Joe Boyd...also an 80's kid... I would run upstairs where my mom was watching to watch the intro because I loved the music and even though I am from Pittsburgh I loved the shot of Cowboy Stadium, but downstairs me and my dad watched another show, it was Miami Vice, The Hulk, or Dukes of Hazzard, memory a little hazy, I wanna say all 3 were on Friday night, but that seems unlikely. My mom loved this show, Falcons Crest, and Knots Landing, can't totally remember the old Friday night lineup, we usually all watched tv together, but on Friday's my mom had her shows she watched in their bedroom and me and my dad had ours we watched downstairs. The 80's seem like a lifetime ago, but they were a good time to be a kid bro!
Was 4 when this intro was used. The theme resonated with me even though the show didn't interest me as a kid. (few live action shows did for me then) It really does bring back a lot of memories of watching TV with my parents and siblings.
Culture is cyclical and tends to go up and down. Hence why there are periods of great prosperity and periods of decline. Right now America is at rock bottom still better than everywhere else though but there will be a comeback. There was a reason why Reagan in that era one by an absolute landslide and that reason was people wanted to change and it happened.
I have to respectfully disagree with you. I was a teenager in the 80s, and it wasn't any easier; that's not to dispute that we are living in dangerous times now. Things one day might improve, but I doubt I will be around to see it.
@@bighands69 better than everywhere else ?? hahaha...most Europeans would never like to live in a dump like the US, it's so much nicer over here but go on trying to convince yourself that the US is the best country on this earth ;-)
That’s SOOO cool. Every time I hear this song, the horn parts give me chills!! I always wondered who was playing each instrument. What band did your grandfather play in that did this work?? I play the trumpet 🎺, this theme always got me..hence me picking the trumpet in 9th grade in 1983. I am still wanting to pick up a French horn and try to master this!!!! God bless your Grandfather for etching great memories of my childhood!! 🎵🎼🎶
While attending the 40th reunion of DALLAS at Southfork Ranch a friend called my cell phone which has the DALLAS ring tone. At that very moment CBS reporter Wendy Gillette was standing by me and thought that was so cool. She wanted to interview me for her DALLAS anniversary story to be broadcast on all the CBS affiliates from coast to coast. And yes I did get to meet Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Charlene Tiltion and Steve Kanalay. It was AWESOME to be part of the DALLAS anniversary story.
I remember I'd wake up at night, go sit at the top of the stairs right outside my bedroom and wait for my dad to get in from work. The front door was directly at the bottom of the stairs. My mom couldn't see me from where she was sitting so as long as I was quiet she didn't know a thing lol. This theme music would be coming out of the living room and it always caught my attention because I loved it. My dad would pull in the driveway and walk in and see me at the top of the stairs and he would say in his Scottish brogue "Well hello there me darlin!" My mom would say "why are you up? Back to bed!" Dad would say "let her eat with me! She's fine, me wee girl! I'll put her back to bed when we're finished!" It felt so late to me but it was probably only 10:00 if Dallas was coming on lol!" I miss my days of youth. I would love to go back to the 1980's.
@@gregwang1538 Before Falcon Crest began in 1981, Dallas was a 10:00 p.m. show Eastern and Pacific time zones, 9:00 p.m. Central and Mountain time zones, then an hour earlier once Falcon Crest came on the scene.
One of my greatest joys as a toddler was dancing to this amazing theme tune in my parents living room, now I'm 35. This tune was as badass as it gets when you are 3. Life sure does pass by fast.
I don't know what it is but the theme song is a tear jerker. I grew up watching the original Dallas and the new Dallas . I was in tears when Larry Hagman passed away and the new show without him after he passed, had some great plots and life left, until TNT canceled the series. Watching this intro and seeing alot of the cast who are no longer with us really struck a cord on me.
In Germany Dallas started in 1981, I was a young Teenager and my parents allowed me to watch it. IT was aired on tuesday on 21:45, quiet late. I've been an addicted fool from the very start. In 2001 I met Linda Gray in London after her performence in THE GRADUATE; she was very nice. Beautiful memories. My cousine (*1950-+1987) Marina Genschow was the original dub for Audrey Landers. And again, beautiful memories.
