This takes me back to my Junior High School days in the summer when we were allowed to stay up as late as we wanted. ABC had the best Friday night lineup. Brady Bunch, Partridge Family and Love American Style. And don't forget all the other great shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Emergency!, Adam-12, Dragnet, Medical Center, Mannix, All in the Family, Maude, Mash, Carol Burnett Show, Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and on and on without one reality show. I miss the 70s!
And my dad sang in so many shows at that time! Wonder Woman, Love American Style, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love Boat, and I’m sure more that I’m not aware of. I’m 56, and just found out a couple of years ago that my dad sang backup vocals on A Little Less Conversation with ELVIS!! ♥️ And now that i listen to the song, I can totally hear my dad!
Fiday night line up on ABC I was 7 yrs old got to stay up late on Fridays perfect line up. Brady Bunch. Partidge Family. Room 222. Odd couple. Love American Style. Great time to live back then......
52 years old on august 11.2013. so happy i was born when i was .. the late 60's and the 70s ...that time was magic! young people have their wonderful modern technology but they truly missed out ...we 3 tv stations and radio was playing great songs that everyone knew...absolutely a magic time being a kid..
Santino Sole you are not much older than me and hit it right on the nail ...I hope you are still here with us ... USA 2020 is out of control but w4 have our time machine to go back to those days ...thank God for TH-cam 😃
Every time I here this opening I'm thrown back to 1979. My then girlfriend who was 16 and I was 19 were sitting in her living room when this show came on in re-runs even for back then. She was so happy they were putting it back on the air. It was on a Saturday afternoon. I don't know why it has stuck in my head all these years. She passed away though in 1992 at 29 from breast cancer. Kimberly I promised you I would light a candle on your birthday, every December 13 and remember you always. Love Terry.
BroccoliBeefed Me too...I see people at restaurants, a family, waiting on their food and not talking, just looking down at their gadgets-- except the dad; he was watching a pair of jugs outside the Red Lobster window!
Yeah, I remember staying over at a friend's home on some Friday nights when we were like 12-yrs old and we'd stay up to watch Love American Style like we were going nuts. Then, Saturday we'd goof around and hang out by the pool. Great memories that Friday nights don't offer today. ABC certainly ruled then with that line-up!
For its first season, the theme song was performed by The Cowsills. Beginning in the second season, the same theme song was sung by the Ron Hicklin Singers featuring the Bahler Brothers John and Tom, (billed as The Charles Fox Singers). This second version of the theme was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as on most episodes prepared for syndication.
Ooooh another great TV theme song, recorded when a very, very professional lot of musicians kept the studios honest. On this track listen for Carol Kaye's masterful electric bass, offering not only a solid, full foundation but deft, melodic fills too. I think it may have been Tommy Tedesco on guitar and Hal Blaine on drums---the Wrecking Crew had still been first-call Hollywood session players and we are all the better for it.
Thanks for the memory of that Friday night line up. I'm glad others fondly remember, too! It's weird sometimes to think I actually witnessed those shows when the episodes were aired for the first time!
I grew up watching this show back in the 70's and last month I was dreaming about it and was again sent back to the 70's lol, I would love to see this again.
I agree. MeTV had an awesome Peter Faulk tribute tonight honoring his star and the Walk of Fame. They showed a classic Columbo episode, and had interviews with many stars and friends who knew him well. MeTV gets it.
This was like the Love Boat of the early 70's. An anthology type series that starred all the B-list actors of the day. I was a toddler for the original run, but I remember it ran in syndication a few years later and I that's how I remember this theme song.
ABC had terrific Friday nights back then. I remember around that time we only had one TV in the living room and my sister always turned it to the local ABC station on Friday nights because Here Come the Brides would come on and she was crazy about Bobby Sherman.
After the first season the Cowsills version was replaced by this group of Los Angeles studio singers organized by Ron Hicklin who sang lead tenor.They were also the real singers behind the background vocals on The Partridge Family recordings.
Friday nights on ABC first off was the Brady Bunch, followed by The Partridge Family, then Room 222, and Love Amercian Style. What memories especially on Friday night sleepovers.
Sophisticated comedy, and the only series that truly makes me happy so as to spontaneously laugh ! Watched the continued binge watch episodes on 'Decades' network (over the air, no cable). Over 50 years ago, remember watching LAS on Friday nights with my parents. The producers, G-d rest those that are gone, authentically knew what they were doing.
