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kenny said:The song in the commerical isn't Spanish Flea or Lollipops and Roses. It might actually be the Dating Game theme. I don't know. It definitely has a TJB sound to it.
Harry said:Perhaps the thrifty Mr. Barris didn't want to pay the licensing fee anymore...
Following in his the spirit of his autobiography, CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, the Barris-penned theme song probably contained some secret codes for killing spies for the CIA. Mac,who read that book 20 years ago and was quite surprised to see that it was made into a movie last year.
Harry said:Perhaps the thrifty Mr. Barris didn't want to pay the licensing fee anymore...
jimac51 said:Though I don't own it,Varese Sarabande's CLASSIC TV SHOW THEMES contains the version Chuck Barris has his name on and used for the TV show. Maybe he really did write it-he is writer of record of Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon's 1962 hit,"Pailsades Park." Mac
big noise from chicago said:"The Dating Game" was by Chet Baker and the Mariachi Brass. It was a studio band that laid down their tracks and when Chet was sober enough, he'd come in and put solos over the tracks as he saw fit.
big noise from chicago said:"The Dating Game" was by Chet Baker and the Mariachi Brass. It was a studio band that laid down their tracks and when Chet was sober enough, he'd come in and put solos over the tracks as he saw fit.
-That is something I always wondered about-knew it was not Herb though.
Thanks!
Tim Neely said:"The Dating Game Theme" by the Mariachi Brass also came out as a 45 (World Pacific 77863) in 1967.
"Spanish Flea" was used as the background music when the (usually) young woman was introduced, just before she started asking the three bachelors the questions. "Lollipops and Roses" was used as the background music just before the (usually) young woman met the guy she had selected, after the other two had come out. Other Herb Alpert music was used as "bumper music" to lead into commercials.
snapcrotch said:And I swear the version of 'Whipped Cream' played for this segment was the original 45 by The Stokes. The tip-off would be AllenToussaint's little piano figure (a six-note couplet) to bridge the trumpet melody stanzas.
Not quite...WHIPPED CREAM was played when the girl was introduced.
snapcrotch said:And I swear the version of 'Whipped Cream' played for this segment was the original 45 by The Stokes. The tip-off would be Allen Toussaint's little piano figure (a six-note couplet) to bridge the trumpet melody stanzas.
Tim Neely said:Not quite...WHIPPED CREAM was played when the girl was introduced.
Not bad, though, for doing it from 35-plus-year-old memories, eh?
"Spanish Flea" was definitely part of The Dating Game. Was that played just before the (usually) bachelors were introduced to the audience, before the (usually) bachelorette came onstage?