This TV show was my mother’s inspiration for a business. In 1981, she started a very successful travel agency specializing in cruises. Mom passed away 10.5 years ago. Hearing this theme song makes me quite nostalgic. I miss you mom! Sail on! Bon Voyage!
Great to hear. I love it when TV shows inspire people to follow a new path. Your mother was obviously a woman who was not afraid to dream & turn her dreams into reality. Inspirational!
Wait...The travel agency...is It "Princess cruises"? I just heard this song playing on The horn of those Cruises when It was just about to set sail here in Spain😳 Sorry if my English is a bit weird.
Hearing this song for the first time in decades brought tears to my eyes . It was a very good show with innocent yet challenging story lines . Always concluded well . For one hour it made us all forget about all our troubles .
Elvis and "Clam Bake!" was on the late movie. Big Brother walks in and barks, "Turn that has-been hillbilly off right now!" Just then, Elvis drives into a gas station and the little hose activated bell goes Ding! Ding! My brother`s jaw drops and he says, "I haven`t heard that sound in thirty five years!!"...
Isn’t it crazy how songs or clips of our childhood evoke such emotion. Makes your realize your time on earth goes by so fast. One day your 9 yrs watching lifeboat with your mom or dad and the next you are 47 yrs old laying in bed typing this. time flies
wow. as soon as the song started I instantly felt the same feelings I had as a kid....just pure joy....even could smell whatever my mom would have been cooking at the time...amazing to me these songs have that power to literally bring me back in time to that level. awesome.
I was born in 1972. I remember this show, and Dallas, and Falcon Crest, and Mystery Island very well. We were children then, 30+ years later, we are not children. Now, life does not seem as simple, because we now have responsibilities. Teaching the next generations is my job, because I really feel that my parents and the previous generations did no teach me much.
I am sure that everyone views their teenage years as some of the best times ever. When we pass through those years in our lives, everything is new and exciting, the politicians do not seem as dishonest, and life is just better when we are young and dumb. That being said, the music in the 80's still has no compare.
The Love Boat theme song always takes me back to the seventies, when our family use to watch it on a Saturday night when I was a kid , simpler times an great tv
seriously, those were the days. great times then. Sure there were still bad things/evil in the world, but everyone collectively seemed happier. No internet no social media. But we cannot go back.
Nicely said. And I have said the same. 1970s to the mid 80s. Free TV, 13 usable channels. And we all watched the same shows. It was more unifying this way, made us all "on the same page". And a Pacific Princess Cruise of 1980 was more fun - no "War on Terror" and X-raying your luggage! People kept Love private mostly! 1980 plus/minus 5 years was a great time, less negativity and vulgarity..in ones mind. The Love Boat had at least 3 story lines or plots. 1. totally fun. 2. somewhat serious. 3. very serious theme/s.. 1980 and The Love Boat, cheaper prices, better food, more positive themes, and youthful, and people were just more sociable and friendlier then..Naturally!
I used to watch this on a Sunday afternoon. Brilliant. I've never been on a cruise, but it did look "Exciting and New" !!! It made me want to go on one though, especially on Pacific Princess.
This song brings tears to my eyes. When I was a little girl I would dream of crusing in the 80s while watching The Love Boat. My dreams became reality when I started cruising annually from 12 yrs old until my 40s. I watch The Love Boat still because it reminds me that dreams can come true as most of mine really have.
I'm a child of the 90's and never watched this show, but dangit, this is such a catchy theme! It has that wonderful 'carefree 70's feel that I've come to love from shows of that era. We need more of that feeling in today's shows!
"We need more of that feeling in today's shows!", yeah, well you can FORGET IT. Take Star Trek, for example. They have made (here on YT), many videos MOCKING how BAD the modern Star Trek ( Discovery) is compared to the truly-awesome Star Trek the Next Generation. Everything revolves around the CULT of wokeness. Look at how they've even ruined Star Wars with wokeness.
@@pedestrianrights1257 superman is now gay, and she hulk is trans curious. The bible says these days will come, we are in the eye if the storm right now.
Today's shows stink- no beautiful shows, no family shows, no TGIF that ABC had during the 1990s, no really, really funny shows...nothing. ABC is a major disappointment. The one soap they had left even sucks now.
@Tricia R. Back in my day, we called it "not being an arsehole". Now it seems to be in vogue to be an arsehole to people, and if they don't like it then they're "too PC".
Takes me back to my youth. Loved this show. Loved his cameos on King of Queens! He and Jerry Stiller were brilliant! Hope these two guys are sharing a drink together! RIP Gavin!
I remember watching the Love Boat (and Fantasy Island following it) on a regular basis every Saturday night back in the early-mid 1980s when it was still originally on the air. There was something so COMFORTING and SOOTHING about the opening theme as well as each and every episode. Entertaining too. Being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home, escapist fantasy was exactly the right kind of formula that I really needed and just PERFECT for a saturday night after a whole weeks worth of depressing, stressful nonsense. But the fact that i watched and loved the love boat was my MOST closely guarded and BIGGEST well kept secret at the time. Because a teenaged boy simply did NOT admit to his fellow teens about watching love boat as well as being a fan of that show. Not unless he wanted to be the target of ridicule. There were many tv shows around that time a teen could openly admit to being a fan of. But The Love Boat wasnt one of them. Saturday nights are just not the same without The Love Boat (and Fantasy Island) airing new episodes at its regular time (Love Boat, 9pm. Fantasy Island, 10pm). It's a crying shame, really.
