Hawaii Five-O 1968 - 1980 Opening and Closing Theme HD 

Thanks for sharing! So many back stories about the people involved in these shows is what really makes it interesting.

Wow. How did he pass away if u don't mind sharing and how old was he? Did he have a family etc Bigtime fan of this show and just wondering . Thanks much

Eddie Would Go.

I'm 65 now, and completely agree with you. Those were the days! TV nowadays is a real wasteland.

@@321snoot OLDER than you and I LOVED this show - AGREE with you TOO on shows the WHOLE FAMILY could watch without bring embarased about what your kids might see - WE had FAMILY VALUES back then and taught our kids the rules to live by and WE went to CHURCH every Sunday too !

You are right, man !

What a time the Sixties and Seventies were I was born in 1966 and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s

@@RussellNorris-h2c1/2 hour to warm up tv before Saturday morning cartoons. Remember the tiny dot and then all the rolling? And then the wire coat hanger for an antenna! Priceless.

I agree

What a great idea!

¡ES UNA IDEA GENIAL Y ESPECTACULAR...YO HE PUESTO A MI CELULAR EL SONIDO DEL TEMA DE HAWAII5-0...Y ES EMOCIONANTE PARA MI!

Would make the drug mules anxious. 😅

Welcome to a land of criminals?

Only The Sopranos has such a recognizable theme song and opening montage. I totally agree. I remember never wanting to miss the opening of Five-O. It just set the tone for the entire show. And being in Hawaii which most of us had never seen at that time, made it so entrancing

Not better than swat

@@cindyinnew are u high? Swat theme was on regular radio rotation

@@cindyinnew the swat theme not only was on regular radio rotation it was number one on the billboard charts so it sold at the record store I'm a huge soprano fan but the soprano theme didn't even do that

@@anthonytaylor7928 why are you asking me if I’m high and going on about SWAT? you are off topic

Intros cut into commercial time

Thanks for sharing your story. I know you’ll never forget it.

Thanks. What a heart-warming story, indeed. God bless Morton Stevens for giving us one of the most iconic theme songs. What a good, decent man he must have been!

@@ravisriram6746 Hello Gary, Ravi. And salute Morton. When I was a young man, I played basketball. The warm ups started with Hawaii Five-O. I thought, well, life doesn't get better than this. It did come close though!

Tell me more about warming up in basketball to this song. It sounds kind of cool for my son.

Love this.

I agree!!!...and that's what I came here to see but it wasn't here.

We loved him.

I fancied him when a kid!

He really lived in that apartment that was in the background.

Yes, absolutely!

Crap version.

A hard debate between this and Miami vice...........close

@@Patrick-hb7bk 😣 the new version is *cringe*

The Streets Of San Francisco, Starsky and Hutch, and Charlie's Angels had cool themes too

Better intro than the new show.

My other faves include Mission:Impossible and Peter Gunn!

Linda, Jack Lord was my first-ever crush. I was 3 years old! lol. My mom loves to tell everyone how i would kiss the TV screen when he was on! lol. I own seasons 1-7 of the original on DVD and even have a Rick Rietveld 'Book 'Em Dano' Jack Lord t-shirt. The theme song is my cell ring tone as well. lol. I do love the reboot but the original is my fave

@@Stefanie2530 I love your story. Also, you remind me of my cousin when she was either two or three years old. She told her mother and me that she was in love with Steve McGarrett. She said he was her boyfriend because he was so handsome. We loved to get together and watch our favorite TV show.

Nothing beats the original on Paramount channel episodes of the original Hawaii Five-0 book it😀

Never seen it before, but your comment has me interested in watching the show now.

@@SmartWentCrazy I think you would really like the show.

Swat theme on regular radio rotation also made number one on the billboard charts

Et mission impossible

Book Em Danno ❤

That's the legendary Billy Cobham on drums.

TO ALL THE YOUNG OF TODAY THIS WAS WHAT MUSIC WAS LIKE IN THE LATE 60s and the 70s SUCK IT UP..

@@theodoreritola9758 Forget the Music, notice how much of this is in line with what is taking place today. All the Liberal Wokeism in this series is now taking place.

@@roberthouston4839 So true, Anti Gun is in and so are Riots and looting and don't you dare resist, they is the opressed masses !

@@roberthouston4839 ?

@@carminemurray6624 What riots are on now? That was 2020. Not much of anything in 2021 after the Capitol attack in January.

It was a very common popular travel destination in the seventies, that's for sure.

Hawaii now always tries to get a series filmed there. Free travel adds.

Jack does

reminds me of Miami Vice impact on Miami Beach.

IN THE 70s WHEN IT WAS FRESH IT KICKED ASS

Want you to know--you made me laugh so hard when I read your comment! Me too Dano😅

@@mastafa4517 I miss the 70s , MUSIC PEOPLE WAY MORE FRIENDLY, NO MASKS FREEDOME ,,, Glad i made you laugh

Hahaha..me too...I remember looking in tv guide just to know when hawaii five-o was on and I just wanted to see the beginning then I went to bed.

