WKRP ending credits -- there were a LOT of guest stars this episode!

[Darren Dirt]

Quite the "Too Many Cooks" feel to this ep, and yet strangely I feel like I remember seeing it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhAfXTzR2rQ

...

via https://boingboing.net/2018/03/18/the-wkrp-in-cincinnati-clo.html
[ wouldn't be awesome to have the above original song in this mix of soft rock classics: https://twitter.com/ChrisJPatty/status/1078065910487760896 -- via BoingBoing as well]

[Darren Dirt]

There is another version, sorta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkgyS3TqziI

"
Hugh Wilson, working for MTM Enterprises, created WKRP in Cincinnati and hired Tom Wells to write and produce original music for the show. Tom, in turn, hires me to arrange and orchestrate the opening theme that he and Hugh had written, and to write a rock and roll closing theme. I had originally written the closer to be an instrumental, but on the day of recording, I began joking around singing the melody that the saxophone would eventually play. Of course, there were no lyrics and I was just scatting gibberish. Well, Hugh and Tom thought that was funny, and that it made a joke about the general unintelligibility of rock lyrics. So, out with the sax and in with Jim Ellis' only professional job as lead singer. Not bad if you're only going to have one.

And the lyrics were--more or less--we think...

Went to this bartender thirsty tonight, uh yeah,
                 Said to her "good morning" and a microphone in her heart.
   I said ? Goodbye madam I've had a bird in hand.
I said ? I'm doin' good and put love in her heart.

                (In the first line, "thirsty tonight" could be "Thursday night.")
"


See also "mad tooth bar chin-up" interpretation...
https://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Ellis/_/WKRP+In+Cincinnati+End+Credits



Many have tried, even though the dude even admitted he made up gibberish words!
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/wkrpincincinnaticlosingtheme.shtml

[Darren Dirt]

Dammit I can not believe that show was almost 40 years ago.

Fan base still going strong. Damn I forgot what a classic rock time that was.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aPknTArNTYM9YdosE0Icd

"WKRP In Cincinnati. Wasn't that a great show? Here's as much of the original music from the show that I could find on Spotify."
(209 SONGS)




All right, Cincinnati, it is time for this town to get down!

You've got Johnny... Doctor Johnny Fever, and I am burnin' up in here! Whoa! Whoo!

We all in critical condition, babies, but you can tell me where it hurts, because I got the healing prescription here from the big 'KRP musical medicine cabinet.

Now I am talking about your 50,000 watt intensive care unit, babies!

So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide and say, "Give it to me straight, Doctor. I can take it!"


ps:

Spoiler

BOOGER!

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/14/someone-tracked-all-the-songs.html

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[Mr. Analog]

Ahh a classic show to be sure though I wish they had gotten the music rights because some jokes when you watch with the soundalikes just aren't the same

"Do you hear dogs barking on that thing?"

https://youtu.be/qYQ-g99V_cQ