Little know fact. The Manson Family broke into Jack Jones house and robbed him in 1969. He slept through it. They stole food and valuables. If Manson killed him we would not have this song!
@@mananimal3644 we would still have it, it was written by Paul Williams. But it wouldn’t be the same because someone else would be singing it. But that’s interesting! I just watched a documentary on Manson the other day. Crazy man. He was personally responsible for bringing an end to the hippie era.
It's one thing to have a big hit show, but to have at least two big, long-running, (at least 5 years) Iconic series is something special.Gavin MacLeod is one of them. R.I.P. to a TV legend.
The Catholic Boat is gonna be heading out today! The Catholic Boat! Time to throw all of your cares away! Get some hot Christian action that will-AHHHHHHHHHH!
I loved this show when I was a kid on Saturday nights with my mom and my sister and we baked cakes for both the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. It was a fun time. My mother passed away April 7, 2019 and it's been exactly a year since she has been gone.
I to have very fond memories of my parents taking me to her sister's house where I would get to stay up late and watch Love Boat, Fantasy Island and maybe even the midnight movie if we were lucky while they made sweets to take to church for the old folks. Such simple times...
@@ICTS22 there was also shows like Charlie's Angels, Three's Company, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, & Quincy, etc. They were interesting & fun to watch, also, the theme music scores for these sound really cool back then and even today(including The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Baretta, and the music score for Gilligan's Island also).
The theme song is truly magical. I was born when it aired but i was very young. I remember my mother watching it. Truly comfort tv. You just can't get this style of comfort from today's tv...
the 60s 70s & 80s had the BEST TV shows ever...hands down..at 52 l thank God l grew up during those times...l feel sorry for this young generation ...awful cartoons, tv shows and movies most part its nothing but reality shows today...R.I.P classic shows from 1950s - 1990s.
60s 70s 80s excellent Tv shows then am 50 years old now you can get them on dads I Will always remember 60s 70s 80s so sad for the young generation tv then was better than now
Everyone in my family knew, that NOTHING interrupted my mother watching The Love Boat. It was her favorite show when I was growing up in the 1980s, and we'd all gather around the television after dinner and watch it when it came on. Oh the memories. I miss my mother so much. But hearing this makes me feel like she's alive again!
We were lucky I was born in 1977 and I grew up with all of this TV was my babysitter and I would watch Family Ties and other TV shows like Charlies Angles and the late 70's and 80s and 90s were the best I would give anything to have those days back again and I miss Tower Records so much. We had shopping malls and TV shows and great movies and people were nicer and people danced and sang. Were so lucky now everything sucks now. I hate 2024.
The Love Boat was total escapism promoting the most escapist holiday category of them all - cruising! I enjoyed it because it was so undemanding. Very relaxing too, after a tough day at the office - back in the 1970s! In those days no-one had ever heard of Islamic terrorism.
The escapism was most obvious in the scenes by the pool. On the TV show, the extras in the background all looked like supermodels. On an actual cruise ship, most of the people by the pool look.... well.... catch my drift?
Over 6 million people have viewed this video and only 9,000 votes? I think the majority of folks just enjoyed hearing this wonderful song from a better time. Thank God for the music made in the 60's and 70's. We can travel back in time recall our favorite memories from that period. Thank you puntadeleste for posting it!
"The Love Boat" was one of my favorite TV shows back in the 1980's. Lauren Tewes was so beautiful as Cruise Director Julie McCoy. The show was better in its' earlier seasons than in the seasons towards the end of its' 10 or 11 year run on ABC-TV.
@@theodoreritola7641 "The Love Boat" was a wonderful show up until Lauren Tewes was fired from the show. After she left the show it was never the same. Plus that show unfortunately, like "All in the Family" and "The Carol Burnett" show, failed to adhere to the old sports and entertainment truism/adage to "quit while still throwing your fastball". "All in the Family" should have ended its' brilliant run with the episode in which Mike and Gloria Stivic leave NY to move to California. Unfortunately Carroll O'Connor foolishly decided that the show should go on and continued it as "Archie Bunker's Place" which was never anywhere near as funny as "All in the Family". He didn't do the wise thing that Mary Tyler Moore did when she ended her show while it was still a great show. She saw the first signs that that show's writers were running out of fresh ideas for stories and wisely ended that great show before it had a chance to decline in quality!
@@theodoreritola7641 . If Carroll O'Connor had ended "All in the Family" with the episode in which Mike and Gloria leave NY to move to California, that show would be rightly regarded as one of the all-time greatest shows ever. But it will forever have the enormous blemish of continuing too long which sadly marred its legacy!
There is a lost episode where Kitt and airwolf take a vacation on the love boat and have a super baby ship that talks. And a new show is born: the knightwolf
I miss this show so much even though I never watched it for more than a few minutes. It reminds me of my childhood in the 80's. I used to love the opening theme. I guess my mother watched the show because I heard this opening theme ever Saturday night. It was one of those shows that I really didn't watch but still fell in love with the opening theme like Dynasty, Dallas, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, etc. TV shows from the 70's and 80's had the greatest opening themes in my opinion.
