Given that may TV show title sequences these days are just a 30-second blast of dubstep accompanying a flashing screen and an exploding logo (or is that just the rubbish I watch), it's easy to forget that many TV shows of yesteryear had full-on theme songs.
Many of them probably shouldn't have.
One outstanding example - and a comparatively recent one, at that - was Enterprise, AKA Star Trek: Enterprise, with its all-time classic of cringe, Faith of the Heart/Where My Heart Will Take Me, written by Diane Warren and sung by Russell Watson*:
(* the song was also performed by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack to the 1998 movie, Patch Adams, and subsequently covered by Susan Aston for her 1999 album, Closer)
But it is perhaps a little-known fact that the Original Series also had a song attached, written by Gene Roddenberry himself, sung here by the USS Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram himself, Robert Picardo:
Many of them probably shouldn't have.
One outstanding example - and a comparatively recent one, at that - was Enterprise, AKA Star Trek: Enterprise, with its all-time classic of cringe, Faith of the Heart/Where My Heart Will Take Me, written by Diane Warren and sung by Russell Watson*:
(* the song was also performed by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack to the 1998 movie, Patch Adams, and subsequently covered by Susan Aston for her 1999 album, Closer)
But it is perhaps a little-known fact that the Original Series also had a song attached, written by Gene Roddenberry himself, sung here by the USS Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram himself, Robert Picardo:
