This TV show was my mother’s inspiration for a business. In 1981, she started a very successful travel agency specializing in cruises. Mom passed away 10.5 years ago. Hearing this theme song makes me quite nostalgic. I miss you mom! Sail on! Bon Voyage!
Great to hear. I love it when TV shows inspire people to follow a new path. Your mother was obviously a woman who was not afraid to dream & turn her dreams into reality. Inspirational!
Wait...The travel agency...is It "Princess cruises"? I just heard this song playing on The horn of those Cruises when It was just about to set sail here in Spain😳 Sorry if my English is a bit weird.
wow. as soon as the song started I instantly felt the same feelings I had as a kid....just pure joy....even could smell whatever my mom would have been cooking at the time...amazing to me these songs have that power to literally bring me back in time to that level. awesome.
I was born in 1972. I remember this show, and Dallas, and Falcon Crest, and Mystery Island very well. We were children then, 30+ years later, we are not children. Now, life does not seem as simple, because we now have responsibilities. Teaching the next generations is my job, because I really feel that my parents and the previous generations did no teach me much.
I am sure that everyone views their teenage years as some of the best times ever. When we pass through those years in our lives, everything is new and exciting, the politicians do not seem as dishonest, and life is just better when we are young and dumb. That being said, the music in the 80's still has no compare.
The Love Boat theme song always takes me back to the seventies, when our family use to watch it on a Saturday night when I was a kid , simpler times an great tv
seriously, those were the days. great times then. Sure there were still bad things/evil in the world, but everyone collectively seemed happier. No internet no social media. But we cannot go back.
Hearing this song for the first time in decades brought tears to my eyes . It was a very good show with innocent yet challenging story lines . Always concluded well . For one hour it made us all forget about all our troubles .
Elvis and "Clam Bake!" was on the late movie. Big Brother walks in and barks, "Turn that has-been hillbilly off right now!" Just then, Elvis drives into a gas station and the little hose activated bell goes Ding! Ding! My brother`s jaw drops and he says, "I haven`t heard that sound in thirty five years!!"...
Isn’t it crazy how songs or clips of our childhood evoke such emotion. Makes your realize your time on earth goes by so fast. One day your 9 yrs watching lifeboat with your mom or dad and the next you are 47 yrs old laying in bed typing this. time flies
I used to watch this on a Sunday afternoon. Brilliant. I've never been on a cruise, but it did look "Exciting and New" !!! It made me want to go on one though, especially on Pacific Princess.
Nicely said. And I have said the same. 1970s to the mid 80s. Free TV, 13 usable channels. And we all watched the same shows. It was more unifying this way, made us all "on the same page". And a Pacific Princess Cruise of 1980 was more fun - no "War on Terror" and X-raying your luggage! People kept Love private mostly! 1980 plus/minus 5 years was a great time, less negativity and vulgarity..in ones mind. The Love Boat had at least 3 story lines or plots. 1. totally fun. 2. somewhat serious. 3. very serious theme/s.. 1980 and The Love Boat, cheaper prices, better food, more positive themes, and youthful, and people were just more sociable and friendlier then..Naturally!
This song brings tears to my eyes. When I was a little girl I would dream of crusing in the 80s while watching The Love Boat. My dreams became reality when I started cruising annually from 12 yrs old until my 40s. I watch The Love Boat still because it reminds me that dreams can come true as most of mine really have.
I remember watching the Love Boat (and Fantasy Island following it) on a regular basis every Saturday night back in the early-mid 1980s when it was still originally on the air. There was something so COMFORTING and SOOTHING about the opening theme as well as each and every episode. Entertaining too. Being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home, escapist fantasy was exactly the right kind of formula that I really needed and just PERFECT for a saturday night after a whole weeks worth of depressing, stressful nonsense. But the fact that i watched and loved the love boat was my MOST closely guarded and BIGGEST well kept secret at the time. Because a teenaged boy simply did NOT admit to his fellow teens about watching love boat as well as being a fan of that show. Not unless he wanted to be the target of ridicule. There were many tv shows around that time a teen could openly admit to being a fan of. But The Love Boat wasnt one of them. Saturday nights are just not the same without The Love Boat (and Fantasy Island) airing new episodes at its regular time (Love Boat, 9pm. Fantasy Island, 10pm). It's a crying shame, really.
My fave show and theme song of all time. Just so beautiful! I STILL get goosebumps when he gets to “And love won’t hurt anymore…” then that big buildup to Lauren Tewes ❤
@Tricia R. Back in my day, we called it "not being an arsehole". Now it seems to be in vogue to be an arsehole to people, and if they don't like it then they're "too PC".