Listening to this song and looking at the actors from the 70s makes me sad but with a big smile because the 70s were without a doubt the best time and there is no comparison to today.
Wow! This brought back memories. I used to watch this every day before kindergarten. I had a cardboard box that I called my "Love Boat box" fully equipped with a pillow, blanket, and munchies. Every day I would pull my box into the living room in front of the TV, climb into it, and settle in for my daily dose of day time drama. My Love Boat box and I never missed an episode! 😂
It took Titanic 2 hrs to sink. Took the Love Boat 9 yrs to sink. . Loved that show. That was the gateway show to watching Saturday night live. Had to make it thru fantasy Island. Then the news. If I was lucky I didn't fall asleep to watch Mr. Bill and Steve Martin's antics. What memories!!
I don't know exactly what brought me here. I'm gonna go with nostalgia. And if you didn't point back at 1:25, there is a hole in your soul. You always knew who Isaac was gonna hook up with by watching the special guest star credits and seeing if a black actress would appear on that episode.
I love this movie The Love Boat and never was boring was a good show like all timer remind me when I was young I really love love both it was amazing they don't do more shows like this thank you for Love Boat thank you for the Memories love you always Tina from Montreal
Born in 1978, I grew up with The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dallas, CHIPS, Hart To Hart, Three's Company etc......good shows that made you escape reality. Now reality is crammed down our throats with all these trashy reality shows they churn out a dime a dozen.
exactly. no internet or social media. More family values. sure there was evil and bad things going on in the world, but people just seemed a bit happier back then, dare I say...
This is the TV show that made me fall in love with cruises. My first cruise was actually a Princess from Venice to Barcelona, in 1985 I think. Back then, ships didn't have as many amenities, the arcade only had a few machines, but I still manage to have a great time.
My fave show and theme song of all time. Just so beautiful! I STILL get goosebumps when he gets to “And love won’t hurt anymore…” then that big buildup to Lauren Tewes ❤
They had to add in that extra musical beginning because there were so many guests! The best! Miss this era...so simple and sweet. xoxo The Clarences (robert, erin & leslie)
I loved to watch the TV Series and the song was always a favorite of mine. "Love Boat" did more for promoting the desire in people to go on a Cruise Vacation than all the advertising combined put out by the Cruise Lines.
God, to have been in my 20s back in 1977, when Saturday night television was worth watching. I don't think there's been a Saturday night prime time sitcom since the days of the Golden Girls/Designing Women in the 80s. At least we have Me-TV now.
haha. I was reading where u said, "I don't think there's been a prime time Saturday night show worth watching" and I thought u were gonna go on to say the love boat while I was personally thinking about the golden girls. Suddenly, there it WAS! U actually said what I was thinking. haha. I can still remember that line up like it was yesterday. Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses, then The Commish. Ugh. Thankyou for being a friend is now ringing in my ear. I know what video to watch next. Onward!!!
God, I miss 70's television. Everything was family oriented and just plain entertaining. You didn't have to think about it, analyze it, or write somebody and bitch about it. It was just there for us to enjoy.
Actually the 70s were quite a mature decade as well as far as sexuality. And the adults were constantly analyzing and bitching about how TV and disco were destroying America, lol.
Wonderful memories as a young boy growing up in Manchester England I used only dream off what it would be like to go on a cruise 🚢 I thought it was only for the very wealthy people now I’ve been fortunate to have taken my daughter on 20 cruises so we can make beautiful memories ❤ together
This song popped into my head just now, so I played it for my 5 and 10 year old while lip syncing....they said they'll never forget it (while on the floor laughing at (with) me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️😊😊😊...I grew up in Jamaica in the 80s, this show was HUGE!!!
🤣🤣😆that's children for you. You've given them something they'll remember for the rest of their lives. And they'll recall it and laugh fondly when they gather together in their 50's on, long after you've passed. How do I know? My little sister and I do those same things as 66 & 64 yr olds now thinking back on our daddy and the antics he did with us as children. It really is priceless.
I use to watch this back when I was a kid, and loved every bloody minute of it. I even wanted to grow up faster, so I could board the ship to find the love of my life. And I asked my mom once, if this was a real ship in which people could sail on. She said yes, that it actually was, and that many of the people in the show was just simple passengers of that ship. Course I think it was mostly filmed on a building that was designed to look like a boat, but who knows it was a good show none the less. And I for one miss old shows like this.
My gosh! Memories flooding back to when my Mum and her mother (my grandmother) watching this before Dallas. This was when I was growing up in New Zealand
As you get older you realize that your childhood was awesome. Time flies by quickly. I wouldn't trade those memories for anything.
I would trade the memories to go back to 1970
@halparker9742 = best comment!
God isnt that true
Feminism ruined relationships.
I know!
This TV show was my mother’s inspiration for a business. In 1981, she started a very successful travel agency specializing in cruises. Mom passed away 10.5 years ago. Hearing this theme song makes me quite nostalgic. I miss you mom! Sail on! Bon Voyage!
Great to hear. I love it when TV shows inspire people to follow a new path. Your mother was obviously a woman who was not afraid to dream & turn her dreams into reality. Inspirational!
Sorry for your loss.
Is the business still around, or what? What's the story on that? I'm legit curious.
Wait...The travel agency...is It "Princess cruises"? I just heard this song playing on The horn of those Cruises when It was just about to set sail here in Spain😳
Sorry if my English is a bit weird.
