Chuck Rainey, the bassist on the session for this piece hit a wrong note right at the very end, which he wasn't happy about, but Quincy Jones said "you're making me look like a genius here" because the wrong note added to the comedic mood.
@@andcasey2and the very last note is the WRONG note (confessed by the bass player) and Quincy loved how off eat it was that he insisted on keeping it in!
Classic Americana. No matter what age you are, you remember this either when it aired, or in syndication. I remember being a kid watching reruns, and thinking how can this show be so much funnier than the shows we have now. Granted that was in the 90s and the shows were awesome. That goes to show you how much more awesome this show was.
Just raw talent, man. From in front of the camera to behind the camera. Sanford and Son had one of the all time best ensemble casts in television history!
@@johnthwaites5976 I'm totally familiar with that show. But that doesn't negate my comment. This version is Americana. The theme song, the storylines, the characters, all of it. It's different from let's say _The Office_ which has a UK version, a U.S version and now an Australian version all with the same name.
I'm 23 now and I used to watch sitcoms like this with my parents when I was little. Those were the days, I almost shed tears thinking about it again. If anyone remembers the funny episode with the property line just comment it below hahaha
This show was TOO DAMN FUNNY! Man, I miss the old days of sitcoms! Very few of them today are worth watching. I'd ALWAYS run into the living room when I heard the funky 70s music on in this intro! Most probably the FUNNIEST sitcom that EVER existed!!
I'm really happy that someone saw what geniuses Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were for someone to want to take the original Steptoe and Son and share that British comedy with the world.
I'm eighteen and I grew up watching this show along with other amazing iconic shows such as The Golden Girls, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Mama's Family, The Big Valley, M.A.S.H., Roseanne, I Love Lucy (plus Lucille Ball's following sitcom the Lucy Show), etc. I'm really glad I got to grow up watching shows like that cause it really made me appreciate the classics. 👍✌️
Same here, man. Grew up watching all these classics on nostalgic stations like Nick @ Nite and Tv Land etc. Also Good Times, Taxi, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeanie, The Wonder Years, 227, Cheers, Frasier, The Cosby Show, What's Happening and What's Happening Now etc.
I remember seeing Redd in the night clubs in St Louis where I lived way way back in the late 50 early 60. Sorry to say there will not be another like him. He was a class act.
I like the fact that they didn't "dress up" the audio here but it sounds just like it did in the 1970s -- the audio going through the tiny little speaker on our family TV.
I related to this show somewhat due to the fact in my neighborhood we had a Fred Sanford he was a junk yard man only he sold use lawnmowers and lawnmower parts. He was a cool old man who made an honest living and provided a much needed service in the community May he Rest In Peace.
We have a local junk dealer good ole Vietnam war vet 🇺🇸🇺🇸 that has so so much stuff on display he’s the real life Fred Sanford!!!! It’s great!! You walk past his things at the local open air market and you hear this playing in the background in your mind!!! 🇺🇸LIVING THE DREAM MY BROTHER!! 🇺🇸
How many people heres father introduced them to this show, And even then I wonder how many of their fathers introduced them, This show was and is special. One of the few accurate father son shows. We've all been in Lamonts shoes and i'm sure some fathers out there have felt like Fred with a big dummy for a son sometimes. I wish we got more shows like this. It's rarity is why it will live on forever.
Yes! Watched that show all the time as a kid! My favorite lines from old man Sanford were, "Why did you do that, you BIG DUMMY!!!!" And when he faked his heart attacks, "I feel the big one now! I'm coming home, Elizabeth!!!"
the way my dad used to watch this show when i was little and still watches it now always brings me back, and he even had everything on dvd. so much nostalgia here.
What fond memories this show brings back! Inspite of the slow economy back then, the 70s was a great time for quality tv shows that offered great comedy or drama.
I'm only 33, but 15-20 years ago, I can remember always watching Sanford & Son reruns on TV Land at like 3 a.m. Love Redd Foxx's stand-up too -- hilarious!
I’m 38 but same… I absolutely ADORED TV Land. And you’re 100% correct, the best shows, including Sanford and Son, were always on at 2, 3, 4 and 5 am! 😂😂😂 I would give ANYTHING to go back to those times. It hurts just thinking of it. Sanford and Son has always been one of my favorites. My dad and his sisters all loved it, too, and I grew up with the reruns. When I was 18-ish I made a picture of Fred and Lemont on Microsoft Paint. Fred was saying to Lemont, “You big dummy!” 😂😂😂😂 I wish I had a picture of it still. It was on my old work PC.
