Okay, we all know about GS themes being recycled on other shows. But a couple weeks ago, I was listening to a local station, which is hooked to a country music satellite feed from Jones Networks. In one segment, I heard the 1970s synthesizer Password theme in the background! I certainly wasn't expecting that.

Has anyone else ever heard a GS theme show up on the radio?

ESPN Radio used to constantly play themes from the first GSN CD, usually as music beds for news stories. I remember hearing TTD about a decade ago.

One oldies station had a promotion for a contest, and the played part of Thicke's Wheel theme.

Also, the rap/hip-hop station has a game called (wait for it) "Hip Hop Jeopardy" and used to play the 1984 J! theme...

Really? :P

When I went to Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida in 2008, I could clearly hear the theme to "It's Your Move." The fact that I knew exactly how the music went (from listening to it so many times on my computer) gave me sort of a surreal feeling.

So many things I screwed up in that post. :-P Fixed.

I remember in an old episode of "This Week in Baseball" that aired on ESPN Classic (I believe from 1982) one of the Price is Right car cues was used in its entirety during a highlight package.

Listening to JT the Brick on Fox Sports Radio driving home late at night, I've heard his sports flash guy Tom Looney play the Price is Right Losing Horns when announcing scores to blowout games, and other stories along those lines.

-Rick

Las Vegas' KJUL-FM - K-Jewel Radio - uses the original 1950s "To Tell The Truth" theme as a bed behind the afternoon traffic reports. I sit smiling in my car, crawling in rush-hour crosstown traffic intoning "... only one of these three people is the real Benjamin Siegel, the other two are imposters and will try to fool the panel before Bugsy's shot in Virginia Hill's living room..."

Before I know it, the light has changed and we're moving again.

Randy
tvrandywest.com

The WGN Morning news uses the first game shows CD for listening pleasure (most notably the "The Price is Right" and Password 70's)

KISS-FM in Chicago uses "Wheel of fortune" for the "Wheel of Trash" segment on the Drex morning show as well.

\Both are guilty pleasures nonetheless.

Not heard on the radio, but during a "prize wheel" giveaway at a Pittsburgh Penguins game I attended last week, the Bob Cobert Chain Reaction theme was played in the background.

Not the radio, but the 70s Password theme is used multiple times a day on The Daily Buzz as a segment theme.

The radio station I listen to most often (WTSS) often plays game show themes in the background while talking about traffic, weather, or running phone-in contests. The ones heard most often are Password (they’ve extended it from the CD) and Pyramid. I don’t recall hearing anything from the 2nd GSN CD on the station though. I’ve also heard the Classic Concentration theme in the background a few times.

I've also heard them use the Bruner WML? theme.

While self-serving, I believe this counts:
When backtiming into a Cavs game, I usually play a portion of the theme to Chain Reaction into the pre-game coverage through the cold local sponsor announcements. I use Split Second out of spot breaks as a pad if the entire local commercial time isn't completely covered to avoid dead air. This is especially useful during Indians games.

There's a sports-talk show host in Chicago named Mike Murphy who uses a lot of game show themes for bits. Whenever he does his "Score Survey," he uses the FF music; and when he conducts a call-in game called "Match Murph," yep, the MG7x theme (he even refers to himself as Gene Rayburn with the long skinny microphone). And he sometimes uses "Plink Plank Plunk" (punctuated with "tapping on the keyboard" sound effects) to introduce an E-mail segment.

Muprh's a polarizing figure--most people hate him because he can be rude, obnoxious and has a very annoying voice (and a lot of Sox fans hate him just because he's a Cub fan). And while he is all those things, I think he knows his stuff and I find that in spite of those things, I agree more often with him than I disagree.

Yeah, I saw it this morning; it's used for weather guy Mitch English's opinion-with-a-punchline segment, "Mitch's World", which often follows his weather report.

Now, do they use these themes because they're easily available, they're well recognizable, or (at least, I feel in the case of things like WML and 70s Password) they're not easily recognizable?

The original '50s theme was a tune called Peter Pan by Dolf Van Der Linden, performed by his Metropole Orchestra. Is that the one you mean?

http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/dvdlinden.shtml

I should have known you'd catch ANY error. I should have not used the word "original" as I mean this subsequent theme.
Randy
tvrandywest.com

A few years ago, I did a feature on a local radio morning team. While sitting in the studio, I noticed a copy of one of the game show theme CDs many of us have and told the jocks "hey, I have that too!" "I don't think there's a radio station that doesn't," they replied.

Hey, it was my job ... 30 years ago!

Good thing Orson wasn't allergic to the feathers in any of Kitty's boas.

It's possible the only sales Varese Sarabande made were to radio stations throughout the country and the more dedicated folks here on the Forum. Which doesn't explain Volume 2.

After giving it more thought, I realized that the Price is Right theme from the first CD is quite frequently played in the background on my favorite station too. I'd have to say it's because they are recognizable - I can't think of very many people that wouldn't recognize THAT! :)

Early this morning, I was awakened by none other than the TTD theme song playing as filler for a 30-second sign off of a local gospel station. Later on, they played it again. Apparently it's a regular thing.

TTD a Gospel sounding song?!?

Maybe since they couldn't find a copy of Wink's "Deck of Cards" (a spoken word "song" that would be more a fit for the station), they figured the TTD theme (from Wink's era) would be close enough.

Well, they could use TJW and ask listeners to "face the devil."