Joe Boyd...also an 80's kid... I would run upstairs where my mom was watching to watch the intro because I loved the music and even though I am from Pittsburgh I loved the shot of Cowboy Stadium, but downstairs me and my dad watched another show, it was Miami Vice, The Hulk, or Dukes of Hazzard, memory a little hazy, I wanna say all 3 were on Friday night, but that seems unlikely. My mom loved this show, Falcons Crest, and Knots Landing, can't totally remember the old Friday night lineup, we usually all watched tv together, but on Friday's my mom had her shows she watched in their bedroom and me and my dad had ours we watched downstairs. The 80's seem like a lifetime ago, but they were a good time to be a kid bro!
Was 4 when this intro was used. The theme resonated with me even though the show didn't interest me as a kid. (few live action shows did for me then) It really does bring back a lot of memories of watching TV with my parents and siblings.
That’s SOOO cool. Every time I hear this song, the horn parts give me chills!! I always wondered who was playing each instrument. What band did your grandfather play in that did this work?? I play the trumpet 🎺, this theme always got me..hence me picking the trumpet in 9th grade in 1983. I am still wanting to pick up a French horn and try to master this!!!! God bless your Grandfather for etching great memories of my childhood!! 🎵🎼🎶
While attending the 40th reunion of DALLAS at Southfork Ranch a friend called my cell phone which has the DALLAS ring tone. At that very moment CBS reporter Wendy Gillette was standing by me and thought that was so cool. She wanted to interview me for her DALLAS anniversary story to be broadcast on all the CBS affiliates from coast to coast. And yes I did get to meet Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Charlene Tiltion and Steve Kanalay. It was AWESOME to be part of the DALLAS anniversary story.
Culture is cyclical and tends to go up and down. Hence why there are periods of great prosperity and periods of decline. Right now America is at rock bottom still better than everywhere else though but there will be a comeback. There was a reason why Reagan in that era one by an absolute landslide and that reason was people wanted to change and it happened.
I have to respectfully disagree with you. I was a teenager in the 80s, and it wasn't any easier; that's not to dispute that we are living in dangerous times now. Things one day might improve, but I doubt I will be around to see it.
@@bighands69 better than everywhere else ?? hahaha...most Europeans would never like to live in a dump like the US, it's so much nicer over here but go on trying to convince yourself that the US is the best country on this earth ;-)
I don't know what it is but the theme song is a tear jerker. I grew up watching the original Dallas and the new Dallas . I was in tears when Larry Hagman passed away and the new show without him after he passed, had some great plots and life left, until TNT canceled the series. Watching this intro and seeing alot of the cast who are no longer with us really struck a cord on me.
I remember I'd wake up at night, go sit at the top of the stairs right outside my bedroom and wait for my dad to get in from work. The front door was directly at the bottom of the stairs. My mom couldn't see me from where she was sitting so as long as I was quiet she didn't know a thing lol. This theme music would be coming out of the living room and it always caught my attention because I loved it. My dad would pull in the driveway and walk in and see me at the top of the stairs and he would say in his Scottish brogue "Well hello there me darlin!" My mom would say "why are you up? Back to bed!" Dad would say "let her eat with me! She's fine, me wee girl! I'll put her back to bed when we're finished!" It felt so late to me but it was probably only 10:00 if Dallas was coming on lol!" I miss my days of youth. I would love to go back to the 1980's.
@@gregwang1538 Before Falcon Crest began in 1981, Dallas was a 10:00 p.m. show Eastern and Pacific time zones, 9:00 p.m. Central and Mountain time zones, then an hour earlier once Falcon Crest came on the scene.
Everybody watched Dallas here in Hungary. This was the first American series to be aired in Hungary after the fall of communism. It's only sad many of the cast are now gone.
Yay, it's so true! 😀 I miss those Friday evenings when I was allowed to watch Dallas with my parents or grandparents (on summer holidays)... I was obsessed with Bobby and April, they were the first fictional couple whom I ever shipped in my life. ❤ I was so angry and shocked when April was killed that I had to name a cat after her (my only excuse that I was 10 years old 😂)... Ah, so many great memories! ☺ Greetings from Hungary! 😏
Hell yeah, I was wearing a cowboy hat as a kid because of Jockey. Btw, he was only called Jockey in the Hungarian version for some reason, in the original version he was called J. R.
@@IHeartMyLada "Jock", in the earlier seasons, was the nickname of J. R. (John Ross) Ewing, Senior, family patriarch and father of J. R. and Bobby. When Jim Davis, the actor who played him died, they had to write him off the show, saying he had died in a helicopter crash while scouting out oil fields in South America. This video must have been from one of the later seasons.
