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sarry to hear that, used to see this show in the 80's a very young kid I was and always liked the sounds of the song its kind of late night sounding like the theme for taxi, but further more, i have the memory of the cut scenes of cincy with the statue with the water comming off it called the water genious thinking for years it was a statue of the blessed mother and it reminded me of a mini plastic statue of her we had in the bedroom of my perants on the dresser this very room I type this message which is not and has been for 20 years the computer room. but I will also say this song remindes me of when some people that put on conventions that are based out of cincinati would put on a con in fort wayne called ikasucon that started out there but moved it due to a better deal and more venue room, and to the time I went to my second one in 2009 had to miss 2008 as was on vacation of lifetime in rome italy as my graduation gift and got back the day it was over but in 2009 the third year it was here in indiana I competed in my first skit competition and won a judges choice award, and I had soo much fun that weekend a few weeks after saw wkrp in syndication on wgn chicago and reminded me of my new friends from cincinati that put on the convention and lead me to explore more of it and the sights and I learned about the over the rhine district and so on and wanted to hear this song again and saw somone put a music video togather of sights using this song as a welcome to guests for some other convention or meetup. fast forward to 2017 it was the last time the con was held here and covid put a kabosh on it for the last 2 years its been going on 6 years now I yearn to see my friends and staff from cincy again and have fun with like minded anime and manga fans in my back yard, this song only wants me to yearn more for it to come back.

I'm also 48 and lost both of my parents and that's what brought me here!!

Hurts no less. Lost the love of my life now going on five years.

Same, but in my case not recently, I'm 58. I know that kind of feelings .. 🥺 Greetz from the Netherlands.

No I get sad because it makes me remember ppl I lost

It's sad because they don't do TV show openings like this that much these days.

All that...plus, back then people weren't completely Frikking Mental!! Like today.

Hagfan789 Agreed.

The 4th Horseman me, too....I get blue inside when I hear these old theme songs....I really miss those days....

Well said, I think anyone who grew up in the 80's know this even if they don't want to admit it

I bawl my eyes out. I miss my childhood.

agreed....Today after I heard of Howard Hesseman's passing, I just came here to hear that tune once again. If was simpler and more innocent back then.

Totally agree.

Yes

Childhood is pretty simple now if you put the Devil, I mean the phone, behind you.

​@@chipcook5346 I remember when people in my town protested pornographic magazines being sold in my large suburb's gas station store. Like with pickets and people marching. This was the 1990s. Mind-blowing to see casinos, marijuana, all-over porn, transvestites pushed as the keys to happiness along with vaping. No one talks about this. Happy we were taught "1984" in schools before today's Marxist class warfare was adopted. Kids haven't changed at all.

Yes it was

Excatly right!! Good times!!!

Not only real shows but actual theme songs. I mean with this theme song, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Jeffersons, etc. hearing that theme song at the beginning was a big part of the viewing experience. These days shows either have no theme song or the song is only a few seconds.

Given the melancholy of the song, it makes you wonder if losing her was worth gaining himself.

*price for

I can relate to that line big time (it is "The price..." not 'cost') . We broke up while in college after a one year courtship (the same year WKRP first aired... Maybe you and me were never meant to be , but baby think of me once in awhile"), but somehow navigating through time, distance and circumstances 33 years later we got married.

@@rcnelson I think of that too

@@michaelalexander43 Get out of here, wow!! Imagine that after all those years.

And there's apps like TUBI

@@kshelaanofelaas1967facts it’s like shows from the 50 to the present I love it

100%

Yes

Amen to that brother

🔖

True

True..a rock kind of guy with a disco name!!😊🎸🎶

when did he die?

@@mrfivegold January 29 2022

@@fanofallaroundaudreyandjus544 damn, sorry to hear that.

Have to agree, great character. Being totally honest, as a teenager at the time, Loni Anderson was the big draw!

Hey thanks for sharing your story. Working on and appearing on WKRP is special indeed! ❤ you're lucky you got to be apart of TV history!! I'm jelly. Coolest story.

What was it like working on that show. And did you realize what a great show it was.

I drove a big rig for some years, and we always moved around.

@@waynejohanson1083 it was four of the best experiences of my life working for MTM Enterprises. First time was for their show RHODA (a spin-off of the original Mary Tyler Moore Show) and 3 times working for WKRP, although only appearing once on the show. Playing the lawyer character Elgar Neece in the episode titled "Mike Fright' where Dr. Fever told people to dump their garbage on the steps of City Hall. MTM was a fantastic company for which I credit the 2 founders (Mary Tyler Moore and her husband, Grant Tinker) for setting the stage by hiring great people. MTM should be an example to other companies on how to create and run a company. Some of the best experiences of my life.