Wow that's so cool did you or anyone take over the business?
Hearing this song for the first time in decades brought tears to my eyes . It was a very good show with innocent yet challenging story lines . Always concluded well . For one hour it made us all forget about all our troubles .
Elvis and "Clam Bake!" was on the late movie. Big Brother walks in and barks, "Turn that has-been hillbilly off right now!" Just then, Elvis drives into a gas station and the little hose activated bell goes Ding! Ding! My brother`s jaw drops and he says, "I haven`t heard that sound in thirty five years!!"...
I would take the troubles of the late 70s over to day ANY TIME ,,,
@@theodoreritola7641 True, today's children will face difficulties orders of magnitude greater than anything earlier generations could have imagined.
Yes! Followed by Fantasy Island of course...
Isn’t it crazy how songs or clips of our childhood evoke such emotion. Makes your realize your time on earth goes by so fast. One day your 9 yrs watching lifeboat with your mom or dad and the next you are 47 yrs old laying in bed typing this. time flies
wow. as soon as the song started I instantly felt the same feelings I had as a kid....just pure joy....even could smell whatever my mom would have been cooking at the time...amazing to me these songs have that power to literally bring me back in time to that level. awesome.
Me too. Oh what nustalgia!
It is amazing how things awaken our senses. This was such an innocent time, yet it’s really onerous.
My sentiments exactly
Lemmenlaiva
Me too. Very similar memories to yours. :)
I was born 1975, Why was I in a hurry to grow up. The early 80"s best time to be alive !!!
I wish I could turn the clock back to 1980.
Me too, I would be 14 or 15
In 1980 I was 14.
Same.
XXXX !!you're not the only one who feels that way
Maybe to you ,,,The 70s were way better , IM 61 I was there
I'm 54 and remember this as I get teary-eyed lol.
Me and co worker's was just explaining how they need to bring this back.
m 54 also. The 1970s were the best of times. So long ago
Wish i could go back.
They definitely need to bring this show back.
I could live 1979 to 1990 over and over again
Mike-Sylvia Gainey-Hernandez 76-90
I was born in 1972. I remember this show, and Dallas, and Falcon Crest, and Mystery Island very well. We were children then, 30+ years later, we are not children. Now, life does not seem as simple, because we now have responsibilities. Teaching the next generations is my job, because I really feel that my parents and the previous generations did no teach me much.
I was born late 80s and envy those who lived then and experienced that time firsthand living in it
I am sure that everyone views their teenage years as some of the best times ever. When we pass through those years in our lives, everything is new and exciting, the politicians do not seem as dishonest, and life is just better when we are young and dumb. That being said, the music in the 80's still has no compare.
Oh my goodness! Me too! Over and over.😊😊😊
The Love Boat theme song always takes me back to the seventies, when our family use to watch it on a Saturday night when I was a kid , simpler times an great tv
seriously, those were the days. great times then. Sure there were still bad things/evil in the world, but everyone collectively seemed happier. No internet no social media. But we cannot go back.
Farewell to a legend. R.I.P Gavin. I enjoyed watching the Love Boat when I was growing up. Thank you for the memories.
He was also great in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Dorky but success ful show
- You sound jealous
Love this song!!! Love this show! I am crying at the memories of watching it with the family as a kid! Such a fun, happy show!
Rest In Peace Captain Stubing aka Gavin McLeod
These were the times when we all watched the same shows and listened to the same music. Today we are so divided.
Nicely said. And I have said the same. 1970s to the mid 80s. Free TV, 13 usable channels. And we all watched the same shows. It was more unifying this way, made us all "on the same page". And a Pacific Princess Cruise of 1980 was more fun - no "War on Terror" and X-raying your luggage! People kept Love private mostly! 1980 plus/minus 5 years was a great time, less negativity and vulgarity..in ones mind.
The Love Boat had at least 3 story lines or plots. 1. totally fun. 2. somewhat serious. 3. very serious theme/s..
1980 and The Love Boat, cheaper prices, better food, more positive themes, and youthful, and people were just more sociable and friendlier then..Naturally!
Thank leftist radical educators that have infiltrated the school system.
True 👍
How sad we have variety to watch and listen to other things lol
I disagree, with the internet, I feel we are more connected than we have ever been
If us kids were good on saturday nights we used to get to stay up to watch this. If we were VERY good Fantasy Island lol
LOL yup yup, always a treat to stay up to watch fantasy island after this awesome show, :)
ABC!
NBC and CBS are better
Dennis LePorte You must be my age!
I used to watch this
on a Sunday afternoon.
Brilliant. I've never been
on a cruise, but it did look
"Exciting and New" !!!
It made me want to go
on one though, especially
on Pacific Princess.
This show was absolute magic. Saturday 8pm on ABC = TJ Hooker; 9pm = Love Boat; 10 pm = Fantasy Island. Escapist TV at it's finest!
yep!
Here in Toronto on Sat. nights it was CHiPs at 8 pm, Love Boat at 9 pm and Fantasy Island at 10 pm.
.. And throw in some Knight Rider, Magnum and Simon & Simon for good measure.
Now Saturday night is all about reruns, and I think back then there wasn't as many channels. it's sad 100-200 channels and almost nearly nothing on.
