The Lucy Show (1962-68) Theme Song [RESTORED in STEREO] | Wilbur Hatch Lucille Ball Gale Gordon
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- Wilbur Hatch is best known as 'conducting the Desi Arnaz Orchestra' from the classic TV sitcom, "I Love Lucy". Wilbur had been composing and arranging themes and incidental and cue music for network radio shows (before TV) - where he worked with Lucille Ball on her radio show with Richard Denning, "My Favorite Husband", which evolved (with both producers, writers, and Hatch) into a TV-variant with Desi Arnaz, her real then-husband, cast opposite her.
After "I Love Lucy", Hatch continued on with the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hours, and after Lucille Ball's divorce with Desi, continued his involvement with Desilu by composing the theme (and all show music) song to Lucy's next venture for CBS, "The Lucy Show", which initially had Vivian Vance appearing with Lucy.
This theme arrangement is the 'standard' theme and comes from the fourth season (1965-66) - and is the best-looking print I've ever seen (of course I've cleaned up/effected the video). This series (not particularly a favorite of mine) has not held up well, as most prints are faded and poor.
That being said, this crisp result came about using a different process than I usually use. I had 4 very good quality playouts of the same theme on different 'cuts', put them each on a track, and then began combining them in the mix. It is such a more realistic effect, I think than the usual depending on plug-ins to do the entire job. Pan-EQing each track, slightly different though the same recording - gave such a bright effect on the music. The only problem was the effect made the voice-over sound awful in the beginning of the video, so I changed the pan a bit...Note the mix under the subscribe end screen is only 1 of the 4 playouts stereo-ized to show the difference in effect of combining 4 different playouts!
Oh, and music geeks, yes, legendary studio musician Tony Terran aka Anthony Terran, is the lead trumpet player on the soundtrack. He was the most recognizable musician of the Desi Arnaz Orchestra in the "I Love Lucy" series (except for Marco Rizo), and was a member of the infamous "Wrecking Crew" of the 1960s. He was "the guy in the middle with the real-full head of hair.." and was known to be able to play 'any style', particularly that of 'Latin' flavor. He was also involved in one of the "Tijuana Brass" copycats.
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0:57 - Theme Song starts here.
This is one theme song you'll never get out of your head.
This is my favorite theme song from all the Lucy shows. It stills sends a chill down my spine when I hear it, reflecting on happier, secure times in our lives. It is amazing how television can impact us for a lifetime. I so wish we could go back to wonderful, good wholesome shows like this again. I miss Lucy so much, she made us laugh and not to take ourselves and life so seriously. What a wonderful, gracious lady. Thanks for the memories.
Couldn't agree more. Thank YOU for great reflections and comment!
Of all of her shows, this is the only theme that really touches me. I miss her so bad. R.I.P. Lucy.
This sound so good!! The restoration makes it seem like it is from the present!!!
I always loved this theme and it’s “kaleidoscope effect” 💎
2023...Flawless...Thank you and love from Texas...
Wow -- the restoration on this is truly amazing. Excellent!
Many thanks!
Lucille ball was one of the greatest Entertainers of all time, right behind her was Jackie Gleason !!!!!
I loved the kaleidoscope intro!!!
0:37 that small instance of the original 'I Love, Lucy' leitmotif makes me smile everytime :)
I'm not gonna mess you up by mentioning that Eliot Daniel composed the original "I Love Lucy" theme, will I?
Makes me think of my childhood. I watched it when new, as a child.
As a kid, I always got freaked out at the drawing of Lucy at the end. Not as much anymore, but I still think it's creepy.
I may recall the same feelings LOLOL!!! Something was 'off'...Maybe it was me LOL!
@@musicom67Can you imagine watching the opening sequence stoned. I loved Wing Zing. I was born in 1966 so it was a bit before my time.😊😂
Great memories Lucy was really unforgetable
There's something so holesome about this show, up until the moment vivian left, the music the house the good humor the family.
Love it. Sounds/looks better than it has any right to. Watched it as a kid on the big cabinet Zenith WiFi/Tv combo that took up half the room. Wondering why they never showed Gale Gordon in the open, even though they mention him. I know, it's Lucy's show- but they still could've showed her with Gale.
Poor Mr Mooney! Whahhhh!!!
Lucy supposedly could not tolerate anyone upstaging her .or getting more laughs than her
No, they never did. The only person, other than Ball herself, whose image ever appeared in the opening credits was Vivian Vance (which, I guess says something about Lucy's respect for Vance, that she reserved that distinction for her alone.) Gale Gordon only got credit by way voiceover (and poor Mary Jane Croft didn't even get that....only her name listed in the end credits of episodes in which she appeared). Even when the show transitioned to "Here's Lucy", with that hokey marionette Lucy puppet, no images of the costars (Gale Gordon, Lucy Arnaz and Desi, Jr.) every appeared, just voiceover announcing their names as that ghastly puppet danced around, and then opened the curtain to reveal a shot of Lucille Ball, wearing enough pancake makeup to open a new I-HOP.)