@@theodoreritola9758 '70's sucked. No friendly people anywhere in Dover Sherborn junior high school, recession economy, dad drunk and out of work and still drunk when he got a job again, cigarette commercials outlawed, Palisades Park closed down, disco killing rock n roll, panic attacks I was having, fear and depression my parents got "OLD" (they turned 50 that decade), U.S. losing a war. 70's our freedom was starting to be taken away. U.S. Big Brother outlawed cigarette commercials on TV and radio. Free country my azz! When I die and God sends me to hell He can skip the🔥thing and just bring me back to the 1970's.

Me too. BTW, have you noticed that that shot was made backwards?

yes!!!!!!

the Maggie spin? Please elaborate for the ignorant.

mtvne No Doubt but then again I had a thing for Mister Rourke and Kojak as well what's a girl to do😁😁

All great but I also love when that plane flies low.

Book e'm Dano 😆 ffs i on the wrong Wave Length , i'm British and never been to what's it's names, have a nice day, me love this long time, oh my name is Joe, i nearly forgot.

Absolutely 100% agree with every bit you mentioned here ... well done ...

Same with me. I had a childhood crush on that Beautiful woman looking straight into the camera.

Me too and I’m a woman

I agree with this, and Miami Vice intro became my next crush in the same manner

@@katadam2186 we need to talk 😉

@Connie Crawford When did the filming for the pilot of Hawaii 5 0 take place at? Mar. 5, 2020 @ 8:40 pm

SOCORRO SILVA Ot premiered on Tv in the fall of 1968 and ran for 12 years until 1980. I didn’t memorize the date because he was a relatively unknown actor who starred in a TV series about a rodeo clown called “ Stoney Burke” which had already been cancelled but was still running already filmed episodes which had not been shown on TV yet. I actually went up to him and told him how much I liked his series “Stoney Burke “ and he told me the series had already been cancelled. ( Oops!) and he was filming a pilot for a new series about the Hawaiian state Police to debut in September of 1968. Hawaii has warm weather all year round so it was probably Jan- Feb of 1968. The network bought the pilot and ordered more episodes and put it on Tv that September of 1968. In those days, all Tv shows had new and old shows “ debut in the fall and summers were always devoted to reruns episodes of the TV shows. There were no Tsing devices available to the public so, if you missed an episode, you had to wait around until “ summer rerun season” and hope you could catch the episode you missed when it originally aired. The network only did 3 months of reruns from a 9 month of episodes , so you might never see an episode you missed. In those days, we were afraid to leave the house if we wanted to see all the episodes! Lol! Many of our families couldn’t afford a TV until we were in elementary school and then only back and white TV series were available! When color TV became available, our families all rushed to be the first in the neighborhood to buy this “modern technology”.. Do you watch old black and white episodes of “ I Love Lucy”, the Andy Griffith show, etc. Those shows were not filmed in color until the early 1960s or so! We didn’t expect a lot in those “ good old days.”

How was he with you ? I heard he wasn’t very friendly with regular people just those he did business with.

@@conniecrawford5231 Connie, I loved your post. I'm basking in nostalgia. I was too young to see the series when it first started and I can't remember if I ever watched it when I got a little older. It was only a few years ago that someone had posted the whole 12 seasons, here on you tube. I binged watched most of the series, until you tube took them down. I immediately fell in love with Jack. He was so good looking. I've only seen a few episodes of Stoney Burke, but he wasn't a clown, he was a competitive rodeo rider, who was after the Golden Buckle, given to the best rider. I'm not into that show, but honestly I'll watch anything with Jack, in his early years. I find he got sickly looking in the later years of 5-0. I'm so jealous that you met him. Was he as gorgeous in person, as he was in 5-0?

@@conniecrawford5231 totally spot-on post which brings back all memories just the way you put them. I forgot about the way they ran the reruns and all. Thinking about it's takes you back and makes you feel good.

I remember the when our high school marching band marched out onto the field at half-time playing this song when it first came out. The fans went nuts! We followed it up with a couple other great songs, and I think closed it marching off the field to The Horse, by Cliff Nobles. For a brief moment that week band members were the coolest students in school! 🙂

I wish I could hear this live or digital dolby sound

I will make this my ringtone.

There's a holiday rental in the heart of London (UK) owned by the family of the composer who did most of the Kojak tv series music. Looked great value if you have say 6+ people to share the place. Do a search for that one.

EVER! As a Jr. high school trumpet player our school band played this and the crowd loved it and so did we!

Right On! 👍👍👍🎺🎺🎺🎼🎼🎼

Golden era of television. And agree this show was one of the best of the genre.

Brings back memories of when I was little, in the living room with my parents 😊 I'm online now looking for some DVDs

My understanding is that the BBC wanted to ditch the TV series 'Miami Vice'. They held onto it because they thought it so interesting, artistically.

Why they try to ruin it with this new crap?

THIS WAS ALL MOST ALL 1970s very little 80s

Was all most all 70s ,,, 68 69 And a part of 80

I loved all those shows too. Great childhood memories!