This theme does something strange to me. I was just a baby when my mom and dad watched this. Deep in my subconscious mind, I remember hearing it while laying in my crib. I remember smelling dinner. It really takes me back to a time that I can feel, but I can't see.
For an instrumental theme, this was the theme of themes of all nighttime soap operas. By this time in 1986, they had already added a harder nearly new wave synthesizer beat to the original by Jerrold Immel.
Everybody watched Dallas here in Hungary. This was the first American series to be aired in Hungary after the fall of communism. It's only sad many of the cast are now gone.
Yay, it's so true! 😀 I miss those Friday evenings when I was allowed to watch Dallas with my parents or grandparents (on summer holidays)... I was obsessed with Bobby and April, they were the first fictional couple whom I ever shipped in my life. ❤ I was so angry and shocked when April was killed that I had to name a cat after her (my only excuse that I was 10 years old 😂)... Ah, so many great memories! ☺ Greetings from Hungary! 😏
Hell yeah, I was wearing a cowboy hat as a kid because of Jockey. Btw, he was only called Jockey in the Hungarian version for some reason, in the original version he was called J. R.
@@IHeartMyLada "Jock", in the earlier seasons, was the nickname of J. R. (John Ross) Ewing, Senior, family patriarch and father of J. R. and Bobby. When Jim Davis, the actor who played him died, they had to write him off the show, saying he had died in a helicopter crash while scouting out oil fields in South America. This video must have been from one of the later seasons.
If I ever drive to Dallas you bet I will be playing this loud as the stereo will allow. Same as I did first time I drove to Miami with Miami Vice theme and Will Smith’s song Summertime welcome to Miami!
Takes me back to the good ol days of the 80s, Mr. Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman are my favorite actors, and so is the lovely Priscila Presley, and Victoria Principal , such gorgeous and beautiful ladies!!!
This is the first Dallas theme variation I remember. I recall watching this on the floor in front of a very large, wooden TV. CBS on Friday night. Channel 9 in Oklahoma City. I was there, alongside my parents. Lol. The theme music to Dallas is about as iconic as it gets in American television. This is an IV dose of 80s childhood.
Me too, we had our whole lives ahead of us. Surrounded by high energy and high vibrational people full of excitement and promise. Not really sure how I ended up here alone on the couch watching reruns in my pajamas.
This was my favorite opening of all the seasons musically actually. They made it a bit longer because at this point it had the biggest cast. What Friday night memories.
Love the ending too, it sounds so impactful! I remember my mom used to tune in faithfully to this show. So blessed to have lived my childhood during the great 80s!
It was the era of big soaps that had lots of actors from the golden era of hollywood. It was also an era when American culture was proud of itself and did not care what whiny offended people cried about.
I remember when i was a kid in the early 80's watching downtown dallas building all those skylines and seeing how it looked on the theme openings to now, time flies by real quick.
I used to love Dallas watching it from the middle 80s growing up as a teenager I remember it being quite steamy for the day it was shown on a Friday night in the UK 🇬🇧 8 o’clock no going out that night iit was Dallas night..............Kimberley 🇬🇧
This was a great season and a great cast. Loves the drums and the extra music at the end of the opening. Dallas was a great show and will never be duplicated.
I used to love this show, and never imagined in a million years that one day I’d live less than 20 minutes away from that iconic house. Man, life sure is weird and wonderful sometimes.
I lost my mum and dad last year this was their favourite soap ever. I have beautiful childhood memories sitting down in England watching this with them every evening in the 80s. I was only 10 or 11 years old I had had huge crushes on Victoria principle and Priscilla Presley. Best show ever to me.
As a boy growing up those soaps were never my scene but I did love the intro and also the characters on display. Even if you are not a fan you can actually admire what they were.
It’s interesting how they added some synthesized drums, omnipresent in ‘86, compared to the earlier years. If you go back and listen to the instrumental introduction in the first year (1978) it sounds noticeably different.
Long before covid and everyone in the world hating each other.....we'd all sit and feel wonderful on hearing this intro music spill out of our box ugly TVs!!!!
