On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:24:23 -0500, HK wrote:

Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:17:20 -0500, HK wrote:

Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:58:42 -0500, HK wrote:

Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:53:58 -0500, HK wrote:

I did go to college with a
fellow who wrote music for the dating game and another of those silly
dating-marriage shows.
Really.

Who was it because if you did, you've got to be at least 80 years old.
Check your math, Mr. Wizard.
I did - most of the people, with the exception of Chuck Barris, is
dead and gone. Most were in the 80s when they died.

Check it yourself Mr. Dating Game Music.

Try again. The Dating Game hit the airwaves in the mid 1960s. Are you
assuming that all who worked that show from its first year to its last
and the derivative shows were the same age? Are you assuming that
everyone who works in any television show is the same age as everyone
else on the show? Are you assuming that everyone who works a TV show
stays long enough to be "identified" with it?

What I know is that when I was in contact with one of my college
buddies, he said something like..."have you heard about XXX...he's
putting together the music on the dating game." Well, i looked for the
show and there was his name...in the credits. He worked the newlywed
game and one other for a while, too.

Dick Clark did the new year's eve show this past December 31. Was
everyone doing that show the same aqe as Clark?

Sometimes, but not often, I wonder about you binary thinking guys.

The following music used on the series were done by Herb Alpert and
the Tijuana Brass:

"Spanish Flea" (bachelor intro) Written by Julius Wechter - dead at 80

"Whipped Cream" (bachelorette intro) Written by Allen Toussaint who is
still alive - at 81

"Lollipops and Roses" (meet your date cue) Written by Anthony Velona -
dead at 79

"Ladyfingers" and "Lemon Tree" (think cues) Written by Will Holt -
allive - 78

Other music cues used on the show include:

"Fantail" by Count Basie (turntable cue when Jim Lange (later Chuck
Woolery) says, "and here they are!") I know you didn't go to school
with Count Basie.

"Little Rosie" by Chuck Barris (New Dating Game 1973 closing theme) -
Ditto.

"Love Sickness" by The Trumpets Ole (times up cue) Milton Delugg who
was born in 1918 and is now dead.

"Boston Bust-Out" by Jimmy McGriff (prize intro cue) - Never went to a
formal school.

Dating Game 1965, main theme Chet Baker/The Mariachi Brass - never
went to school - never graduated junior high school.

New Dating Game 1973, main theme by David Mook - counldn't have been
David Mook becasue David Mook is a pseudonym for somebody listed
above.

So, Mr. Wizard - who was it?

None of those guys. But you are assuming those tunes were the only music
on the show. I haven't the foggiest what music my college buddy wrote or
arranged for the shows, only that the one time I saw the show, he was
listed in the credits.

Yeah - right. Those are the credit lines moron.

Perhaps you can track down everyone who worked on the show...that should
keep you out of mischief.

Perhaps you need to stop trying to play with the Big Boys and just
admit that you never went to school with anybody associated with
either The Dating Game versions.

Sometimes Harry you really are a jerk.

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