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"Suicide Is Painless" (also known as "Theme from M*A*S*H" or "Song from M*A*S*H") is a song written by Johnny Mandel (music) and Michael Altman for the 1970 film M*A*S*H. In addition to being performed by characters in the film, it plays during the title sequence as sung by The Ron Hicklin Singers .
M*A*S*H features the song "Suicide Is Painless", [18] with music by Mandel and lyrics by Mike Altman, the director's then 14-year-old son. The version heard under the opening credits was sung by uncredited session vocalists John Bahler , Tom Bahler , Ron Hicklin , and Ian Freebairn-Smith ; on the single release, the song is attributed to "The ...
It was later re-written and re-recoded into a full length song, rather than the 15 second "intro" it started life as. On the other hand the theme for "Charmed" was already a full length track, and was adopted/adapted to become the theme tune. So, was the MASH theme written for the program, or adopted by it?
Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter of “The Shadow of Your Smile,” “Emily” and the theme from “MASH,” has died. “I was so sad to learn that a hero of mine, Johnny ...
On Monday, Jan. 1, M*A*S*H fans are invited to ring in the new year with M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television, a two-hour special airing on Fox and featuring new interviews with series vets ...
The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20–27 of that year, just before Halloween.
The song is written in C major and uses the three main chords of the key C, F, and G as the riff, which is used as a simple eight bar ostinato. It follows the A-B-A-B-A-B-C-B pattern. During the writing process, producer Paul Epworth suggested to Nash to write "something like 'Cheree' by Suicide ", [ 1 ] which has a similar chord progression.
A shortened version with different lyrics was featured in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical from 2014. The song was used for the closing credits in The Last Tycoon Season 1, Episode 9. The song was used in Season 1, Episode 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. [15] Spanish singer Aitana performed the song at the 35th Goya Awards ceremony. [16]