Yeah now Saturday nights on Network is usually reruns or sports
This song brings tears to my eyes. When I was a little girl I would dream of crusing in the 80s while watching The Love Boat. My dreams became reality when I started cruising annually from 12 yrs old until my 40s. I watch The Love Boat still because it reminds me that dreams can come true as most of mine really have.
1977 AIRED 1ST Just saying ,,
In the mid 70 we were doing that all ready, Before the 80s were in Diapers
Ist aired in Sept 1976
Always chase your dreams
One of the best theme songs of all time. :)
+Ixapter no kidding its even better cause of the Regal princess
+thatEquestrian .bronyfurry I know that song from me TV shows and the website is called princess cruise line
Best theme for me, must be the one for the Persuaders, (John Barry), Tony Curtis and Roger Moore.....
Is choo havin a larf.
Totally lol. Makes me want to dance around the room.
I'm a child of the 90's and never watched this show, but dangit, this is such a catchy theme! It has that wonderful 'carefree 70's feel that I've come to love from shows of that era. We need more of that feeling in today's shows!
"We need more of that feeling in today's shows!", yeah, well you can FORGET IT. Take Star Trek, for example. They have made (here on YT), many videos MOCKING how BAD the modern Star Trek ( Discovery) is compared to the truly-awesome Star Trek the Next Generation. Everything revolves around the CULT of wokeness. Look at how they've even ruined Star Wars with wokeness.
@@pedestrianrights1257 superman is now gay, and she hulk is trans curious. The bible says these days will come, we are in the eye if the storm right now.
Today's shows stink- no beautiful shows, no family shows, no TGIF that ABC had during the 1990s, no really, really funny shows...nothing. ABC is a major disappointment. The one soap they had left even sucks now.
Ya no kidding
@@myrablue1307 We had all that in the 70s ALL Ready
That theme song was so beautiful to me and I believe it will always hold a special place in my memories. God bless the 80's.
Me too 😇💎
And the '70's. Show's premier season was 1976.
You missed the 70s ,, WHEN LOVE BOAT 1ST AIRED
@@raystrong2823 80s kids all ways try to rob the 70s kids In every thing from songs to movies you name it ,,
SAME HERE the 70s were very special And a great 70s tv theme song The love Boat 1st aired on tv in SEPt 1976 With the Theme its 70s Baby
Im getting that warm 1970's fuzzy feeling again.
ACNC1 Between the disco beat in the theme and Jack Jones's fine singing, it's easy to get that 70s feel.
smmfm : You are so right!
Probably the cocaine.
duuuuude....totally
duuuuude....totally
I love watching this with my dad. I'm 20 now but can still appreciate an amazing show when I see one.
Those were The Good Old Days!!!
Let the church say amen 💯💯
The last moment in time when growing up was fun
...One of my all-time faves! This is classic! I always wished to be on "The Love Boat"!!!
Me,too Tara!
Life just seemed happier back in these days
People could take a joke better back then and weren't as stupid back then as now.
@@scootover7 Yeah, PC and social media have effed everything up.
@@jane1975 My PC is faster than ever, it's ruined nothing.
@Tricia R. Yeah, when all people had to worry about was the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation.
@Tricia R. Back in my day, we called it "not being an arsehole". Now it seems to be in vogue to be an arsehole to people, and if they don't like it then they're "too PC".
Takes me back to my youth. Loved this show. Loved his cameos on King of Queens! He and Jerry Stiller were brilliant! Hope these two guys are sharing a drink together! RIP Gavin!
This intro was elegant with that elegant touch of the 1970's.
I really miss those days.
This was such a great show, and I always loved the theme song, sung by Jack Jones.
Thanks so much for posting!
The horns on this song are fantastic!!! My favorite part as a kid.
I remember watching the Love Boat (and Fantasy Island following it) on a regular basis every Saturday night back in the early-mid 1980s when it was still originally on the air. There was something so COMFORTING and SOOTHING about the opening theme as well as each and every episode. Entertaining too.
Being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home, escapist fantasy was exactly the right kind of formula that I really needed and just PERFECT for a saturday night after a whole weeks worth of depressing, stressful nonsense.
But the fact that i watched and loved the love boat was my MOST closely guarded and BIGGEST well kept secret at the time. Because a teenaged boy simply did NOT admit to his fellow teens about watching love boat as well as being a fan of that show. Not unless he wanted to be the target of ridicule. There were many tv shows around that time a teen could openly admit to being a fan of. But The Love Boat wasnt one of them.
Saturday nights are just not the same without The Love Boat (and Fantasy Island) airing new episodes at its regular time (Love Boat, 9pm. Fantasy Island, 10pm). It's a crying shame, really.
I'm sorry that you had to deal with that..Bit please know you're special, God loves you, and that you were born to do great things
What a wonderfull great nice american good old time sound and
show! The soundtrack is one of the best ever composed!
Sophisticated!!
I awoke this morning with this theme in my head 😀 and it’s been decades since I heard it. Wild that I can find it in a moment!
Omg the love boat was a brilliant show
and the theme music was the best .I still sing it today ..The 80s was the best .
The theme song is from the 70s And The Love boat was a smash hit in the 70s before the 80s even started
Jack Jones! What a gifted singer!! Thanks Jack!