I absolutely love Sanford and son! I remember watching it with my grandpa when I was little! Now that I'm 40, I watch it on stream cause can't find it on any channels! Where the hell did my life go?
@@haydennault5342I never cared for The Jeffersons although I did like "Taxi", "Sledge Hammer", "Dinosaurs" and "Coach" to name a few. All four have been forgotten with surviving actors playing in material beneath them, the said new material proving to be extremely popular. Go figure.
@@quincycampbell9828 most of the shows you mentioned are pretty popular… why are you trying to use less popular shows to show you’re “quirky” or something, it’s dumb.
Channel 9 in Australia used to broadcast this program during the Summer when all our regular programs were off the air til around February. Very funny & entertaining.
I’ve had this stuck in my head for all of quarantine as I obsessively build a Rube Goldberg machine in my room. There’s only so much of this chaotic energy I can endure. Make it stop.
I'm almost 60. I remember when this show first came on. I thought the opening theme was awesome. In my opinion, the harmonica makes the song. My dad and I, never missed an episode. Those were the good old days.
Yep, i always did love the Sanford & Son Theme song! It was awesome, as was all shows back in those days into the 80's! The future isn't "all that and a bag of chips" if you ask me. I'd take that Sanford & Son truck ANYDAY over what's out there on the road now days!! Those really were much simpler times, as you see in the opening, Fred is taking his lovely time to see what Lamont brought back to his salvage collection. Now days, it's rush, rush, rush...2000's, YOU SUCK!
Bro this is nostalgic, brings back memories, i remember my uncle watching this back in the days and we would watch it with him, idk i randomly found this tho💀
anyone else come to listen to this masterpiece after watching the family guy clip "Freddy sanford, freddy sanford and his son, freddy sanford, in a junkyard havin fun, what the devil will they screw up neeeeeeext"
Still loving this theme song after All these Years yet. The last time I seen the show probably back in 92 give or take, now it's 2023. I would love to see decades network tv do a marathon of it.
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one of the coolest opening tunes ever!
Sure is!
+Lee Daniels I agree!
TRUE
Where the hell is that truck now?
Written by Quincy Jones and I believe it is called "The Street Beater".
Seeing this again reminds me of my grandpa. Watching this with him when i was younger. This theme song brings tears to my eyes. R.i.p
I used to watch this with my grandma every night
Toma Mahan same
kody beasley I used to watch this with my grandpa every night too, and still watch it. It’s on TVONE. Good ol show, and Reddy Freddy is Hilarious.
kody beasley I watched it with mine, thankfully he’s still alive..
Lmao bitch
Sanford and son is one of the best american sitcoms of all time. In my opinion, this show can never get old.
I know. It ranks among All in the Family, Jefferson's, (maybe Cheers), Fraiser.
So hilarious when Fred and Aunt Esther would go at it😄
@@kimmcnear6843 I know. Just like George and Archie would hit off of each other.
Loved All In The Family. I adored Edithw
Was she not the sweetest woman ever
Malcom in the middle better
Rest easy Quincy...thanks for such a memorable theme song.
I used to watch Sanford and Son with my grandpa. May he rest in peace. Whenever I see Red Foxx, I see a little bit of my grandpa. I get emotional.
Same here! Our grandfathers are still here. Never lost, always here with us.
@Owen Bélanger Thank you
me too 😞
Me too bro but it was my dad.
Loved 2 watch S&S a long time unfortunitly now it dont come on TV no more
This show is 50 years old and better than anything on TV nowadays by far.
🙌🏾 Happy heavenly Birthday Redd Fox!
Watching a marathon on TVOne Network right now. Every episode is a gem.
Debatable, there’s still some good stuff on tv but I see what you’re saying
People always say the same thing about every show they like.
This is true
Quincy Jones did a superb job of describing the entire show's thrust in his title music. A masterful work of music.
Indeed. QJ is a musical genius.
Best theme song ever! I play it for my kids!
Chuck Rainey, the bassist on the session for this piece hit a wrong note right at the very end, which he wasn't happy about, but Quincy Jones said "you're making me look like a genius here" because the wrong note added to the comedic mood.
♪Freddy Sanford, Freddy Sanford and his son.
Freddy Sanford, in a junkyard havin fun, what the devil will they screw up neeeext?!♪
Perfect!
@@treyowen9213
About 2 months ago I had my picture taken sitting in that very pickup truck, it's not far from where I live.
Oh the hijinx!
family guy 🤣🤣🤣
OH! So your Kanye West!
