the 90's was
Facts
Brings back soooo many good memories of being younger and watching this and other great shows of the 90's
This show started in the 80s
Philip Folmsbee ummm ok dude it was still on in the 90's though so.......
I remember it from the 80s. The 80s rocked.
Philip Folmsbee yea but it started in 1989 it was still a 90s show because thats the end of the 80s
So if you were born in 1989 were you born in the 80s or 90s?
I alwayz loved Family Matters beginning and ending them song it still is such a soothing sound to hear. I jus hate the way the show ended; Family Matters is the second longest-running U.S. sitcom with a predominantly African American cast and it deserved a tenth and final season in which Laura and Steve finally get married that would have been a great ending to a long journey. I had the biggest crush on Laura I watched her grow from a smart, cute lil girl to an goal oriented, mature, sexy young woman, Steve was hilarious till the end, Eddie was Mr. suave smooth but he was alwayz into somethin, Rachel who was a loving mother & Maxine who was a good friend to Laura were both hopless romantics who was beautiful at the sametime, Myra was lovestruck crazy, Waldo was the resident idiot, but he was a good friend to Eddie. I never really got to know Judy because she disappeared so sudden and her departure was never explained, Richie was a smart, cunning kid, mother Winslow remided me of my own loving grandmother and Carl and Hariette were both working class loving parents that instilled the best of themselves into their children and it clearly showed throughout the 9 year run of this series. There never will be another show like it.
I LOVE version 3. Just hearing it brings back so many great memories. Those were good days . . .
I used to keep my eyes on the window as the camera zoomed out and wouldn't look away until it went to commercial.
where did the time go????
Caramelstick22 i agree it just flew
I always hated the Nick at Nite reruns. They would always cut out the ending theme for some crappy promo.
yeah. ABC family did the same things when stuff like full House and family matters was on their channel.
If you watch the show on TBS, they show the credits at the end.
This song heralded the start of the weekend. Soon after this, you had Saturday morning cartoons to look forward to!
The shot focuses on 1516W Wrightwood, 60614
When the helicopter did the fly-over from Wrightwood Park, we were sitting on the porch at 1620W Wrightwood on the corner Bungalow stairs which they cropped out. I used to live a block east back then.
It's crazy the memories these old themes bring back. I looked this up because I ended up finding Facebook pages that have tons of full Family Matters episodes however the end themes are cut out. You didn't get a chance to hear the end themes often because most episodes either had a closing credits scene or bloopers during the credits. Been awhile since I heard any of these three
The original ending theme song is my style but I still gotta give props to the later ones for sounding fresh and 90s still. Gotta give props to Jesse Frederick - this guy wrote a lot of our favorite TGI Friday show jingles!!
I'm just amazed how good the camera panning techniques are back in my day! 😭😍
0:25, what we all came for
As in expecting a voiceover from Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow in the show)?
Scotty Clayton for the win!!! Nice last name, btw!
this was real tv
Brandon Obear amen today's generation will.never know good TV like this
I was 19 when Family Matters first aired, and 28 when it left the air.
The memories of the ending credits good times that will never come back
Yeah.
My favorite part from 28 to 39 seconds just makes me smile
really brings back old memories, i love this show, it changed a lot over the years, but there's a certain innocence about that 1st theme music that i like :)
Family Matters is a Miller-boyett Productions in association with Lorimar Television and disturbed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
*Warner Bros. Television* in the 5th season.
😭😭😭😭 hits me right in the childhood
I really, really enjoyed watching Family Matters a while back! It brings joyous memories of my childhood..especially those TGIF years. Looking back at this nostalgia makes me feel old...even though I’m not that old. Like where does the time go! Anyway, it’s such a good feeling to reminisce all those good moments in watching those sitcoms
I'm not a 90s baby but I love family matters,full house,hanging with Mr Cooper, boy meets world,friends,and how I met your mother
And the fresh Prince of bel air
Kid c
Alereyia Hopkins here's how your weekend goes:
Thursday on NBC: Cheers, Family Ties, The Golden Girls, Night Court, The Cosby Show
Friday on ABC: Full House, Family Matters, Sabrina, Step by Step, Perfect Strangers, Hangin with Mr. Cooper
Saturday morning cartoons
Sunday night football
I remember those Fridays on ABC. And this is after power rangers and stuff goes off. I miss the 90s .
Loved the ending but always kinda made me a lil sad idk why but like a happy sad staring at the sunset and the city
Same
1:22 This Just Makes Me Want To Party
Heck yea throw in some frozen pizzas and some popcorn you got yourself a TGIF party.
0:28 and on makes me sad for some reason . Just really makes me miss my child Hood in the early late 80s early 90s
Out of all these versions, I think the themes from seasons 1-4 are the absolute best. Also, I think the Voiceover in the end logos really spices the credits up in the end.
Yes, the Carl voiceovers at the end are a vital part
exactly.
Back when times were simple, when politics and disease didn’t plague our everyday lives smh
I could cry...
me too lol
Same Here
I remember there was one that literally scared me the most because it was the first time I've seen, and it was the one that they had dedicated a episode to someone's memory, after Carl mentioned Family Matters is a Miller Boyett Productions, and there was a break gap, and they had fade to black, and then he finished saying The Warner Bros. Television.
This sounds like the beginning of a creepy pasta
Who was the person (if you can remember )???
@@jediwalker2010 I really don't know, I haven't seen that closure since 1995.
@@spm5532 _Fast Eddie Winslow_ from season two.