Yes he is, also an underrated singer, I was born in the 70s, but I just found out he was the performer of this TV series song.
The brass part as well!
Little know fact.
The Manson Family broke into Jack Jones house and robbed him in 1969. He slept through it. They stole food and valuables.
If Manson killed him we would not have this song!
@@mananimal3644 we would still have it, it was written by Paul Williams. But it wouldn’t be the same because someone else would be singing it. But that’s interesting! I just watched a documentary on Manson the other day. Crazy man. He was personally responsible for bringing an end to the hippie era.
I thought it was Alan Thicke at first till I googled it. What a great voice and one of my fav themes ever well Charles Fox 👏 how can u go wrong.
It's one thing to have a big hit show, but to have at least two big, long-running, (at least 5 years) Iconic series is something special.Gavin MacLeod is one of them. R.I.P. to a TV legend.
The Catholic Boat is gonna be heading out today! The Catholic Boat! Time to throw all of your cares away! Get some hot Christian action that will-AHHHHHHHHHH!
Ahhh!
Ahhh ahh!
Thats funny
May the force be with you.
That's all I think of
God is Love !
I loved this show when I was a kid on Saturday nights with my mom and my sister and we baked cakes for both the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. It was a fun time. My mother passed away April 7, 2019 and it's been exactly a year since she has been gone.
I to have very fond memories of my parents taking me to her sister's house where I would get to stay up late and watch Love Boat, Fantasy Island and maybe even the midnight movie if we were lucky while they made sweets to take to church for the old folks. Such simple times...
@@ICTS22 there was also shows like Charlie's Angels, Three's Company, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, & Quincy, etc. They were interesting & fun to watch, also, the theme music scores for these sound really cool back then and even today(including The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Baretta, and the music score for Gilligan's Island also).
@@mperry1329 at least you have something to remember her by. May she forever Rest In Peace 😔🙏
The theme song is truly magical. I was born when it aired but i was very young. I remember my mother watching it. Truly comfort tv. You just can't get this style of comfort from today's tv...
the 60s 70s & 80s had the BEST TV shows ever...hands down..at 52 l thank God l grew up during those times...l feel sorry for this young generation ...awful cartoons, tv shows and movies most part its nothing but reality shows today...R.I.P classic shows from 1950s - 1990s.
60s 70s 80s excellent Tv shows then am 50 years old now you can get them on dads I Will always remember 60s 70s 80s so sad for the young generation tv then was better than now
Farewell Captian Stuebing, safe voyage
Everyone in my family knew, that NOTHING interrupted my mother watching The Love Boat. It was her favorite show when I was growing up in the 1980s, and we'd all gather around the television after dinner and watch it when it came on. Oh the memories. I miss my mother so much. But hearing this makes me feel like she's alive again!
Life's sweetest reward... The Love Boat.
How come theme songs of the 60s, 70s and the early 80's are the best?
Because thats when tv was great.
agreed
because people were far FAR more creative back then. Today everybody has a one track mind
Leon Gulley So true, its all about computer generated music done within 30mins
afroblack1000 I think the anti depressant drugs have killed creativity in hollyweird
What a glorious time period the 80s were, we never knew how good we had it did we?
But it was on in the 70s before the 80s were in diapers .The Love Boat was a huge hit in the 70s all ready for 4 years
We were lucky I was born in 1977 and I grew up with all of this TV was my babysitter and I would watch Family Ties and other TV shows like Charlies Angles and the late 70's and 80s and 90s were the best I would give anything to have those days back again and I miss Tower Records so much. We had shopping malls and TV shows and great movies and people were nicer and people danced and sang. Were so lucky now everything sucks now. I hate 2024.
The Love Boat was total escapism promoting the most escapist holiday category of them all - cruising! I enjoyed it because it was so undemanding. Very relaxing too, after a tough day at the office - back in the 1970s! In those days no-one had ever heard of Islamic terrorism.
Or Israeli terrorism.
Bouncybon True...we should have closed the borders permanently....
THEY TOOK YER JERBS!!!
Thank you. This needed to be said.
The escapism was most obvious in the scenes by the pool. On the TV show, the extras in the background all looked like supermodels. On an actual cruise ship, most of the people by the pool look.... well.... catch my drift?
Over 6 million people have viewed this video and only 9,000 votes? I think the majority of folks just enjoyed hearing this wonderful song from a better time. Thank God for the music made in the 60's and 70's. We can travel back in time recall our favorite memories from that period. Thank you puntadeleste for posting it!
And the problem is what?
I love to see you people remembering past times and telling the stories!...keep it up please
"The Love Boat" was one of my favorite TV shows back in the 1980's. Lauren Tewes was so beautiful as Cruise Director Julie McCoy. The show was better in its' earlier seasons than in the seasons towards the end of its' 10 or 11 year run on ABC-TV.
Same here but back to the mid 70s When the LOVE BOAT Was Bran new
@@theodoreritola7641 "The Love Boat" was a wonderful show up until Lauren Tewes was fired from the show. After she left the show it was never the same. Plus that show unfortunately, like "All in the Family" and "The Carol Burnett" show, failed to adhere to the old sports and entertainment truism/adage to "quit while still throwing your fastball". "All in the Family" should have ended its' brilliant run with the episode in which Mike and Gloria Stivic leave NY to move to California. Unfortunately Carroll O'Connor foolishly decided that the show should go on and continued it as "Archie Bunker's Place" which was never anywhere near as funny as "All in the Family". He didn't do the wise thing that Mary Tyler Moore did when she ended her show while it was still a great show. She saw the first signs that that show's writers were running out of fresh ideas for stories and wisely ended that great show before it had a chance to decline in quality!
