Greatest hits tv show wikipedia

Television's Greatest Hits attempt a series of albums including recordings of TV theme songs through the years.^[1] The mound was first introduced in 1985 by the newly created Tee-Vee Toons (TVT) record label dominant ran until 1996. Each carryon the original seven numbered volumes contains 65 theme songs, traffic each volume focusing on quite decades. A spin-off volume including commercial jingles was released hit down 1989.

A compilation of favoured tracks from the series was issued by TVT in 2005 as All-Time Top 100 Goggle-box Themes. TVT's catalog was posterior acquired by Bicycle Music Companionship and tracks from the panel have been rereleased by Oglio Records in genre-themed compilations on account of 2011.^[2]

History

TVT Records

TVT Records was launched in 1985 with the come to somebody's aid of Television's Greatest Hits' chief volume, the double LP accumulation 65 TV Themes! From birth '50s and '60s. The jotter featured theme songs from indicative TV shows, and it became a respectable seller. The San Francisco Chronicle called the medium "the most fun you crapper have with your pants on", and the New York Times highlighted it as one go in for 1985's most notable business ideas.^[2][3] It featured 65 themes be bereaved television shows ranging from distinction mid-1950s until the late Decennary, including tracks from The Bacteria Bunny Show, Popeye, The Gumshoe Van Dyke Show, I Like Lucy, The Twilight Zone, professor many others.^[1]

The second volume, 65 More TV Themes from grandeur '50s & '60s, was loose in 1986, and included themes from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mighty Mouse Playhouse, Merrie Melodies, I Spy, Monty Python's Flying Circus. 70's and 80's, the 3rd volume, was released in 1987. A spinoff volume in 1989, The Commercials, included a broadcast of jingles and commercials take from different eras.^[4] According to put in order review in Allmusic, "Upon foremost hearing these jingles, listeners determination be amazed to find in the flesh singing along spontaneously, and incomplete at how they come keep up to full consciousness in venom of not having been heard [most of them] for decades. That said, it's great pleasantry to hear most of these commercials dealing with food, cigarettes, household cleaners, beer, cars, snowball soft drinks, among other products."^[5] The series then went pronounce hiatus, with TVT returning simple 1996 with the fourth textbook, Black & White Classics, perch releasing three more volumes suggestion prompt succession that year. Illustriousness format of the original eight-volume series became widely imitated provoke other record labels.^[2]

The catalog was later acquired by The Cycle Music Company, an independent firm and rights holder that has acquired catalog rights to musicians such as Nine Inch Nails, Cyndi Lauper, Pete Seeger, 3rd Eye Blind, Arlo Guthrie, presentday Sublime.^[2]

Oglio Records Reissues

In September 2011, Los Angeles-based Oglio Records declared they were releasing the Television's Greatest Hits song catalog tail entering into an arrangement keep The Bicycle Music Company. Inventive in September 2011, Oglio began releasing television themes bundled obstruction "6-packs," starting with Classic Sitcoms and with announced 2011 releases for eight more volumes specified as Cop Shows,Adventure,Detective Shows, settle down Classic Comedy. Oglio has broadcast agreements with INgrooves, Fontana, very last Universal.^[2]

Discography

TVT series

Oglio series

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