No words, no lyrics, just simple music. One reason why it's one of the best openings of all time
plus, it has a strong bass line.
@chaossol and @andcasey2. Everything about Quincy Jones' theme makes it a super intro to the show. I like the bass harmonica, too.
@@andcasey2and the very last note is the WRONG note (confessed by the bass player) and Quincy loved how off eat it was that he insisted on keeping it in!
Classic Americana. No matter what age you are, you remember this either when it aired, or in syndication. I remember being a kid watching reruns, and thinking how can this show be so much funnier than the shows we have now. Granted that was in the 90s and the shows were awesome. That goes to show you how much more awesome this show was.
Funniest show ever
How? Woke "culture"...that's how.
Just raw talent, man. From in front of the camera to behind the camera. Sanford and Son had one of the all time best ensemble casts in television history!
Not really American. It's a remake of A British comedy series " Steptoe and Son"
@@johnthwaites5976 I'm totally familiar with that show. But that doesn't negate my comment. This version is Americana. The theme song, the storylines, the characters, all of it. It's different from let's say _The Office_ which has a UK version, a U.S version and now an Australian version all with the same name.
I'm 23 now and I used to watch sitcoms like this with my parents when I was little. Those were the days, I almost shed tears thinking about it again.
If anyone remembers the funny episode with the property line just comment it below hahaha
This theme song done played in my head about 5 times today. My grandfather and I used to watch the reruns and just crack up. I miss him so much.😥
My late father 💕 watching the Sanford and son reruns now I when the theme plays I gotta watch Miss u pops
My condolences to the both of you for your losses. May they continue to be in your heart, now and always.
My condolences but that's a great memory of your grandfather 😂
RIP Quincy D. Jones!!! I watched this show as a kid. Didn't know you composed the theme song. Wow. You were a prolific artist! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Yet another masterpiece from Quincy Jones.
The Streetbeater, I believe I heard it called.
And Tommy Morgan, the man who played both harmonica and bass harmonica on this.
Apparently he was high as shit when he wrote it too lol
This show was TOO DAMN FUNNY! Man, I miss the old days of sitcoms! Very few of them today are worth watching. I'd ALWAYS run into the living room when I heard the funky 70s music on in this intro! Most probably the FUNNIEST sitcom that EVER existed!!
I'm really happy that someone saw what geniuses Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were for someone to want to take the original Steptoe and Son and share that British comedy with the world.
The 70s was the golden decade for sitcoms
@@juanchristianaltamirabruno9994
absolutely was!
I love this intro song. It's the first song that's lasted throughout the years where, for less than a minute, no matter what, EVERYTHING is okay.
Absolutely.
My dad introduced me to this show and i love it so much. Its just pure innocent comedy.
Rest easy Q, rest easy. We shall never forget the GENIUS OF Q😢
I'm eighteen and I grew up watching this show along with other amazing iconic shows such as The Golden Girls, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Mama's Family, The Big Valley, M.A.S.H., Roseanne, I Love Lucy (plus Lucille Ball's following sitcom the Lucy Show), etc. I'm really glad I got to grow up watching shows like that cause it really made me appreciate the classics. 👍✌️
Same here, man. Grew up watching all these classics on nostalgic stations like Nick @ Nite and Tv Land etc. Also Good Times, Taxi, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeanie, The Wonder Years, 227, Cheers, Frasier, The Cosby Show, What's Happening and What's Happening Now etc.
Same. Don't care what anyone says, The Golden Girls will always hit different!
I remember seeing Redd in the night clubs in St Louis where I lived way way
back in the late 50 early 60. Sorry to say there will not be another like him.
He was a class act.
Only recently have I heard Fred Sanford's stand up. He was a comedic genius
I like the fact that they didn't "dress up" the audio here but it sounds just like it did in the 1970s -- the audio going through the tiny little speaker on our family TV.
you mean remastered?
"Elizabeth.... I'm comin' to join you, honey!"
This is the big one! Lol
I wasn't raised in this time but I like this show
I related to this show somewhat due to the fact in my neighborhood we had a Fred Sanford he was a junk yard man only he sold use lawnmowers and lawnmower parts. He was a cool old man who made an honest living and provided a much needed service in the community May he Rest In Peace.
Fred, Lamont, aunt Esther, Slappy, Grady, what a cast of characters.
Smitty and Hoppy were also great
Happy 50th Birthday 🎂 Anniversary to the sitcom Sanford and Son
RIP Redd Foxx 1922-1991
One of my dad's favorite shows when I was a kid back in the 80s.
