About a year ago, a friend of mine mentioned the theme music to The Onedin Line; much like my radio station experience, I couldn’t recognize it by title, but once I heard it, I was thrown back to the days of snuggling under a quilt in the overstuffed chair to watch the show. The music retains the power to give me goosebumps and bring tears to my eyes.
Television has often ruined some favorite songs for me by using excerpts, or worse, new words to the original music, to hawk everything imaginable. So far, my favorite older themes have escaped, perhaps since they are based on, or use, classical music.
Marcel Proust wrote that the scent of a madeleine brought memories, but I have the strongest memories with music. Have you found music that you had forgotten, entwined in your memory?
Have you had a favorite song or television theme used for the dark side, forever tarnishing your enjoyment of it?