Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Six Feet Under
2. Sex And The City
3. Ally McBeal
4. Will & Grace
5. Everybody Loves Raymond
6. Frasier
7. Friends
8. Late Show With David Letterman
9. Mad About You
10. Melrose Place
11. Beverly Hills 90210
12. Law & Order
13. Northern Exposure
14. The Simpsons
15. Thirtysomething
16. Full House
17. 21 Jump Street
18. L.A. Law
19. Pee-Wee's Playhouse
20. Perfect Strangers
21. Growing Pains
22. Moonlighting
23. Who's The Boss?
24. Miami Vice
25. Night Court
26. The A-Team
27. St. Elsewhere
28. Cheers
29. Knight Rider
30. Cagney & Lacey
31. The Greatest American Hero
32. Hill Street Blues
33. Dynasty
34. Magnum, P.I.
35. The Facts of Life
36. Diff'rent Strokes
37. WKRP In Cincinnati
38. Taxi
39. Dallas
40. Fantasy Island
41. The Love Boat
42. Soap
43. Eight Is Enough
44. Three's Company
45. Wonder Woman
46. Charlie's Angels
47. The Muppet Show
48. Alice
49. What's Happening!!
50. Laverne & Shirley

Disc 2:

1. One Day At A Time
2. Welcome Back, Kotter
3. Barney Miller
4. Starsky and Hutch
5. S.W.A.T.
6. The Jeffersons
7. Police Woman
8. The Rockford Files
9. Good Times
10. The Six Million Dollar Man
11. M*A*S*H
12. The Waltons
13. Maude
14. Sanford and Son
15. All In The Family
16. The Partridge Family
17. The Odd Couple
18. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
19. Happy Days
20. Sesame Street
21. Love, American Style
22. The Courtship of Eddie's Father
23. The Brady Bunch
24. Scooby-Doo
25. Hawaii Five-O
26. The Banana Splits
27. The Newlywed Game
28. The Dating Game
29. The Monkees
30. Batman
31. I Dream Of Jeannie
32. The Wild Wild West
33. Green Acres
34. Gilligan's Island
35. The Addams Family
36. Bewitched
37. The Jetsons
38. The Dick Van Dyke show
39. The Andy Griffith Show
40. The Flintstones
41. My Three Sons
42. The Twilight Zone
43. Leave It To Beaver
44. Perry Mason
45. The Honeymooners
46. Merrie Melodies
47. Looney Toons
48. Dragnet
49. I Love Lucy
50. The Lone Ranger

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1998 in Music
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack

Album Description
America is a huge, diverse country with Yankee home cooking and Tex Mex cuisine. People ski on frozen Vermont mountains and surf the big waves in sun drenched California. One thing that binds it all together is TV. Television is American culture, a common thread that holds it all together on a nightly basis as we assemble around our living rooms to watch our favorite characters and shows.

Twenty years ago, TVT Records was born with its first release, Television's Greatest Hits. Now after having sold millions of its TV theme compilations around the world, America's #1 independent label for the past 4 years running is returning to its roots. In celebration of TVT's 20th Anniversary, it is releasing the ultimate TV collection, All Time Top 100 TV Themes, featuring themes drawn from all the original sources.

Hearing these theme songs consistenly evokes a strong emotional response, pointing to a time when everyone watched the same TV shows again and again. From I Love Lucy and Green Acres to Batman and The Monkees, to Welcome Back Kotter and M*A*S*H to Pee Wee's Playhouse and Twin Peaks to Friends and Six Feet Under, virtually anyone who grew up American watching television is sure to want a nostalgic piece of their shared cultural past.

Customer Reviews

Good variety, fine quality
I know others have commented on the less-than-stellar production values of this compilation, but I think they're fine. The collection of songs is great, and even though at first I wasn't thrilled about the newer stuff, we've come to love those as well. This is a great collection to listen to with the whole family. I think it would be difficult to find a comparable compilation for a similar price. Good value.

Hard To Please Everyone
The fact that this has generated over 30 reviews to date, ranging from 5 stars to 1, indicates that it's impossible to please everyone when putting this kind of project together. In one respect I can sympathize with those who were hoping to get full versions of some of the tunes, especially those that were good enough to produce hit singles - some of them smash hits - and so felt compelled to award just 1 or 2 stars. I have less sympathy for those who bemoan the sound "quality" since, as one reviewer has pointed out, many are soundtrack bytes and some of that 60s and 70's TV had pretty dismal sound.

The way I look at it, these are memory-joggers and this is a CD that can be hauled out and played at a party or family gathering to see how many can recognize the series they came from. Did they miss some obvious ones? Well, in a word, "yes" with some that come to mind at once being The Themes from - - Ben Casey, a # 28 hit in 1962 for Valjean; Dr. Kildare [Three Stars Will Shine Tonight], a # 10 in 1962 for star Richard Chamberlain; Dynasty, a # 52 in 1982 for Bill Conti; and The Dukes Of Hazzard [Good Ol' Boys], a # 21 in 1980 for Waylon Jennings.

But while this 2-CD set is fun, I too would like to see a similar set offering the full versions of those that went on to become hit singles, including the ones just mentioned and these which became Top 10 hits: Theme From The Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not), a # 2 in 1981 for Joey Scarbury; Theme From Hill Street Blues, a # 10 in 1981 for Mike Post, who also had hits with The Theme From Magnum P.I. (# 25 in 1982)and The Rockford Files (# 10 in 1975); Theme From S.W.A.T. by The Rhythm Heritage (# 1 in 1976); Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer (# 1 in 1985); Welcome Back (from Welcome Back, Kotter) by John Sebastien of The Lovin' Spoonful (# 1 in 1976); Happy Days by Pratt & McClain (# 5 in 1976); and Hawaii Five-O by The Ventures (# 4 in 1969).

Others that made the Billboard charts in the lower regions include: I'll Be There For You (from Friends) by The Rembrandts (# 17 in 1995); Where Everybody Knows Your Name (from Cheers) by Gary Portnoy (# 83 in 1983); Moonlighting Theme by Al Jarreau (# 23 in 1987); Theme From My Three Sons by Lawrence Welk (# 55 in 1961); Theme From Charlie's Angels by Percy Faith & His Orchestra (# 49 in 1977); WKRP In Cincinnati by Steve Carlisle (# 65 in 1981); Making Our Dreams Come True (from Laverne & Shirley) by Cyndi Grecco (# 25 in 1976); The Song From M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless) by Al DeLory & His Orchestra (# 70 in 1970); Those Were The Days (from All In The Family) by Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton (# 43 in 1972); and Batman Theme, a hit for both The Marketts (# 17) and Neal Hefti & His Orchestra (# 35) in 1966.

I've probably overlooked a few, but the point is, they could easily come up with a 2-CD volume containing just the hit versions.

Both the CD's and the insert are filled with vintage TV sets, and inside you get a re-listing of the contents showing composers, performers, and the running length of the series concerned for each track.

Great CD!!
I love this cd. It has really good themes. I recomend it to everyone because it's a great addition to your cd collection.