Mary Tyler Moore Theme Song
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My dad Sonny Curtis wrote and sang this song. So obviously I'm biased, but I happen to adore it. :) Note that this is the intro from a later season. The first season did not include the iconic line, "Who can turn the world on with her smile" and ended with "You might just make it after all." He was called into the studio to re-record the theme after she did, indeed make it.
Your father's voice will forever live in our spirits and memories.Thank you for sharing
Seems like a heckuva nice guy, judging from the CBS Sunday Morning piece today. So the song is even more perfect for MTM than I always thought it was. Thanks Sonny! 😊
such a wonderful song...I mistakenly thought it was all Pat Williams until I saw your comment--and made the correction to my comment above..this song means so much to me....plz thank your dad for me for this great uplifting song...Guy
Oh wow-I love love love the memories this evokes and the influence even just the song has had on my life.
that's really neat! thank you for sharing :)
Such a simple act of tossing a hat became the most iconic image on television history
Who's watching in 2024? Meeee ✋
I find this theme so uplifting and empowering. "You're gonna make it after all"
The theme from Mary Tyler Moore is so uplifting. Although ironically, this is not the first version. czcams.com/video/tOqC0EIc-xM/video.html
@@nighthawk5295yeah, we know
It's one of a handful of truly great theme songs for television shows. Mash, WKRP. Taxi and all in the family I would say are my all-time favorites along with this song.
It's about making dinner
This was my moms favourite show. I used to sit down as a child and watch it with her. Now that she's gone I listen to it from time to time. It reminds me of her and the good times. I miss her.
I feel you. This show was a religion to my mom and she passed away in 2017. It would always piss her off that everybody called Lou Grant "Lou" but Mary referred to him as "Mr Grant".
"Mr. Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaant!"
I do too !
My mom and I watched this too.
Same here!
Who couldn’t love this song so pure takes you back to simpler times
Rest in peace Mary , Ed ,Ted and Gavin . Thank you for your contributions to the Arts.
Now even Betty White. The whole main cast is gone
And Valerie
They are all gone? All of them? That’s quite sad 😢
@chriscullen1855 oh man! I was all set to argue with you that Valerie was alive, though ill. I looked it up first and saw she passed in 2019! I don't know how I missed that! I adored her as Rhoda!
Can't believe they're all gone. It's crazy that specifically Cloris Leachman, Gavin McLeod, Ed Asner, and Betty White all passed in 2021. May the whole cast RIP 🙏🏾 ❤🕊
It's crazy how a song can transport you back in time. I hear this song and I'm back in my childhood home back in the 70's.
I m agree
I know it just cheered me up. I didn't think there was any evil in the world and everything just seemed so much more innocent back then. Carly 💙
Very well said. Yes the Good Old Day’s, I wish I could go back in time
You are so right!😊👍
Same with me im 53 and I still love this song and will always luv Marry!
One of the best childhood memories ever. This meant I was allowed to "stay up late" which rarely happened. Long live the 70's.
ER meant I got to stay up late. This was just reruns in the 90s because that's what we did then. I love it.
saturday nights from 8-10 was two hours of comedy brilliance on CBS back then
@@damnyankeefl
Spot on! I am 57 and I was allowed at grandma's house to stay up and watch TMTMS, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnette if I wanted to. It seems like yesterday but it was 50 years now. Wow...time really does fly...
What I like best about this opening is that it speaks directly to the premise of the series. Mary Richards, who had just turned 30, had a broken marriage engagement, and in what many would have considered a ruined Old Maid state, Mary decided to pull up stakes and move to the city to find a secretary job. She ended up landing Assistant Producer instead. Hence the lyrics, "You're gonna make it after all." Her life was NOT ruined by her age nor broken engagement. :)
It’s true what they said about Mary...she turned the world on with her smile 😀
Great show... take note 2020, feminism done right in the 70s
I got vibes of I'm blue da be de da ba da.
These are the types of intros you will never see in television ever again.