We have a local junk dealer good ole Vietnam war vet 🇺🇸🇺🇸
that has so so much stuff on display he’s the real life Fred Sanford!!!!
It’s great!! You walk past his things at the local open air market and you hear this playing in the background in your mind!!!
🇺🇸LIVING THE DREAM MY BROTHER!! 🇺🇸
How many people heres father introduced them to this show, And even then I wonder how many of their fathers introduced them, This show was and is special. One of the few accurate father son shows. We've all been in Lamonts shoes and i'm sure some fathers out there have felt like Fred with a big dummy for a son sometimes. I wish we got more shows like this. It's rarity is why it will live on forever.
Been watching every evening after wheel and jeopardy 2023. Give me 1972 any day.
Whoever was on bass on this is my hero. They played the heck out of this. I know Quincy Jones wrote and produced it.
Yes! Watched that show all the time as a kid! My favorite lines from old man Sanford were, "Why did you do that, you BIG DUMMY!!!!" And when he faked his heart attacks, "I feel the big one now! I'm coming home, Elizabeth!!!"
the way my dad used to watch this show when i was little and still watches it now always brings me back, and he even had everything on dvd. so much nostalgia here.
This theme is so badass! I’ll never forget my mom running from the kitchen to watch it. That’s how my mom learned how to speak English.
If this song could play as I'm walking to my car for work in the morning, I think my entire day would be AWESOME
Yes!
One of the coolest themes songs ever! That opening groove was funky fresh! Its rocks to this day!
Rest in peace quincy jones
i still watch the reruns and i watch the episodes i have already seen over and over again, i love this show
Rest in Paradise. Mr Quincy Jones.
I remember sitting back watching that CLASSIC with many MEMORIES and wishing I had that truck with original parts and all original condition...
So glad my dad hooked me on to this show. Love it so much!
look at that quality
XD
its what we had.... and it was beautiful
man! get out of here with that crap
it's old and that's what you gots to realize
"Gots"?
Yes! I'm from Chicago and we grew up watching this and loved it!
SANFORD AND SON 🛻🏡🎼🎵🎶🎺CLASSIC__R.I.P. 🎼🎵🎶🎺👔 QUINCY JONES!!!
“You Don’t Look Like Kanye West”
“Yeah That’s What I Said”
My late father ❤ watching Sanford and Son it reminds me of him we watch it together
Love this show, but the theme is amazing. Doesn't matter how bad my day is going: I hear it and it puts a smile on my face. Never fails.
I totally played this in my school's jazz band. It was righteous on so many levels
What fond memories this show brings back! Inspite of the slow economy back then, the 70s was a great time for quality tv shows that offered great comedy or drama.
They were purely a distraction from everything going on during those times. And entertainment, obviously.
The VHS quality makes this the best version of this theme on RUclips.
Lamont driving around lookin like someone gave him an unfamiliar address.
This was my grandpa's favorite TV show
I'm only 33, but 15-20 years ago, I can remember always watching Sanford & Son reruns on TV Land at like 3 a.m. Love Redd Foxx's stand-up too -- hilarious!
I’m 38 but same… I absolutely ADORED TV Land. And you’re 100% correct, the best shows, including Sanford and Son, were always on at 2, 3, 4 and 5 am! 😂😂😂 I would give ANYTHING to go back to those times. It hurts just thinking of it. Sanford and Son has always been one of my favorites. My dad and his sisters all loved it, too, and I grew up with the reruns. When I was 18-ish I made a picture of Fred and Lemont on Microsoft Paint. Fred was saying to Lemont, “You big dummy!” 😂😂😂😂 I wish I had a picture of it still. It was on my old work PC.
I absolutely love Sanford and son! I remember watching it with my grandpa when I was little! Now that I'm 40, I watch it on stream cause can't find it on any channels! Where the hell did my life go?
Nowhere, the world just fuckin changed
Man this was my childhood with me and my dad 🥹 man the good old days
I always crack a smile with the Sanford and Son intro
"Oh My God, I married Fred Sanford...banam banam, banam banam banam banam banam banam.." - CHANDLER (FRIENDS)
I did that to my aunt while helping her clean her room! XD
One overrated sitcom references another.
@@haydennault5342I never cared for The Jeffersons although I did like "Taxi", "Sledge Hammer", "Dinosaurs" and "Coach" to name a few. All four have been forgotten with surviving actors playing in material beneath them, the said new material proving to be extremely popular. Go figure.
🤣🤣🤣
@@quincycampbell9828 most of the shows you mentioned are pretty popular… why are you trying to use less popular shows to show you’re “quirky” or something, it’s dumb.
