| The WKRP in Cincinatti closing song lyrics finally revealed....
Posted: 5/24/2008 10:49:05 PM | To anybody who remembers this little gem of a TV show from the late 70's to early 80's about a dysfunctional radio station, have you ever wondered what they were mumbling about in the closing song? Nobody could make out what the guy was singing...
Well, here are the lyrics.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uH76COzk8&feature=related | |
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| The WKRP in Cincinatti closing song lyrics finally revealed....
Posted: 5/25/2008 12:15:36 AM | If those are really the lyrics, I think I liked it better when I thought they meant something and the singer was a mumbler.
In any case, I bought the DVDs of the first season, and in case anyone doesn't know it, they had to delete scenes because they couldn't get clearance of some of the music played on the original episodes. And on other scenes you get this really horrible generic muzak that stinks. Kind of a ripoff, but still worth it for the episode where Fever & Venus get drunk and take the reflex test. | |
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| The WKRP in Cincinatti closing song lyrics finally revealed....
Posted: 5/25/2008 3:35:35 AM | Here's the actual recording....
http://www.jimellismusic.com/Music/KRPclose.ram
From the Jim Ellis Website.
Talk about lucking out! My first TV show turns out to be a sit-com legend. Hugh Wilson. Working for MTM Enterprises, created WKRP In Cincinnati, and Hired Tom Wells to write and produce original music for the show. Tom, in turn, hires me to arrange and orchestrate the opening theme that he and Hugh had written, and to write a rock and roll closing theme. I had originally written the closer to be an instrumental, but on the day of recording, I began joking around singing the melody that the saxophone would eventually play. Of course there were no lyrics and I was just sort of scatting gibberish. Well Hugh and Tom thought that was funny, and that it made a joke about the general unintelligibility of rock lyrics. So, out with the sax and in with the Jim Ellis' only professional job as a lead singer. Not bad if you're only going to have one.
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| The WKRP in Cincinatti closing song lyrics finally revealed....
Posted: 5/28/2008 7:58:57 PM | ^^^^^^^^^^^^OMG!!
Thank you SO much for that link!!!  I haven't seen that in years and it still had me doubled over with laughter!!
"The Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys" Johnny is sooooooooooo cool!!
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| The WKRP in Cincinatti closing song lyrics finally revealed....
Posted: 5/29/2008 8:11:15 PM | I loved that show. Wonder if there are the original versions with the original music still to be found?
I had read that dialog of the actors had to be dubbed where the new music was placed and that the new voices were done NOT by the original actors, but by some voice talent doing their best impressions. Has to sound weird after having seen the originals.
With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
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| The WKRP in Cincinatti closing song lyrics finally revealed....
Posted: 5/30/2008 1:50:10 PM | | I didn't hear anything about the dubbing, just that scenes were deleted and some music was replaced. And it had been so long since I'd seen most episodes, I couldn't tell you what was replaced. But I do know the originals still exist, because they had to edit them before release. And I have seen less than legitimate copies of the originals offered on sites like ebay before. I would guess if you googled it a bit you could find out what was replaced somewhere. | |
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| The WKRP in Cincinatti closing song lyrics finally revealed....
Posted: 6/3/2008 11:40:00 AM | The show wasn't just funny -- which it seriously was -- but it had a very 'real' element to it as well. Remember the episode about the Who concert at Riverfront stadium and the 'general admission' tragedy with the concert-goers ?? That final scene with Mr. Carlson looking out the window at night to the candles in the park floored me. My favourite comedy episode has to be the one with the 'Phone Police' when Venus and Johnny were broadcasting from the transmitter. I sure wish someone would start showing it in my area on reruns.
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