When we werre inspired to love by love boat and love American ,style and encourage to flirt by Threes Company. Then you'd go hit the disco with your bell bottoms,...the handsign was peace the message was stick together ....real groovy turns everywhere! THANKS FOR THE THEME,!
i was so little when I saw this show. Can you believe I used to watch this in nursery school (now it would be called pre-school) but it was the theme song that I looooove!!! It makes me feel so happy. Those early 70's were the best.
I thought this was such a cool show when it was first on, at that time I was just finding out for myself what the birds and the bees was all about. I preferred the Cowsills' version of the theme song that was used for the first season over the watered-down version by a studio group.
Re-runs of this were definitley still airing in 1979. I remember coming home from kindergarten and watching it around noon. It was on right after a Japanese monster show called "Spectraman" and before the Flintstones. It was too "grown up" for me to understand, but I remember really liking the theme song. I miss those days!
Decades TV channel just did the decades binge of this show a few weeks ago, so being stuck in the house because of coronavirus, I sat down to watch a few episodes. I forgot how corny this show was, but, still it was damn good. A television classic. I watched the one where Valerie Harper played the clumsy housewife. That was one of the funniest ones.
I was 9 years old in 1970 & my mother forbid my father & i from watching this show because she thought it was too sexually suggestive. Look at what's on TV today..This show is tame compared to todays TV shows.
I loved this show.I used 2 watch it all the time in the late 60s when I got home from elementary school and into high school.Ibe if the best TV theme songs.
I'm a year younger than you but I agree, I wouldn't want to be any younger or older as I would have missed out on all the groovy stuff that we got to experience first hand.
We went to Epcot about four years ago, and the Cowsills were there. My wife loves them and since they're not too well-known at this point, it was easy for her to sit and talk with them. I know this recording isn't of the Cowsills, but I think of them when I hear this song.
I actively set out to find this theme song, just to relive what my mind’s eye told me that love was supposed to be- and I was not disappointed. Messy one-night dalliances on cheap motel bed sheets, and then leaving the next morning. God bless the ‘70’s!
@clouseau186 Back when TV land started(late '90s?), they were running Love American Style back in 1999-2000. While in Indiana at the motel I watched LAS, they had TV Land, and in CT, we didn't have it yet. TV Land used to be good, now it sucks.
@8088ee Finally, somebody who caught that! It was because Paramount, about to launch "the Partridge Family"-a show that was supposed to star the Cowsills and be about them-did everything they could to eliminate the competition by taking their producers and some of the songwriting staff away from them [Tony Romeo, Wes Farrell] with loads of money and cutting off royalties wherever they could. We got a false and untalented version in its place. Long live the Cowsills! True talent!
@lancastermagic I don't think so. The Cowsills sang the theme for the first season and then a group of session singers did it for the remaining seasons. Here's the info from Wikipedia: For its first season, the theme song was performed by The Cowsills. Beginning in the second season, the same theme song was sung by John Bahler, Tom Bahler, and Ron Hicklin, (billed as "The Charles Fox Singers"), and was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as most episodes in syndication.
so awesome havent seen in years n found it on so happy to see again. shows back n the good days. antenna tv bringing back Alice and Whats Happening shows like Little House back when everything was good
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Amazing how TV theme songs from the 60’s and 70’s bring back so many dear memories. 💕
You said mouthful, brother!
This takes me back to my Junior High School days in the summer when we were allowed to stay up as late as we wanted. ABC had the best Friday night lineup. Brady Bunch, Partridge Family and Love American Style. And don't forget all the other great shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Emergency!, Adam-12, Dragnet, Medical Center, Mannix, All in the Family, Maude, Mash, Carol Burnett Show, Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and on and on without one reality show. I miss the 70s!
You missed one show that was also on ABC Friday nights: The Odd Couple! I wouldn't know it was Friday without seeing that show!
And my dad sang in so many shows at that time! Wonder Woman, Love American Style, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love Boat, and I’m sure more that I’m not aware of. I’m 56, and just found out a couple of years ago that my dad sang backup vocals on A Little Less Conversation with ELVIS!! ♥️ And now that i listen to the song, I can totally hear my dad!
Room 222 was on Friday nights too. Great memories!
Takes me back to my early days in the boyscouts.
Takes me back to elementary school. Back before the horror that was middle school.
It truly was a great time to be kid in the late 60's and 70's era and the 80's were just as great!
Absolutely! Was really intriguing at that time of our lives!
70s were the best
Tell em Rick !
Sooooo true
Hell I was born in 77 I tell my son and lil cousins all the time they really missed out on an era not being around in the 80's
Fiday night line up on ABC I was 7 yrs old got to stay up late on Fridays perfect line up. Brady Bunch. Partidge Family. Room 222. Odd couple. Love American Style. Great time to live back then......
