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77 Sunset Strip: 5: Part 1 (1963)
Final season theme song for 77 Sunset Strip was a winner
To Samurray: You are right on the money about the new theme song for the final season of 77 Sunset Strip. It's one of the best ever. I don't know of any source for this on CD, but I have an old 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record called Top TV Themes of 1964, and that's one of them, as performed by a Warner Bros. orchestra. It is truly stirring and exciting and should be better preserved. Best of luck finding a copy. Clearly, the show was taking an entirely new direction in this season, with only Efrem Zimbalist Jr. remaining from the original cast. The show took a far more serious tone and even opened its final season with a five-part storyline -- almost unheard of for a network series at that time. And again, the theme song drove home this new approach and new tone. So glad someone else recognizes it as such. Thanks.