@@Bummerdrummer463 you're welcome. As I replied to someone else here, working for the MTM "family" was a very special opportunity. I remain grateful to Mary (Tyler Moore), her husband (Grant Tinker) and Hugh Wilson (the creator and executive producer of WKRP) for creating the situation where I could work for them. The role of the lawyer that I played on WKRP was created specifically for me to play by Hugh and Dan Guntzelman, who was the Head Writer on WKRP. I am still grateful to all of them along with the cast members I shared screen time with, Gordon Jump, Gary Sandy, Loni Anderson and Frank Bonner.

It's Andy...

The theme is pretty darn good. But the TV show was honestly overrated.

@@Huskerbrotha No it was't. They are an amazing ensemble cast. Hard to find one better. Brilliant. EVERY single charcater is memorable. Overrated lol smh

@@DJRitty Well my dude, I can respect and appreciate your opinion on that matter. I truly do. I also truly disagree with your assessment. But, glad you enjoyed the show. That is all that matters. Enjoy your day!

Actually the lyrics to the song or gibberish the guy that wrote the song was the one that did the thing and everything for the show and he said that he could say anything and it would be acceptable so he did

Yes and Worth Saving

You are not alone classic show classic theme great cast as well👍

It does sort of exude nostalgia. I listened to it 20 years ago and felt nostalgic, now I listen to it and feel nostalgic about listening to it 20 years ago and feeling nostalgic.

You're not alone! I miss those simpler, kinder days.

I know what you mean I feel the same way

I remember you. We were doing the same thing at the same time in different neighborhoods---like a parallel universe. Been there; done that. You're right : "oh, the memories."

Yes, it was!! 😢😢

.25? Oh my goodness , I remember giving that old bastard a dime for a cicle'!!

Onher2911 Yes Lawd

I still do all that stuff

centralparocker Don't be so sure! Retro Wave is a new genre of music that is very successfully recreating that 1980's action movie sound, so maybe somebody will do something similar for some 1970's styles --- it could happen .... and even if it doesn't, we still have great classics like the WKRP theme :-D

+StillAtMyMoms Never heard this before could be im in UK

+jacky Parker You missed the greatest sitcom from the 70s. Every episode absolutely hilarious.

+jacky Parker WKRP in Cincinnati was shown in the UK in 1983-4 by Channel 4 and also on ITV 1987-8 during the early hours of the morning, I do remember seeing it at the time and thinking it was very good, but haven't seen it since on tv over here.

StillAtMyMoms bring back the 1970s

better simpler times,people say dont hold onto past.its hard sometimes

Dr. Johnny Fever is now with showrunner Hugh Wilson, Herb (Frank Bonner) and The Big Guy (Gordon Jump).

Doctor Detroit will be forgotten.

Doctor Johnny Fever is my hero.

Same with Frank Bonner and Gordon Jump.

Yes most definitely so

So true, so true

Probably when radio was good to listen to.

***** Yes, before RW talk radio ruined it.

mary love The DJ's are not even allowed to play anything they want, these days.

And a happier time!

Still missing the man.

Sweet

Freeda Jackson With all these channels Im glad they find room for these old shows, my tv they play reruns of Brady Bunch, Leave it to Beaver, Beverly Hillbillies, Patty Duke, Happy Days, even PARTRIDGE FAMILY. I rember going to lots of 70s concerts

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"... one of the funniest lines,ever!

LOL

Well, as God as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly.

Why yes, I agree.

@Noah Partic The full version was a single.

I haven't either. I didn't realize there was a full version.

Sir, you are shallow and pedantic... :-)

I bought the 45 for my mom on eBay

Amen.

For Dr. Johnny Fever I proclaim....#BOOGER!!!!!

Don't forget "VENUS FLYTRAP!" PLAYED BY TIM REID

Later had a cameo on the New WKRP episode where he became one of the publishers of Black Enterprise Magazine.

I know turkeys do fly because I have seen them perched on low tree branches. How well they fly is another question.

don't you just love the lyrics in the closing song.

@@hulaGUNZ Intentional nonsense lyrics, and a very good match to the music. Some say it was humor based how a lot of people can't make out the lyrics to rock music anyway. // Many TV shows -- comedy and drama -- have opening theme music that's livelier than the closing, which is sometimes more sedate. But in the case of WKRP, the closing theme has noticeably more energy than the opening.