Tombo Vitale My GOD....we're getting OLD..... remember "Get Christy Love".... ???
@@JohnSmith-ui7wr my mom let me watch it occasionally but she found it too grown up for me. When parents cared what their kids watched.
Those were the days ...
Television was much better then now it's nothing but garbage.
@@JohnSmith-ui7wr Remember her signature line? "You under arrest Sugar!"
52 years old on august 11.2013.
so happy i was born when i was ..
the late 60's and the 70s ...that time was magic!
young people have their wonderful modern technology but they
truly missed out ...we 3 tv stations and radio was playing great songs that everyone knew...absolutely a magic time being a kid..
Santino Sole you are not much older than me and hit it right on the nail ...I hope you are still here with us ... USA 2020 is out of control but w4 have our time machine to go back to those days ...thank God for TH-cam 😃
Totally agree! Wish I had a time machine - I'd go back to the 70s in a heartbeat! 😀
Glad I grew up in this era, a lot of fond memories
Every time I here this opening I'm thrown back to 1979. My then girlfriend who was 16 and I was 19 were sitting in her living room when this show came on in re-runs even for back then. She was so happy they were putting it back on the air. It was on a Saturday afternoon. I don't know why it has stuck in my head all these years. She passed away though in 1992 at 29 from breast cancer. Kimberly I promised you I would light a candle on your birthday, every December 13 and remember you always. Love Terry.
💜
GOD BLESS YOU HERE SIR,,, AND GOD BLESS YOUR FRIEND KIMBERLY'S SOUL ALWAYS IN HEAVEN ABOVE,,, AMEN!!!
Arthur I said it was in re-runs even for 1979. And yes I remember it coming on much earlier.
That is so awesome. What a great theme song and even a better memory for you. Kimberly lives on via one of the best sitcom opening songs of all time.
That is very sweet, William...
It was a better time in the 1970's. This song makes me feel love. Real love. I wish I had real love today.
Well, what are you waiting for? Go get it!
This is probably my favorite TV show theme of all time. SO catchy!
It`s between this and Laverne and Shirley`s theme for me.
Reminds me of Friday nights back in 1972. Great Friday line up o. ABC. I was 8 yrs old then.
Me too! Born in '64!
Same here, 64, Theme songs to classic tv shows really do take you back.
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Hey Me too ! late Nov 64 Wasn't this show on late nights ? Steve don't forget The Partridge Family
Me too Jan 1965. We had great shows my friends.
Makes me sooo sentimental! I love and miss the 70s! Best decade ever!
You look very beautiful!
I agree.
Oh how I miss the 1970s. Everyone didn't have cell phones glued to their ears and actually talked to one another
BroccoliBeefed Me too...I see people at restaurants, a family, waiting on their food and not talking, just looking down at their gadgets-- except the dad; he was watching a pair of jugs outside the Red Lobster window!
I COULD NOT AGREE MORE AND ''KIDS ARE FAT AS HELL ON TOP OF IT'
I miss that so much also.
We still do that.
I'll talk to you
I remember this coming on in the afternoons in early 70s. Loved it. I WANNA GO BACK!!
Yes, me, too!! Just hop in a time machine and relive those sweet fun days!!
That sure was something Huh? How did we make it this far without Evel Knievel, Pete Rose and Stretch Armstrong and lets not forget Barry Mannilow
Yeah, I remember staying over at a friend's home on some Friday nights when we were like 12-yrs old and we'd stay up to watch Love American Style like we were going nuts. Then, Saturday we'd goof around and hang out by the pool. Great memories that Friday nights don't offer today. ABC certainly ruled then with that line-up!
What a really nice song that was. I mean really, listen to the harmony.
One of my friday favorites along with the Brady bunch, during the 1970-1971 era.
These old themes warms my heart and saddens me to kinda,,,I miss the old days & times especially now,,,WRS 5861
For its first season, the theme song was performed by The Cowsills. Beginning in the second season, the same theme song was sung by the Ron Hicklin Singers featuring the Bahler Brothers John and Tom, (billed as The Charles Fox Singers).
This second version of the theme was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as on most episodes prepared for syndication.
Friday night on abc back in the 1970s awesome Brady bunch partridge family love American style room 222 instant classics🙂
@@briansetpente1019 Toma tv series was at 10 pm on channel 7. Another great show
That show was way before I was born!
Ooooh another great TV theme song, recorded when a very, very professional lot of musicians kept the studios honest. On this track listen for Carol Kaye's masterful electric bass, offering not only a solid, full foundation but deft, melodic fills too. I think it may have been Tommy Tedesco on guitar and Hal Blaine on drums---the Wrecking Crew had still been first-call Hollywood session players and we are all the better for it.
