Television's Greatest Hits: 65 TV Themes! From the '50s and '60s is a compilation album of television theme songs released by Tee-Vee Toons in 1985 as the first volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. It was initially released as a double LP record featuring 65 themes from television shows ranging from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s.[1]
Television's Greatest Hits: 65 TV Themes! From the '50s and '60s | ||||
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Compilation album by Various | ||||
Released | 1985 | |||
Label | TVT Records | |||
Various chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
The album catalog was later acquired by Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Los Angeles-based Oglio Records announced they were releasing the Television's Greatest Hits song catalog after entering into an arrangement Bicycle. A series of 9 initial "6-packs" including some of the songs from the album has been announced for 2011.[2]
The album's content varied from the original 1985 LP and cassette releases to the later CD re-release. Don Pardo "hosted" the original LP and cassette versions with spoken segments at the start of the album and at the end of each side, resulting in five tracks exclusive to the analog formats:
NOTE: An asterisk (*) designates a track that was re-recorded for either a later season of the TV show, a single/album by the theme song artist or this album. A double asterisk (**) denotes a track exclusive to the record and cassette versions only, and, except for the Japanese release on CBS/Sony, do not show up on any CD version.
Alongside Television's Greatest Hits Volume II, the compilation was described by CD Review as "organized as a theoretical average viewing day". CD Review jokingly commented that the compilation would be "highly effective during interrogations" by the FBI.[42]