Love this song...always saw myself like this just as a black woman ❤ -- brings back so many memories ❤
She will take a nothing day and make it all seem worthwhile.🎼🎼🎼🎼
I had an awesome coach and supportive coworker. We were both single and in a new city with nothing but the job. She was a black woman from Minneapolis. I will always be grateful for her advice, criticism and support. I always thought of Mary Tyler Moore in our long conversations.
SistahFriend, you took the words right out of my mouth! And the closing instrumental gives me warmest of fuzzies ☺️
You went and left behind so many memories wow what a beautiful thought their 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
Watch the Oprah tribute to this, it's awesome!
The nostalgia is powerful with this.
it just a 'spell' the music casts upon you
I'm crying singing this 😭 me and my mother would sing it together when it came on RIP 🙏 MY MOM
It will work out🙏
That and the NBC Sunday Mystery theme song,
I don't blame you. It was a simple life back then.
Let me say this. As a Child that used to watch this intro in the 80's 90's on Nick at Night, I absolutely love and adore this woman. But I cannot tell you what this show is about. I don't think I even watched a single episode. But still this song is a huge nostalgic part of my childhood. That is crazy when you think about it. I am damn near on the verge of tears listening to this because it reminds me of my childhood, yet I cant tell you a thing about the show. Crazy right?
I don't understand why you specify that you are black. This show is made for people searching for the person who share their love. It dosn't matter the color. Maybe you can realize your in way to vero this show and just the intro music may lead you to remember a particular stage of your life. I suppose that a very small part of people saw an single episode, because it is very old. But almost all remember something of their childhood.
@Crypto Investor You are correct in regards to everything you said. I agree with you. However I did not have a nefarious reason for saying 'as a black kid' and meant no offense by it.
Nick at night in the 90s was epic!
I get that completely. That tune is iconic ❤
Not crazy. 😊
When this show was on, my mom was raising my sister and me single-handedly, after the sudden death of our dad. I think one of the reasons I have always loved this show is because it showed the strength of women. Go, Mary and always, Go, Mom!
How lovely. I'll pass this on to my dad.
@@estellagraz Thank your dad for all the LGBT youth like myself who enjoyed the opening credits (her name in rainbow colors) & the theme song. What a great combo for the upcoming Mary adventures that would follow them. I also bought the entire series on dvd. It's stgill a great show. :)
As a young teenager growing up in the 70s this was my favorite TV theme song out of all of them..it almost always brings me to tears when I listen to it
I can picture my older sister and me on the bean bag watching this .....
Seventies through and through .
Loved that winter northern US look with the clobber
Ditto!! Thought it was just me that felt that way hahaha....beautiful memories of an innocent time....
Me too😢
My favourite theme tune ever. Loved the TV show, loved the theme tune.
Great theme song. But I was partial to the song from WKRP in Cincinnati, too. Back when they did opening themes.
The theme song brings back so many memories I grew up watching the show. It just seemed life was a lot more simpler back in those days.
When I 1st moved out on my own and was stressed out about life, I would sing this song to myself....
This show, along with “Taxi” and “That Girl” remind me of when I couldn’t sleep and my dad was always knocked out. So I would go into his bed as a kid just because it was emitting some sort of light and sound from the television. I’d watch all these shows, Mary Tyler Moore and Taxi were my favorite. I remember being 6 years old and watching all these shows while my dad snored in his bed. I wish I had a better childhood, but at least something normal makes me reminiscent.
When I was a kid back in the 70's, I would watch this and see that lady at the end of the opening credits with the blue bonnet, staring at Mary Tyler Moore, and wondered what she was thinking, lol.
Same here. I still wonder the same thing. The least famous famous person I know of. I wonder what her name was. She makes me think of my grandmother though. I remember my grandmother wearing those scarves when she went out.
she was thinking, 'the hell is that crazy woman doing?"
@@kellyjo6978 her name was Hazel! A group of fans found her years later and she met Mary
Here's what she had to say in 1996, three years before she died.
www.startribune.com/20-years-ago-mary-met-twin-cities-woman-who-walked-into-opening-credits/411886665/
So did I...I wondered what was her name?, what was she thinking,? did she know she was being filmed? was she ever identified?....no doubt she has long since passed away.
