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11-27-2016, 08:29 PM
I have seen Brady Bunch documentaries or TV specials on YouTube and I notice that the theme song was different when the series first began from when it was more than one season old .
It seems that the most original theme song was sung so that you first hear young male voices singing from the words "Here's a story" to "That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch" and then there is the "chorus" with young female voices and young male voices combined.
The thing I notice is that in the very original version the young male voices sound like trained singing voices, and even sounds a bit like the Beach Boys type of harmony if you get what I mean. When the girls voices join in, it does not sound as harmonious as the young male voices singing alone.
But then when the series was somewhere approximately past the first two seasons perhaps past 3 seasons the theme song seemed to be sung entirely by both male and female voices together and the voices sounded more juvenile all throughout the song and all the voices did not sound very trained but like kids singing in a grade school chorus.
It seems that the theme song might have changed even one more time before the series finally ended and it sounded like there were young male and female voices along with an adult male and an adult female voice thrown in and this was possibly an attempt to make it sound like "Mom and dad Brady" were singing along with the "Brady Kids. "
However at least there were two different versions of the theme song and though I watched The Brady Bunch back when it originally first was shown on TV, back then I did not really pay much attention to how the theme song changed after a few seasons.
Watching reruns or TV documentaries about The Brady Bunch, I do notice it,
and I am wondering if anyone knows if at first, studio musicians were used to sing the Brady Bunch theme song, and then it was turned over to the real young cast members of the Brady Bunch.
Was the theme song always done by the cast members, but different versions were done with the male and female voices singing at different times or completely together?
It seems that the most original theme song was sung so that you first hear young male voices singing from the words "Here's a story" to "That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch" and then there is the "chorus" with young female voices and young male voices combined.
The thing I notice is that in the very original version the young male voices sound like trained singing voices, and even sounds a bit like the Beach Boys type of harmony if you get what I mean. When the girls voices join in, it does not sound as harmonious as the young male voices singing alone.
But then when the series was somewhere approximately past the first two seasons perhaps past 3 seasons the theme song seemed to be sung entirely by both male and female voices together and the voices sounded more juvenile all throughout the song and all the voices did not sound very trained but like kids singing in a grade school chorus.
It seems that the theme song might have changed even one more time before the series finally ended and it sounded like there were young male and female voices along with an adult male and an adult female voice thrown in and this was possibly an attempt to make it sound like "Mom and dad Brady" were singing along with the "Brady Kids. "
However at least there were two different versions of the theme song and though I watched The Brady Bunch back when it originally first was shown on TV, back then I did not really pay much attention to how the theme song changed after a few seasons.
Watching reruns or TV documentaries about The Brady Bunch, I do notice it,
and I am wondering if anyone knows if at first, studio musicians were used to sing the Brady Bunch theme song, and then it was turned over to the real young cast members of the Brady Bunch.
Was the theme song always done by the cast members, but different versions were done with the male and female voices singing at different times or completely together?