I was raised on shows like this. Used to watch it with my mom. Great times. Miss those times and great shows like Sanford and Son 💙
This was my grandpa's ringtone the last few years of his life. Watched a lot of episodes together when I was a kid. I miss you, old man ❤️💙
RIP Quincy Jones.
Who else here grew up living with grandparents in the 2000s and remember hearing this theme song from the TV ? ✋
Channel 9 in Australia used to broadcast this program during the Summer when all our regular programs were off the air til around February. Very funny & entertaining.
It’s based off an English show titled “steptoe and son”
I’ve had this stuck in my head for all of quarantine as I obsessively build a Rube Goldberg machine in my room. There’s only so much of this chaotic energy I can endure. Make it stop.
I'm young with a old soul☀️🔥💞 My dad loved this show. May he rest in peace🙏
Loved this show as a kid 😂😁☺️❤️
And for those that still don't know...............
This song is called "The Streetbeater" and it was recorded by Quincy Jones in 1973.
nakedfaves Actually it was recorded in 1972. It was released as a single in 1973
WOW!!! I definitely didn't know that
Thanks for sharing! I hope it’s on iTunes!
I was just humming this randomly looking for it and just searched up old black people tv show theme songs 😂
I'm almost 60. I remember when this show first came on. I thought the opening theme was awesome. In my opinion, the harmonica makes the song. My dad and I, never missed an episode. Those were the good old days.
Thanks for sharing your memories. And yes, the harmonica absolutely makes it!!!
RIP Quincy Jones
...what an Amazing, Iconic Theme Song!
I may be a modern american teen but this show is better than everything made now, it's my favorite show of all time
There will never be comedy like this again.
All In The Family, The Jeffersons, and Sanford & Son...The golden age of TV comedy!
I vegly remember watching all 3 of them as a little kid.
I'm glad I have this show on dvd here at home.i hope I have the best of Fred and Esther,s compilation.
Rest In Peace Mr Norman Lear.
me and my brother watched this with my dad all the time miss them days
Yep, i always did love the Sanford & Son Theme song! It was awesome, as was all shows back in those days into the 80's! The future isn't "all that and a bag of chips" if you ask me. I'd take that Sanford & Son truck ANYDAY over what's out there on the road now days!! Those really were much simpler times, as you see in the opening, Fred is taking his lovely time to see what Lamont brought back to his salvage collection. Now days, it's rush, rush, rush...2000's, YOU SUCK!
One of my favorite theme songs of all time
I really wish I could get this on DVD here in the UK, what a great show.
I love this show last time watched it on my TV 📺 😀
I love this theme!! It's #33 on Television's Greatest Hits CD vol.3!!
Should've been wayyyy higher than that. At least top five along with The Jeffersons, Good Times , The Rockford Files and Perry Mason.
Sanford and son is one of the few sitcoms that kept the same intro and ending though out the entire series.
Bro this is nostalgic, brings back memories, i remember my uncle watching this back in the days and we would watch it with him, idk i randomly found this tho💀
Greatest theme song of all time #1
Godspeed, Quincy Jones.
Best tv theme of all time!!!
Greatest song ever written.
Highly debatable, if not outright wrong
It's up there but The Jeffersons theme may very well be the greatest theme of all time.
@@wjc9600 I'd toss in the themes of Good Times, Perry Mason and The Rockford Files to that list.
I would say one of the greatest (that, and What's Happening)
One of the greatest shows of all time
anyone else come to listen to this masterpiece after watching the family guy clip "Freddy sanford, freddy sanford and his son, freddy sanford, in a junkyard havin fun, what the devil will they screw up neeeeeeext"
I just stated humming this. it's amazing no words. I love this show
omg i remember watching this back in the day what a good show....
Hzj
madison ciara I love ur pfp
Theme song soaked with soul.
RIP QUINCY JONES
My dad watches this all th time and I love hearing it❤❤
RIP Mr Quincy Jones
RIP Redd Foxx, Aunt Esther, Grady and Rollo!!!
Wicked bass line... Remember watching this with my sisters and brother. I think Maude came on after... or maybe Chico and the Man?
Maude was on CBS.
Still loving this theme song after All these Years yet. The last time I seen the show probably back in 92 give or take, now it's 2023.
I would love to see decades network tv do a marathon of it.
I remember king of the hill, when Dale was watching the show xD
It's the voting van, yes the voting van.
Literally same rn
Also Turk and JDs favorite show on Scrubs
It was based on a 1960s British sitcom called "Steptoe & Son".