@@michaelbarlow6610 Yes your right , And both great 70s tv shows
@@theodoreritola7641 . If Carroll O'Connor had ended "All in the Family" with the episode in which Mike and Gloria leave NY to move to California, that show would be rightly regarded as one of the all-time greatest shows ever. But it will forever have the enormous blemish of continuing too long which sadly marred its legacy!
one of my favorite shows of all times in the 80's.
There is a lost episode where Kitt and airwolf take a vacation on the love boat and have a super baby ship that talks. And a new show is born: the knightwolf
And mine in the 70s When the Love boat started
Jack Jones. One of the great singers of the twentieth century. And he's still doing it in his eighties.
Oh memories! When TV programs used to be good.
When they didn't resort to sexual or bathroom humor to make an effect.
There were plenty of bad shows and songs back then too history always remembers the good parts and forgets the bad stuff that’s how nostalgia works
Polymath Voyd really?! Name some then 'bad's' !!!
@@robertchan5805 about half the stuff you find on amazon prime tv
Robert Chan and the movies that you see on mst3k if you take out the commentary
I miss this show so much even though I never watched it for more than a few minutes. It reminds me of my childhood in the 80's. I used to love the opening theme. I guess my mother watched the show because I heard this opening theme ever Saturday night. It was one of those shows that I really didn't watch but still fell in love with the opening theme like Dynasty, Dallas, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, etc. TV shows from the 70's and 80's had the greatest opening themes in my opinion.
Very good 70s theme song to a very good 70s tv show That ran threw the 80s
Listening to this song and looking at the actors from the 70s makes me sad but with a big smile because the 70s were without a doubt the best time and there is no comparison to today.
100 percent AGREE ,,
NOT EVEN CLOSE
Sad how..It was a special time
One of the best opening tv shoe sings EVER !!! Things were so much more humane and loving back then...miss those days !
The 1st show of the LOVE BOAT was in Sept of 1976, I was There ..
Remember hearing this song when I was just a toddler. It's been seared into my memory. Good times.
Woke up this morning with this song in my head...I miss all of these shows
Wow! This brought back memories. I used to watch this every day before kindergarten. I had a cardboard box that I called my "Love Boat box" fully equipped with a pillow, blanket, and munchies. Every day I would pull my box into the living room in front of the TV, climb into it, and settle in for my daily dose of day time drama. My Love Boat box and I never missed an episode! 😂
Everyday? You must have been watching reruns. It came on Saturday night at 9pm Eastern Time...or was it 8?
God, I miss the old days when The Love Boat was on!!
It was America at its finest. The best era in American history.
It took Titanic 2 hrs to sink. Took the Love Boat 9 yrs to sink. . Loved that show. That was the gateway show to watching Saturday night live. Had to make it thru fantasy Island. Then the news. If I was lucky I didn't fall asleep to watch Mr. Bill and Steve Martin's antics. What memories!!
I loved Ted Lange, he was the coolest!
The love boat will
Always be my favorite show .
Life was so simple back then, I miss those days.
I don't know exactly what brought me here. I'm gonna go with nostalgia. And if you didn't point back at 1:25, there is a hole in your soul.
You always knew who Isaac was gonna hook up with by watching the special guest star credits and seeing if a black actress would appear on that episode.
I thought I was the only one who pointed back at Isaac.
Luna Fischbach your soul, it turns out, is whole....
Michael Brown Who did he hook up with?
+Michael Brown, Isaac is the man!
+Enon Ereh he'd hook up the guest stars with their one true pairing.
I love this movie The Love Boat and never was boring was a good show like all timer remind me when I was young I really love love both it was amazing they don't do more shows like this thank you for Love Boat thank you for the Memories love you always Tina from Montreal
I never missed every episode!!!...I was so in love with Julie and Jill Whelan!!! This is when tv was everything!!! Loved this time!!!
Ist show was in 1976
Very beautiful
Santiago de Chile 🇨🇱!!!
Loved watching the Love Boat every week. Waiting to see what stars they would have on. Great show. The 80s rocked. Best decade ever
Born in 1978, I grew up with The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dallas, CHIPS, Hart To Hart, Three's Company etc......good shows that made you escape reality. Now reality is crammed down our throats with all these trashy reality shows they churn out a dime a dozen.
And Mork And Mindy, The Jeffersons, Gimme A Break, Alf... great shows and with great theme songs too.
Agreed. 1975 here. Best time to grow up especially for TV, movies and music.
I agree, I'm an irish guy born in 1969 and we loved all those American shows here in the 80s, RIP captain
@ hoagie 1978........couldn't have said it better. You are right on!
All these tv shows were in the 70s Before the 80s Started ,
I tear up whenever I hear this! It takes me back to a time when everything was simple & great!!!!
exactly. no internet or social media. More family values. sure there was evil and bad things going on in the world, but people just seemed a bit happier back then, dare I say...
This is the TV show that made me fall in love with cruises. My first cruise was actually a Princess from Venice to Barcelona, in 1985 I think. Back then, ships didn't have as many amenities, the arcade only had a few machines, but I still manage to have a great time.