This was my mom's favorite show when she was a little girl in the 70s, she showed me it as well. I am re-watching it on Hulu, and I get why she loved it. Mary was the first modern girl on TV
Dang. Was getting teary eyed on the part where she's hugging each friend. The admiring, endearing looks they each give Mary. 0:41 Wow. Just Wow.
One of the best TV theme songs ever
Why do I cry and get nostalgic listening to this song when I was born in 1993 and really have no memory tied to it? 😆
Nik at night 💯 they made us have a tie to this song as they played this show and meny others
This is definitely one of those themes that I swear that when I hear it, I’m a kid in 70’s again, in the front room of the small home I grew up in and it’s Saturday night at 9:00… it really puts a lump in my throat thinking of those simple days gone by, but so in my heart
Yes.There was some turmoil going on in the states,but we were kids.We used to watch the Carol Burnett show & I think the Love Boat was on Saturday too.
@@Nobuokasan You’re exactly right, Love Boat at 9:00 then Fantasy Island...Carol Burnett over on CBS after Mary and Bob Newhart Show...All in the Family started out on Saturday’s too at 8:00...oh those simpler days!
I know right me too im a kid back in the 70's when i hear it's, such fond memories❤☺
I'm with you Doug and the others...Brought pillows and blankets to the living room and we loved the TV shows 💜🇺🇸💜 I am 57 and I still get excited when good TV is on. I get my stuff done, pj's on and blanket 😂😂😂😂
You're not the only one...
This was the song I sang to my daughter while she was growing up, every night before she went to sleep. 🥰
Whether as Laura or Mary, she truly made it after all, RIP Mary!
RIP Rhoda. We'll miss you, Valerie Harper!!!
Now they are together again...
I miss shows like this. Why cant the world go back too happier times like this..
Say hi to Mimsie for us.
Such a classy Woman; feminine, professional, FUNNY and HOLDING HER OWN. Growing up she showed us all, including little boys, that Women could BE ALL OF THAT and deserved and garnered R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
I'm in my 20s (female) and even though its before my time, even the reruns are so wonderful and even revolutionary now. She was tough but she remained true to herself and her life. Even if she had to step into a whole new world to do it
This still remains the greatest opening sequence for any television show in history!
This and " Love Boat"
Hawaii 5-0
Everything...the music, the imagery, the enormous sense of hope and optimism to this day overwhelms me. The few seconds of this piece are as powerful to me today as they were in the early 1970 when I first watched them a confused and lonely 14 year old gay boy in suburban Louisville, Kentucky. I watched the opening scene each week and my mind reacted as if I'd been hit by a lightning bolt of OPTIMISM. And decades later, I am still overwhelmed. I watched every move, attitude which reassured me that life would gets better (and it did). Thank you, Mary, thank you, MTM.
Im a heterosexual male and I feel the same way. Everything on the news and life seems so negative, its nice to retreat to fantasy world where people actually care.
Well said!
Ohhh sweetie, your words just touched my heart 💜 and I cried a little. This song/show always brings me right back to my childhood and good memories.
@@AIDEADY same.
@M Wdca and you did make it after all. I hope you are having a wonderful life.
The famous hat-throwing in the air never gets tired. The theme song is one of my favourites. Those were the best days of television.
I want this beautiful soul to know wherever she might be that she truly touched my soul when I was a child and even still.
R.I.P Mary Tyler Moore
What do mean "wherever she might be"? She is home with the Lord.
SIGH, everybody has an expiration date.GOD will take any of us home anytime. we are servants of GOD.if we do enough in this world.we diiie.🤧
One of the greatest shows of the 70's!!!!!! Back when life was incredible. Everything about this show was a experience. It had a incredible cast, Amazing scripts, and incredible theme song. I sure wish we could go back to those incredible times
Oooh I'm crying here!! Nostalgia to the max...love you Mary Tyler Moore!! Thank you for making my childhood memories xx
The world was a little simpler than
It’s okay sweetie! Things will work out eventually
I can smell the roast beef carrots and potatoes cooking in the oven as i hear this playing. Mom was ironing clothes while listening. A Feeling of hope and everything will be ok still resonates with me today when hearing this opening song for the show.