Oh yes! When I still watched TV. My early teens in the mid 1980s. I learnt to love Texas (never been there though, the closest I have been has been the Canary islands).
Genericul filmului, ce l-am reascultat dupa atatia ani, m-a transportat instantaneu in anii cand il auzeam prima oara si aveam doar 17 ani ! Ah ce vremuri minunate ! Ce film, ce actori, ce amintiri !
That’s childhood right there. Miss you mom!❤
I was a child of the 80s. Listening to this makes me think of happy times in my living room with my parents.
Joe Boyd. Exactly,great memories : )
Joe Boyd really? I had to watch it with my grandparents.
Joe Boyd...also an 80's kid... I would run upstairs where my mom was watching to watch the intro because I loved the music and even though I am from Pittsburgh I loved the shot of Cowboy Stadium, but downstairs me and my dad watched another show, it was Miami Vice, The Hulk, or Dukes of Hazzard, memory a little hazy, I wanna say all 3 were on Friday night, but that seems unlikely. My mom loved this show, Falcons Crest, and Knots Landing, can't totally remember the old Friday night lineup, we usually all watched tv together, but on Friday's my mom had her shows she watched in their bedroom and me and my dad had ours we watched downstairs. The 80's seem like a lifetime ago, but they were a good time to be a kid bro!
Was 4 when this intro was used. The theme resonated with me even though the show didn't interest me as a kid. (few live action shows did for me then) It really does bring back a lot of memories of watching TV with my parents and siblings.
Larry Hagman still rules after his death👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻
My son always asks what was so great about the 80’s. I tell him I could explain but I wouldn’t do it justice.
Theme tunes don’t get more iconic!
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Bring back the 80's. I cry tears of sadness and happiness when I hear this tune. Life was so much simpler back then
Culture is cyclical and tends to go up and down. Hence why there are periods of great prosperity and periods of decline.
Right now America is at rock bottom still better than everywhere else though but there will be a comeback.
There was a reason why Reagan in that era one by an absolute landslide and that reason was people wanted to change and it happened.
I have to respectfully disagree with you. I was a teenager in the 80s, and it wasn't any easier; that's not to dispute that we are living in dangerous times now. Things one day might improve, but I doubt I will be around to see it.
@@bighands69 better than everywhere else ?? hahaha...most Europeans would never like to live in a dump like the US, it's so much nicer over here but go on trying to convince yourself that the US is the best country on this earth ;-)
Rose colored glasses, Paddy
Struggling to think of anything this iconic that has been created within the previous 13 years Yellowstone perhaps? This into music is legend
When I was kid, this was symbol of America to me.
I watched this show I’m an 80s boy takes me back living with my grandparents
My grandfather played the french horn in this song. he passed wed march 14 2018 he will be missed
Lucas Varville my uncle was one of the trombonists on this song! He passed in 2002 what was your grandpas name?
I played the skin-flute for Victoria Principal but I'm still alive.
@@biggietalls3202 Your Uncle did an amazing job with this. May he rest in peace.
That’s SOOO cool. Every time I hear this song, the horn parts give me chills!! I always wondered who was playing each instrument. What band did your grandfather play in that did this work?? I play the trumpet 🎺, this theme always got me..hence me picking the trumpet in 9th grade in 1983. I am still wanting to pick up a French horn and try to master this!!!!
God bless your Grandfather for etching great memories of my childhood!! 🎵🎼🎶
Your grand father did a great job. This score will be played till the end of time so that is pretty cool.
One of the best TV-soundtracks ever.
Yeah, I'd put it #1 for me.
#2 Hawaii-Five-0 song
#3 WKRP song
While attending the 40th reunion of DALLAS at Southfork Ranch a friend called my cell phone which has the DALLAS ring tone. At that very moment CBS reporter Wendy Gillette was standing by me and thought that was so cool. She wanted to interview me for her DALLAS anniversary story to be broadcast on all the CBS affiliates from coast to coast. And yes I did get to meet Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Charlene Tiltion and Steve Kanalay. It was AWESOME to be part of the DALLAS anniversary story.
