The Definitive Version of the Theme

[Grant Jennings]

We are not worthy:

 

[DallasFanForever]

We are not worthy:

That’s pretty awful!

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

Would have been nice for the Vienna episodes.

 

[Grant Jennings]

Here's a more traditional take, performed - appropriately enough - by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. It starts at the 3:55 mark but that would mean skipping past a delightful piece by Gershwin.

 

[DallasFanForever]

Here's a more traditional take, performed - appropriately enough - by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. It starts at the 3:55 mark but that would mean skipping past a delightful piece by Gershwin.

That more than made up for the accordion version LOL

 

[Guzzler’s Frightening Hair]

if this doesn’t raise goosebumps, you simply have no soul!

(just kidding about the soul part, but hey, it’s fun, right?)

 

[DallasFanForever]

if this doesn’t raise goosebumps, you simply have no soul!

(just kidding about the soul part, but hey, it’s fun, right?)

I’m really not sure what to make of that one. It’s definitely something different. It’s unusual but I don’t hate it.

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

Here's a more traditional take

And a great reaction from the audience. Everybody loves soap - or, to quote Sue Ellen season 2 "we are aaaall Ewings".

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

The definitive version of the theme tune is this one, but I guess everyone has their favourite arrangement.

 

[Spells & Karma]

How about this one for Southfork weddings and funerals:

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

And then there's this arrangement as it has a special place in my heart being the last theme to have Jim Davis adorn the title sequence.

Rest In Peace Jim, we love you. :love2:

 

[Rove]

We are not worthy

If...IF...there was ever another continuation of Dallas and the Ewing family holds the annual Ewing bar-b-que then this would sound great as John Ross Ewing IV sat on a merry-go-round carousel.

 

[Rove]

if this doesn’t raise goosebumps

Love...love...love the drums.

 

[Rove]

All jokes aside but I'd guess whatever opening theme tune is being played from the 70's and 80's most people would be able to identify them, such is the power of a good opening credit. Producers today could learn a thing or two from the masters of TV Theme Music.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

All jokes aside but I'd guess whatever opening theme tune is being played from the 70's and 80's most people would be able to identify them, such is the power of a good opening credit. Producers today could learn a thing or two from the masters of TV Theme Music.

In the case of Dallas, just like Doctor Who the signature tune is instantly recognisable.

Both Doctor Who and Dallas have two of the most iconic theme music's of all time. :love2:

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

Where's the Christmas version?

 

[Guzzler’s Frightening Hair]

there’s this, but them jazz guys take so many liberties you can’t tell it’s the Dallas theme in its infancy:

 

[DallasFanForever]

there’s this, but them jazz guys take so many liberties you can’t tell it’s the Dallas theme in its infancy:

There’s no way I ever would’ve thought that was the Dallas theme if you didn’t tell me

 

[Guzzler’s Frightening Hair]

There’s no way I ever would’ve thought that was the Dallas theme if you didn’t tell me

And you'd be right - I'm just joking around (as usual). As a jazz musician, this is what I think of when I see 'The Theme'. It's from the 50s and Miles Davis (a distant cousin of Jim? nah..) would play it at the end of each set. No relation to Jerrold Immel's composition that we all know and love!

other versions:

1960:

(pretty straightforward)
1969:

(way, way, more abstract and weird, check out the 19 minute mark for a spaced-out version of the ending to 'The Theme' - I don't think he plays the main melody at all)

apologies for the non-Dallas content. JR, I've been told, went through a brief 'late 60s electric Miles' phase briefly before Jock slapped him upside the head and told him to turn off that racket.