Thanks for the memory of that Friday night line up. I'm glad others fondly remember, too! It's weird sometimes to think I actually witnessed those shows when the episodes were aired for the first time!
It was corny, but a fun show...great theme song, I have it as one of my ring tones, I know, I'm a geek!!!
Rick Pegram, and I just found out The Cowsills did the song!
I love it too ! Great catchy tune.
Thank goodness for channels like MeTV and Antenna TV. They air the classic shows.
None air Eight is Enough.
I can't believe that I just searched for this song.
Just saw the Cowsills with Happy Together Tour And they did this song it was so mich fun! :)
steelethescene You're so lucky!!! 😎😍😎😍
Don't be ashamed dude , I love this theme song to , I sing it all the time . The 70s were great ,awesome .
Lol. Me too!
Me too Chris! Ahh, the 70’s
I miss those days.
Loved this show
I grew up watching this show back in the 70's and last month I was dreaming about it and was again sent back to the 70's lol, I would love to see this again.
I agree. MeTV had an awesome Peter Faulk tribute tonight honoring his star and the Walk of Fame. They showed a classic Columbo episode, and had interviews with many stars and friends who knew him well. MeTV gets it.
I really missed this show and all its reruns love american style was always my #1 theme song!
One of the best tunes ever.
The best show I remember as a kid! The theme makes me feel happy and joyful.
This was like the Love Boat of the early 70's. An anthology type series that starred all the B-list actors of the day. I was a toddler for the original run, but I remember it ran in syndication a few years later and I that's how I remember this theme song.
ABC had terrific Friday nights back then. I remember around that time we only had one TV in the living room and my sister always turned it to the local ABC station on Friday nights because Here Come the Brides would come on and she was crazy about Bobby Sherman.
Man, this song brings back awesome childhood memories. I was too young to understand the subject, but the music is forever part of my consciousness.
Aghh! Those were the days! Friday night Brady Bunch, Wild Wild West & AS
The best time of my life wear the late 60 s and 70 s .
After the first season the Cowsills version was replaced by this group of Los Angeles studio singers organized by Ron Hicklin who sang lead tenor.They were also the real singers behind the background vocals on The Partridge Family recordings.
Ironic that the Cowsills are the only ones (that I know of) who still perform this and the Partridge Family songs live in their concerts today.
I remember watching this show as a kid. I still remembered all the words to the song.
Friday nights on ABC first off was the Brady Bunch, followed by The Partridge Family, then Room 222, and Love Amercian Style. What memories especially on Friday night sleepovers.
Oh the memories,
Back when times were simple, dreams were big, good time to be a kid
Gorgeous harmonies.
same quality as That girl
gawd I'm old. still love it
What's not to Love?
Scottslaw I love your Ann B. Davis doll!
When I was a kid I was left home alone a lot and when this song came on TV it made me feel better...
Sophisticated comedy, and the only series that truly makes me happy so as to spontaneously laugh ! Watched the continued binge watch episodes on
'Decades' network (over the air, no cable). Over 50 years ago, remember watching LAS on Friday nights with my parents. The producers, G-d rest those that are gone, authentically knew what they were doing.
I remember when I was a kid in the 70's this would come on in the morning on weekdays.
When we werre inspired to love by love boat and love American ,style and encourage to flirt by Threes Company. Then you'd go hit the disco with your bell bottoms,...the handsign was peace the message was stick together ....real groovy turns everywhere! THANKS FOR THE THEME,!
Truly happy growing up in this time ❤
i was so little when I saw this show. Can you believe I used to watch this in nursery school (now it would be called pre-school) but it was the theme song that I looooove!!! It makes me feel so happy. Those early 70's were the best.
Same here :-)
Yep, song just popped in my head, had to search it.
I thought this was such a cool show when it was first on, at that time I was just finding out for myself what the birds and the bees was all about. I preferred the Cowsills' version of the theme song that was used for the first season over the watered-down version by a studio group.
LOVED that show!!!!!
You look very stunning, pam
I watched that show every Friday night@
Loved this show i liked Susan anton miss susie chapstick😊😊😊😊
I'm 52 and I'm not ashamed to say that I am known to belt this song out, anywhere at anytime 😏
This used to be one of my favorite shows growing up. I used to beg my mom to let me stay up and watch it.
good quality tv
Thank you KTLA for teaching me english by broadcasting these shows!!.
A great theme song !!!!!!!
Re-runs of this were definitley still airing in 1979. I remember coming home from kindergarten and watching it around noon. It was on right after a Japanese monster show called "Spectraman" and before the Flintstones. It was too "grown up" for me to understand, but I remember really liking the theme song. I miss those days!
