TV Show Theme Songs

**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

Originally Posted by reese

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

Originally Posted by reese

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

Originally Posted by JohnnyRavenATL

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".

**Ngroove** · 07-19-2019, 01:11 AM

Originally Posted by StuBass1

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...