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   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   In article <020120230603486313%nope@noway.com>,   
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   > super70s  wrote:   
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   > > In article <1eafc76f-f539-4aec-9893-b97e3760266en@googlegroups.com>,   
   > >  Lenona  wrote:   
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   > > > 1925: Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Bill Hayes, Dick Van Dyke   
   > >   
   > > Has anyone seen the new promo on MeTV of Dick singing the lyrics to The   
   > > Dick Van Dyke Show? Way cool I thought (and I wasn't aware there were   
   > > ever any lyrics, didn't know if he or someone else at MeTV just made   
   > > them up on the spot).   
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   > Morey Amsterdam wrote the lyrics to the theme back at the time.  Dick   
   > Van Dyke's sung them more than once during interviews and   
   > retrospectives.  (Back when, it was generally believed that music   
   > couldn't be copyrighted if it didn't have lyrics.  This was wrong, but   
   > everybody thought so anyway.)   
   >   
   > Morey had a few hits back in the day, although not without controversy.   
   > Cf. the song "Rum and Coca-Cola."  The story is told in lawyer Louis   
   > Nizer's My Life in Court.   
      
   I never would have guessed Amsterdam wrote those lyrics. Obviously they   
   didn't impress Carl Reiner or others in charge of the show that much.   
   Earl Hagen composed the theme and it seems as awkward as trying to write   
   lyrics to his "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." theme.   
      
   Poor Morey though, he could've probably gotten a big chunk of change in   
   royalties if they'd used them on the show.   
      
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