Absolutely one of the best theme songs of all time!

@fashionandluxury101

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@davidbrown386

Жыл бұрын

The Quinn Martin shows all had good theme songs.

@tgriffin3059

Жыл бұрын

I loved it, too. The openings of old tv shows were often better than the shows, themselves. I always loved the old Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew opening(with the maze). That opening was almost ALWAYS better than the hour that followed. Shows like Barnaby Jones and Hawaii 5-0 had brilliant openings...they both set the stage for what was intended to follow...

@d.owczarzak6888

9 ай бұрын

Agreed !

@lawrencebenjamin502

4 ай бұрын

By FAR !!

I was born in 1961 and I remember watching these great early 70's detective series on the black and white 405 line tv, brings back early teenage memories

@drganesan62

Жыл бұрын

The 70s had many great tv shows

@alexanderwyllie7334

Жыл бұрын

I was born in Nov 61 . Tvs not the same now . The themes were so much better bk then woth the best composers in the business ! Goldsmith , Barry , Grusin , Williams , Schifrin etc etc !

@joanneblack7697

Жыл бұрын

​@@alexanderwyllie7334 Agreed!

@joanneblack7697

Жыл бұрын

Great music, great tv.

@brucedepuyt3127

8 ай бұрын

@@alexanderwyllie7334Amen. Born Oct. ‘61.

I loved the announcer. "Barnaby Jones", a QM Production. Tonight's episode, Rise To Death!

@terrelll.howard8660

3 жыл бұрын

Hank Sims is one of the very best!!

@MegaKamandi

3 жыл бұрын

tonights episode the hairy ball sack lol

@joannabrown5577

2 жыл бұрын

@@MegaKamandi 😂😂😂

@puppydogpalsfan8494

2 жыл бұрын

yeah! police squad spoofed it very funny

@puppydogpalsfan8494

2 жыл бұрын

very funny show police squad

This was the era of greatest American TV theme songs!

French horns definitely make this theme song a standout. Love the sound of the flute throughout the song.

@kathleenflute

3 жыл бұрын

Learned the flute back then and used to try and play along with the TV show! Lol

@terrelll.howard8660

3 жыл бұрын

yes!!

@stephenericwalsh

4 ай бұрын

And the bass

@Blufftown

18 күн бұрын

The piano does it for me.

Despite the fact that I was only single digit age (I was born in 1970), I loved THIS era of TV 📺 Crime Shows growing up.

@9675775

5 жыл бұрын

It sounds like you have good taste. You might also enjoy an even earlier great TV Crime Drama Series, "Highway Patrol",starring Broderick Crawford. It's from the 50s.

@kaharold

5 жыл бұрын

SAME HERE !!

@jennifersmith1575

4 жыл бұрын

Me too 😁

@patriciaguth6882

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree that these type of shows were the best. But they're too "soft" to be shown on the rerun networks today (except in the early a.m. hours) unless you catch a weekend binge of them on Decades Network, which from time to time runs Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Mannix, and several others. I never miss them!

Buddy Ebsen knew how to reinvent himself.

Barnaby Jones is streaming now on prime and no commercials and loving it.

My family grew up watching the show but my brothers and I loved the theme. Lee Meriwether and Buddy Ebsen were the best.

@shawnpa

Жыл бұрын

Great actors.

@fashionandluxury101

Жыл бұрын

Agree❤

That was one of hardest French Horn parts ever to play!!... U go from the..blast to staccato and back again over and over till the song ends!!... Whew!!... Lol

I would watch the show for the opening and ending themes.

Barnaby Jones is on weeknights at 4 am on MeTV. YAAAAYYY!!!!

@s.l.patterson4929

3 жыл бұрын

I see somebody else is watching!!

@heydazey

3 жыл бұрын

3 am Central. 😉

Wonderful theme

Man I love this song! Brings back memories.

@andrewjwheelerjr275

4 жыл бұрын

It sure does I miss it so very much 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.

@barbararichmond2167

4 жыл бұрын

Me, too.

@melvinthomas3884

3 жыл бұрын

The best television show theme song ever!!!

@williamhaggard451

2 жыл бұрын

Late night after Cannon METV was pretty cool ..

@rachel112263

Жыл бұрын

@@williamhaggard451 It's still on MeTV after Cannon, at 4 am est.

TV shows had such great theme songs, once upon a time. 😃

@jubalcalif9100

4 жыл бұрын

Amen to that ! This is one of my all time faves ! :-)

Brings back memories of a time when TV shows had intelligent writers, as well as good characters and stories.

