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The 100 Greatest TV Theme Songs of All Time
November 24, 2022
By David Browne
www.rollingstone.com
95. The Partridge Family
ABC, 1970-74
ABC, 1970-74
Let’s be honest: There are better songs in the Partridge catalog than the ditty that opened this sitcom about a fictional family band. “I’ll Meet You Halfway” and “I Woke Up in Love This Morning,” fronted by series star David Cassidy, were as good as anything on AM radio in the early Seventies. But “Come On Get Happy” captured the bubbly, beyond-wholesome vibe of the series, and you just have to love the opening harpsichord riff. (The song was also co-written by Wes Farrell, a titan of bubblegum pop who also had a hand in writing Sixties hits like “Hang On Sloopy,” “Come On Down to My Boat,” “Come a Little Bit Closer,” and some of those Partridge singles, including “Doesn’t Somebody Want to Be Wanted.”) An alternate version of the song — with the line “Danny got Reuben to sell our song” — also gave TV viewers an inside look at the machinations of the music business: Danny Partridge, publishing hustler!