A staple show in my house growing up. Things were so different then. Our choices were limited. 3 Networks and PBS. When the new TV Schedules hit the airwaves in the fall of 2022 it will be 52 years ago when this extraordinary show brightened our lives and made "feel-good" TV a must. What is sad that all the major characters of this show have all passed on. That is a wakeup call for me too. I am aging.
If you grew up in the 70's, just those first few beats of the song, you immediately knew what show it was from
I have a happy tear
True , well put
The best comedy of the era.
@Grand Funk
Me too and I cherish those fun times, being a kid then was heaven !
Yes I see that too, we loved this show in the 70s on tv here in ireland
Such a special time in history. I remember growing up watching the show. So sad she's gone. The song always makes me feel happy. Rest in peace Mary, and thank you.
RIP Betty White. Thanks for all the wonderful memories!
Every time I hear this theme I remember my subscriptions to "Cover Girl", "Seventeen", and "Glamour" magazines during my teenage years, hoping one day to be just like MTM; she was feminine, modest with her stylish yet caring smiles, and taking a "nothing day, and suddenly making it seem worthwhile!" I sometimes still listen to it.
Wish I could be there with you cat🙂😂🤣😎 we could make it after all 😘
I always thought Mary was the coolest. Had her own apartment, living in the big city and wearing a Fran Tarkenton jersey in the opening!
Driving a cool ass car like that Mustang
Robert Longwill She got that in the divorce from Rob Petrie.
@@JStarStar00 I know chicks get all the good stuff in a divorce LOL
I think you are cool too char😘🤣🙂😎
@@JStarStar00😄 😄
She made it after all! *Hat Toss*
IS that you flo🤣😂😭😎
I want to go back and do it ALL over again! These were the best years of my life and I would give it all up to do it again !
I see my Mom every time I hear this ! Thankfully she is still here in 2020 and when I do hear this I call her and tell her how much I love her and how much I appreciated her struggles in the 70’s after the divorce. Like this show, back then it was a lot like that for my mom,
She had to make it on her own without a husband and she did it all very well. Many of the stories written for the show could be applied to real life struggles back then and it was easy to relate to it. I suppose that is a large reason the show lasted so long and is still liked today.
I’m a recovering 66 year old couch potato.
Listening to the MTM theme song so many decades later brings a tear of joy and sadness to my eyes.
Reminiscent of a simpler time in my life. ❤❤
“Who can turn the world on with her smile?” That line is classic!
Let’s go down memory lane, shall we⁉️
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (1970-1977) opening sequence is nothing short of iconic. In 1999, Mary Richards’ famous hat toss at the end was praised as the SECOND-GREATEST MOMENT in television… Second only to the 1969 🚀 Apollo 11 moon 🌝 landing‼️
To this day, the whole series remains one of the most acclaimed sitcoms in the history of US television. Among its most distinguishable features, the TRÈS, TRÈS POPULAR theme song “Love Is All Around” (composed and performed by Sonny Curtis).
THE BEST OF THE BEST BY THE BEST… worth rewatching over and over again‼️ 💙📺💚
May you Rest In Peace, dear Mary Tyler Moore, a.k.a. Mary Richards (1936 - 2017)… 🌹
...brings tears to my eyes!😢
Me too friend! God I miss those times.
same here...
I was really young when I used to hear this show start back in the 70s... It reminds me of a simpler uncomplicated time;
What's happened to America and how come is not getting better?? 😥
Liberals
@@randymoyan4754 Conservatives
The music and background makes me want to live in that era forever, the 70's I remember it well, now everyone is in a damn hurry all the time. Mary with her girl next door looks stole my heart as a teenager years ago she's the type of girl to bring home to mother. Wholesome, honest, funny and extremely talented what a gift we had from God to enjoy and appreciate. There's never been anyone like here she blazed a trail for women all over, her impact for a tv show was felt by people in real life, thanks Mary you was so loved we miss you dearly.