How do I find this recording? I tried on Itunes they don't have it. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I worked for Steve for 15 years in Atlanta. Cool guy.

leftctin99 👍👍👌

I concur

And taxi

& “Greatest American Hero” & also, relisten to “Chico & the man” (I forgot how good that song was until KZfaq)

Bummer...loved that guy

Complications of Lewy Body Dementia ended Estelle Getty's life in 2008. She played Bea Arthur's mom in "The Golden Girls." LBD also drove Robin Williams to suicide in 2014. Like Estelle, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, but his autopsy showed Lewy Body Dementia. Rest in peace, Frank. He has joined Gordon Jump, who played station manager Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson. He died in 2003.

He was part of a great cast what a funny shiw

☹ 😢

Johnny Fever died today

MrPisster I agree. If someone were to writethis song TODAY, with that instrumentation, arrangement, and chord choices - they would be thought of as NUTS. Solid stufff

MrPisster yeah but this particular theme isn't from 1978. It's from 1981. I'm trying to find the full version from 1978 but I can't....

MrPisster =/

Definitely a sound that cannot be duplicated anymore. That area had some true artists. I even recall the late Syd Dale as one of the biggest makers of theme songs from that era.

Love this theme, I hear shades of "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind from 1966, another favorite.

Word. I hated the show but somehow I am thankfully for the nostalgia good, bad or indifferent. R.I.P. Howard Hessman

This was the 70s ,,

Was Howard Hessman "Mr. Plaid?"

I love this story. What a smart and soulful dude that musician was! Thanks for sharing! 🤔😂🤗❤️

Wow. That's crazy, but I totally get it.

Youre right my friend this does carry some kind of magic and most wont will not understand it but its only for the far and few..thanks god bless..p.s i already new this was a very special song..

Bridget, I think a lot of us miss our childhood. I know that I cry sometimes when I become nostalgic for the "old days". And, I'm 58! Peace to you, stranger.

@@hugejohnson5011 Im glad to hear I'm not the only one, who misses their childhood! I get emotional and teary eyed, as well! Thank you for the comment & peace, love, & happiness to you🥰!

+kasey westbrook "Oh, the humanity!!"

+Avery D Les' Mr. Macho hairpiece scene was pretty fucking funny too. "Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see, I've got fever of 103..." Or Carlson's cocaine/foot powder mix up: "I've got a monkey on my foot!"

Lol!

one of the funniest episodes of anything I've ever seen

LOVE THAT EPISODE! I recently downloaded it from iTunes. Still watch it today.

This song makes me happy and sad at the same time..........BTW: Love Britain and the British people!! Hip, Hip, Hurray!!

Aired 1st in Sept 1978 ,,,

@@theodoreritola7641 We got it slightly later in Great Britain, perhaps a couple of years to cross the Atlantic... It was just so different to British TV, a real viewing experience !

Since when is the Atlantic Ocean a pond? it's hyperbole in reverse!

@@spectrum10 It is just an expression we regularly use here in Great Britain. Just a way of speaking.

Eric B it comes on no in Washington D.C. were im at✌

Eric B If your interested its on Directv channel 67

I still do

NOT REALLY APPROPRIATE FOR A CHILD. MIND CONTROL.

I loved this.show...

He will be missed a lot.

70's and 80's Absolutely.

@Sasha Harney Toddler, yep I do! :)

@Sasha Harney Cool! ;)

You know what...I might AGREE with you on that. I'll put it up as greatest sitcom ep ever. If there is ONE episode that INSTANTLY pops into mind when I think 'holiday episode' it's the WKRP Thanksgiving ep. SO man favorite x-mas episodes I watch every year but I do Halloween and Thanksgiving ones too and it is a MUST above all other episodes. Good call.

Never saw it. What's it aboot?

and the true magic of that episode, even though it was *television*, was that "the scene" was all in the viewer's mind! Epic, wonderful writing!

Still is honestly!

@@zapkvr It's on KZfaq...search "WKRP Turkeys Away" and prepare to die laughing!!!

Bargain Hunters Paradise ☺

Metv plays wkrp at 9:30est

Me too!

Is there such a station?

Bargain Hunters Paradise Me2

that's true

only the first verse was used

Gore Elohim this is ausome man

Gore Elohim good

you hit it on the nose. This song was so deep, I actually cried while the entire song was playing

"The price of finding me was losing you" was my favorite line as well.

Those were my two favorite parts. I hear this song, at least 5 times a week. On our "me channel" here in new bern, n.c.....

The price of finding me was losing you gives me chills.

