W K R P in Cincinnati

[mhardy6647]

Trivia: it is the only TV series that has a different opening and closing theme song. The closing song music was written and sung with gibberish, waiting for words to be written, but never were.

Nope, that's not the case. One that springs to mind was All in the Family which used Those Were the Days for the opening credits, and Remembering You (supposedly written by Carroll O'Connor) for the close. My recollection is that it was(EDIT) fairly common in the 1970s, but that's the only one that springs to mind.

 

[qdrone]

Always dug the opening song on WKRP , I could sing it right now and I haven't heard it in over a decade.Funny show for sure.

 

[Jack Lord]

A classic without a doubt. How could you lose with characters that ran the gamut from Johnny Fever and Venus to Herb and Les?

The episode where Hoyt Axton guest stars and Jennifer kisses Johnny thus putting him in a near catatonic state? Loved it.

What was that song that always closed the show?

 

[jdwk]

thanks for this post I didnt know it came out either!

 

[scotterics]

Nope, that's not the case. One that springs to mind was All in the Family which used Those Were the Days for the opening credits, and Remembering You (supposedly written by Carroll O'Connor) for the close. My recollection is that it was(EDIT) fairly common in the 1970s, but that's the only one that springs to mind.

Gilligans Island had different songs also

 

[screenersam]

I don't remember the details, but there was an episode with Hamilton Camp as a slimy stereo salesman. I think he and one of the main characters (can't remember which one - maybe Johnny Fever) were being held hostage by a crazed gunman during a remote broadcast. Not my favorite episode, but it does directly relate to the subject of this forum (stereo, not the slime - but feel free to disagree).

+1. He and Herb were both loud-dressed sales guys, separated at birth. "How you gonna advertise to the kids? newspaper? kids today can't read."
end of epi, Camp, locked in the closet--voice--'I'm not paying for this!'!

Mrs. Carlson brought in an outside consultant and everybody acted out of character--Les was cool, Jennifer was stupid, Venus and Johnny fighting, etc.

 

[DeeCee]

One of the best shows ever! I met a real life "Mr. Carlton" who was the station manager of a now defunct radio station... He was one of the most clueless persons I had ever met (but a really nice guy!)

"I swear to God Andy, I thought turkeys could fly!" (I remember my father and I totally cracking up on that line for what seemed like hours - good memories)

 

[Mozart1220]

In those days, we used to wish for a radio station that played the eclectic mix of music that WKRP did. Actually, in those days, for a little while, in Baltimore, there was one. A 1 kW, daytime only station with a transmitter out in the swamplands east of Baltimore - WAYE-AM (860 kHz, if memory serves). A truly wonderful radio station. I remember that one episode of WKRP had a snippet of Van Morrison's Into the Mystic played in it. The AM DJ on WAYE next morning mentioned it, and then played the song.

ahh, the good old days...

I actually went to school to learn radio so I could be "Johnny Fever". By the time I started looking for a job in the biz, I literally got laughed at when I said I wanted to program my own music. Even by 1985 99% of the FM stations were nationally programmed. I got a SERIOUS reprimand from the station manager at one place when I strayed from the playlist to play a Thin Lizzy song other than "The Boys are Back in Town" (I played Black Rose from the album of the same name instead) You'd have thought I played Carlins "Seven words" for the way the manager yelled at me. He even said "Do you realize I could lose my broadcast licence?" I thought that was pretty harsh considering there was no bad language in that song, and I never missed one second of any commercials. I just substituted a better song BY THE SAME BAND for one we'd played 1,000 times.

 

[Spinning45s]

I have the old season one release. The commentary on the Thanksgiving episode with the turkeys states that it is based on a true event! The writer knew someone at a radio station who got fired for dropping turkeys out of a helicopter! LOL