Before getting to my "mass reply" to the thread...I will add:
No one mentioned Homer Simpson's Babershop Quartet, The B-Sharps!!
And speaking of cartoon covers (which at some point we did or will), I might
add that 2 Nice Girls also covered "Speed Racer" (on their "Like a Version"
CD)
And in the "non-cartoon cover" category, Joan Jett covers the "Mary Tyler
Moore" theme as well...
Now on to the replies...
Mitch Matthews wrote:
<<Hey, what about Happy Days? Richie, Potsy and Ralph had a combo with varying
drummers (pudgy gang member, high school majorette, hip black guy among
others).>>
Don't forget in later episodes, didn't Chachi pick up the "sticks" for the
combo?
Todd Larson wrote:
>>(who also remembers a cast band or two on "Saved By the Bell")<<
Zack and the Attack?
Jon Weisberger wrote:
>>All right, I won't, but here's something interesting: the
not-always-reliable All-Music Guide shows the writer of the Pebbles/Bam-Bam
"hit" (geez, was it really like an actual, charting hit?) as Hamblen, no
first name, and sure enough, the great Stuart Hamblen has a song registered
with ASCAP by that title. Is this for real, or did the AMG get it wrong,
and yet another writer is responsible for the cartoon song? <<
According the the writing credits for the song on the (previously mentioned in
another post) *Saturday Morning Cartoons* comp, the person who wrote the song
is indeed Stuart Hamblen!
Paul
