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lockhartgary
07-17-2019, 09:02 PM
I was wondering if any Motown artists ever sang a theme songs for any tv shows?

I know that Donny Hathaway did the theme song for "Maude", Al Jarreau did the theme song for "Moonlighting", Aretha did the theme song for "A Different World" and Bobby McFerrin did the theme song for a season of "The Cosby Show." That got me wondering about Motown artists.
reese
07-17-2019, 09:17 PM
Blinky sings on the GOOD TIMES theme.
lockhartgary
07-17-2019, 09:59 PM
Blinky sings on the GOOD TIMES theme.

Wow! I did not know that.
marybrewster
07-17-2019, 11:08 PM
"Reflections" by Diana Ross and the Supremes was the theme song to CHINA BEACH.
JohnnyRavenATL
07-17-2019, 11:56 PM
Lamont Dozier also wrote and performed the second season theme for the ABC sitcom “That’s My Mama”.
lockhartgary
07-18-2019, 12:10 AM
I didn't know about ANY of these posted thus far! Thanks.
marv2
07-18-2019, 08:56 AM
Blinky sings on the GOOD TIMES theme.

As did Jim Gilstrap!
StuBass1
07-18-2019, 02:06 PM
Jim Gilstrap, being a top L.A. studio session singer appears on other themes and television and film works I'm sure...although most in a background capacity...
JohnnyRavenATL
07-18-2019, 04:35 PM
Though she wasn’t signed to Motown, Deniece Williams, once a member of Wonderlove, sang “Without Us”, the theme to the NBC sitcom “Family Ties”.
sansradio
07-18-2019, 05:20 PM
And erstwhile Motowner Sammy Davis, Jr. of course sang the theme to "Baretta."
benross
07-18-2019, 05:40 PM
Valerie Simpson worked with Quincy Jones on Stuff Like That, contributing both lyrics and vocals, in the 1978 original version and in a 1995 revamp. The latter was used in a TV commercial for GAP maybe a half-dozen years later and may have been heard far more often than theme songs for actual TV themes.
nativeNY63
07-18-2019, 05:58 PM
Though she wasn’t signed to Motown, Deniece Williams, once a member of Wonderlove, sang “Without Us”, the theme to the NBC sitcom “Family Ties”.
... duet with Johnny Mathis.
Ngroove
07-19-2019, 12:23 AM
702.

"Steelo" = "My Cousin Skeeter".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztL5XGvSXwg
Ngroove
07-19-2019, 01:11 AM
Jim Gilstrap, being a top L.A. studio session singer appears on other themes and television and film works I'm sure...although most in a background capacity...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tKHlukQTik
Ngroove
07-19-2019, 01:52 AM
Joe Harnell, who did one album on Motown's V.I.P. label, "Moving On!!", on 1969.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_fyNpCjchQ