A magnificent and brilliant piece of music!

@chrismc.4437

4 ай бұрын

Pure jazz, although I don't share your same level of enthusiasm.

I've always loved this theme song-- especially the bass, drums, and woodwinds.

@sandrasanders706

3 жыл бұрын

Loved the piano part..one of the few times I wish I could play piano..this song would be one of them!

@forrestrivers1792

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, for me it’s the bass all the way to the end. Where did the great theme songs go? Today’s a bunch of synthesized crap.

Jerry Goldsmith theme...met him twice..NYC/LA...great guy!

God bless the 70s

When television themes were actually good.

@terrelll.howard8660

3 жыл бұрын

Real good

@scottmiller6495

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrelll.howard8660 Absolutely Barnaby Jones and The Fugitive above fantastic !!!!!

@puppydogpalsfan8494

2 жыл бұрын

yep

@shawnpa

Жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorites. It's unique.

those french horns though!!!!!!! those rips are awesome

@theresa42213

3 жыл бұрын

Michael ~ YUP! Lovely piece indeed! l'm into the Prog dudes, and listen to stuff like Bruford, Hackett, Zappa, Wakeman. l remembered this one from when l was a child! ...45 years ago.

@terrelll.howard8660

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, what sweet sounds.

jerry goldsmith hit it with this one.

Always loved this theme, the horns are the boss

Gotta love the composition by Jerry Goldsmith and the signature performance of the Wrecking Crew. Carol Kaye's bass-line gives it away, but the whole group is strong and a keystone to so many fantastic albums, themes, and commercials. There will never be another like that group.

@my2011soul

5 жыл бұрын

You will soon be able to order a cd from www.screenarchives.com and get the music from this series as well as Quinn Martin's other shows. Search for the Quinn Martin Collection. I received an email that pre orders are now accepted.

@rogerscottcathey

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, recognized Kaye's bass from a million miles away.

@rogerscottcathey

Жыл бұрын

Jim Horn on flute presumably?

I wasn’t around when this show came out, but I love the music

I miss the 1970’s, it wasn’t all milk and honey, yet enjoyed this series, that catchy theme tune. And there were others from the US at the time here in the UK, it’s now 2020, and only the Americans could make classics like this.

@christophersantana5895

3 жыл бұрын

SO DO I.

@jacksugden8190

5 ай бұрын

@@christophersantana5895Better still the 1960’s

Barnaby Jones, McMillan & Wife, Cannon, The Rockford Files, The Streets Of San Francisco, Columbo, McCloud, Banacek, The FBI, Police Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, Quincy, M.E., Kojak and so many more. I want to go back and visit my 9 to 16 year old self and watch these all again for the first time. :)

@mw7584

4 жыл бұрын

Dan August was a cool theme too.

Jerry Goldsmith

To bad they can't do anything like this anymore

Happy 50th Birthday Anniversary to the classic Crime fighting TV Series "Barnaby Jones" RIP Buddy Ebsen🖤❤️🍇🍒🤍❤️💙🖤💙🤍

The 70s!! The best!! Watching Barnaby Jones and eating popcorn!

I can remember when I was a little one, going to see my sister in the high school orchestra and they played this song. Very cool.

@patriciaguth6882

4 жыл бұрын

It is cool when school bands or orchestras play big-time tunes. My school's orchestra played (at a school assembly) "Love's Theme" (Barry White/Love Unlimited) from the top 40 radio play, and even the deadheads were blown away!

underrated song!!! love it just as much as the show. show is pretty well written.

@jubalcalif9100

4 жыл бұрын

I have a notion to second that emotion ! :-)

Greatest tv theme ever.

Bass guitars were the hero back in the 70s...damn.. I wanna play like that haha

QM was a high class act. It's no accident Ebsen and so many other actors with high standards worked with them. I did some of their legal work over the twenty one season's they had product on the air. Professional and always on budget and on time.

One of the greatest Crime Drama Shows of all time ! It was on for 8 seasons because it was great. The acting, the music and the guest stars along with the fabulous Buddy Ebsen, quality all the way and of course produced by Quinn Martin need I say more !!!!!!!!!!

@petecapravos617

11 ай бұрын

It's hard to go wrong when choosing to watch a "QM Production". Quinn Martin put out a lot of shows through the 1960's up to 1980.

The bell that sounds on the off beat is just great!

@sandrasanders706

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite part of the song!!