My fave show and theme song of all time. Just so beautiful! I STILL get goosebumps when he gets to “And love won’t hurt anymore…” then that big buildup to Lauren Tewes ❤
They had to add in that extra musical beginning because there were so many guests!
The best!
Miss this era...so simple and sweet.
xoxo
The Clarences (robert, erin & leslie)
Haha this brings back the memories of the 80's and my parents place. Awesome times
I loved to watch the TV Series and the song was always a favorite of mine. "Love Boat" did more for promoting the desire in people to go on a Cruise Vacation than all the advertising combined put out by the Cruise Lines.
Power of TV...
God, to have been in my 20s back in 1977, when Saturday night television was worth watching. I don't think there's been a Saturday night prime time sitcom since the days of the Golden Girls/Designing Women in the 80s. At least we have Me-TV now.
haha. I was reading where u said, "I don't think there's been a prime time Saturday night show worth watching" and I thought u were gonna go on to say the love boat while I was personally thinking about the golden girls. Suddenly, there it WAS! U actually said what I was thinking. haha. I can still remember that line up like it was yesterday. Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses, then The Commish. Ugh. Thankyou for being a friend is now ringing in my ear. I know what video to watch next. Onward!!!
Yes good ol days, I was watching another channel they got now called Decades
+Dee Ray Actually Hunter was on after Nurses. The Commish was on ABC.
+johnnytuffguy the song from me TV shows and the website is called princess cruise line
+AJ C Yes exactly
I use to watch this show on my granny's little black and white television. Damn I miss those days when you had only a few channels to choose from.
I want to do a Love Boat marathon in honor of the passing of Captain Stubing (Gavin MacLeod} 🛳 Bon Voyage 🎉🎉🎉
RIP Captain. Set a course for adventure 🛳
Truly ,God You blessed allá those years of Childhood and teenegerhood thanks for ley me live this wonderful years
the catholic boat
is gonna be heading today
The Catholic boat
Time to throw all of your cares awaaaaaay
Get sum hot Christian action that'll take you...
*AAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAH!!!!*
...Uh, _fake cough_ excuse me.
Funny how you have a south park icon
This brought me here
Here just knowing it's based on this xD
I love oldies shows.
you look hot
I was 17 years old when this show aired in 1976, it was fun to see stars from other shows aboard the cruise ship. ⚓
This song has been playing on a loop in my mind all day 😅
Love the taste of cheesy 70's nostalgia. We're expecting you Jack Jones to let it flow just one more time. Sing it baby!! :)
Cheesy 70's lounge lizard style. I feel like I'm 12 again.
God, I miss 70's television. Everything was family oriented and just plain entertaining. You didn't have to think about it, analyze it, or write somebody and bitch about it. It was just there for us to enjoy.
Actually the 70s were quite a mature decade as well as far as sexuality. And the adults were constantly analyzing and bitching about how TV and disco were destroying America, lol.
It's amazing that this show survived until 1987. I could've sworn it was off the air by 1982-1983.
RIP Gavin MacLeod As Your Captain. May You Set Sail Into Heaven. You Will Be Missed.
this brought memories of a beautiful era..
i used to watchthis show with my parents, when life was new and exiting
and everything was better
RIP, (Captain Stubing) Gavin MacCleod
Back in 2010 I had this as my alarm clock ringtone!! Ohhh how I loved this show and still love it 😍
Wonderful memories as a young boy growing up in Manchester England I used only dream off what it would be like to go on a cruise 🚢 I thought it was only for the very wealthy people now I’ve been fortunate to have taken my daughter on 20 cruises so we can make beautiful memories ❤ together
This song makes me taste root beer floats! My grandma would make us kids root beer floats and we would watch Love Boat 🥰
This song popped into my head just now, so I played it for my 5 and 10 year old while lip syncing....they said they'll never forget it (while on the floor laughing at (with) me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️😊😊😊...I grew up in Jamaica in the 80s, this show was HUGE!!!
🤣🤣😆that's children for you. You've given them something they'll remember for the rest of their lives. And they'll recall it and laugh fondly when they gather together in their 50's on, long after you've passed.
How do I know? My little sister and I do those same things as 66 & 64 yr olds now thinking back on our daddy and the antics he did with us as children. It really is priceless.
All I have to type in youtube is the word 'love' and this magical gem come up. The theme songs from these tv shows really are wonderful.
This show is about finding love. Tis a pity that social media destroyed that possibility in this century.
I use to watch this back when I was a kid, and loved every bloody minute of it. I even wanted to grow up faster, so I could board the ship to find the love of my life. And I asked my mom once, if this was a real ship in which people could sail on. She said yes, that it actually was, and that many of the people in the show was just simple passengers of that ship. Course I think it was mostly filmed on a building that was designed to look like a boat, but who knows it was a good show none the less. And I for one miss old shows like this.
My gosh! Memories flooding back to when my Mum and her mother (my grandmother) watching this before Dallas. This was when I was growing up in New Zealand
Isaac points and then cracks-up. That just makes me happy 😃
One word! Wholesome!
The stars were on the show always was pretty cool to see them.
I have never even seen this before I just liked the song it's really good
Lol me too
RIP Capt. You are loved and missed.