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Old 11-26-2005, 08:45 PM   #1
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Default Does anyone know who sang the theme song to Good Times?

I searched the archives but didn't find anything. Anyone know?
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Old 11-26-2005, 09:45 PM   #2
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I have been wondering that too, actually after watching the marathon. Some of the voices sound like the cast's.
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Old 11-27-2005, 11:11 PM   #3
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"Good Times"

Written by: Alan and Marilyn Bergman and David Grusin

Sung by: Jim Gilstrap and Blinky Williams
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Old 11-28-2005, 02:39 AM   #4
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"Good Times"

Written by: Alan and Marilyn Bergman and David Grusin

Sung by: Jim Gilstrap and Blinky Williams

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Old 12-16-2006, 02:16 AM   #5
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Music Good Times costar

The woman who played the pretty next door neighbor wrote the theme for The Jeffersons

Willona Woods played by Ja'net DuBois
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Old 02-09-2007, 09:47 PM   #6
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"Good Times"

Written by: Alan and Marilyn Bergman and David Grusin

Sung by: Jim Gilstrap and Blinky Williams

may i ask where you know this from? i always wondered if donnie hathaway might have sang it.
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I have been wondering that too, actually after watching the marathon. Some of the voices sound like the cast's.
I thought the same thing.
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may i ask where you know this from? i always wondered if donnie hathaway might have sang it.
No. It's definately not Hathaway, it's my uncle- Jim Gilstrap.
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According to the liner notes of a CD that I own(Tee Vee Toons Presents All-Time Top 100 TV Themes)the song was in fact preformed by Jim Gilstrap and Blinky Williams.
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