Theme to Las Vegas Gambit ("Hollywood Boulevard" by Stan Worth)
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- You've seen it on CZcams, you probably have it in your collections, but here is the undisputed theme to Las Vegas Gambit. It's a revival of Gambit that switched networks (NBC from CBS) and locales (Tropicana in Las Vegas from CBS Television City). It even switched dealers. However, Wink Martindale and Kenny Williams remained.
The name of the composition is "Hollywood Boulevard", and it's written and performed by Stan Worth and his Orchestra.
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FINALLY! I've been trying to find this since-only God knows when..!
Great post! Thank you!
The show with "Las Vegas" in title has a theme song named "Hollywood Boulevard." And said show was previously filmed near Hollywood. Lol
I always wonder what made Stan decide to rock out on the kazoo for this theme...I don't mind it, but it's most unusual
A nice, smooth, laid back theme for a game show...usually game show themes are fast paced and full of bells and whistles.
Stay tuned for Blockbusters next on NBC
Original version (1972-1976) featured electronic theme music by Mort Garson.
Very nice theme to "Las Vegas Gambit" (1980-81). RIP, Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley.
In Philly the whole NBC morning block minus Card Sharks was opposite TPIR
And RIP Stan Worth, too.
Wink Martindale was born on December 4, 1933.
Happy 90th to the winker
The Las Vegas Gambit Theme by Stan Worth has finally been heard in its entirety, and it is dedicated to Merrill Heatter who co-created the show with Bob Quigley and Wayne Cruseturner, and will be greatly missed. R.I.P. Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley and announcer Kenny Williams, and what a great post! Thank you!
Fox was not operative back in 1980 at then-independent WTAF-TV (Now WTXF-TV) Charles Allan, KYW-TV Channel 3 was NBC then and is now CBS 3. Thanks for my reply to you, and RIP to Merrill Heatter Bob Quigley and anouncer Kenny Williams.
@charles allan that's true. From what I remember WMGM (Former NBC affliate before they got stripped) would show the entire schedule.
@@newstarcadefan Thanks for your own reply, and in 1995 KYW-TV and WCAU-TV switched affiliation under their ownership, as KYW-TV became CBS and WCAU-TV became NBC, and as you said about WMGM-TV their NBC affiliation ended on December 31, 2014 when they did lose NBC. WMGM-TV is now owned by Univision Communications.
I remember the commercial bumpers for Las Vegas Gambit where they would have various scenes of Las Vegas goings-on, like showgirl dancers and slot machines. Other times they would have Wink Martindale in the casino, including once drawing a moustache and beard on his face on an ad for Las Vegas Gambit in the casino. Another time, Wink would play a video blackjack machine and win at it, then he would turn to the camera and smile.
The end of the song was used for main game wins/gambit galaxy wins I see.
Theme first appeared in the 1979 Gambit pilot for NBC. It sat on the shelf for a year. Then following the cancellation of The David Letterman Show, they rekindled the pilot but decided to shoot the series in Las Vegas where Hollywood Squares was now taped.
Should hsve followed Peter ar 11:am eastern in the summer of 80
THis was the last game show to debut with a theme by Stan Worth, who died two months before this show debuted.
I actually believe that The New Let's Make A Deal with Monty Hall shot in Vancouver Canada made it's debut only 2 or 3 weeks after Stan died. That would be his final theme. The Las Vegas Gambit theme sat on the shelf for a year before it was used.
@@JZCRAZY Stan Worth died 8/31/80. LMAD80 debuted in the US on 9/15 or 9/22/80
@@zachhoran Yes. This is true. He died right before his music premiered on Let's Make A Deal. Sad.
The game shows of Heatter Quigley Productions:
Video Village (1960-62)
Double Exposure (1961)
People Will Talk (The Celebrity Game) (1963-65)
Shenanigans (1964-65)
PDQ (1965-69)
Showdown (1966)
Hollywood Squares (1966-80)
Temptation (1967-68)
Funny You Should Ask (1968-69)
Name Droppers (1969-70)
Gambit (1972-76)
Runaround (1972-73)
Baffle/All-Star Baffle (1973-74)
High Rollers (1974-76,1978-80)
The Magnificent Marble Machine (1975-76)
Hot Seat (1976-77)
Las Vegas Gambit (1980-81)
RIP-Kenny Williams, the announcer who was the voice of many a great H-Q game show. For those of you who don't remember
"Shenanigans" or "Runaround", those were one-season children's
game shows on Saturday morning. "Shenanigans" was hosted
by Stubby Kaye, and Paul Winchell emceed "Runaround". Only twice
Williams was not the announcer of a Heatter-Quigley game, and
that was "The Magnificent Marble Machine" ("Jeopardy!"'s Johnny
Gilbert was instead) in 1975 and also "Temptation" in 1967. A bit of trivia: Williams played Kenny
the Cop on "Shenanigans". It was one of his few on camera appearances.
"This has been a Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley Production."
Carl King announced Temptation in 1967-68, not Kenny Williams.
I didn't know that.
You forgot the short-lived game "Double Exposure", which ran on CBS for a short time in 1961 and was hosted by Steve Dunne.
@@mbclev Thank you for mentioning that. Also, there was another H-Q game that was also shortlived, yet it aired as a series of specials. In 1968, NBC aired, "The Storybook Squares", a one-season children's game which featured celebs dressed as storybook or as historical
personages. "The Hollywood Squares" would bring this idea back as a
series of special shows, where children and parents played as
contestants. (The 1968 version had only children as contestants).
Heatter-Quigley also co-produced the Wacky Races cartoon show with Hanna-Barbera Productions. A game show element in which child contestants would predict the winner of the race in the cartoon story for a prize was considered but not used when the series was broadcast.
I knew “of” Stan Worth
Both Las Vegas Gambit and Blockbusters replaced Dave Letterman's ill-fated NBC daytime talk show in 1980. LVG ran for over a year, while BB ran for about a year and a half. And the three game shows that Dave replaced on NBC back in 1980: The Hollywood Squares, High Rollers, and Chain Reaction. THAT was a sad day for NBC Daytime fans back then, including me. Dave did much better in late night for both NBC and CBS. Fun fact: The late Regis Philbin had a talk show that replaced LVG in 1981 on NBC. Also, getting back to Dave's NBC daytime talk show: legendary game show producer Bob Stewart WAS going to produce Dave's daytime talk show, but pulled out shortly before it began due to creative differences.
To think, they cancelled David Letterman's morning show on NBC for this! Well, this show lasted only a little over a year, while Letterman would get the 1230 AM show, and last 11 years, and then another 22 at 1130 on CBS!
Anyone for six ball
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