This was 70s stop it lol

Elvis had very VERY similar coolness , to the hairs , the charisma , the attitude ...

@@elvisrealking But the Beatles came along.

Quien es mas macho?

he's just a copy of Roger Moore in The Saint

@@m.e.d.7997 Beatles weren't cool but popular. They toured internationally and Elvis never even toured in Canada or Mexico....Europe and Japan. The Beatles spent their first US Capitol years after international fame as quirky boys in a boy band. That's the image in their concerts, publicity and movies. By the time the reinvented themselves, they were hippies. Elvis was still placing top 10 new hits from his movies when the Beatles were too. I like both, but on the coolness scale Elvis is higher at least in the 50s and 60s.

Bill Huber I thought it was “Tiny Bubbles”.

Bill Huber 👍😆book em dan-no

49jubilee From a Rainbow Wahine, mahalo from our beautiful islands!

@49jubilee I remember that day and the week long celebration I was 10 years old.

@@cityhawk that's the 3rd state motto...or should I say 5th. Tiny bubbles, book um Dano, Shaka Brah!, aloha, ua mau ke ea oka aina i ka pono...

Thanks did not know that,a great heads up.

Wow. I knew of Jeff Pocaro from Dave Grusin and lesser known fusion sets.

And don't forget his other sons, Mike (who also passed away in 2015) and Steve, who also were members of Toto.

@@relaxpayourincometax Dave Grusin did the theme for St Elsewhere.

Actually, John Guerin is on drums, Joe Porcaro on percussion.

Forget bring it back...send me back!

@@ericl7238 Lo Thats a very good one DROP me off in Kodiak Alaska ,,Thats were i grew up Loved the 70s

Book him Dano

For sure that would be awesome. The Danish National Orchestra could do a wonderful version of this and Peter Gunn and other great TV show themes. They did one of the James Bond that was really good.

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Michael Ledford Actually, Five-0 refers to Hawaii being the fiftieth state. It has no intrinsic reference to a police force other than that this show is a police melodrama. In fact, Hawaii is the one state that doesn't have a state police force, separate from the local force, as in State Troopers.

@Daniel F, Never in my life have I made the "50" connection. And it's so obvious! I would have gone to my grave without realizing it. Thank you!

Magnum, P.I. was set in the same universe as Hawaii Five-O as Five-O is said many times during the series. Hmm...Magnum and Murder, She Wrote had a crossover, but not Magnum and Hawaii Five-O.

As I read your original statement, Michael, I couldn't stop laughing. Thank you. Someday, when the "grandkids" are streaming extremely classic television cop shows and they finally hear someone else say "Book em Dano", imagine their faces as they finally get it.

What only boomers remember is that James McArthur’s real life mother was Broadway “ royalty”, the legendary actress Helen Hayes who was more famous than her son ever would ever become,! James was known for “ Hawaii 5-0” while she was a Broadway legend for many many roles

Truth!

Did you get that inspiration from Jack Lord, or from the Lord Our God? (I'm assuming the latter, but you never know ... ;-D) Having escaped, successfully, the notice of the Female of the Species in its entirety, and not knowing exactly what it is that the Lord Our God has in store for me, both on that front and on so many others (Be it unto me as Thou wilt, Lord. Come what may, and love it! ;-D) I hope you and Angie are happy. Best wishes to you and yours.

~ Surely, you can't be serious? ~ I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

Who are you, and how did you get in here? I’m a locksmith. And, I’m a locksmith.

@@mementomori4051 one of my favorite lines ever! lol 😅

@@cellytron lol, classic! 😅

You never saw? Were you on Mars?

Yes & I saw him in Stoney Burke too

He was also Gene Roddenberry’s first choice to play Captain Kirk, but he wanted too much money.

A close friend of mine told me the producers wanted Lord back for the next Bond film, but he wanted equal billing with Connery. Obviously. . . THAT didn't happen!

@@333KAW The producers offered Jack a contract which would limit him to only doing the Bond films, while collecting a pittance of a paycheck. There was no guarantee that he would even put him in a Bond movie, but he had to wait around for them to call him. Jack turned down that contract. This was told to me by a friend of his.

@@asterix811 I knew a man who was friends with Jack, and Jack told him that he didn't want to do Star Trek. He tried on the suit Kirk wore, looked in the mirror, and said he wasn't doing it.

That's what the real governor said to the tv governor.

What bout the Brady bunch

Sammy Davis Jr..."You Can Count On Me" Sang the vocals to a never used H50 theme

I love the new version but when comes to the theme song, I prefer both versions

Floyddog22 _ me too

Jack Lord was Elvis' favourite actor.

Yes she is!

It's weird seeing a face for the belly dancer 😎

Robert Boulay you mean hula girl?

Kanen Ball Yes!

She has to be a native Hawaiian.

probably right!

Law&Order tho...

What About Thunderbirds? 👍Or Captain Scarlet, Mission Impossible,

Absolutely right, brings back so many memories

@@susanhughs1031 So many iconic themes man

That and the six million dollar man

Not this version though.

@@donalobrien9422 The 70s version was the bomb

Shirley you can't be serious!