This past weekend (Valentine's Day) it was shown on the DECADES hosted by Bill Kurtis. Wow I loved it!!!
Decades TV channel just did the decades binge of this show a few weeks ago, so being stuck in the house because of coronavirus, I sat down to watch a few episodes. I forgot how corny this show was, but, still it was damn good. A television classic. I watched the one where Valerie Harper played the clumsy housewife. That was one of the funniest ones.
When I hear these old tv intros, I feel a little like I did when I heard them the for first time when I was a kid.
It makes you feel young again I love that feeling😍
And all of them written by Charles Fox
ONE OF THE GREATEST TV THEMES OF ALL TIME
my coworker just reminded me how great television was back then! I miss the old days!!
I grew up watching this show.It's 1 of my favorite shows.
You nailed it, Joe. Assuming of course that Mom would let me stay up late on Friday even with no school on Saturday !!! lol
I was 9 years old in 1970 & my mother forbid my father & i from watching this show because she thought it was too sexually suggestive.
Look at what's on TV today..This show is tame compared to todays TV shows.
This and many other songs we all know were written by the great Charles Fox.
I loved this show.I used 2 watch it all the time in the late 60s when I got home from elementary school and into high school.Ibe if the best TV theme songs.
I'm a year younger than you but I agree, I wouldn't want to be any younger or older as I would have missed out on all the groovy stuff that we got to experience first hand.
We went to Epcot about four years ago, and the Cowsills were there. My wife loves them and since they're not too well-known at this point, it was easy for her to sit and talk with them. I know this recording isn't of the Cowsills, but I think of them when I hear this song.
I actively set out to find this theme song, just to relive what my mind’s eye told me that love was supposed to be- and I was not disappointed. Messy one-night dalliances on cheap motel bed sheets, and then leaving the next morning. God bless the ‘70’s!
Great theme song; great show. Ahhh - the innocent '70s.
This is great. Thanks for posting. And people who want to waste their short time on Earth arguing with each other, on line, need to wake up.
@clouseau186 Back when TV land started(late '90s?), they were running Love American Style back in 1999-2000. While in Indiana at the motel I watched LAS, they had TV Land, and in CT, we didn't have it yet. TV Land used to be good, now it sucks.
The Ron Hicklin Singers. They sang a ton of great things, Partridge Family incl. (w/David C.).
@8088ee Finally, somebody who caught that! It was because Paramount, about to launch "the Partridge Family"-a show that was supposed to star the Cowsills and be about them-did everything they could to eliminate the competition by taking their producers and some of the songwriting staff away from them [Tony Romeo, Wes Farrell] with loads of money and cutting off royalties wherever they could. We got a false and untalented version in its place. Long live the Cowsills! True talent!
COOL VIDEO ! FRIDAY 8/4/23 AUGUST 4, 2023
Wow ! Lol I remember that theme from when I was three years old in 1970 , possibly younger !! Lol
was always amazed at the funk bass playing on this song...this style had just come into vogue in the late 60's...
@lancastermagic I don't think so. The Cowsills sang the theme for the first season and then a group of session singers did it for the remaining seasons. Here's the info from Wikipedia:
For its first season, the theme song was performed by The Cowsills. Beginning in the second season, the same theme song was sung by John Bahler, Tom Bahler, and Ron Hicklin, (billed as "The Charles Fox Singers"), and was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as most episodes in syndication.
For some reason this silly sweet rockin' theme came into my mind after doing my morning rituals and I am so thankful. I love my life!!! ☀️🌺🌴🌊🍍
I used to love watching this show. And today I'm 47. Great memories.
so awesome havent seen in years n found it on so happy to see again. shows back n the good days. antenna tv bringing back Alice and Whats Happening shows like Little House back when everything was good
Another show that I was too young for. I seemed to enjoy the song more than the show. Yet I sat and watched everyday.
This show...one of my best memories for a 13 yr old in 1969. Friday nights along with "the Odd Couple" on ABC. A different America now.
Great TV show and theme ❤ , Those Were the days 😊
Great song it goes good with the episodes !!!!!
Those were the days, man!
Thanks for the memories.
Loved that show.
William Newton---So sad for you but he reassured she is in a better place. I am sure you bought some happiness in her life.
My favorite 70's show and 2nd favorite theme song!☺
Really good times then.
It was shown in Australia in the early 70s. Loved it.
I didn’t know this , but the cowsills sang this
That's some badass bass work.
The fire works were the perfect topper!
Nice, catchy tune.