The one on the left (if YouTube vids are embedded in the E-mail) is Chuck. The one on the right (the titles of "Brothers and Sisters") has a soundalike of the ELO version.
<http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Doug Fields <[email protected]> wrote: > Nope. That is, indeed, the original Chuck Berry version of the song. > > Doug Fields > Tampa, FL > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Timko > Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 1:49 PM > To: TV or Not TV <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Which shows used rock classics as theme > songs? > > This is "Rollover Beethoven" but I'm pretty sure it's not Chuck Berry's > version. Different voice and different guitar. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrMg3pY7hw > Hey Donz, are you reading this thread? Any guess on who covered "Rollover > Beethoven" for the TV show? > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > The passing today of the great Chuck Berry has reminded me of the > > first instance I can recall of a rock classic used as a theme song: > > > > "Brothers and Sisters," a short-lived 1979 comedy set at a > > hard-partying college fraternity house - one of three short-lived > > shows that year inspired by (or ripped off from) the movie "Animal > > House" - used Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" as its theme. > > The arrangement sounded suspiciously like ELO's version, with > > fragments of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony at the beginning and end: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96TcPqSFqhI > > > > > > > > On Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 3:52:46 PM UTC-4, Steve Timko wrote: > >> > >> Eating my St. Patrick's Day lunch of corned beef and cabbage and red > >> potatoes, the restaurant's Sirius classic rock channel started > >> playing ELO's "Fire on High." Sitting at a nearby table, a couple of > >> young teens liked the song and asked what it was. Their grandfather > >> (maybe > >> great-grandfather) said he had heard it before but didn't know it. > >> I named the song and said CBS Sports used to use it for their theme > >> song. He remembered that was where he heard it before. > >> > >> It is a rockin' song. I'm an ELO fan, though. Someone else used > >> Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Fanfare for the Common Man," I can't > >> remember which sports show that was. > >> What other rock songs have been used a regular theme songs? I don't > >> mean one-offs, like "The Sopranos" used to do. > >> The CSI franchise uses Who songs. "the Apprentice" uses "Money." > >> Creedence Clearwater Revival has a couple of songs that seem like > >> good candidates for TV show theme songs. > > > > -- > > -- > > TV or Not TV .... 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