@Mycroft9

3 жыл бұрын

It was added in later seasons when the theme was rearranged

@rachel112263

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mycroft9 I've listened to this theme a million times and just recently started actually watching the episodes, which I really like. So far, I've seen all of season 1 and 2. I've been recording them from MeTV and have season 8. Boy, they really butchered the theme!! Yes, the bell is a welcome enhancement, but the other changes really bug me.

@rachel112263

Жыл бұрын

Hi Mycroft9. Season 7's opening theme is the best. It highlights the bass and drums. Just beautiful.

The only reason I'm 13 and know about Barnaby Jones is cause at my grandma's I stay up late and my grandpa puts it on at 4:00am and I watch it sometes

I'd never noticed that crucial piano ostinato when hearing it on TV. Such a well-arranged and executed piece.

I can remember my dad watching this show in the. 70s! And me listening to this song in my room while I was rolling a number! Thanks Barnaby for all the good times in the 70s! My dad never knew we was getting stoned upstairs because he was watching this show with all the other ones!! LMAO 😅😂!

Fantastic and Unforgettable TV theme. A Fabulous Treasure. Certainly one of the most memorable of all time.

Back when you could watch TV as a family

Love that rhythm guitar's wacka kuhm wacka kuhm

One of the best… shows and theme song!

I wish they still showed Barnaby Jones on cablevision in Long Island, ny. I like this show !!!

@sandrafowler8633

9 ай бұрын

Streaming now on prime.

You can't have a weak show with a theme song like this.

Over the past week, I've been hearing a tune in my head. I could not figure out what it was or why I was hearing it. Today, it dawned on me that what I was hearing (in my head) was a theme from a 70s show; then it occurred to me that what I was hearing might be the theme from Barnaby Jones. KZread to the rescue! What a relief to finally "name that tune". Now, to figure out why, some 4 decades since I last saw the show, the Barnaby Jones theme was playing in my head, LOL. I don't remember much about the program, except that I always loved the theme. Mind and memory are a mysterious thing!

@rachel112263

2 жыл бұрын

It's playing in your head because it's very beautiful and you love it. The same thing happened to me with the theme from Exodus. My parents used to listen to it on vinyl when I was a child. The movie was recently on TV and when I heard the theme, it freaked me out, not only because it was so beautiful, but because I knew EVERY note of it. The music we hear in our childhood sticks with us. Finding it can be a problem though.

Happy Birthday Betty Jones Lee Meriwether many more to go on ..

That bass line.

I love this theme song it so relaxing i remember my grandparents always watching this show so i start watching it with them the good old days.

I was 4 years old at this shows debut...and this theme song is still burned into my brain lol...along with the "Untouchables"

Good theme can’t wait to get this on dvd love all the old shows from the 50s and60s also and I’m only 55 years old

Best TV show theme ever

Good theme can’t wait to get this on dvd love all the old shows from the 50s and60s also and I’m only 55 years

Takes me back when was watching it

Another high quality show from the 1970s. Barnaby Jones a Quinn Martin production. The 60s and the 70s had the best tv shows of all time.

@jefferysimmons4501

3 жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY...another Quinn Martin production (You gotta do the deep voice when you say it) 😂😂👌

@theresa42213

3 жыл бұрын

van smack ~ They did INDEED! l was born in '65. The 70's were the first full decade l remember, and Prog was _thee best_ Rock music of all time ....in my humble opinion. l know a good piece when l hear it!

"A Quinn Martin Production" .....deep voice for effect...

Ah! The good ol days.

The bass line tho!!!

I remember watching Barnaby Jones here in my countri dubbed to spanish now watching it in English great memories

It was a funky beat

Now I can catch Barnaby Jones on Pluto Network

These rips are now played within house music sets at clubs.

Just had a flashback of doing homework, in the living room of the house I grew up in, while watching this with mom..

GREAT THEME SONG, 1 OF THE GREATEST EVER

This was so on the money love this classic theme gem of a Instrumental music😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

Best last 10 seconds ever

This is my favorite theme by Jerry Goldsmith, followed by Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Breakheart Pass and In Like Flint.

@terrelll.howard8660

6 жыл бұрын

Mine too great taste.

@buffalobigfoot7982

4 жыл бұрын

Ape shall never kill ape.

I couldn't what until Tuesday night for Barnaby Jones

As A Black Kid Born in 1971 ME Growing up Listening And Watching TV Shows From this Era Listening to this Brings me right back to That Era. I Just Love ALL 1970s Tv Show Themes AND A Little of the Early 80s too.. Just A Little..

