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13.03.2020

Roger Nichols performs the original Hart to Hart theme

In 2013, I wrote a small note on my Tumblog about Roger Nichols’ theme to the TV series Hart to Hart. The music was played as the opening and closing themes in the pilot, and as an incidental theme to many episodes later, but few remember it. I’ve even seen websites proclaim that the Mark Snow theme that most of us know was the ‘original’, not unlike how The Love Boat attempts to exorcise the two pilot films starring Ted Hamilton and Quinn Redeker as the captains.
   The tune was later commercially released by the Carpenters as ‘Now’, among the final songs recorded by Karen Carpenter. However, that was with a different set of lyrics, and the original by Leslie Bricusse has never been heard. I suggested in 2013 that the closest might have been Mariya Takeuchi’s recording in Japanese, though that has since vanished from YouTube.
   However, there is now a post on YouTube at almost the original tempo, performed by Nichols himself, but the Bricusse lyrics remain unheard. You’d think that there’d be a fan somewhere who has the inside story.


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Filed under: culture, interests, TV, USA—Jack Yan @ 06.56

One Response to ‘Roger Nichols performs the original Hart to Hart theme’

  1. Tim Cleavenger says:

    The tune was later recorded by The Carpenters, in what was to become Karen Carpenter’s final recording, under the title “Now”, with lyrics by Dean Pitchford and at a slower tempo. Here’s a link to the Carpenters’ recording:

    https://youtu.be/r8wtOyxC3rQ

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