I (reasonably) recently learned that a lot of instrumental tv themes have lyrics for royalty reasons. like Roddenberry wrote lyrics for TOS so he'd
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mafic
Oct 4 '22, 17:22
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be co-composer, and get a chunk of the royalties, even though he never intended to use them in the show.
I Love Lucy, the Odd Couple, Andy Griffith, Bonanza, I dream of Jeannie, and I'm sure a pile of others all have lyrics for similar reasons.
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