@niekko5969

5 жыл бұрын

True; You think of all the family, friends etc that were around us back then; brings back instant memories

@tranurse

5 жыл бұрын

We’re the same age, but I’m a 47 year old white chick. You’re right, tv theme songs were important. That was part of the whole show watching experience.

@sajjadchannar4839

4 жыл бұрын

I love white Chics - too sexy

@kaharold

4 жыл бұрын

@@tranurse Yep Exactly

@kaharold

4 жыл бұрын

@@niekko5969 Yep So True

Admittedly my top notch favorite theme.

@rachel112263

2 жыл бұрын

Me, too. #1 of all time.

My sisters, niece and nephews were members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) during the 80's and 90's and we knew a lot of people in the entertainment business. I know that Jerry Goldsmith, who is credited for having written this and other theme songs, was a Jethro Tull fan and it definitely shows in this theme. He also worked with the script writers on Barnaby Jones, which is why the song "Wind Up", from Jethro Tull's Aqualung album, showed up in the "A Gold Record for Murder" episode, which aired in February of 1974. That one featured Buddy Epson playing the song on acoustic guitar. Even though Mike Post has always been my favorite composer, this one, by Jerry Goldsmith, is definitely my all time favorite single theme song.

@wahoo7654

4 жыл бұрын

I have a printer made by Buddy Epson.

This song is perfect for a Marching Band.

Hollywood cats knew how to give it their all no matter the gig. There's always maximum energy and punch even in a 1 minute theme song.

pure magic

My high school band stayed playing this theme

For some reason this theme song plays in my head. I never watched the show (loved the Beverly Hillbillies) but probably watched the theme song play and then turned the channel.

Damn! I had forgotten about this theme. Fantastic.

In Ohio, reruns of "Barnaby Jones " are shown on the network known as METV from Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 4am local time.

The GREAT Jerry Goldsmith.

These were great days, my friends. It was great to be a teenager during the 70's and I would gladly trade all of today's technological advancements to go back to that time. Sure, the world had it's problems back then, but collectively mankind wasn't as uptight as they are today. Humans have lost their sense of humor....or are at least suppressing it.

Such a cool soundtrack.

The score hits

High Quality, too the fullest.

The best theme of any police show

R. I. P., Buddy Ebsen.

i love barnaby jones theme and telefilm

Wonderful

Jerry Goldsmith did theme and action scores better than any musical composer who has ever been. I love this theme. Jerry loved it too as he later riffed and reworked this theme for Police Story, an anthology TV series he did later that same year. Both are among my favorite TV scores from him. However, the theme for Hawaii Five-O from Morton Stevens remains my all-time favorite TV score.

May I have a glass of milk for Jerry? I have played this at least 1000 times and Never get tired of it so many working parts. I just [layed this again

This music "ROCKS"! I just saw the "Decades" weekend "BINGE" this past weekend, on Sat. & Sunday & watched some classic episodes of "Barnaby Jones"! I Love that show & it was "GRR"-eat(great) to see it again after all these years & hear that "GRR"-eat(Great), powerful, "ROCKin" theme song, over & over! I LOVE it! Thank YOU for sharing it on KZread! Yea, this "ROCKS"! Your "FIEND", ROCK! David ROCK Nelson, B-"Monster" Moviemaker/actor 26-Years & BEYOND, former "Chicago Golden Gloves" boxer & former MARINE Corporal OO-Rah" Nelson(served 1976-'80) in U.S. Marine Corps. I competed in 1976 "Chicago Golden Gloves" & came-back at age 29 after 4-years in the Marines & after 5-years in Bible college & fought in 4-more "Chicago Golden Gloves" tournaments, until 1991 at age 34. Then, 10-months later, on Oct. 23rd, 1991 I started videotaping & acting in my own "Monster"-comedy Movies & never stopped! I'm BIG "61" years-young & am still DOING IT, B-"Monster"-comedy Moviemaking/acting! "FIEND"(friend) me on "Facebook" & see me on "KZread", by searching for: David ROCK Nelson.

@terrelll.howard8660

6 жыл бұрын

This is the best.

Classic

I agree when tv was good

Great theme song, it sounds very much the music NFL films used for highlight shows

The master of giving older crimesolvers dynamic theme tunes (see also "Hawkins").

really good

I love this show

Great tv show...With a fantastic intro ..From the super 70s ...