Theme tunes

axisus

That Professions cover is pretty darned cool!

Jfingers

Years ago I saw my best mates then band open a pub gig with The Flumps theme tune, it went down pretty well.

LastMantra

My mate used to play something I think was ren and stimpy.
They did the bit from blackadder (2?) in one of the guitar magazines once.

Funkfingers

Roobarb.

Some of the incidental music used for Vision On was pretty out there and cool.

Old Ned (the theme from Steptoe & Son) would work well in a Reggae stylee.

The White Horses theme song was used for the BBC Book Of The Week presentation of Believe Me by Eddie Izzard. (The song is referred to in the book and, simultaneously, evokes the era.) 

The other evocative theme tune from that time is the French serialisation of Robinson Crusoe.

EricTheWeary

Matt Berry's band did sort of jazzy versions of theme choons, quite cool. My favourite is probably their take on Sorry! 

I mentioned Drag Racer on here recently, having watched a bunch of versions on YouTube it’s reassuring to discover that I’m not the only one who doesn’t get it spot on. 

We used to do Guns of Navarone in The Damnbusters, the melody was played by sax but I’d do the Bonanza riff for a guitar solo. Not sure many people got it though. 

I gave up very early on trying to play this but it is rather lovely (couldn’t spot a studio recording on YouTube). The melody is harmonised double stops that involve places my fingers don’t seem to go to. 

https://youtu.be/MYDkQEl-PyA

EricTheWeary

...oh one of the other 'guitary' ones is King of the Hill. There is longer version by the original band as well (The Refreshments). And,err, 3rd Rock From the Sun was a neat rockabilly/surf kind of thing. 

GoFish

My Lovely Horse and Words of Love by the Divine Comedy would make for a fun mashup.

scrumhalf

It's been mentioned above, the Joe 90 theme  is a cracker. You could do that in various styles. 

I used to love the theme from Robinson Crusoe when I was growing up.

Some of the 60s/70s cartoon themes, like Banans Splits (I know The Dickies did a version of it) are worth a listen. 

DiscoStu

I play Drag Racer a lot, it's great fun.
I learned Airwolf years ago and that comes out every now and then. 

Jfingers

The Munsters and The Addams Family are fun to play. Never tried them in a band setting though.

sev112

TJonnyBgoode said:

When I gigged as a Spanish/classical guitarist for functions I played a whole bunch of theme tunes - eg. The Titanic, Deerhunter/Cavatina, theme from MASH... oddest request of all was The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, for someone's wedding! Best man and ushers all doing the whistling and Aarh-eeh-ah-eeh-arrggh! vocal parts.  Bizarre.

The MASH arrangement is superb, from an ancient copy of Total Guitar. I met the guy who arranged it a few years back at a gig. Well known session player from the Bristol area. Oddly none of my wedding clients ever requested 'Suicide is Painless' as their theme though...

I also play Chi Mai (the David Lloyd George theme), Schindler’s List, and Gabriel’s Oboe

years ago I used to play Arthur’s Theme I seem to recall

tone1

CharlieShaw said:

Anyone Can Play Guitar did a lesson on how to play the Snooker theme, or Drag Racer to give it its proper name. Complete with a bit of history of the tune.

https://youtu.be/1bnilpkuItw

I learnt it by watching Adrian’s channel 

Litterick

Adrian has a Joe 90 lesson as well.

rogd

The Wombles!

Benm39

Adrian did The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on his ACPG channel also... great fun. 

I quite like the Link Wray Batman Theme too...