Series stars Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton stepped in at the last minute to help him out.Ģ. Producer Norman Lear had used up his allotted budget by the time he'd filmed the pilot, leaving no money to hire professional singers or musicians to perform the theme song. However, that homey tableau that seemed so perfectly designed to set the tone for the series was concocted strictly out of necessity. The cozy picture of Archie and Edith Bunker sitting at the piano singing "Those Were the Days" seems so in context with the series, it's hard to picture All in the Family without that opening. All in the Family: How Budget Restrictions Turned Actors into Singers Does anyone out there still remember a time when a show's theme song told the back-story of the series, or was catchy enough to become a Top-40 hit? As Archie and Edith might sigh, "those were the days." Stroll down memory lane as mental_floss takes a look at the stories behind some of TV's classic theme songs. Many of today's TV shows have dispensed with the traditional theme song in an effort to squeeze in more commercial time, which fills traditional television fans with a sense of melancholy.
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