Two Great Theme Songs Over The Years

Tonight I am going to discuss two of the most brilliant family television shows, well the themes. They were some of the longest running sitcoms on television the Cosby show with 201 episodes and Roseanne with 196.  I watched each show change the intro theme over the years although, I never saw the original Cosby Theme until earlier today.  Both themes are instrumental. 

            The theme for Roseanne is the whine of a saxophone with a harmonica, which almost seemed to call my family together for an episode during the original airing of the show.  I always imagine Roseanne Barr laughing when I hear the intro music. 

            

Although, I utterly abhor the Blues Traveler  version on season 9.  I'm not sure why but I like it without the lyrics.  

            The morphing theme of the Cosby show never was dull.  I really enjoyed the season in which the intro seemed like a production on Broadway only at the Apollo Theater.  The sequence was theatrical and the music was appropriate.  It is also a saxophone but in a much more jazzy tone than the Roseanne theme. 

            

I can totally picture Bill Clinton playing this rendition of the theme on his sax. It had evolved considerably from season one.   

            

The season one intro sounds as if it fell right out of the 70’s but it has morphed throughout the years.  An amazing fact of these theme titled “Kiss Me” was co-written by Bill Cosby and Stu Gardner.