Everyone was stoned and deep man lol

It's a good song but it has almost nothing to do with the show, lol

Canada sucks

Amen

James Janota I agree with you 1000%.

It was a great America.Unlike today!

We all miss the American era we grew up with.

Hello siri lol

I thought that was Larry Carlton..wow

When this was in first run and I was a kid, I always thought this was Richard Sanders singing it. Voices have a similar quality

I thought it was Larry Carlton as well. The bass player sounds like Abraham Laboriel and the keyboardist sounds like Harlan Rogers' (Koinonia) style. I know Rick Hinkle and he is like an East Coast version of Larry Carlton.

Susan Bennett you kn them all Beautiful!!!😀

I did go..

Nobody wants to go to ohio

NO, This Show made me want to go to Ossipee, Conway known as Glen, Pittsburg, NH, Lancaster, NH and Stewartstown!!!

Sheels1976 Same here, this show made working at a radio station seem cool!

Me too. Maybe that was the purpose of the show. But there was no radio station called WKRP til recently there.

AMEN!!!

Susan you got that SO RIGHT!! HOOAH from Jack Northwest Wildlife Online

1979 all over again for me..

Truth.

Well put Susan !

Published on May 8, 2007

Hell yeah!!!

Could be...but WKRP came out in 1978. LOL

That is true but still a part of the 80s, just like Dukes of Hazzard

B-Jo hey man the seventies were up there..

Far from it. The 80s were tacky. The only Good thing to come out of the 80s was..... ME

So true. especially the part about up and down the dial.

When I was in high school, all I wanted to do was be a radio personality. Unfortunately, 1994 was the beginning of the end for small stations, thanks to Cumulus (and even today with iheartradio). By the time I got out of the AF, the days of one person behind a mic with stacks of wax and a pot of black coffee to keep them going were long gone. But thank you for keeping so many of us company.

In my opinion, iHeartRadio has done more to kill terrestrial radio than Sirius/XM, Cumulus and any other radio conglomerate ever created combined. It is sad Chase that if you indeed have talent that you were denied your dream due to the "homogenizing and sanitizing" of radio signals here in the United States. I would so love to see iHeartRadio crash, burn and die.

so basically there is NO THERE for anyone to even TRY to get into radio now.. it's more about those doing it for years and years trying to hang on to their jobs? what about non profit radio or news only radio? or is it all about trying to have one's podcast and try to get advertisement (and making money) that way?....

Sounds like really awesome life full of adventure.....

+D Turner I love this song, but it's kind of funny because if you listen to it, it's a real sad song. Wonder why they decided to use these lyrics.

+Joseph Delledonne Maybe because many DJ's have been in this situation. Look at the Howard Stern film Private Parts.

+reghanlee. Promise me one thing buddy...please...Call Kristi and tell her how you feel...she is probably your destiny and soulmate...I came back to UK after having returned to Canada because my destiny was here and I am happier now...I really regretted the time I was apart from her. Some things just cannot be helped..and if after 20...20 years you still feel the "pain! like it was yesterday then buddy...go for it! What is stopping you other than yourself?

So true. Up and down the dial is so accurate

Dr. Johnny Fever was based on Skinny Bobby Harper a DJ in Atlanta Georgia

Sounds like you had an interesting life my friend....

I was 2 years old when wkrp in Cincinnati is in the 1st season

glad u dig it like me but u music snobs r just like movie snobs u critque and nitpick so fuckin much do ppl like u actually enjoy music or is it all boring math to u? im just curuios

jason chaney Absolutely I enjoy music, which I why I notice when it isn't done right (and also when it IS). As you can tell, I'm an analytical kind of person.

Captain Quirk ok ty for answrerin i was just curuios im more right brained abstarct kinda though process

Kickass intro and outro. The intro sounds like easy listening pop music and then the outro sounds like heavy rock music.

+Captain Quirk You're clearly a guitarist lol I was thinking about it like you as well. Reminded me of that Larry Carlton feel of guitar playing

Great song for a criminally underrated show. Gotta love the old theme songs from the 1970s & 1980s.

No,not just great my friend it's one of the most amazing theme songs ever made and that is an understatement..thanks God bless

@@werearethedreamteam3724 I can't disagree with you on that. 👍

Hell yea

3 years since your posted and music hasn't changed. smh. Stiil sucks.

@@crodriguez2360 you're not lying. The music scene, at least in the mainstream, is still looking sad.

The lyrics were written by show creator Hugh Wilson when he found out how much he'd make in syndication. According to a panel interview, it paid for his farm.

Absolutely