Now they don’t write theme songs at all. At most, they might pick an actual old-timey tune, a real one — and just pay the old songwriter a lot more than $750 for it. This story has been updated.

Now I actually get it. “Those Were the Days,” co-written by the late Charles Strouse, revolutionized the form — while slyly mocking Archie Bunker’s worldview.

The song was performed at an upright piano by actors Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker and Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker, and it introduced more than 200 episodes of Norman Lear’s ...

Charles Strouse, composer of ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ and ‘Annie,’ dies at 96 His opening theme for the groundbreaking sitcom “All in the Family” also became part of the American musical canon.

The Pokémon theme song started in 1998 as the opening music for the English Pokémon TV series. John Siegler and John Loeffler wrote it, and Jason Paige sang it.

By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– In the groundbreaking 1970s TV sitcom All in the Family’s iconic opening theme song “Those Were the Days,” lead characters Archie Bunker and his wife Edith ...

Edith’s screeching out the lyrics as she and Archie sang the theme song to All in the Family became part of American pop culture. (CBS / All in the Family) The Bunkers (All in the Family) When ...

When the trio performs the show’s opening song “Those Were the Days,” Nolte channels Jean Stapleton’s Edith Bunker, while Patton delivers the accompanying lines in his own distinctive voice.