So awesome Steve, your lucky
The 80s so badly missed
I remember I'd wake up at night, go sit at the top of the stairs right outside my bedroom and wait for my dad to get in from work. The front door was directly at the bottom of the stairs. My mom couldn't see me from where she was sitting so as long as I was quiet she didn't know a thing lol. This theme music would be coming out of the living room and it always caught my attention because I loved it. My dad would pull in the driveway and walk in and see me at the top of the stairs and he would say in his Scottish brogue "Well hello there me darlin!" My mom would say "why are you up? Back to bed!" Dad would say "let her eat with me! She's fine, me wee girl! I'll put her back to bed when we're finished!" It felt so late to me but it was probably only 10:00 if Dallas was coming on lol!" I miss my days of youth. I would love to go back to the 1980's.
We're probably around the same age bracket. I am 46.
In the USA Dallas was usually on at 9PM, with Falcon Crest at 10PM... Funny how you get into your 40s and 9PM feels late again!
@@gregwang1538 Before Falcon Crest began in 1981, Dallas was a 10:00 p.m. show Eastern and Pacific time zones, 9:00 p.m. Central and Mountain time zones, then an hour earlier once Falcon Crest came on the scene.
Omg nostalgia I miss my dad. And yeah now 9pm is late for me! 51M
I remember the Dukes of Hazzard being on immediately before Dallas. DFW native!
Dallas - quite simply the greatest TV show in the history of television.
Yep!
LOL
This is still one of the best theme songs ever🎶
Friday nights in the 80s The Dukes of Hazards, Dallas , and Falcon Crest those were the days
What about dynasty
yep. same here. does anyone have I time machine I can borrow?
Yup
In Germany on Tuesdays.
Miami Vice?
One of my greatest joys as a toddler was dancing to this amazing theme tune in my parents living room, now I'm 35. This tune was as badass as it gets when you are 3. Life sure does pass by fast.
Still give me goosebumps listening to this - it was just soooo good
This is one of my favorite versions of the theme
I was a child in these fantastic period and for me "Dallas" was a "must" ( Sue Ellen was my mith).... Marco from Milano Italy
🇺🇸💗🇮🇹
I don't know what it is but the theme song is a tear jerker. I grew up watching the original Dallas and the new Dallas . I was in tears when Larry Hagman passed away and the new show without him after he passed, had some great plots and life left, until TNT canceled the series. Watching this intro and seeing alot of the cast who are no longer with us really struck a cord on me.
One of the most catchy TV show themes ever!
Between Chips and Dallas that funky bass gets me every time!
WHAT A SHOW ! WHAT A THEME ! WHAT AN OPENER ! BRAVO ! LOVED THE WHOLE CAST. BEST TV SERIES OF THE 80'S ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
In Germany Dallas started in 1981, I was a young Teenager and my parents allowed me to watch it. IT was aired on tuesday on 21:45, quiet late. I've been an addicted fool from the very start. In 2001 I met Linda Gray in London after her performence in THE GRADUATE; she was very nice. Beautiful memories. My cousine (*1950-+1987) Marina Genschow was the original dub for Audrey Landers. And again, beautiful memories.
This theme does something strange to me. I was just a baby when my mom and dad watched this. Deep in my subconscious mind, I remember hearing it while laying in my crib. I remember smelling dinner. It really takes me back to a time that I can feel, but I can't see.
That drum beet is bad ass. My friend Deek actually knew the guy who played drums on this track.
Best TV theme song ever!!!
neon cat Santa Barbara is not worse
This and 90210 are my favs!
Clearly never seen spongbob
Cheers was best
For an instrumental theme, this was the theme of themes of all nighttime soap operas. By this time in 1986, they had already added a harder nearly new wave synthesizer beat to the original by Jerrold Immel.
Those French horns and trumpets!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Everybody watched Dallas here in Hungary. This was the first American series to be aired in Hungary after the fall of communism. It's only sad many of the cast are now gone.
Yay, it's so true! 😀 I miss those Friday evenings when I was allowed to watch Dallas with my parents or grandparents (on summer holidays)...
I was obsessed with Bobby and April, they were the first fictional couple whom I ever shipped in my life. ❤ I was so angry and shocked when April was killed that I had to name a cat after her (my only excuse that I was 10 years old 😂)...
