Episode 293: More Jazzed up TV Themes, Crazier Ones!

Discovering Jazz

This episode includes some great versions of ridiculous television themes and some crazier versions of great ones! A lot of it is pretty weird But the jazz is all first rate.

Some of what you'll hear:

-Did you know that Sun Ra did an early album on a children's label? From that you'll hear a very familiar theme.

-A theme where one of the criteria for it's composition was that it must be "the supidest song ever written".

-Gary Burton Quartet doing what I thought was one of the most ridiculous tv themes.

-A Canadian mystery/comedy program that has been on the air for 18 seasons.

-Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden playing a theme from a soap opera satire.

-Mickey Mouse theme sung on an album called "Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast"

-The original and a fascinating jazz version of The Six Million Dollar Man

-The Spiderman theme played by a group led by a jazz banjoist/

-Lots more!