Top Ten Nineteen Reasons Why I am Wearing Sunglasses In the Office

19. New York Penal Law 240.35(4) prohibits the wearing of masks, so I'm using sunglasses instead.

18. I'm bucking for a Section Eight.

17. They're not sunglasses, they're x-ray specs. But I can't see x-rays...

16. Rough night (see #4)

15. If I act incognito, perhaps someone will mistake me for a celebrity.

14. I'm in mourning for my lost mouse Finklestein. *sniffle*

13. I'm hiding the shiner I got fighting a horde of Nazi zombie ninja sharks in Asbury Park.

12. I'm testing my Huey Lewis cosplay outfit before the New York Comic Con next week.

11. I'm field testing the next iteration of Google Glass. That's a cute belly button. Are you aware that a dating profile you created in high school is still active? And has 153 unread messages, 17 from last month alone? Your fanfiction 'ships aren't bad, but your slash needs a bit more spice. Hey, where are you going...?

10. I'm on a mission from God.

9. I lost one of the contacts which camouflage my reptilian irises.

8. I underwent a cyborg implant during the weekend, and the sensors need to adjust and calibrate before going online.

7. Sunglasses, what sunglasses?

6. “Wooo. It's like a drug. Wearing these glasses gets you high, but you come down hard.” (I hope you have some bubblegum…)

5. These are Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses. They go completely dark at any hint of peril, allowing me to develop a relaxed attitude towards danger.

4. I’m avoiding my fifteen minutes of infamy. If anyone asks, that was someone else.

3. It’s time for my midlife crisis, so I’m reliving the 80s. I’ll rent a convertible after work, date a woman half my age, and sing bad karaoke.

2. All New Yorkers avoid eye contact, as well as practice detachment from society. I’m just taking that to the logical extreme with sunglasses.

1. I broke my eyeglasses. (How? That’s the next “Top Ten” list.)?

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Forgotten TV Lyrics: The Love Boat

The #forgottentvlyrics to The Love Boat!

The song was written by Charles Fox (music) and Paul Williams (lyrics). It became the theme music of the popular American television series The Love Boat, broadcast between 1977 and 1986. Jones's version was used as the opening tune for most of the seasons, only to be replaced by Dionne Warwick's cover in the last one.

(From the Wikipedia article.)

This is one of the rare TV themes available at karaoke bars. I like to sing it, as it has a nice disco beat, with a lounge lizard style. (Nothing against Mr. Jones, it's just the way I sing it.)

#ForgottenTVLyrics: An Explication

I've got a lot of eclectic musical tastes.
I love when marching bands cover popular music.
I can sing the aria to "What's Opera, Doc?"

...and...

I'm fascinated by television theme songs, especially those with lyrics, specifically those with lyrics which are rarely heard on television.

It started when "Cheers" went off the air.  One of the entertainment magazines featured the lyrics, which were never heard on air:

All those night when you've got no lights, 

The check is in the mail; 

And your little angel 

Hung the cat up by it's tail; 

And your third fiance didn't show; 

[...]

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead; 

The morning's looking bright; 

And your shrink ran off to Europe, 

And didn't even write; 

And your husband wants to be a girl; 

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/cheerslyrics.html

WOW!  Those were pretty cool!  

Then I remembered that M*A*S*H had lyrics in the movie, which never aired on television because those lyrics were specific to a story in the movie.  

Then, in 1997, there was an official history book for Star Trek, to celebrate the 30th (sigh) anniversary of the series.  Inside, was the original sheet music to the theme song, WITH LYRICS!  (Roddenberry, in a money-grubbing move, added lyrics so he could earn half the royalties on the theme.  Alexander Courage was not pleased.)

It slowly snowballed from there, as I picked up trivia from various sources and found sheet music collections.

Thanks to YouTube and other resources, it's now less difficult to find the original recordings (on vinyl!) online.

Thus, in 2013, I created a hashtag #forgottentvlyrics, and began posting to social media.  Twitter and Facebook didn't have good indexing, so I placed everything on Google Plus.  Since then, I've realized, why not transfer everything here, so I can at least make a few pennies.  (And who knows how much longer Google Plus will remain viable?)

The following is a list of what I've found so far. As I copy posts over to here, I'll include links in the titles.  

One more note... I'm doing all this in 2015, but placing everything in 2012, which was empty of posts.  I don't want to clutter up my regular feed.  

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The list (so far)

1. The A*Team [full theme]
2. Alfred Hitchcock Presents [full theme]
3. All in the Family
4. All In The Family [closing theme with lyrics!]
5. American Bandstand
6. The Andy Griffith Show
7. Angie
8. Baretta (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)
9. Beverly Hills 90210 [no lyrics, just the full theme]
10. Bewitched
11. Buck Rogers in the 21st Century
12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer [theme only]
13. Charlie's Angels
14. CHiPS [theme only, but a rockin' 12" version]
15. Davy Crockett
16. The Dick Van Dyke Show
17. Duck Tales 
18. The Dukes of Hazzard
19. The Facts of Life
20. The Fall Guy
21. Flo
22. Gilmore Girls
23. The Greatest American Hero
24. Gunsmoke
25. Happy Days [alternate lyrics]
26. Have Gun Will Travel
27. Hogan's Heroes
28. The Paper Chase
29. I Dream of Jeannie
30. I Love Lucy
31. Joannie Loves Chachi
32. Laverne & Shirley (Making Our Dreams Come True)
33. Leave It To Beaver (The Toy Parade)
34. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
35. The Love Boat
36. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
37. M*A*S*H
38. Makin' It
39. Malcolm in the Middle
40. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.  [I need a source!]
41. Merrily We Roll Along (Merrie Melodies)  [I need a source!]
42. The Merry Go Round Broke Down (Looney Tunes)
43. Moonlighting
44. The Munsters
45. The Odd Couple
46. Peter Gunn
47. Star Trek
48. Taxi [full theme]
49. To Tell The Truth
50. 21 Jump Street
51. Welcome Back Kotter
52. WKRP in Cincinnati
53. Wonder Woman
54. The Bill Cosby Show (Hicky Burr)
55. Ironsides [theme only]
56. The Untouchables [theme only]
57. Route 66
58. Naked City
59. The Rogues [the previous four are by Nelson Riddle]
60. Peter Gunn [alternate lyrics?]
61. Mr. Lucky
62. NBC Mystery Movie
63. What's Happening!!
64. Tic Tac Dough (1990 version)
65. Once Is Not Enough
66. Newhart
67. Hotel
68. Remington Steele
69. Ripley's Believe It or Not [All by Henry Mancini]

That reminds me... I wonder how long the Dallas theme runs?  

That's got a nice disco beat as well!

Hmmm.... maybe I'll do a separate post on remixes!

WHEW!

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