Ah, so many great memories! ☺ Greetings from Hungary! 😏
Hell yeah, I was wearing a cowboy hat as a kid because of Jockey. Btw, he was only called Jockey in the Hungarian version for some reason, in the original version he was called J. R.
@@IHeartMyLada "Jock", in the earlier seasons, was the nickname of J. R. (John Ross) Ewing, Senior, family patriarch and father of J. R. and Bobby. When Jim Davis, the actor who played him died, they had to write him off the show, saying he had died in a helicopter crash while scouting out oil fields in South America. This video must have been from one of the later seasons.
It was a big deal in Slovakia too :D I guess it was not only good it was also exotic for all of us in former eastern block
"This will show our citizens the decadence of the West!"
"Uh oh."
If I ever drive to Dallas you bet I will be playing this loud as the stereo will allow. Same as I did first time I drove to Miami with Miami Vice theme and Will Smith’s song Summertime welcome to Miami!
Miss these days,watching Dallas was a show i looked forward to back in the day as a school boy!
What a great theme song! It sure brings back my childhood memories
Takes me back to the good ol days of the 80s, Mr. Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman are my favorite actors, and so is the lovely Priscila Presley, and Victoria Principal , such gorgeous and beautiful ladies!!!
So was Linda Gray 😊
Makes me PROUD TO BE A TEXAN!!!
Wish I was. Best state in America
This iconic intro makes people from all over the world proud of Texas and rightfully so!
This was mandatory watching for those of us in DFW. It was a way of earning your Southern Stripes.
Tonight, on Dallas! - Sounds like a TV News intro, love it!
Beautiful Linda Gray. I missed those a lot 💓
I grew up watching Dallas rerun in the 90's when I was child.
This is the first Dallas theme variation I remember. I recall watching this on the floor in front of a very large, wooden TV. CBS on Friday night. Channel 9 in Oklahoma City. I was there, alongside my parents. Lol. The theme music to Dallas is about as iconic as it gets in American television. This is an IV dose of 80s childhood.
It was the golden era of America soaps. They big bold productions with actors from the Golden Era of Hollywood.
I loved watching the Dallas all the time
oh man i miss those days :( time running too fast
Me too, we had our whole lives ahead of us. Surrounded by high energy and high vibrational people full of excitement and promise. Not really sure how I ended up here alone on the couch watching reruns in my pajamas.
This was my favorite opening of all the seasons musically actually. They made it a bit longer because at this point it had the biggest cast. What Friday night memories.
Love the ending too, it sounds so impactful! I remember my mom used to tune in faithfully to this show. So blessed to have lived my childhood during the great 80s!
30 years ago but it seems like yesterday...
@@josephbrasington3047
Get in line! I feel the same. A wonderful show.
0:26: One of the best TV themes ever and this version is very grand.
It was the era of big soaps that had lots of actors from the golden era of hollywood. It was also an era when American culture was proud of itself and did not care what whiny offended people cried about.
I remember when i was a kid in the early 80's watching downtown dallas building all those skylines and seeing how it looked on the theme openings to now, time flies by real quick.
me too. my dad use to pick my mom up at night down there when she worked at the jewelry store in his canary yellow 72 grand prix .
Ich habe Dallas geliebt !
My favorite show of our time!
This Tune is so big and Great!
Imagine having a name like Dack Rambo. What’s your name sir? Dack Rambo.
airindiana there was a porn star named Dick Rambone
Yes, eventually the name was too much for him, so he changed it to Kato Kaelin and left Southfork penniless headed for California - true story.
What about Rider Strong🤷♀️
One of my favorite shows as a kid
THE BEST SOUND OF ALL DALLAS INTROS ON TH-cam!!!
This show defines what cliffhanger is.
My grandma from Brazil loved to watch it.
I used to love Dallas watching it from the middle 80s growing up as a teenager I remember it being quite steamy for the day it was shown on a Friday night in the UK 🇬🇧 8 o’clock no going out that night iit was Dallas night..............Kimberley 🇬🇧
I think kids love the intro and the music and the adults loved the drama.
I just bought the complete series dvd set and I am gonna binge watch me some classic Dallas!
