CDs OF GAME SHOW THEMES
This page once listed all the various
recordings associated with game shows. Those items can now be found on
the individual pages for those shows. This page now only describes
the three key albums collectors of game show music should not be without.
CLASSIC TV
GAME SHOW THEMES
(Varese Sarabande 1998) A long-awaited
20-track collection of game show themes, both famous and obscure.
Produced in cooperation with Game Show Network (which airs most of the
included shows) and featuring liner notes by David Schwartz, one of the
authors of "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows" (Facts on File 1999).
1 Wheel
of Fortune Changing Keys (Merv Griffin)
2 Jeopardy!
(Merv Griffin)
3 What's
My Line? Closing theme Rollercoaster (Milton DeLugg-Lou Busch)
4 I've
Got A Secret Plink Plank Plunk (Norman Paris*)
*Credited to
Paris, though actually written by Leroy Anderson.
5 Password
(Robert A. Israel)
6 To
Tell the Truth (Robert A. Israel-Paul Alter)
7 Tic
Tac Dough (Hal Hidey)
8 The
Joker's Wild (Hal Hidey)
9 (G.E.)
College Bowl (Don Reid)
10 The Wizard
of Odds (Alan Thicke)
11 The Dating
Game (Chuck Barris-David Mook)
12 The Newlywed
Game (Chuck Barris)
13 The $25,000
Pyramid (Bob Cobert)
14 The Price
Is Right (Robert A. Israel)
15 Match Game
(Robert A. Israel)
16 Family Feud
(Robert A. Israel)
17 Card Sharks
(Edward Woodley Kalehoff)
18 Jackpot
(Bob Cobert)
19 Go (Bob
Cobert)
20 Chain Reaction
(Bob Cobert)
THE BEST OF TV
QUIZ AND GAME SHOW THEMES
(Varese Sarabande 2000) A
follow-up to the above collection, with twenty more tracks from the games
we all love.
1 The
Match Game Swingin' Safari (Bert Kaempfert)
2 Password
(Bob Cobert)
3 To
Tell The Truth (Bob Cobert)
4 Beat
the Clock Subway Polka (Harry Geller)
5 The
Price Is Right (Bob Cobert)
6 What's
My Line? (Robert A. Israel)
7 The
Hollywood Squares Bob and Merrill's Theme (William Loose)
8 The
Joker's Wild The Savers (Jean-Jacques Perry & Gershon Kingsley)
9 Monopoly
(Mort Lindsay)
10 Let's Make
A Deal (Sheldon Allman & Marilyn Hall)
11 Wheel of
Fortune Big Wheels (Alan Thicke)
12 Tattletales
(Robert A. Israel)
13 Blockbusters
(Bob Cobert)
14 Break The
Bank (Stu Levin)
15 The Gong
Show (Chuck Barris & Milton DeLugg)
16 The Diamond
Head Game (Alan Thicke)
17 The $10,000
Pyramid Tuning Up (Ken Aldin)
18 High Rollers
(Robert A. Israel)
19 Split Second
(Stan Worth)
20 Rock And
Roll Jeopardy! (Steve Kaplan & Douglas Macaskill)
CHUCK BARRIS
PRESENTS THEMES FROM TV GAME SHOWS
(Friends 1973) Before the 1998 collection,
the only album to be totally dedicated to game show themes. These
were all from various Chuck Barris shows, including many that never aired.
Still, even the music from unaired shows would get reused as incidental
music for other shows. The album was released before The Gong
Show, so that theme is not included. All songs credited to Chuck Barris,
except The Dating Game for which he shares credit with David Mook.
An Australian import CD (TV City
1997) includes this entire album as well as the four singles credited to
Chuck Barris on
our PERSONALITIES page.
SIDE ONE:
1 Dating Game
Theme
2 Dating Game
Closing Theme (Little Rosie)
3 Newlywed
Game Theme
4 Treasure
Hunt Theme
5 True Grit
- Winners Theme (Bernstein)
6 Treasure
Hunt Losers Theme
7 Peoples Pickers
Theme (Pretty Maidens)
SIDE TWO:
1 Operation
Entertainment Theme (Road Of Love)
2 Family Game
Theme (Too Rich)
3 Cop-Out
Theme (Little Russian Song)
4 Mother-In-Law
Theme (Mother Trucker)
5 Parent Game
Theme (Baja California)
6 Dream Girl
Theme (Hunk of Love)