TV Theme Songs: Happy Days
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (68000)
United States
February 6, 2023 10:39am CST
Sorry I’m late. The wi-fi at the hotel was so choppy I decided to wait until lunch. And it’s now state parks 6, Chuy’s 4! 
Greetings from Tarpon Springs. 
As for theme songs, here’s one that’ll make your head spin. Welcome to Monday!
Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
Truett Pratt and Jerry McClain were a one-hit wonder, and this is it. Now, that isn’t what’ll make your head spin.
What will is the show itself. For the first two seasons they used the Bill Haley & the Comets song “Rock Around the Clock,” but I guess lawyers got involved, so starting with the third season they switched to this song.
Is it any wonder Happy Days invented “jumping the shark” with that kind of confusion??
Happy Days
Written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox
Recorded by Pratt & McClain
From Happy Days, seasons 3-11, 1974-1984
Saturday, what a day:
Greetings from Tarpon Springs. As for theme songs, here’s one that’ll make your head spin. Welcome to Monday!
Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
Truett Pratt and Jerry McClain were a one-hit wonder, and this is it. Now, that isn’t what’ll make your head spin.
What will is the show itself. For the first two seasons they used the Bill Haley & the Comets song “Rock Around the Clock,” but I guess lawyers got involved, so starting with the third season they switched to this song.
Is it any wonder Happy Days invented “jumping the shark” with that kind of confusion??
Happy Days
Written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox
Recorded by Pratt & McClain
From Happy Days, seasons 3-11, 1974-1984
Saturday, what a day:
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@moffittjc (121582)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Feb 23
I grew up watching Happy Days, and now I’ve got the song stuck in my head!
Did you visit the world famous sponge docks in Tarpon Springs?
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
No, but I visited the world-famous Honeymoon Island a little south of it!
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
@moffittjc — you’d better believe it! And I added osprey and eagles to the list of things I’ve seen this trip.
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@moffittjc (121582)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Feb 23
@FourWalls I left ve Honeymoon Island! Such a beautiful place.
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@thislittlepennyearns (62487)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
7 Feb 23
another good one!
hope your trip is going well!
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
I’m having a great time, killing it at these state parks!
@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
@thislittlepennyearns — not yet. I have another week before I can go home without the fear of the S word.
@thislittlepennyearns (62487)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
7 Feb 23
@FourWalls Have you been to the caverns in Marianna yet?
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
The 70s was a good time for TV themes (as you’ll see as the countdown goes along).
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@wolfgirl569 (106226)
• Marion, Ohio
7 Feb 23
@FourWalls They did come out with some good ones back then
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@RasmaSandra (79858)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Feb 23
Always loved the show and the song. But my biggest favorite that put a smile on my face with Richie walking down the stairs - I found my thrill ...
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
It lost something when it became “Fonzie and Friends.” I liked it better as the ensemble. Oh, I got to meet Donny Most (Ralph Malph) at Fuzzy’s charity golf tournament one year!!
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@RasmaSandra (79858)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Feb 23
@FourWalls that is great. I wish I had met some celebrities along the way,
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
It still has a great “nostalgic” appeal.
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
7 Feb 23
@FourWalls
It certainly is and you are very right.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
6 Feb 23
I always enjoyed that kind of silly show. I didn't know they had used Rock Around the Clock
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
Yes, it was the first couple of seasons before they switched. It was “silly,” but still sweetly nostalgic.
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
It was 50s American nostalgia. I really don’t know how that translates to other countries. I’d hate to think you’d watch that show and go, “Americans did THAT in the 1950s?????”
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Feb 23
@FourWalls During that era, Australia was flat out trying to emulate anything American. We thought you were all the ants' pants - in a manner of speaking.
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
6 Feb 23
Get your “yup” warmed up for tomorrow, too. 
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@dgobucks226 (35608)
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16 Feb 23
Ahh, Americana at its finest. Girls, rods, burgers and more girls! That show was really special until Fonzie's Evel Knievel impression over the sharks 
It was like an American Graffiti plot every week.
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
16 Feb 23
And to think it started on Love, American Style a year BEFORE American Graffiti.
Both had Ron Howard, though!
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
If Ron Howard hadn’t gone bald they’d probably still have that show on TV. 
@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
Glad you enjoyed the song and the show.
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@thebos (5960)
• Kisumu, Kenya
7 Feb 23
@FourWalls thanks looking forward for more
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
9 Feb 23
I agree. Same with Good Times when it went from being an ensemble cast to the Jimmie Walker show. Happy Days jumped the shark long before Fonzie did.
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@xander6464 (44244)
• Wapello, Iowa
7 Feb 23
They should have told the lawyers to sit on it.
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
They should have had the lawyers fed to the sharks, but the sharks wouldn’t have eaten them. Professional courtesy, you know.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
7 Feb 23
Who DIDN'T watch Happy Days? It was a fun show and a fun theme. Happy trails to you!
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
7 Feb 23
Truth? Me. I didn’t watch it a lot, I guess I should say.
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