This was a great season and a great cast. Loves the drums and the extra music at the end of the opening. Dallas was a great show and will never be duplicated.
I love this tv theme . Thanks 4 the memories. I love the 80 so very much. And I miss it too.✌️✌️✌️🥹🥹😻😻😇😇❤️❤️🥰🥰💋💋🤟🤟
This really brings back childhood memories
Greatest theme song ever❤️💚💚🇮🇪🇮🇪
Best theme song ever.
One of them!
Wayne Alexander Name one you think is better.
Cheers was best
Airwolf theme was really good too
This song rocks!
I used to love this show, and never imagined in a million years that one day I’d live less than 20 minutes away from that iconic house. Man, life sure is weird and wonderful sometimes.
That's really cool! Is the house still there now?
It’s still there.
I lost my mum and dad last year this was their favourite soap ever. I have beautiful childhood memories sitting down in England watching this with them every evening in the 80s. I was only 10 or 11 years old I had had huge crushes on Victoria principle and Priscilla Presley.
Best show ever to me.
As a boy growing up those soaps were never my scene but I did love the intro and also the characters on display.
Even if you are not a fan you can actually admire what they were.
In the late 80s, in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 every Saturday night @ 11pm (if I can recall correctly). Everyday together in front of TV 📺.
The sound of bedtime when I was a kid.
As a kid growing up in the 1980s, hearing the opening sequence was the start of the weekend.
It’s interesting how they added some synthesized drums, omnipresent in ‘86, compared to the earlier years. If you go back and listen to the instrumental introduction in the first year (1978) it sounds noticeably different.
Dallas came back to form (and Bobby to life) after the dire 1985-1986 season
Won’t see great telly like this again
Speaking as up and coming TV show writer looking for funding. Don't count it out yet.
Loved this theme for this season.
This week
on
DALLAS
BEST EVER!!!!!!!
woww..love you dallas..from Malaysia listening
I absolutely love the 80’s tv shows
I got hooked on watching this right after Dukes of Hazzard😂😂
I'll be at Southfork Ranch for the 40th anniversary of DALLAS March 30, 2018. Welcome home fans.
I used to watch this every Friday night when I was younger.
This song just came into my mind..lala lalal..
Best TV theme song of the 80s!
Dat bass SLAPP!
Loved the opening for this season .
The best Theme song ever 😀
Love the fly over old Texas stadium being a cowboys fan
Dallas was the best the theme gets me pumped
Larry Hagman and Patrick Duffy was best friends and infamous pranksters.
** This song always signalled bedtime for me !!! Right after I watch the DUKE'S of HAZARD !!! EVERY FRIDAY 🌙
Long before covid and everyone in the world hating each other.....we'd all sit and feel wonderful on hearing this intro music spill out of our box ugly TVs!!!!
Az egyik legjobb sorozat, ami valaha volt. Imádom!
The bit at 1:12 to 1:16 is what makes this the best intro.
That's the end. 0.32 makes the intro
@@somebose7395 No idiot its the intro.
I just moved to Dallas. I see these buildings every day now. Lol
I used watch this with my grandmom. This was Saturday nights lateshow in Finnish television and I usually fell asleep before the end.
❤❤❤
How Larry Hagman never got an Emmy nomination I'll never understand.
Agree he was amazing as JR ❤❤❤
Oh yes! When I still watched TV. My early teens in the mid 1980s. I learnt to love Texas (never been there though, the closest I have been has been the Canary islands).
❤I love Dallas song
80s!!!
Genericul filmului, ce l-am reascultat dupa atatia ani, m-a transportat instantaneu in anii cand il auzeam prima oara si aveam doar 17 ani !
Ah ce vremuri minunate ! Ce film, ce actori, ce amintiri !
Sometimes I wish I where older and I can Live on a Ranch in Texas!
I love Dallas songs
This was a Friday night event for us! We would all get together and watch
I'm a message mid 70s kid, and this was our family gathering back in Sweden. I'm now in the UK.
DUDE you can air drum like a mofo to this song. It really gets me jacked up. I'm ready for anything after listening to this!!! LET'S GOOO 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