60首最佳美剧片头曲
《电视指南》杂志评出了60首最佳美剧片头曲。一首好的片头曲既能在歌词上能道出该剧的背景或点评角色的特点,又能在旋律上渲染氛围定下基调。只要你看过下面的剧集,脑中免不了有它们片头曲的旋律跑出来吧?
1. 《干杯酒吧》(Cheers)- "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" 演唱:Gary Portnoy
一个普通的波士顿小酒吧,来这里的每个人都互相认识,出了酒吧各自有着喜怒哀乐的故事,进了酒吧就是嬉笑怒骂的“一家人”。片头曲是不是跟剧情非常贴合呢?
歌词摘抄:
Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot
Wouldn’t you like to get away
2. 《玛丽·泰勒·摩尔秀》(The Mary Tyler Moore Show)- "Love Is All Around" 演唱:Sonny Curtis
在2010年美剧最佳片头读者投票评选中,该片名列第三。其中片头曲乐观向上的歌词跟该片主角开朗的性格相得益彰。
歌词摘抄:
How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big
And girl this time your all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving
Love is all around, no need to fake it.
You can have the town, why don't you take it.
You're gonna make it after all,
You're gonna make it after all
3. 《夏威夷特警队》(Hawaii Five-0)(原剧)- "Hawaii Five-0"
该剧的主题曲是纯音乐的,由投机者乐团(The Ventures)录制,当时在Billboard流行榜排到了第四名。现在这首歌依然是仪仗队的最爱歌曲之一,特别是在夏威夷大学(还能是哪里?)。现在CBS台翻拍的《夏威夷特警队》主题曲是对该曲进行的重录。
4. 《野战医院》(M*A*S*H)- "Suicide Is Painless"
这首苍凉的"Suicide Is Painless"原本是为电影《野战医院》打造的,是这个榜单前十名中唯一不是为剧集本身量身定做的歌。
歌词摘抄:
I try to find a way to make all our little joys relate
Without that ever-present hate but now i know that it’s too late,
And...that suicide is painless it brings on many changes
And i can take or leave it if i please.
The game of life is hard to play. i’m gonna lose it anyway.
The losing card i’ll someday lay so this is all i have to say.
5. 《六人行》(Friends)- "I'll Be There for You" 演唱: The Rembrandts
这个主题曲无需多说!大家都熟悉!
6. 《贝弗利山人》(The Beverly Hillbillies)- "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" 演唱:Jerry Scoggins 伴奏:Flatt and Scruggs
歌词主角是Jed,他很穷,家人经常有了上顿没下顿。但有一天他外出寻找食物时意外地发现了石油…然后整个家庭搬到了比弗利山庄…跟剧情是一样一样的。
歌词摘抄:
Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed
Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was shooting for some food,
And up through the ground e a bubbling crude
(Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea)
7. 《66号公路》(Route 66)- "Route 66 Theme" Nelson Riddle创作
这是挤入Billboard杂志歌曲前三十名中为数不多的电视主题曲之一。这首由管弦乐合奏的片头曲很适合60年代兴起的驾驶克尔维特公路旅行的风潮。
8. 《杰弗逊一家》(The Jeffersons)- "Movin' on Up" 演唱:Ja'net Dubois和福音合唱团
听到这首歌就会想起George Jefferson的舞姿。杰弗逊是一位事业稍有成功却很自负的洗衣店老板,梦想着成为各种各样的成功人士,却往往上了骗子的当,该片给人以很多的笑料的同时增长了生活的哲理。歌词就讲述了这位洗衣店老板的成功之路。
歌词摘抄:
Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.
9. 《芝麻街》(Sesame Street)- "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?"
想知道芝麻街怎么走吗?问一下小孩就知道了。自1969年该片首播以来,这首歌总是会挂在他们的嘴边,从未变过。
歌词摘抄:
Sunny Day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street
10. 《茶煲表哥》(The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
威尔史密斯现在是大影星,青涩时期的他出演了该剧,并写了片头曲中的饶舌部分,旋律部分是Quincy Jones写的。
歌词摘抄:
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-air
其他五十首(按英文首字母排序):
The Addams Family
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Andy Griffith Show
All in the Family
Ally McBeal
Batman
Bewitched
The Big Bang Theory
The Brady Bunch
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Cos Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas (原剧)
Dawson's Creek
The Facts of Life
Family Guy
The Flintstones
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
The Golden Girls
Good Times
The Greatest American Hero
Green Acres
Happy Days
Hill Street Blues
I Love Lucy
Laverne & Shirley
Law & Order
Malcolm in the Middle
Maude
Miami Vice
The Mickey Mouse Club (原剧)
Mission: Impossible
Mister Ed
The Monkees
The Muppet Show
The Odd Couple
The Patty Duke Show
Peter Gunn
The Rockford Files
Scoo-Doo
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
SpongeBob SquarePants
Star Trek (原剧)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Three's Company
Weeds
Wele Back, Kotter
The X-Files