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TVT Records pioneered the TV theme compilation album two decades ago with Television’s Greatest Hits. In September, they will release the genre’s definitive collection -- Tee Vee Toons: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes released today, September 6, 2005.

Now during the 20th Anniversary of Tee Vee Toons, it’s time once again to pay tribute to the stellar talent that has contributed to the genre. This includes such stars as John Sebastian (“Welcome Back” from Welcome Back, Kotter, a #1 pop hit in 1976), Jan Hammer (Miami Vice, a #1 pop hit in 1985), Al Jarreau (Moonlighting, a #23 pop hit in 1987), The Rembrandts (“I’ll Be There For You” from Friends, a #17 pop hit in 1995) and Vonda Shepherd (Ally McBeal, a #16 pop hit in 1998) among others.

The track listings on the 2-disc collection were compiled through extensive research of music chart positions, TV Guide rankings and series popularity. An exhaustive search has unearthed the original versions of such classic themes as Gilligan’s Island, My Three Sons, WKRP In Cincinnati, The Brady Bunch, Batman and others. While previous compilations relied on recreations where original recordings were not available, every track on All-Time Top 100 TV Themes is available here from pristine sources for the first time in one collection.

Where as prior volumes only covered specific eras of television music, this is the ultimate Tee Vee Toons collection that covers a full five decades, working backward from current and recent favorites like Six Feet Under and Sex & The City to the classics of yesteryear including The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy.

Tee Vee Toons: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes is the inaugural release of TVT’s newly branded Tee Vee Toons All Original Television Themes series, which will feature nothing less than the original recordings by the original performers just the way fans heard them on TV -- no more re-recordings or recreations.

In 1985, TVT Records president and founder Steve Gottlieb launched what is now the nation’s #1 independent record company from his New York City apartment when he released the first Television’s Greatest Hits album. A worldwide smash hit, it was one of biggest independent successes of the decade and the first of its kind – a compilation chronicling the history of the TV theme song through the years. TVT had tapped into America’s (and the world’s) love of music on TV and their nostalgia for classic TV shows.


Says Steve Gottlieb: “The success of our TV Themes franchise over the past twenty years reflects the unacknowledged place of television music as our true modern folk culture, embraced and loved by young and old across every boundary of personal taste. They are our great musical common ground and a true American art form.”

Tee Vee Toons: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes is guaranteed to evoke strong emotional responses from television lovers of all ages.

Tee Vee Toons: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes track list

Disc one
1 Six Feet Under
2 Sex And The City
3 Ally McBeal
4 Will & Grace
5 Everybody Loves Raymond
6 Frasier
7 Friends
8 Late Show With David Letterman
9 Mad About You
10 Melrose Place
11 Beverly Hills 90210
12 Law & Order
13 Northern Exposure
14 The Simpsons
15 Thirtysomething
16 Full House
17 21 Jump Street
18 L.A. Law
19 Pee Wee's Playhouse
20 Perfect Strangers
21 Growing Pains
22 Moonlighting
23 Who’s The Boss?
24 Miami Vice
25 Night Court
26 A-Team
27 St. Elsewhere
28 Cheers
29 Knight Rider
30 Cagney & Lacey
31 Greatest American Hero
32 Hill Street Blues
33 Dynasty
34 Magnum P.I.
35 The Facts of Life
36 Diff'rent Strokes
37 WKRP In Cincinnati
38 Taxi
39 Dallas
40 Fantasy Island
41 Love Boat
42 Soap
43 Eight Is Enough
44 Three's Company
45 Wonder Woman
46 Charlie's Angels
47 The Muppet Show
48 Alice
49 What's Happening!
50 Laverne and Shirley

Disc two
1 One Day At A Time
2 Welcome Back Kotter
3 Barney Miller
4 Starsky & Hutch
5 S.W.A.T.
6 Jeffersons, The
7 Police Woman
8 Rockford Files
9 Good Times
10 Six Million Dollar Man
11 M*A*S*H
12 Waltons, The
13 Maude
14 Sanford & Son
15 All In The Family
16 Partridge Family, The
17 Odd Couple
18 Mary Tyler Moore
19 Happy Days
20 Sesame Street
21 Love, American Style
22 Courtship of Eddie's Father
23 Brady Bunch
24 Scooby Doo
25 Hawaii Five-O
26 Banana Splits
27 Newlywed Game, The
28 Dating Game, The
29 Monkees, The
30 Batman
31 I Dream of Jeannie
32 Wild Wild West
33 Green Acres
34 Gilligan's Island
35 Addams Family
36 Bewitched
37 Jetsons, The
38 Dick Van Dyke Show
39 Andy Griffith Show
40 Flintstones, The
41 My Three Sons
42 Twilight Zone
43 Leave It To Beaver
44 Perry Mason
45 Honeymooners
46 Merrie Melodies (Merrily We Roll Along)
47 Looney Tunes (Merry-Go-Round Broke Down)
48 Dragnet
49 I Love Lucy
50 Lone Ranger