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TV Themes That Became Pop Hits [VIDEO]

Rick Andrews — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:00:57 +0000

They were some of the most popular shows of their time and had some pretty catchy opening songs too. It's hard to say if these tunes had anything to do with the success of the shows, but we liked them enough to request them on the radio and buy the full version of the songs.

Some of these songs started out as a mere one-minute TV Theme and had to have verses added for radio airplay. While others would inspire the show's producers to even alter the name of their show to fit the song.

Here are 5 TV Themes that went on to become Pop Hits.

Welcome Back, Vinnie Barbarino

Rick Andrews — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:00:27 +0000

TV Land's Annual TV awards show is getting the cast of "Welcome Back, Kotter" together.

If you're not familiar with "Welcome Back, Kotter" here is the premise of the show from Wikipedia.
The show starred comedian Gabe Kaplan as the title character Gabe Kotter, a wise-cracking teacher who returns to his high school alma mater—the fictional James Buchanan High in Brooklyn, New York—to teach an often unruly group of remedial wiseguys known as the "Sweathogs." (The nickname reflected the fact that the remedial classes were held on the very top floor of the high school.)