This is the opening I most remember (from my childhood). Loved both the music and the images, and still do. One of the best ever.
I totally agree. I adored Mary Tyler Moore. Such a great show and such a classy lady.
This great lady still has my love. She will live forever in my heart.
Well said.
I love her. She was just as beautiful in real life. I was only 9 when i heard this song on TV. such great memories
Love the theme song, and I most certainly love the kitten in the end. Beautiful show
Minneapolis sure has changed sine Mary left
@Carlos Danger yeah so sad, it's unrecognizable now
@Carlos Danger --> Well, according to the media, it was all those White supremacists that ruined Minneapolis.
😂😂😂
It Literally Has! Other than Mary Tyler Moore, There Were 2 Big Stars Who Made Minneapolis the talk of the town. Prince and Kirby Puckett! RIP to them as well.
@@AJ42K Chris Rock once made a joke about that during stand up :D
oh gosh, no words
omg! I miss my grandma's house where she made me all these wonderful snacks and I'd prompt myself in front of the tv, laying on the rug and watch MTM!
Never thought I'd be living in the U.S. and I might just make it after all!❤
I mainly know this show from watching it at my grandparents' house when I was a kid in the 70s. We would always watch Bob Newhart after it.
You did make it after all!
@@StarfieldRailway yup, Bob Newhart then Carol Burnett at 10pm..
All of us at a sleepover with our sleeping bags on the carpet in front of the big heavy console TV:)
I guess you made it after at 🤣😘😂💩😎
I was a mere 5 years old when this show aired..I admire her acting and charm. Rest In Peace.
I am from Brazil , 1978 . When I was a boy . I like this . I love MTM , 2021
Yeah I know the 60s and 70s had issues back then but they're still the good old days to me during my childhood.
Brings back fond memories I ❤️this show
In memory of Mary Tyler Moore. We'll miss you, pal. Same goes for our cutie, Mimsie the Cat
When I was a child this was on Nick at night. It probably aired around 9 pm, but I used to beg my mom to let me watch the intro before going to sleep. Brings back so many happy memories.
Old Nick at Night! So damn good.
Everything about this intro oozes style. The titles, the graphics, the photography, etc. what the hell has happened to TV?
you haven’t been watching
Nothing. Times change. It's nostalgia that you feel.
Its all about sex, foul language, and violence nowadays.....its a shame.
Fully agree. Nothing comes close to MTM. One of the all-time great opening themes.
@@boosterg1015 all that shit rules dude
I was a kid and used to watch this on nick at night and enjoyed the show...
I love Mary and always wil✌🎶🌹l and this song is magnificent
I saw that lady tossed her hat in the air when I was 7.
This brings me back.
This man’s voice is so soothing, with great texture. I’d rather listen to him than 90% of current artists.
I agree. He's my dad Sonny Curtis. His voice is like honey.
@@estellagraz really! He’s got one of the most heard singing voices ever. A real talent!
such an iconic part of my childhood; i can still sing all the words to this!
The CBS lineup on Saturday night from 8-11 was amazing. Those were the days, huh? Back when we were young!
Sadly, all of the main characters are no longer with us. What a great show. A simpler and much nicer time back when i was a kid.
I love this theme song since I was a little kid in the 70s...I'm 52 now and i still love it
The lady, in the bonnet, mean mugging gets me every time.
classic tv theme when tv shows had themes
What a beautiful woman and doll Mary Tyler Moore was and I watched many of her interviews and she was exactly like this in real life.
I was a kid living in Minneapolis when this show came on and this reminds me of my childhood. I also went up that escalator in the ids a million times and they used to have an observation deck on the top floor with a ufo museum. Not to mention a movie theater in the basement and a woolworths.
For all the latchkey kids out there: thank you Mary!
Something you dont see expressed anymore on tv. Gratitude for living
Almost brought tears of the Happy Times long gone
Now we are Mary Tyler Less :(
Ohh don't get me started! 😭😭😭
@Emmanuel Mccullough 0:27 😭😭😭😭😭
We even lost Valerie Harper last night. 😔
@@KiddBloo86 😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Because is don't watch video/logo/ %9 second angry man
One of the best shows, ever. People were nicer then, too.
