I need some happy music! (Eldermike, you were absolutely right about that).
Here’s one from way back when–A Swingin’ Safari, by Bert Kaempfert and his orchestra.
Was this used as theme music by “The Match Game”? Anyone remember?
Tag: The Match Game
Nhow We Has Band ‘The’ Match Gaim!!!!!
Moar fantastickal Progrest!!! Tooday “in” the Stoodint Soviet we has band “The” Match Gaim!!!! Fromb nhow On, enny boddy whoo “plaze” it,, thay Get kikked rite Out “of” Collidge!!
And woodnt yiu Know It,, sumb Biggit Hater thay sayed “waht Is “the” Poynt of that?? That thare sho it “was” On TV sicksty (&^60) yeers aggo!!”! So six (%6#) of us we Beet himb upp! (OOPs! Sari! Shood of sayed beet “themb” Up!!)
I meen, lookit it!!! Awl themb peeple In “the” gaim thay “Are” awl Wyte!!!Iff thatssnot Racist, watt is???? and I bet nun “of” themb is Trans neether!!!! Cant yiu just Feeel The Haite comming Offf “the” skreeen???
So we wil “be” keeeping a Eye “out” nhow for enny boddy, enny stoodint, enny prefesser, enny boddy at awl Waching this heer Show “and” iff we cache themb, THAY ‘ARE’ TOEST!!!!!!!
{Sumb oather Hater Biggit thay sayed the sho It Is “not” on TV enny moar,, so we Beet Themb Up tooo!!! (and thiss tyme I rebembemered To “say” Themb!)!
Memory Lane: ‘A Swingin’ Safari’
Do you ever get a tune in your head from way, way down at the bottom of your memory jar, and then it drives you nuts because you can’t remember what it’s called or where you heard it?
I’ve had this one going round and round. I kept thinking it was from a TV game show, The Match Game, and it turned out I was right–it was the theme song for the first edition of The Match Game, 1962-69. And I used to hear this at my friend’s house after school, because his mother never missed the show.
Nothing like an old TV theme to take you back! Hey, where were you in ’62? I think Paul Lucas asked that once. Of course, he had us all behaving like teenage sitcom characters, which wouldn’t be even close to describing my pals and me. I have a vision of two or three of us just sitting down to play Mille Bornes when we heard this music coming from the living room.
Bert Kaempfert, Billy Vaughn, you made great music! Don’t let anybody say you didn’t.