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!
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'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.
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 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.
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!! 🇺🇸
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.
@@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.
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!!!"
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 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?
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.
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💀
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.
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'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
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.
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!
Watched it every week for years. It was awesomely hilarious. Lament knew everything. Salford and Esther should have been man and wife. And Grady was so cool. We met Sanford in Miami at the Dupont. He was astute, Intelligent, well dressed and handsome.
i remember watching this with my dad good time before he became an alcoholic and i couldn't see him anymore but at least this clips bring back the good memories
steve salzano He obviously was coming to a stop at that point. He’s stopped and waited for a car to pass going from his left to his right. Not rocket science.
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
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 😞
♪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!
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
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
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!
"Elizabeth.... I'm comin' to join you, honey!"
This is the big one! Lol
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.
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!
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 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 😂
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'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 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.
“You Don’t Look Like Kanye West”
“Yeah That’s What I Said”
Only recently have I heard Fred Sanford's stand up. He was a comedic genius
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"?
I wasn't raised in this time but I like this show
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!
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
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.
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 ❤️💙
Fred, Lamont, aunt Esther, Slappy, Grady, what a cast of characters.
Smitty and Hoppy were also great
My dad introduced me to this show and i love it so much. Its just pure innocent comedy.
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.
Happy 50th Birthday 🎂 Anniversary to the sitcom Sanford and Son
RIP Redd Foxx 1922-1991
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!! 🇺🇸
Whoever was on bass on this is my hero. They played the heck out of this. I know Quincy Jones wrote and produced it.
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.
This was my grandpa's favorite TV show
"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.
One of my dad's favorite shows when I was a kid back in the 80s.
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!!!"
I was just humming this randomly looking for it and just searched up old black people tv show theme songs 😂
Yes! I'm from Chicago and we grew up watching this and loved it!
I always crack a smile with the Sanford and Son intro
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'm young with a old soul☀️🔥💞 My dad loved this show. May he rest in peace🙏
Rest In Peace Mr Norman Lear.
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 totally played this in my school's jazz band. It was righteous on so many levels
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
Loved this show as a kid 😂😁☺️❤️
So glad my dad hooked me on to this show. Love it so much!
All In The Family, The Jeffersons, and Sanford & Son...The golden age of TV comedy!
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?
One of my favorite theme songs of all time
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.
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💀
Theme song soaked with soul.
I will always remember I would always watch this with my grandma
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.
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”
Been watching every evening after wheel and jeopardy 2023. Give me 1972 any day.
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
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 💙
I may be a modern american teen but this show is better than everything made now, it's my favorite show of all time
Best tv theme of all time!!!
me and my brother watched this with my dad all the time miss them days
friends brought me here
Chandler to be precise
Chandler ❤️❤️❤️
Chandler of course
Ugh, don't mention Friends on a Sanford and Son vid, man LOL.
Thank you Kanye for making this banger of a theme
“Freddy sanford, freddy sanford and his son”
My dad watches this all th time and I love hearing it❤❤
There will never be comedy like this again.
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.
I really wish I could get this on DVD here in the UK, what a great show.
i still watch the reruns and i watch the episodes i have already seen over and over again, i love this show
One of the greatest shows of all time
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
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)
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.
I just stated humming this. it's amazing no words. I love this show
gonna make this my alarm clock :D
omg i remember watching this back in the day what a good show....
Hzj
madison ciara I love ur pfp
Jd and turks version from Scrubs is pure gold
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!
"you big dummy" timeless, classic, and a masterpiece right there, r.i.p. redd foxx...
I used to watch this with my dad all the time. Just unlocked a bunch of memories I forgot
Watched it every week for years. It was awesomely hilarious. Lament knew everything. Salford and Esther should have been man and wife. And Grady was so cool. We met Sanford in Miami at the Dupont. He was astute, Intelligent, well dressed and handsome.
That's Lamont. Salford.
i loved this show plus the theme was catchy
i remember watching this with my dad good time before he became an alcoholic and i couldn't see him anymore but at least this clips bring back the good memories
That's deep D:
Rachy
yep that the way life goes :) but i became a better person from those experience
Jonathan Adams Indeed one can make someone else's illness about themselves pretty easily ;)
Matt Bowers Ice cold, man
Illness affects everyone involved, not just the user. It's toxic, like your comment. ;) -In response to Matt Bowers
Me and my entire family after supper would watch this every night It was on!!! My 4 brothers and 3 sisters, Mom / Dad.
Born in 1999… watched this show with my family growing up.. time flies when you’re having fun
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.
Love that there's no *Sanford and Son* title card, just their business sign 🏬
Huh, I never noticed this before! Lol that's very original too. Love it!
the theme is gold. that funk bass is soo nice.
love the show like all the classics, red fox is hilarious.
I remember sitting back watching that CLASSIC with many MEMORIES and wishing I had that truck with original parts and all original condition...
Happy birthday John Elroy Sanford, greatest comedian that ever lived!!!!!!
Still running episodes on Antenna TV... Classic show!
🤣 What a show this was and still is.
Hands down my favorite television show!
I like how at :30 Lamont is looking around as if he is driving, but we can tell by the reflections in the windshield that his truck is not moving
He looks like he's at a stop sign... Probably waiting to see if it's safe to go.
if it wasn't for good times no Sanford and son lol
Lamont is probably checking out some ladies!
steve salzano He obviously was coming to a stop at that point. He’s stopped and waited for a car to pass going from his left to his right. Not rocket science.
He looking for the five-o for that stolen stuff he's haulin' for Rollo'
Family Guy anyone?
Right here.
Sanford and his son in a junkyard having fun. Fishy.
Did u come here from a deleted scenes category
@@nathanricoza8710 yep
Stewie Griffin and Kanye West
But of course!
Loved the show. Still watch tbe reruns.
Even though I never met the man my mother tells me one of the main ways I’m like my grandpa is that he and I both loved this show
One of the greatest theme aongs ever
Love the theme from Sanford and son
I miss this TV show, I used to have watch it back when I was little
Man this was my childhood with me and my dad 🥹 man the good old days
IT'S JUNKYARD AMERICA BABY! COME AND GET YOUR EBT'S, COME AND GET YOUR GUB'MENT CHEESE!
ButI need money cuz of ma kids baby MA KIDS!!!
IT'S JUNKYARD AMERICA
Nerd
I had an aunt who was a secretary for the VA, and sometimes she brought home a loaf of that stuff. Best grilled cheese sandwiches I ever tasted!!!