"We're gonna turn it on..."
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damontAt Ludus on Monday night, the conversation got injected with quotes from the title song to The Electric Company -- the classic 1970s sketch comedy version of course. *grin* Which got ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fuzzface00 and me to thinking about maybe playing the title song on Bomb Shelter Radio.
Do you know how hard it is to convince YouTube to show you a link to the ONLY full version of the title song? Yes, I said only full version. My memory was slightly faulty, as I'd thought the first season opening used the whole song. But the only episode that actually did was the *pilot* -- which was broadcast on Channel 13 in September (or maybe very early October) of 1971. (Episode 1 aired on 25 October.) I'm not sure how many stations ever aired the pilot -- but Fuzz and I both lived in the Channel 13 viewing area.
So, in case people want to know what the full original version of the song sounded (and looked) like: here it is. (EDIT 25Nov19: the video is gone. *cries*)
A lot of the video for the opening sequence was re-used in the first season opening, but the song was re-made. Here is Rita Moreno introducing the opening and first sketch of Show #1. (EDIT 13Jul13: Damn, it's now been taken down. Here is a link to the opening credits for season 1 episode 10.) (EDIT 25Nov19: Somebody uploaded The Best Of The Electric Company Season 1, so Moreno's intro and the first episode are right at the beginning of this video until someone takes it down.) For the Season 2 opening (see an example here), the backing track of the Season 1 song was used again but remixed, and new vocals were recorded; the video of the opening was completely redone.
fuzzface00 and me to thinking about maybe playing the title song on Bomb Shelter Radio.Do you know how hard it is to convince YouTube to show you a link to the ONLY full version of the title song? Yes, I said only full version. My memory was slightly faulty, as I'd thought the first season opening used the whole song. But the only episode that actually did was the *pilot* -- which was broadcast on Channel 13 in September (or maybe very early October) of 1971. (Episode 1 aired on 25 October.) I'm not sure how many stations ever aired the pilot -- but Fuzz and I both lived in the Channel 13 viewing area.
So, in case people want to know what the full original version of the song sounded (and looked) like: here it is. (EDIT 25Nov19: the video is gone. *cries*)
A lot of the video for the opening sequence was re-used in the first season opening, but the song was re-made. Here is Rita Moreno introducing the opening and first sketch of Show #1. (EDIT 13Jul13: Damn, it's now been taken down. Here is a link to the opening credits for season 1 episode 10.) (EDIT 25Nov19: Somebody uploaded The Best Of The Electric Company Season 1, so Moreno's intro and the first episode are right at the beginning of this video until someone takes it down.) For the Season 2 opening (see an example here), the backing track of the Season 1 song was used again but remixed, and new vocals were recorded; the video of the opening was completely redone.
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Date: 2010-04-21 09:51 pm (UTC)Seasons 5 and 6 got placed in a rerun rotation on PBS, which continued into the mid-1980s, so those are the shows most people will remember. Being an old-school Channel 13 watcher, the seasons I remember best are seasons 1 and 2, when we still lived in New Jersey. After we moved to PA I did see the odd episode of seasons 5-6 with my kid sister, on the rare occasions I didn't have after-school activities.