Dallas was one of the greatest prime time soap operas to ever air on tv, and part of the reason why is because Larry Hagman did such an excellent portrayal of an evil character like JR Ewing. I still think Larry Hagman should have won an Emmy Award or a Golden Globe for playing him, because JR is one of the most iconic tv show characters of all time.
One of my greatest joys as a toddler was dancing to this amazing theme tune in my parents living room, now I'm 35. This tune was as badass as it gets when you are 3. Life sure does pass by fast.
In Germany Dallas started in 1981, I was a young Teenager and my parents allowed me to watch it. IT was aired on tuesday on 21:45, quiet late. I've been an addicted fool from the very start. In 2001 I met Linda Gray in London after her performence in THE GRADUATE; she was very nice. Beautiful memories. My cousine (*1950-+1987) Marina Genschow was the original dub for Audrey Landers. And again, beautiful memories.
This theme does something strange to me. I was just a baby when my mom and dad watched this. Deep in my subconscious mind, I remember hearing it while laying in my crib. I remember smelling dinner. It really takes me back to a time that I can feel, but I can't see.
If I ever drive to Dallas you bet I will be playing this loud as the stereo will allow. Same as I did first time I drove to Miami with Miami Vice theme and Will Smith’s song Summertime welcome to Miami!
For an instrumental theme, this was the theme of themes of all nighttime soap operas. By this time in 1986, they had already added a harder nearly new wave synthesizer beat to the original by Jerrold Immel.
Me too, we had our whole lives ahead of us. Surrounded by high energy and high vibrational people full of excitement and promise. Not really sure how I ended up here alone on the couch watching reruns in my pajamas.
This was my favorite opening of all the seasons musically actually. They made it a bit longer because at this point it had the biggest cast. What Friday night memories.
Love the ending too, it sounds so impactful! I remember my mom used to tune in faithfully to this show. So blessed to have lived my childhood during the great 80s!
This is the first Dallas theme variation I remember. I recall watching this on the floor in front of a very large, wooden TV. CBS on Friday night. Channel 9 in Oklahoma City. I was there, alongside my parents. Lol. The theme music to Dallas is about as iconic as it gets in American television. This is an IV dose of 80s childhood.
It’s interesting how they added some synthesized drums, omnipresent in ‘86, compared to the earlier years. If you go back and listen to the instrumental introduction in the first year (1978) it sounds noticeably different.
I remember when i was a kid in the early 80's watching downtown dallas building all those skylines and seeing how it looked on the theme openings to now, time flies by real quick.
It was the era of big soaps that had lots of actors from the golden era of hollywood. It was also an era when American culture was proud of itself and did not care what whiny offended people cried about.
Oh yes! When I still watched TV. My early teens in the mid 1980s. I learnt to love Texas (never been there though, the closest I have been has been the Canary islands).
I used to love this show, and never imagined in a million years that one day I’d live less than 20 minutes away from that iconic house. Man, life sure is weird and wonderful sometimes.
I used to love Dallas watching it from the middle 80s growing up as a teenager I remember it being quite steamy for the day it was shown on a Friday night in the UK 🇬🇧 8 o’clock no going out that night iit was Dallas night..............Kimberley 🇬🇧
This was a great season and a great cast. Loves the drums and the extra music at the end of the opening. Dallas was a great show and will never be duplicated.
Takes me back to the good ol days of the 80s, Mr. Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman are my favorite actors, and so is the lovely Priscila Presley, and Victoria Principal , such gorgeous and beautiful ladies!!!
I lost my mum and dad last year this was their favourite soap ever. I have beautiful childhood memories sitting down in England watching this with them every evening in the 80s. I was only 10 or 11 years old I had had huge crushes on Victoria principle and Priscilla Presley. Best show ever to me.
As a boy growing up those soaps were never my scene but I did love the intro and also the characters on display. Even if you are not a fan you can actually admire what they were.
I just want to write that my name is Josh and and i'm writing that Warner Bros. studios has upgraded the picture quality of all 356 episodes from all 14 seasons of DALLAS..I would like it if all 356 episodes from all 14 seasons of DALLAS would become available to stream on the streaming service MAX in the year 2024.
Long before covid and everyone in the world hating each other.....we'd all sit and feel wonderful on hearing this intro music spill out of our box ugly TVs!!!!
"Dallas? That place is crawling with crackheads and debutantes. And half of them play for the Cowboys." Hank Hill Assistant Manager, Strickland Propane
Thank GOD for Dallas; my all time favorite TV show. Although the theme song remained the same each season, there would always be changes in the music. This season's opening was the best.
Genericul filmului, ce l-am reascultat dupa atatia ani, m-a transportat instantaneu in anii cand il auzeam prima oara si aveam doar 17 ani ! Ah ce vremuri minunate ! Ce film, ce actori, ce amintiri !
