I fell in love with Green Acres when I was 14 years old in 1998. (When it came on every night on TV Land) In 1999 I asked my mom if we could go to Los Angeles to see if we could find Eddie Albert's house. She knew how much I loved Green Acres, so she said that would be our vacation that summer. We wound up flying out there from Nashville, Tennessee, and on our second day there, we were able to find his house by using a Hollywood Star map. (a map that shows where the stars live) When we found his house, we stopped out in front on the side of the road to take some video and pictures. Eddie just happened to be sitting at his dining room table and saw us out the front window. We could see him get up and head towards the front door. The door opened and he came out on his front porch and waved for us to come up, so of course we did! I told him how much I loved Green Acres and Mr. Douglas, and had my picture made with him. I was in shock...I couldn't believe it was happening. It was so nice of him to do that for us. It was an amazing experience, and I will remember that day for the rest of my life. :)
The actual reason that Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor sang the theme was to save money on the pilot film! They were pushed into doing it.VERY reluctantly! But the end result was one of the most memorable TV themes ever!
What's so interesting is that although it was Oliver who wanted to swap city life for farm life, he had a difficult time accepting it, especially the people. Unlike wife Lisa who didn't want to leave New York, yet got right into the rural life with ease.
Hit me that way, too. I swear the thing just floats around in the atmosphere looking for victims. (I'm pretty sure I've never seen more than 2 episodes, if that.) But hey, there are much worse songs to have firmly wedged.
I'm 15 and when I'm at my dad's house once in a while this show is on, and it gets stuck in my head all the time too lol even when I am at my mom's house, who doesn't watch it!
Oliver never really quite "fit in" with the rest of Hooterville, while Lisa DID. He preferred working in his own "comfortable" clothes, while Lisa preferred lounging in her Jean Louis outfits. One 1967 episode, "The Hooterville Image", showed what happened when Oliver tried wearing "farm clothing".
The show was like a backwards Beverly Hillbillies. The Clampetts wore their country clothes in the city and so Oliver wears his city clothes in the country. His clothes are addressed in one show where the other residents all wear suits hoping to show him how silly he looks, like Fred Ziffell wearing a suit to slop the hogs.
Ah-lee-vuh…. I love it when Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) says Oliver’s name. What a wacky, absurdly funny concept for a show, and it was great. Our family always watched it growing up. Hotscakes are ready! 😂😂
In the early 2000s, this show came on at 6am on Canadian TV. My 12 year old self would wake up everyday to watch this and The Munsters, which followed.
In the late 2000s, I was 11 years old when I first watched this show. Along with: 'The Munsters', 'The Addams Family' and 'I Love Lucy'. Man, do I love the classics.
I SOOOOOO LOVE THIS THEME SONG AND SHOW!When I hear this song or when I sing it on my own, I remember when life was simpler and more creative. I miss "genuine and witty" shows such as this one.Eddie Albert was a magnificent actor. And so was the rest of the cast.
And my childhood just came flooding back. It was an "old" show when I was a kid, but I loved it then, and I think I love this show more even more now as an adult.
Just randomly realized after looking at American Gothic, that the last scene of this is a reference to that. I haven't even seen this show in years, but that randomly popped into my head.
"Darling I love you, but give me Park Avenue". Thank you for uploading this gem of a show opening theme, just what I needed in these " Strange" times. I have the series on DVD packed away ( upcoming move) ,just wanted to hear the song. Love the show, so funny how Oliver was determined to live life in the country- yet, surprised and dismayed over the locals and there " Hick " daily lives, Oliver, what did you expect ? Too funny !
Every morning in 8th grade my history teacher would start the day off with this song and it brings back so many memories of him and his class and it's been 10 years now. Thank you Mr. Santiago for all the amazing memories in my favorite class even if I was a bit lazy at times
My wife is American -HUNGARIAN born in Hollywood Ca..Her parents both Hungarians born came here during the 1956 Russian revolution.Her mother raised her old school and she's best wife in the world.I would do anything for her. Love this show.
When I first got my license and was doing driving lessons with my Mum out the back of town where it was just farms and meadows this used to be the song I sung whenever I was stressed or anxious or bored and to this day (8 years later) whenever I'm feeling that way I find myself singing or humming this song, I absolutely love it, it reminds me of times when I was younger and things were so much easier ❤️
Earlier episodes of GA were in black and white as we know. If I remember correctly most if not all episodes were shown by Channel 4 (UK) after it first opened in Nov 1982. It had been on RTE (Ireland) in the 1960s, how it takes me back!
This show was broadcast in Italy between the 70's and the 80's, life at that time was simpler and happier, I was a child, my father put me in front of the TV and I used to have some much fun watching Green Acres...
Reruns of the show airing on MeTV inspired me to name my island on Animal Crossing: New Horizons after this show. Hell, the island tune is the first seven notes (well, six) of the theme.