Makes me cry when here this song so much memories
I miss those memories
1:20 - My favorite version that I grew up remembering the most. Perfect jazzy tune to get you pumped for the weekend!
No drones back then… 🚁
Full house, Step by Step and Family Matters THE BEST FAMILY SITCOM SHOWS OF ALL TIME.
We watched this as a family on TGIF, which I don’t really remember cause I was only 3 and 4 years old. But then in the early 2000s, my siblings and I used to watch, which I remember a lot more!
Up in my pjs watching this god I miss these days man my heart hurts
1:02 Overwhelming ♥️
Still love the Crying Sax 🎷 of the original 2
The last one kinda sucks. The first was the one I loved most, without the voiceover. It brings back memories, watching TV on cold winter Friday nights in Brooklyn, NYC when I was in high school.
+Marcus Pendergraft WRONG!
+Marcus Pendergraft He was only supposed to be in the show one time. In the first half of the first season Steve wasn't there, they brought him in as a guest star and became a huge hit so they added him in as a regular.
Slade Wilson he was actually supposed to be a one time appearance but the producers and fans liked the character so he became a success.
I don't know if she was originally written in as a regular on the show or not, but the Kimmy Gibbler character from Full House is similar to Steve Urkel
Junebug Presents respect bro
one of the very very few ending credits i would watch, it always reminded me that in the end, everything was going to be alright.
Family Matters is one of my favorite shows. It became a television series in 1989(3 years before I was born). It had its last season in 1998(not long before my sixth birthday). This is why it was part of my early childhood.
The smaller they appeared from the window and how small that house got use to make me sad as a kid It felt sorta like when all your siblings or cuzzins when to six flags and you was left behind because of punishment
Friday nights...in 90s what a time...
1991- 1993 of seasons 3-4: "Bickley- Warren Productions" print seen before the announcer Reginald VelJohnson says: Family Matters is a *Miller- Boyett* production in association with *Lorimar Television* , and is distributed by *Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution* .
My favorite ending of a theme song ever!
That guitar tone on the third outro 👌
Where does the time go?
Family Matters is my favorite TV show I got seasons 1 thru 4 but I wish they had the rest of the seasons to complete my collection
And to the fact that the 4th season was the last to expire Jaimee Foxworth's contract since she came in 1990.
1:22 is my favorite one
I'm mad at myself for clicking it. Curiosity killed the cat.
i prefer the 3rd version
Ya it's pretty sweet...Especially with that guitar at 1:37. Shreddin' it
The last one they was like wait the family is in Chicago not San Francisco. Let's spice it up.
More like wait a minute this is a black family lets turn up the funk lol
I’m forever grateful for this music my heart aches
I really miss when sitcom home exteriors made absolutely no sense compared to the interior set.
The good old days when I appreciated everything I got.
Very nice ending!
This always reminds me of how I had nothing to do on Friday nights as a teenager
At least you got to watch great TV on Friday lol
thank you for this upload lmao omg
The best time! 90's❤️❤️
Man TGIF days i miss the 90s i grew up in the 90s and Family Matters
that electric guitar tho.....
Love the saxophone solo
Bummer that the Winslow’s house was torn down.
0:24 and 1:03 are my favorite parts.
the third ending is the best one
I like it a lot
So... This is where my love of sweet, sweet saxophone came from... 🎷🎵 🎶 🎷
the best tv series of all time with the fresh prince of bel air
They should've never changed the original end theme song. It was classic, and the only way I remembered it to be.
I always liked how funky, and pretty the song sounds. At first it's very funky, before suddenly becoming heartwarming right at the end.
The later ending theme isn't as good, but is still nice to listen to, as well. Kinda wish the show got one more final season at least, so we could see how things turned out with Steve and Lara.
The voiceover kicks ass
Reginald VelJohnson yeah!
Who’s watching this in 2021?
I like the sax solo from the first one and I like the electric guitar solo in the third one
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This was such a great show....
Until they made the porta-potty gene splicer machine a regular cast member. Jumped the shark at the end.
Yeah while there's some good episodes in the last two seasons it did become too over the top and also just the Steve and Laura romance show as characters like Richie, Waldo, Maxine and Mother Winslow just vanished like Judy did early on (Maxine actually outlasted a lot of the main cast despite never being an official cast member and just a recurring character). Carl, Eddie and Laura are the only ones to be main cast members the whole series. Well Harriet too I guess even though they changed her for the last five or six episodes
I did like the story with Carl conflicted with Eddie trying to be a cop towards the end. Steve was also his most entertaining when kept away from Laura and paired with the other characters
Great video
(1:37)
The awesome electric guitar solo.
This is why I love this closing theme from during season 5 of the show which was moved from ABC to CBS.
thet first season closing theme is just so much win. Miss the days where TV had themed opens and closing credits without promos, if any at all. Probably why I dont watch TV any more.
Growing Pains closing and this closing make me sad
I THINK IT'S MUCH APPROPRIATE THAT WAY
The Great Times 👍👍👍👍
0:30 Alvin And The Chipmunks Is A Miller Boyett Production In Association With Lorimar Television And Distributive By 20th Century Fox Television
ITS THE SAME COMPOSER WHO MADE THE FULL HOUSE THEIMS
KMNKeyboardVault And Also Step By Step
And Perfect Strangers and Going Places (but did not perform either of those themes).
Special Guest
William Joseph Barker
As Boy in Classroom
I love the second version better
GREAT SHOW !!!!!!!