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July 2nd, 2011

The Other Picture Pages Theme Song

I was shuffling through YouTube the other night and stumbled across a number of clips of Picture Pages, the pre-Jell-O Bill Cosby show with Mortimer Ichabod Marker. But I was a little confused with one of the results I found:

For some reason, I have no recollection of that version of the theme song. It seems almost like a Jonathan Coulton cover of the song from an alternate universe. This certainly isn’t the one I knew.

Posted in Childhood Memories

Ryan July 3, 2011, 9:25 pm

This *reeks* of a theme re-do because the rights for the original didn’t extend to the home video release.

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