| If ever there was a radio station that played | | | | them come true. From the start, we are fair |
| nothing but television theme songs, it's safe to | | | | warned that this duo was going to do it their |
| say that's where I would permanently set my dial. | | | | way, even if their way was often laden with |
| Now, I'm not saying that television theme songs | | | | clumsiness, absurdities, and trouble. A show that |
| are better than all the other music out there, but | | | | was all about fun, the theme song from Laverne |
| there is definitely something about them: they are | | | | and Shirley will be recognizable for decades and |
| catchy, they are fun, and they take you back to | | | | decades to come. |
| memories that other songs can't. From the | | | | Cheers: Not only did this show make us feel |
| sing-along-tune of The Brady Bunch to the piano | | | | better about going to the bar everyday, but it |
| playing of Hill Street Blues, television theme songs | | | | also made us long for a place where everybody |
| are a part of our lives, whether we like it or not. | | | | knew our name. The opening song, "Where |
| The following is our list of the Best TV Theme | | | | Everybody Knows Your Name" by Gary Portnoy, |
| Songs ever written, songs that made shows as | | | | talks about life's troubles, with the complete lyrics |
| much fun to hear as they were to watch. | | | | discussing a husband who wants to be a girl as |
| Laverne and Shirley: Schlemeel, schlemazel, | | | | well as getting left at the altar by a third |
| hasenfeffer incorporated. You know a television | | | | fiancée. These lyrics, coupled with the |
| show is going to be good when it begins with the | | | | opening pictures of past political movements and |
| main characters skipping down a sidewalk street | | | | celebrations, makes the theme song to Cheers |
| while linking arms. In the opening song to Laverne | | | | particularly memorable and oddly moving. There is |
| and Shirley, sung by Cyndi Grecco, we are | | | | something almost nostalgic about it, something |
| introduced to the show's premise: two women | | | | that will make everybody know its name for a |
| determined to follow their dreams and make | | | | very long time. |