I agree :)
They were.
Oh, come on! Nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia, but "People were nicer then"? No, people are just people, back then, today and a hundred years from now. You were probably just happier back then, that's all.
Not in NY...
Look at the people in the show .. what’s missing? There’s your answer!
My Momma loved & lived in these days. MTM !
Born in '68...Love Mary and spinoff Rhoda. Oh gosh...I also miss Welcome Back Cotter, Sanford & Son, Good Times, '70s/early '80s stuff too numerous to name. I feel OLD & YOUNG at once, listening to this ❤️❤️❤️...GOD, how I miss '70s girls!
My mom watched re-runs of this in the mid-1970's. I wasn't even in grade school so the show was beyond me, but that hat toss at 0:50. I remember always thinking: "What a stupid thing to do with a perfectly good hat."
EXACTLY - it made no sense!!
Mary, Valerie, Gavin, Ed, Betty, Ted, Georgia all gone. Quite sad.
My mom moved us to Minneapolis in 68 and watching the intro reminds me of the city when I was a kid. I use to go downtown as much as I could mostly to Woolworths in the IDS building and I even saw a movie in the theater they had in the basement plus the observation deck with a UFO museum. Dayton's was fun to go to when they had the christmas display and JC Penney's had a huge first floor toy section.
I LOVED watching the TV show Mary Tyler Moore show !!! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Brings back good memories from my childhood in the 1970's
I like that clip of her throwing the meat into her cart. That's me 😂
AJ YES AJ , that was me today 11/8/2019 at PUBLIX IN Tampa FL today ... some things in life never change
I honestly thought I was the only person who ever even noticed that! It's my favorite part of the intro!
Look at the prices. 1972 saw inflation that led to protests. Shopping then, you felt the pinch!
You're gonna make it after allll
Jim Rockford was shopping the meat department in the Rockford Files intro too. Wonder if Jim and Mary ever ran across eachother in the store and dated?🤣
I remember one time I randomly heard this song in Universal Studios when I was leaving the theme park lol
What struck me as a kid watching this show was that theme tune first and the show second. BUT I was gobsmacked as a child that Mary Tyler Moore had her OWN production company also which was evident at the end with the cat meowing. I was in awe. Made her own show plus spin offs too! Kudos ❤❤
That last image of her tossing her hat in the air is what I remember most about this theme song.
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day
And suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you, girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
Love is all around no need to fake it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
Love is all around no need to fake it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, and girl, this time you're all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving
Love is all around no need to fake it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're the one most likely to succeed
Just be sure to keep your head, 'cause girl, you know that's all you need
Everyone around adores you
Don't give up, the world is waiting for you
Love is all around no need to waste it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
Love is all around no need to waste it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
Love is all around no need to waste it
You can have the town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after al
i cant get thru the lyrics u posted without choking up....great emotional song
I miss seeing TV shows like this
Now we have absolute woke propaganda on network TV and in half of new movies.
Mary Tyler Moore show, great show when I was a kid
It’s such a beautiful song and so calming. I need a full version for this
Sonny Curtis is songwriter and singer. Played with The Crickets with Buddy Holly ❤
I love this show! "Ted Baxters Famous Broadcasters School" is one of my favorites. Every episode is great though. Compare old shows to the newer ones and the new ones SUCK. I can watch 10 new shows and never laugh once. I watch 1 episode of Mary Tyler Moore and laugh many times.The 70s were so much fun! Hello to everyone!
Me too. I’m obsessed with Mary’s first apartment and with Phyllis’ clothes. Epic.
Mary Tyler Moore show was something I loved as a kid on Saturday afternoon. Murray (aka) Gavin Mcleod went onto be the very successful Captain Stubing on The Love Boat series, but very few people remember him as Happy in McHales's Navy. He had a very distinquished and long career. RIP MTM
I wasn't born when this show was on TV, but watched reruns many years after show was canceled and I LOVED this song and this show so much as a kid. 70s must've been freaking amazing..... the music, the fashion, such an iconic era.