It's almost bizarre how much I loved a show that was decades old before I was even born. But man I guess a good show is good show no matter how old it is.
i love this video this song of green acres when i was a kid at 6 years old in 1965 and i did the song at the bowling alley lounge and the audience love it the way i have performance 2013 i am 54 years old
OK! That was GREAT! For some mysterious reason, this song has been popping into my head, for the past 3-4 days. I'm pretty sure i haven't given the song or show even a passing thought in decades. Obviously, decided to give it a listen, so here i am. Had a fun time. 🎉 Started dancing in my chair at the first boom, boom. Sang along, out loud & remembered every word. The funny thing is, during the past few days, i'd only sing snatches of it cause i was missing words. So i was surprised & impressed with myself for remembering all of it. I kinda want to watch an episode, but i'm afraid i'll be disappointed. Maybe it's better to just remember it nostalgically. 😄 EDIT: Sorry, forgot to say thanks muchly for posting the actual intro & not just the audio. 👍☮️
Hee, same thing happened to me yesterday! I swear, I can't have seen more than 2 episodes of the show ever, if that. Yet somehow that theme song got so deeply embedded in my brain that it refuses to budge. I've been singing/whistling it off and on ever since. Had to come here to listen to it yet again today!
The 60s were a goldmine for innovative comedy: Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Heroes, Get Smart, Addam's Family etc. Couldn't make much of it today in the PC, Cancel Culture era.
Idk care what anybody else is saying in the comments this is the best & older shows like where the best as a kid growing up I loved watching shows like this along with cartoons of course. For those who didn't watch shows like this here's some good ones; Gilligan's island, I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched, Mash, Little House on the Prairie, Gun Smoke, Annie Oakey, Grizzly Adams, Batman, Bonanza, The Andy Griffin Show, and much more, you get the point.
im a kid (under 15) and i was raised watching this stuff, im so sad more parents dont make their kids watch older stuff that series was so funny i love it
Eddie Albert grew up in Minneapolis Minnesota… Many times I would see him walk the streets of downtown Minneapolis in the 1980s every time he came in town to visit… Very down to earth and pose for pictures with everybody
I grew up on a farm my grandparents farm their house didn’t look anything like that. It was very nice. My grandpa built it for my grandma took two years but the farm was a real farm and we’re not sure would come on and I was a little kid sitting in their living room with the checkered curtains blown in the kitchen window and you could smell my grandma cooking and I could hear that Greenacres that takes me back to priceless memories that I would never trade. I actually found a red barn cookie jar so the jar it’s actually plastic and when you lift the great when you lift the lid it’s the music the Greenacres entire song and it works. I found it a goodwill in a dumpster. It is awesome and it was done probably in 1970 I think that’s what it said it took a while to clean it up, but it is my favorite kitchen piece, so Yep brings back priceless memories .
I first heard this show's theme song when Pauly Shore's character sang it in Son-In-Law. I would later see this show when it was reran on TV Land when the network launched in 1996. I would later see reruns of this show on a UPN (now CW) station we had on TV at the time (back before we got cable TV), which would be followed by the original Addams Family series. The night I had started up Animal Crossing: New Horizons on my Nintendo Switch (which I had been playing exhaustively since a lot of places are closed due to the blasted COVID-19 and whatnot) for the first time just days after getting it at the local Walmart, a rerun of an episode of Green Acres was about to start on MeTV (which the show is reran nowadays), I was prompted to name my island in the game, which I called "GreenAcres" (I tried to put in a space in between "Green" and "Acres", but the "s" in "Acres" wouldn't fit). If anything, I would change that line in this show's theme song, "Farm livin' is the life for me!" to "Animal Crossing is the game for me!"
Of the 3 interconnected series I liked this better than Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. I thought the humor of Green Acres was more biting and surreal. Especially when the 4th wall would be broken by Lisa. I would crack up when she'd comment on seeing the credits on the screen. Or when she'd mention hearing the fife player when Oliver gave one of his patriotic speeches. Rural bureaucracy was alive and well, as Oliver never got his phone in the house. The Monroe "brothers" never finished his house, Haney was always trying to rip him off in some way, Arnold was understood by everyone but Oliver, Sam Drucker would almost have you believe he was running a mini Walmart by all the things he had going on in his store. But the big joke to me was Hank Kimball, the bumbling county agent. Once scene he was shown reading a book titled "How To Get Ahead In Civil Service Without Relatives", which was doubly funny, not just because of that title, but also because as inept as he was at his job, he HAD to have had SOME relative give it to him. And one more nod to Lisa (Eva): she was such sweetheart I would have eaten her "hotscakes" no matter how rock hard or rubbery they were. Ebb said she made the best "hot water soup" too! One of my most prized purchases is this complete series on DVD. I just wish they would have included the reunion movie at the end of Season 6, with the other extras, like the Granby's Green Acres radio show from 1950.
