Segment Theme Music
- The show opens with an archival recording of Ben Grauer saying "Here it is", followed by Shearer saying, "From deep inside your radio..." over a fragment of classical music.
- A looped sample of Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul McCartney is used for Apologies of the Week, with emphasis on McCartney saying "sorry".
- Glenn Yarbrough singing the Rod McKuen song "Listen to the Warm" is used for News of the Warm.
- Joe Satriani playing "Summer Song" (from the album The Extremist) is the theme for (Inside) Extra Access Tonight
- The Beatles instrumental "Flying" (from the album Magical Mystery Tour) is the theme for Tales of Airport Security
- The segments F is for FEMA, Los Angeles Dog Trainer Corrections, Let's Get Scared, News from the Digital Wonderland, News of Inspectors General and Clean, Safe, Too Cheap to Meter use original music recorded and sung by Shearer.
- Clintonsomething uses the original theme music from thirtysomething.
- The Trades uses "Rut" by Carla Bley, from the CD "Nightglo" on ECM
Read more about this topic: Le Show
Famous quotes containing the words theme and/or music:
“One theme links together these new proposals for family policy—the idea that the family is exceedingly durable. Changes in structure and function and individual roles are not to be confused with the collapse of the family. Families remain more important in the lives of children than other institutions. Family ties are stronger and more vital than many of us imagine in the perennial atmosphere of crisis surrounding the subject.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)
“While the music is performed, the cameras linger savagely over the faces of the audience. What a bottomless chasm of vacuity they reveal! Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, whose vacant faces flicker over the TV screen, are the least fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures . . .”
—Paul Johnson (b. 1928)