It took Titanic 2 hrs to sink. Took the Love Boat 9 yrs to sink. . Loved that show. That was the gateway show to watching Saturday night live. Had to make it thru fantasy Island. Then the news. If I was lucky I didn't fall asleep to watch Mr. Bill and Steve Martin's antics. What memories!!
I'm a child of the 90's and never watched this show, but dangit, this is such a catchy theme! It has that wonderful 'carefree 70's feel that I've come to love from shows of that era. We need more of that feeling in today's shows!
"We need more of that feeling in today's shows!", yeah, well you can FORGET IT. Take Star Trek, for example. They have made (here on YT), many videos MOCKING how BAD the modern Star Trek ( Discovery) is compared to the truly-awesome Star Trek the Next Generation. Everything revolves around the CULT of wokeness. Look at how they've even ruined Star Wars with wokeness.
@@pedestrianrights1257 superman is now gay, and she hulk is trans curious. The bible says these days will come, we are in the eye if the storm right now.
Today's shows stink- no beautiful shows, no family shows, no TGIF that ABC had during the 1990s, no really, really funny shows...nothing. ABC is a major disappointment. The one soap they had left even sucks now.
It's one thing to have a big hit show, but to have at least two big, long-running, (at least 5 years) Iconic series is something special.Gavin MacLeod is one of them. R.I.P. to a TV legend.
Little know fact. The Manson Family broke into Jack Jones house and robbed him in 1969. He slept through it. They stole food and valuables. If Manson killed him we would not have this song!
@@mananimal3644 we would still have it, it was written by Paul Williams. But it wouldn’t be the same because someone else would be singing it. But that’s interesting! I just watched a documentary on Manson the other day. Crazy man. He was personally responsible for bringing an end to the hippie era.
Isaac Villaruel that's not a crack about Achille is it? oh cause ya don't schprecken deuch? oh so it's a PLO jab by a dude named Isack wow great shit too bad ya did it, and what's that National Anthem? oh yeah - it's Mommie Egypt's and always will be........the Love boat exciting and new come aboard were expecting you.....
Takes me back to my youth. Loved this show. Loved his cameos on King of Queens! He and Jerry Stiller were brilliant! Hope these two guys are sharing a drink together! RIP Gavin!
I loved this show when I was a kid on Saturday nights with my mom and my sister and we baked cakes for both the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. It was a fun time. My mother passed away April 7, 2019 and it's been exactly a year since she has been gone.
I to have very fond memories of my parents taking me to her sister's house where I would get to stay up late and watch Love Boat, Fantasy Island and maybe even the midnight movie if we were lucky while they made sweets to take to church for the old folks. Such simple times...
@@ICTS22 there was also shows like Charlie's Angels, Three's Company, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, & Quincy, etc. They were interesting & fun to watch, also, the theme music scores for these sound really cool back then and even today(including The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Baretta, and the music score for Gilligan's Island also).
The theme song is truly magical. I was born when it aired but i was very young. I remember my mother watching it. Truly comfort tv. You just can't get this style of comfort from today's tv...
the 60s 70s & 80s had the BEST TV shows ever...hands down..at 52 l thank God l grew up during those times...l feel sorry for this young generation ...awful cartoons, tv shows and movies most part its nothing but reality shows today...R.I.P classic shows from 1950s - 1990s.
60s 70s 80s excellent Tv shows then am 50 years old now you can get them on dads I Will always remember 60s 70s 80s so sad for the young generation tv then was better than now
"The Love Boat" was one of my favorite TV shows back in the 1980's. Lauren Tewes was so beautiful as Cruise Director Julie McCoy. The show was better in its' earlier seasons than in the seasons towards the end of its' 10 or 11 year run on ABC-TV.
@@theodoreritola7641 "The Love Boat" was a wonderful show up until Lauren Tewes was fired from the show. After she left the show it was never the same. Plus that show unfortunately, like "All in the Family" and "The Carol Burnett" show, failed to adhere to the old sports and entertainment truism/adage to "quit while still throwing your fastball". "All in the Family" should have ended its' brilliant run with the episode in which Mike and Gloria Stivic leave NY to move to California. Unfortunately Carroll O'Connor foolishly decided that the show should go on and continued it as "Archie Bunker's Place" which was never anywhere near as funny as "All in the Family". He didn't do the wise thing that Mary Tyler Moore did when she ended her show while it was still a great show. She saw the first signs that that show's writers were running out of fresh ideas for stories and wisely ended that great show before it had a chance to decline in quality!
@@theodoreritola7641 . If Carroll O'Connor had ended "All in the Family" with the episode in which Mike and Gloria leave NY to move to California, that show would be rightly regarded as one of the all-time greatest shows ever. But it will forever have the enormous blemish of continuing too long which sadly marred its legacy!
