OMG... how I got here was a complete accident.. I am in my 40s and I haven't thought about this show easily over 30 years and I am singing it now every word... I am shocked the words came out of my brain.
@@sammieseoul5544 Yup, that's how it is with those old-school theme songs and commercial jingles. Pepperidge Farm isn't the only one remembering out here!
Absolutely true. The producer Tom Miller was instrumental in the Composer Charles Fox's career, hiring him in 1969 to do "Love American Style"... and soon after-- "Happy Days" & "Laverne & Shirley". Fox also scored one of Tom Miller's few feature films, FOUL PLAY, for which Fox & Norman Gimbel wrote "Ready To Take A Chance Again" for Barry Manilow.
Together Through The Years has lyrics by Steve Geyer and Music by Charles Fox-- who 12 years earlier wrote Roberta's Grammy winning hit "Killing Me Softly with His Song". Roberta wrote the foreword for Fox's 2010 memoir called "Killing Me Softly, My life In music"
Thank you so much for this mix of this song. I have always loved this song from the first time I heard it back in 1986 when "Valerie" premiered on TV. I remember when I first heard it back then, I thought this sounds like Roberta Flack?!!, and thinking what the heck? a superstar singing a tv theme song? You did not hear actual recording artist singing tv themes. Usually the singers of the theme was an unknown.
This one and the Gimme A Break theme are so amazing. So much thought and care went into the old theme songs, now it’s 5 seconds with some generic instrumental music.
at the same session where they recorded this one minute tv theme... they also laid down tracks for a 3 minute record version-- a beautiful laid back R&B song-- half the tempo of the tv version and with an added bridge. Roberta loved it, and she and the composer Charles Fox (whom she collaborated with on "Killing Me Softly" 12 yrs earlier) agreed it sounded like a hit. Roberta was just learning this version for the first time, so she sang and scatted along... It sounded amazing... They agreed to come back and finish the vocal for the record version... and unfortunately never did. 10 yrs after that, Fox was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and at the ceremony, Roberta made a beautiful speech and then handed him his award.
This is nice, but its just the theme song to the TV show looping three times. Actually 2 and a half times (at 2:16, the song starts to loop a little bit later from the very start, but you can tell there's an edit). Roberta Flack never released a full version of this song - it was just for the TV show and was really only about a minute and 15 seconds.
agreed, there was ONLY ever the minute long tv theme. Except, after Flack recorded her vocal for the TV show-- Composer Charles Fox presented her with tracks he had also recorded for an actual slowed down R&B style record version-- with extra lyrics by Steve Geyer. Roberta started to learn it, laid down a few takes, sometimes singing the lyrics, sometimes doing la-la-la's... Everyone felt it sounded incredible, but she wasn't ready to do the whole track right then. She said several times to Fox "this is really good, it's making me feel like we got another you know what here" (referencing their giant hit together from 1973: "KILLING ME SOFTLY"). They agreed to meet back up in the studio another day to lay down a completed vocal-- but unfortunately it never happened.