Gale Gordon's contract probably specified that he not be credited in episodes he didn't appear in and it was easier just to have a voice-over credit that wasn't added if he didn't appear. Note there are episodes in the third season where Vivian Vance didn't appear and she wasn't credited. (I'm referring to the REAL opening credits that can be seen on the official DVDs not the "kaleidoscope" opening shown on TV).
Great post and upload! Amazing resolution. Another one of my favorite shows from the 60s
Really excellent. However, the season three orchestration, I feel, was one notch even better!!!
Agreed ;-) If I find a 'clean' full version I'll work it one day...
Yes absolutely
The Toni Company co-sponsored The Lucy Show for the final 3 seasons, with Lever Brothers!
I guess times had chanced quite a bit from when Phillip Morris sponsored "I Love Lucy" back in the '50s. Cigarette ads on television would be banned in 1971, but by the mid-'60s, tobacco companies were apparently already on the way out, making way for shows to be sponsored instead by household products like Toni and Lever Brothers.
sweet memories
Love this opening. And how she gives that bottle of pop "the look" while she is eating that ham samwitch. :)
REALLY LOVE THE LUCY SHOW
Anybody with any sense did and still do, also Here's Lucy is just as good too !!!!!
The irony is, of course, with most people getting their signals over interior "rabbit ear" antennas or, at best, roof aerials, even those who had brand new color sets during the mid''60s didn't see this opening this clearly and brilliantly when it originally aired.
Similarly, we now listen to compressed mp3s and streams instead of full 'old-fashioned' dynamics sound like a digital FLAC file or vinyl through a tube amplifier ;-)
Great theme song.
Fourth season (1965-'66).
I can always count on you. Fixed.
Slight correction: The closing, yes, is from the fourth season, but the opening is from the sixth season. The sound is fantastic, by the way.
Lucy was so beautiful and funny!!!
"infamous studio musician Tony Terran" and infamous Wrecking Crew" . . . Why do you refer to them as infamous? What did they do that's so bad. They were inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame, and I always thought very highly regarded and respected. I've never heard anything negative about them.
OK, Legendary. Sorry, I write those descriptions real fast. Good to know people read 'em :-)
Infamously, he blurts a bad note on the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour theme ...how's that?
@@musicom67 You obviously now music more than I do. I never realized there was a bad note in the LDCH theme. That said, my favorite versions of the theme were from the first season of I Love Lucy.
@@musicom67 well its a musical mistake..why didnt Lucy use her supposed magical professional skills to.reshoot it or edit it?
The Wrecking Crew.pretty much carried music lovers through the 60s. Watch the documentary...youll be surprised at the popular songs that they played on, instead of the groups you bought the records for.
Ashame stereo tv wasn't around back then
Watched it every week. After this she did "Here's Lucy" which was horrendous. That ended in 1973 and I think by then with social comedies and political correctness ruling television that she realized her time had come and gone.
I think CBS and the ratings decided that. She WANTED to work - - and if you think Here's Lucy was crud, the early 80's ABC "Life With Lucy" was probably the biggest mess ever with a geriatric Gale Gordon and Lucille Ball. She should have slept on her Stone Pillow (her dramatic TV movie)...
Look on this site for my comment,Spideraxis. I said the same thing. Do you know how she maimed MAME,the musical ? Read about it on wikipedia...a young Madeline Kahn.was to be in that ,but Lucy was so threatened by her comedic talent, that she had her fired..i think I.remember that from a biography of her , But as we know.Kahn.went on to become one of the premier.comedienne's.of the 70s, along with Eileen Brennan. ..I was so disappointed she behaved that way..but her performance was so bad it almost killed the movie musical . .what happened between I LOVE LUCY and The LUCY SHOW....her comedic talent plummeted .
.But what bothered me most was the incarnations of Lucy's character. As a kid, i thought she was funny..but as i.aged i realized what a HORRIBLE person her character was...she was terribly dishonest, she would lie,cheat,steal. , betray her friends. ,.she'd say or do snything to get her way ,usually with her friends knowing she was lying or stealing from them. I know this was comedy, but poorly written. By THE LUCY SHOW, she had become a selfish, lying narcissistic thief. Still love I Love Lucy, but those halcyon days ended with the original.series.
@@rt3593 Agree
Ended in 1974.
Don't agree at all. Here's Lucy was in the top 15 shows five out of it's six years. She still was the most popular actress in 1974 and because she made Mame the critics just tore her apart. Mame w as a great movie. It got a new life on DVD and Blu Ray. It more than recouped it's money for the making of the film. Angela Lansburied would not have made the movie better. 1974 was not the right time to make a good old fashioned musical. Movies like Last Tango In Paris (horrible) and The Exorcist were made. Lucy wanted to end Heres Lucy at the end of season five but Fred Silverman begged her to come back for one more season, she agreed, but her heart was not in it. I think that's why it finished in 29th place. The ratings for season 1-5 put her in 9th, 6th, 3rd, 10th and 15th place respectively. I do agree she should have never come back to TV in 1986. She should have quit when she was ahead. There will never be another Lucille Ball. She is an icon.
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Does this have lyrics? It sounds like it should-- "Lucy, Lucy, I love you ..."