In 1974, "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" became the first TV theme song to Hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—and it was recorded by a supersized studio house band. Performed ...

Ah, the golden era of television! The 70s and 80s gifted us with theme songs that were as memorable as the shows themselves. These musical intros were more than just preludes; they set the tone, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A great TV theme song has the power to instantly transport us into the world of a show, setting the tone before the first scene ...

Scott Gale shares how he created the iconic Saved by the Bell theme song that defined 1990s television.

So, let's imagine that you are a participant in a call-in radio show contest and, in order to receive the prize, you must sing a classic TV show theme song. Confident that you can win, you begin ...

Nearly 35 years ago, producers Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis put together a 20-minute presentation to convince ABC that two guest stars on “Happy Days” could be spun off into their own series. They ...

TV theme songs serve a very important role. They need to feature instantly catchy melodies and instrumentation, of course. But they often also need to explain the basic plot of their series, and if ...

There is a tendency to not think of theme music as a “real” song. Though they are some of the most intrinsic and enduring pieces of music, they aren’t songs we often listen to outside of the show they ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s son Ryan ...

Christine is a freelance writer for Collider with two decades of experience covering all types of TV shows and movies spanning every genre. With a particular affinity for dramas, true crime, sitcoms, ...

Over the last 40 years, it has been extremely rare for an instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100. That makes it all the harder to believe that during a five-year span in the mid-1970s, no fewer ...