We were lucky I was born in 1977 and I grew up with all of this TV was my babysitter and I would watch Family Ties and other TV shows like Charlies Angles and the late 70's and 80s and 90s were the best I would give anything to have those days back again and I miss Tower Records so much. We had shopping malls and TV shows and great movies and people were nicer and people danced and sang. Were so lucky now everything sucks now. I hate 2024.
Everyone in my family knew, that NOTHING interrupted my mother watching The Love Boat. It was her favorite show when I was growing up in the 1980s, and we'd all gather around the television after dinner and watch it when it came on. Oh the memories. I miss my mother so much. But hearing this makes me feel like she's alive again!
Listening to this song and looking at the actors from the 70s makes me sad but with a big smile because the 70s were without a doubt the best time and there is no comparison to today.
Wow! This brought back memories. I used to watch this every day before kindergarten. I had a cardboard box that I called my "Love Boat box" fully equipped with a pillow, blanket, and munchies. Every day I would pull my box into the living room in front of the TV, climb into it, and settle in for my daily dose of day time drama. My Love Boat box and I never missed an episode! 😂
I miss this show so much even though I never watched it for more than a few minutes. It reminds me of my childhood in the 80's. I used to love the opening theme. I guess my mother watched the show because I heard this opening theme ever Saturday night. It was one of those shows that I really didn't watch but still fell in love with the opening theme like Dynasty, Dallas, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, etc. TV shows from the 70's and 80's had the greatest opening themes in my opinion.
Remember when Ted Stryker was escaping the mental hospital in AIRPLANE: THE SEQUEL, sneaking along a brick wall . . . and then there's that lounge singer singing the LOVE BOAT theme?
There is a lost episode where Kitt and airwolf take a vacation on the love boat and have a super baby ship that talks. And a new show is born: the knightwolf
The Love Boat was total escapism promoting the most escapist holiday category of them all - cruising! I enjoyed it because it was so undemanding. Very relaxing too, after a tough day at the office - back in the 1970s! In those days no-one had ever heard of Islamic terrorism.
The escapism was most obvious in the scenes by the pool. On the TV show, the extras in the background all looked like supermodels. On an actual cruise ship, most of the people by the pool look.... well.... catch my drift?
The Catholic Boat is gonna be heading out today! The Catholic Boat! Time to throw all of your cares away! Get some hot Christian action that will-AHHHHHHHHHH!
Over 6 million people have viewed this video and only 9,000 votes? I think the majority of folks just enjoyed hearing this wonderful song from a better time. Thank God for the music made in the 60's and 70's. We can travel back in time recall our favorite memories from that period. Thank you puntadeleste for posting it!
I loved to watch the TV Series and the song was always a favorite of mine. "Love Boat" did more for promoting the desire in people to go on a Cruise Vacation than all the advertising combined put out by the Cruise Lines.
They had to add in that extra musical beginning because there were so many guests! The best! Miss this era...so simple and sweet. xoxo The Clarences (robert, erin & leslie)
This is the TV show that made me fall in love with cruises. My first cruise was actually a Princess from Venice to Barcelona, in 1985 I think. Back then, ships didn't have as many amenities, the arcade only had a few machines, but I still manage to have a great time.
I use to watch this back when I was a kid, and loved every bloody minute of it. I even wanted to grow up faster, so I could board the ship to find the love of my life. And I asked my mom once, if this was a real ship in which people could sail on. She said yes, that it actually was, and that many of the people in the show was just simple passengers of that ship. Course I think it was mostly filmed on a building that was designed to look like a boat, but who knows it was a good show none the less. And I for one miss old shows like this.
Wonderful memories as a young boy growing up in Manchester England I used only dream off what it would be like to go on a cruise 🚢 I thought it was only for the very wealthy people now I’ve been fortunate to have taken my daughter on 20 cruises so we can make beautiful memories ❤ together
I guess Ray Baby that only time will tell if that would happen. But I surely hope that Hollywood can bring back the likable & adorable episodes of The Love Boat to a new generation.
This song reminds me that i'm getting old. Sitting on the couch as a kid watching the show, wedged inbetween mom and dad. Now mom and dad are both gone, but the memories will remain forever.
I don't know exactly what brought me here. I'm gonna go with nostalgia. And if you didn't point back at 1:25, there is a hole in your soul. You always knew who Isaac was gonna hook up with by watching the special guest star credits and seeing if a black actress would appear on that episode.
Born in 1978, I grew up with The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dallas, CHIPS, Hart To Hart, Three's Company etc......good shows that made you escape reality. Now reality is crammed down our throats with all these trashy reality shows they churn out a dime a dozen.
