WKRP in Cin-ci-naaat-tiiiii....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uH76COzk8

^^^ USEFUL

holy shit thats amazing

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

"Oh, the humanity!"

season one on hulu

dude who wrote closing theme is the dad of girl i work with

the lyrics to that are great

The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits", was a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs.[8] Also, since CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would actually hear the closing theme lyrics anyway. In one pop-cultural nod to the closing theme, a character performs the song in the film Ready to Rumble.

FM is about to come on VH1 Classic.

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yeah, whatever. These are the lyrics:

Gotta foot Saturday and a little lack-of-silence affair
Going to this party got some gin and it'll be aw-haw
Gotta pull the socket me and peter pack some gin aw-haw
Said i'm good, good, and i'll do a lot of better aw-haw

season one on hulu

does it have the original music or did they have to replace the songs like on the dvd?

I haven't actually watched any episodes, so I'm not sure!

One of my favorites was the two parter where Venus and Johnny Fever end up at the transmitter where a bomb is located. The part where Fever comes running into the station office all druggy paranoid going off on how the phone cops are after him is fantastic.

There is also a hilarious scene where Les Nessman puts on a big curly toupee while the station is playing something like Foreigner's Hot Blooded.

I'm watching The Insider, and just spotted Gary Sandy in a small role. Checking online for confirmation, I was reminded of this 1966 Newsweek cover with Jan Smithers:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_isUvlzkZPIQ/R0W0y4UcfEI/AAAAAAAABH8/zrmIhmmnQRk/s200/175px-Newsweek_March_21_1966.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SqLjY8NMnWI/AAAAAAAAG-0/KMxGL8f4L7k/s400/jan+smithers.jpg

She kind of looks like the young Susan Dey in that photo.

Wanna Mr. Burns that Smithers.

I also remember that after the Who concert in Cincinatti where 11 people were killed in the crush at the doors, they did an episode that had that event as the main focus. Starts with someone mentioning it after getting a phone call and others in the office not believing it. It was done fairly soon after the real event. I was pretty impressed with a sitcom gettin' real like that.

Errmmm, and Bailey Quarters.

― nickn, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:30 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

iirc, the plot revolved around the fact that the station had given away tickets to that show. But they never mentioned the Who by name, instead calling it "the big concert," and playing a lot of Who songs in the episode.

Wow, you're right.

And here's the entire episode rightcheer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch92FIHx-Hs

12 year old me found loni anderson super repulsive,which in retrospect is really weird

xp Cool, thanks for posting that. Interesting, they did mention the Who a couple of times, but didn't play any of their songs. Looks like they have Herb taking the Walter Cronkite ("drug-crazed mob of kids") / Mike Royko ("barbarians") role.

found loni anderson super repulsive,which in retrospect is really weird

i dunno. Her helmet hair never really did much for me, either.

i'm sure that was it but odd to be so discerning at the outset of puberty

I feel it's my duty to at least make an appearance in this thread.

bailey quarters

So many misspellings of Cincinnati ;_;

As God is my witness

Oh, the humanity.

Antenna TV is showing that ep 4 times tomorrow.

I love Antenna. Mainly because they show WKRP.

http://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-away-an-oral-history/

...wait. This existed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_WKRP_in_Cincinnati

Shh, we all agreed to never speak of it again.

Apparently in the reunion episode, they explained Bailey's absence by saying she couldn't get away from her duties as the mayor of Ann Arbor.

Also her dignity.

I watched New WKRP for a while. It was not good. French Stewart.

looking for the parody of the video for u2's 'numb' the NEW wkrp in cincinatti did when it was on vh1 i came across this which may be of interest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-2D4UPkug

commentary by howard cosell and billy crystal

that was fucking excruciating

70s were some dark shit

this is a very serious girl, in point of fact

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/1-29-2014/7GxFYQ.gif

Every time I roll through or to Cincy going north on I-75 I hear the theme song come into my head. I actually stayed at the Radison right on the river in Covington last year when I went up for a Reds game and was probably a pretty new hotel when you see it on the opening credits for WKRP. It's a pretty swanky hotel, definitely a very 1970s building.

idgi is that nicklaus? i thought he was from columbus.

That's Dick Van Patten. He's from "Eight is Enough".

famed dog food vendor dick van patten

Oh wow, on the related videos list for that Smithers' dunk tank thing, there's one of those w/Robert Urich dunking Catherine "Cathy" Bach.

Van Patten OTM, if somewhat unsubtle about it.

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/WKRP-Cincinnati-The-Complete-Series/19780

please, please, please, let me get what i want, with the original music cues.

http://www.avclub.com/article/10-episodes-screwball-hilarity-and-social-commenta-205282