Music
The theme song "Seattle" was written by Hugo Montenegro, Jack Keller and Ernie Sheldon. Both Perry Como and Bobby Sherman recorded slightly different variations of the theme. Como scored a minor hit, with his version reaching No. 38 in the U.S. on the Billboard Top 40. Sherman's version, although receiving some airplay, was never released as a single. There is no reference in either version regarding the TV series title, i.e.; "...look out everyone! Here Come the Brides!" Starting with the series debut in September 1968 the series opened with a rousing instrumental score featuring screen stills of "Jason", "Jeremy & Joshua", "Candy & Aaron" and "Lottie". At some point during the second half of the first season (and to coincide with the spring 1969 release of the Perry Como 'pop' recording) the TV theme was reworked by overlaying lyrics to the same theme music already recorded (as used previously) along with updating all the opening character stills, including the addition of a "Biddie & Clancey" screen still. This second opening sequence, with added lyrics & new screen stills, was used throughout the remainder of the first season as well as the entire second season.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)