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Love Is a Game of Poker. (1962) Route 66 Theme and Other Great TV Themes is the thirteenth studio album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle, named for Riddle's theme music from the television series "Route 66". [2] The album was nominated at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and the Grammy ...
October 7, 1960. (1960-10-07) –. March 20, 1964. (1964-03-20) Route 66 is an American adventure crime drama [1] television series that premiered on CBS on October 7, 1960, and ran until March 20, 1964, for a total of 116 episodes. The series was created by Herbert B. Leonard and Stirling Silliphant, who were also responsible for the ABC drama ...
"Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" is a popular rhythm and blues song, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. The lyrics relate a westward roadtrip on U.S. Route 66, a highway which traversed the western two-thirds of the U.S. from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
Bobby Troup. Robert William Troup Jr. (October 18, 1918 – February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the composer of the rhythm and blues standard "Route 66" and for the role of Dr. Joe Early with his wife Julie London in the television program Emergency! in the 1970s.
Big City Greens ("Big City Greens Main Title Theme") – The Mowgli's; ("Do it All Again") – The Houghton Brothers. Big Love (" God Only Knows ") – Brian Wilson and Tony Asher (performed by The Beach Boys) The Big Valley – George Duning. The Bill Cosby Show (" Hikky Burr ") – Quincy Jones and Bill Cosby.
The highway lent its name to the Route 66 TV series in the 1960s, [77] which itself had a popular theme song written and arranged by Nelson Riddle. The novel The Grapes of Wrath , adapted to film in 1940 , depicts the Joad family traveling to California on US 66 after being evicted from their small farm in Oklahoma .
Mark Isham "Theme from Chicago Hope ". Bob James - "Angela" (Theme from Taxi) Al Jarreau - "Theme from Moonlighting ". Waylon Jennings - "Good Ol' Boys" (Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard) Carly Rae Jepsen - "Everywhere You Look" (Theme from Fuller House) The Jets - "Theme from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
The opening instrumental theme song was titled "Then Came Bronson" and was composed and conducted by George Duning. The closing vocal theme for the series, titled "Long Lonesome Highway", was sung by Parks and written and composed by James Hendricks; it was a Billboard Magazine Hot 100 hit that reached #20 in 1970.