Interview with theme song singer!

[gutsy]

Hi guys. I interviewed Larry Weiss who sang the theme song to Who's the Boss in the first two seasons and also wrote Rhinestone Cowboy! It's fascinating and I wanted to share it with you.

Larry Weiss Interview

[Mace Dolex]

Very interestig I had no idea that three singers were used at different times in the show's run, it's one of the cooler TV theme songs to an average show.

I had an obsession with theme tunes even then. I recorded them all on a 60 minute Safeway cassette. Minutes before the show started I’d run round the house telling everyone to shut up, then I’d stand in front of the TV with my cassette recorder and hit record when the song came on. Often I’d get it wrong or someone would talk, or the dog would bark – and we’d have to repeat the same thing the next week. I ended up with a lot of theme songs and played the tape so much – and recorded so often in little short stretches – that it eventually became warped and unusable

I was the same way that I figured a trick to it was to record the theme on the VCR and playback to record onto the mini cassette when I had the house all to myself with no distractions.

[robby76]

"Who's The Boss" was definitely one of the better and more melodic theme tunes of the 80s. I have it on mp3. I also used to tape tv themes with my cassette recorder held up to the tv speakers. I distinctly remember recording the Grizzly Adams theme tune (with the usual clunk of hitting the play and record buttons at the start) and the theme tune to The Littles cartoon.