Chuck Barris
Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris (born June 3, 1929) is an American game show creator, producer, and host. He is best known for hosting The Gong Show, and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He is also a songwriter, who wrote the hit "Palisades Park" for Freddy Cannon and the author of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, his autobiography, which became a film directed by George Clooney.
Early career
Barris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Drexel Institute of Technology where he was a columnist for the student newspaper, The Triangle. He graduated in 1953.
Barris got his start in television as a page and later staffer at NBC in New York City, and eventually worked backstage at the TV music show American Bandstand (then filmed in Philadelphia), originally as a standards-and-practices person for ABC. Barris soon became a music industry figure. He produced pop music on records and TV, but his most successful venture was writing "Palisades Park". Recorded by Freddy Cannon, it peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks (June 23-30, 1962), the biggest hit of Cannon's career. Barris also wrote or co-wrote some of the music that appeared on his game shows.
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ALBUMS
- All-Time Top 100 TV Themes released: 2005
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind released: 2002
- Best of TV Quiz and Game Show Themes released: 2000
- Classic TV Game Show Themes released: 1998
- "Theme Theme From Gene Gene" (Jumpin' at Woodside) / Lovee's Come Back released:
- Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 5: In Living Color released:
All-Time Top 100 TV Themes
Released 2005- Six Feet Under
- Sex And The City
- Ally McBeal
- Will & Grace
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Frasier
- Friends
- Late Show With David Letterman
- Mad About You
- Melrose Place
- Beverly Hills 90210
- Law & Order
- Northern Exposure
- The Simpsons
- Thirtysomething
- Full House
- 21 Jump Street
- L.A. Law
- Pee-Wee's Playhouse
- Perfect Strangers
- Growing Pains
- Moonlighting
- Who's the Boss (Brand New Life)
- Miami Vice
- Night Court
- The A-Team
- St. Elsewhere
- Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)
- Knight Rider
- Cagney & Lacey
- The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) (feat. Joey Scarbury)
- Hill Street Blues
- Dynasty
- Magnum, P.I.
- The Facts of Life
- Diff'rent Strokes
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Taxi
- Dallas
- Fantasy Island
- Love Boat (feat. Jack Jones)
- Soap
- Eight Is Enough
- Three's Company
- Wonder Woman
- Charlie's Angels
- The Muppet Show
- There's a New Girl in Town (Theme From "Alice")
- What's Happening!!
- Making Our Dreams Come True (Theme From Laverne & Shirley)
Best of TV Quiz and Game Show Themes
Released 2000- The Match Game (A Swingin' Safari)
- Password
- To Tell the Truth
- Beat the Clock (Subway Polka)
- The Price is Right
- What's My Line?
- The Hollywood Squares (Bob and Merrill's Theme)
- The Joker's Wild (The Savers)
- Monopoly (Vocal)
- Let's Make a Deal
- Wheel of Fortune (Big Wheels)
- Tattletales
- Blockbusters
- Break the Bank
- The Gong Show
- The Diamond Head Game
- The $10,000 Pyramid (Tuning Up)
- High Rollers
- Split Second
- Rock and Roll Jeopardy!
Classic TV Game Show Themes
Released 1998- Wheel of Fortune (Changing Keys)
- Jeopardy!
- What's My Line? (Rollercoaster)
- Password
- To Tell The Truth
- Tic Tac Dough
- The Joker's Wild
- GE College Bowl
- The Wizard of Odds
- The Dating Game
- The Newlywed Game
- The $25,000 Pyramid
- The Price Is Right
- Match Game
- Family Feud
- Card Sharks
- Jackpot
- Go
- Chain Reaction
Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 5: In Living Color
- Stingray
- Thunderbirds
- Gigantor
- Cool McCool
- Go Gophers
- The World of Commander McBragg
- Secret Squirrel
- The Atom Ant Show
- Wacky Races (Main Title)
- Hong Kong Phooey
- Superchicken
- Tom Slick Racer
- H.R. Pufnstuf
- Land of the Lost
- Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
- The Banana Splits ['The Tra La La Song' aka 'One Banana, Two Banana']
- Chico and the Man
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- Nanny and the Professor
- Here Come the Brides 'Seattle'
- The Flying Nun ['Who Needs Wings to Fly"]
- Family Affair
- The Dating Game
- The Newlywed Game
- Let's Make a Deal
- All My Children
- General Hospital ['Autumn Breeze']
- Peyton Place ['Wonderful Season of Love']
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ['Premiere Occasion' / 'You Have Never Been in Love']
- Gentle Ben
- Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
- Life and Times of Grizzly Adams ['May Be']
- The High Chaparral
- The Big Valley
- Cimarron Strip
- Laredo
- The Men From Shiloh [theme 1970-1971]
- It Takes a Thief
- The Magician
- Switch
- The Felony Squad
- Police Woman
- The Men
- Cannon
- Judd for the Defense
- Emergency!
- Police Story
- Six Million Dollar Man
- The Bionic Woman
- The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.
- Night Gallery
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- The Invaders
- Land of the Giants
- Lost in Space
- Olympic Fanfare
- Masterpiece Theatre
- Hullabaloo
- Where the Action Is ['Action']
- Happening '68
- This Is Tom Jones
- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In ['Inquisitive Tango']
- The Dean Martin Show ['Everybody Loves Somebody']
- The Carol Burnett Show ['I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together']
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by Chuck Norris
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by Chuck Norris
Walker, Texas Ranger
by: Chuck NorrisIn the eyes of a ranger,
The unsuspected stranger
Had better know the truth of wrong from right,
'cause the eyes of a ranger are upon you,
Any wrong you do he's gonna see,
When you're in Texas look behind you,
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