Loved watching Blondie as a kid in the 60s on WGN ! My brother and I drove my mom crazy by turning up the tv as loud as possible when Arthur Lake yelled "BLONDIE " during the opening theme song and credits!
I used to steal the comics for dagwood and blondie when my parents got the paper every Sunday oh man so many memories to this day I still clip the dagwood and blondie comics ❤❤❤ thank you king productions
This 1966 "standard" opening replaced the original Columbia theatrical opening titles for all 28 Blondie movies (1938-'50) when they were released by King Features into syndication. I believe the theme was co-written by King Features executive Al Brodax.
I remember watching a lot of those Blondie movies when they were televised in the Greater St. Louis area on independent station KPLR-TV 11 (now a CW affiliate) between 1968 and about 1984 or so.
Blondie was a sitcom of the early 1950's produced by Hal Roach Studios in Culver City California. My mother Marie Moore worked for Hal Roach Studios from 1936 until 1962 when the studio closed due to bankruptcy. As the studio bookkeeper, she signed many of the paychecks for the various actors that did films at Roach Studio's, including Gale Storm, who did Oh Susanna and the Gale Storm Show as well as her first sitcom, My Little Margie, along with Charlie Farrel Margie's father in the series, and many others. The original Blondie was played by Penny Singleton and after awhile when Penny Singleton's contract expired (in those days actors had contracts with the studios).. and when Penny Singleton left, Pamela Britton took over. She went on to be Mrs. Brown in My Favorite Martian with Bill Bixby and Ray Walston. Arthur Lake was Dagwood all through the short lived sitcom that lasted about 5 years
@@williammoore6010 Fascinating! Also Arthur Lake's pay check? I loved the guy!! He was married to Marion Davies niece or possibly daughter with William Randolph Hearst, and is interred in the Hearst crypt with his wife, and relatives. A native Kentuckian would God Arthur had gone to Washington and become minority leader in the Senate; Mr.Lake goes to Washington! His winsome humor and affable and serious character always will be remembered.
Penny Singleton was in a series of A pictures before she signed with Columbia to make Blondie movies. The Blondie movies kept her pretty busy and just thought that she would retire in 1950 but other oppertunities opened up doing cartoons.
In 1950, Hal Roach senior of Roach Studios in Culver City California signed Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake for a sitcom called, you guessed it 'Blondie'. Sadly it was short lived went to reruns by the late 1950's and by about 1960, it went off the air. Hal Roach studios did many movies beginning in 1919 featuring such celebrities as comedian Harold Lloyd, the Little Rascals and Our Gang Comedies, along with Laurel & Hardy. They did quite a few sitcoms in the 1950's: My Little Margie with Gale Storm, the Gale Storm Show, Oh Susanna, The Life of Riley, Trouble With Father now all off the air for decades. Sadly the studio closed in 1962 due to bankruptcy. My late mother Marie Moore worked for Hal Roach Studios as the head bookkeeper from 1936 - 1962 and signed many paychecks of these early movie celebrities. The studio is long gone having been on Washington Blvd @ Robertson Blvd and in fact was one of the first large companies in Culver City when it incorporated in 1917. The old studio location has a plaque in the ground in front of the former main lot, it reads 'former location of Hal Roach Studios, laugh factory to the World 1919 -1962'. Ah such good memories of a time long gone.
Wow, I'm 41 and used to watch these on Saturday mornings in the 80s. My mom and I would always sing the theme. At least now I know what the words are! As a child, I made up my own words!
Remember watching these re runs as a kid back in the early 1970's. They were ahead of there time back in the 1930's. Not too many comedies around back then on film that were as good !!!
They ran "Blondie" on Sunday afternoon's at 2:00 on (I think) KTVT channel 11, Ft. Worth - Dallas - in the early/mid '70's. At the time, I also thought the opening theme song had a "modern" sound (the base guitar maybe?) & the King Features graphics looked like what their cartoon openings had back in the '60's, only they were in color - Thank you everybody for answering these questions that WOW !, 40+ years later, brought me here today -
I also watched them on KTVT Channel 11 in the '70s. I remember them being shown as the afternoon movie on weekdays during the summer. One movie a week starting with the first movie in 1939 thru the mid-to late '40s with Baby Dumpling (he wasn't a baby anymore) and his little sister Cookie.
that was the show back in the day. Sunday morning, show about to come on had to have my Mountain Dew and a fat Dagwood sandwich!! I think I was 7, good times man good times.
Reminds me of many happy Saturday mornings - I think these movies were on Channel 5, WNEW, maybe Channel 11 (WPIX )--Blondie came on after Shirley Temple Theater...thanks for posting!
Me too! In suburban Phila. on what used to be called "UHF". Wonderful Saturday mornings with Blondie, Dagwood, Cookie, Baby Dumpling, and especially, Daisy!!Thank you.
@MrOwwl - Yes, I was around the same age, too...I used to watch it in the late 70's-early 80's. It would come on right after Abbott and Costello would go off. Yes, those times were GREAT!!
I remember these openings from when I was younger when they use to show the movies in the late 80's and early 90's. The mailman never stands a chance when Dagwood runs out the door.
I know it's a little late, but I just now found this. Thanks for sharing this information. I used to watch these on Saturday afternoons back in the 70's, and as a kid just couldn't quite figure out why the music didn't fit a 1930's-40's movie....and now I know.
I have vol one (the first ten eps) on DVD...brings back SOOO many memories of my mom and I watching this EVERY weekend here in Cleveland on Ch. 61 LONG before it became the HSN.
@NinjaGhostScorpion Yes, she was a strikingly beautiful woman, a great dancer/singer and actress... it's sad and strange that she never made it past "B" movies; what I've heard is that she was so typecast as Blondie ,that no one would give her a "serious" leading role
The "Bumstead" home was the same one the "Andersons" later occupied on "FATHER KNOWS BEST", and was also "Tony Nelson's" house on "I DREAM OF JEANNIE".
Roy Phillips There is an area at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando that is themed to old comic strips and cartoons. They have a sandwich shop there called “Blondie’s” and they play this song throughout the area.
I miss sunday comedies after watching The Three Stooges Iraq Abbott and Costello Laurel and Hardy. and Blondie easy funny times the memories keeps me happy inside make my dark day a letter better ☺☺☺
Basically this came from a TV package of the movies that were distributed in the 60's, so the music was from that period, but the films themselves were already 20-30 years old by then.
Basically there was a series of these films produced between 1938 to 50, 28 in total. King Features purchased the rights to these films from Columbia at some point and created a new opening sequence for all the films so they acted like an entire series this way. Stations often set aside a Saturday or a Sunday to play them weekly.
Did you know that the Bumstead house was later used as the Anderson house on Father Knows Best, then later on it was used as the Nelson house on I Dream Of Jeannie? I wonder if the house is still there?
its the pretty girl witha funny hat..i also remember this in the 80's in the UK growing up. Never can remember it it was part of kids tv or old ppls tv back in the day. But an enjoyable show nevertheless
The original Columbia openings were all different for each film and very cute. When King Features got hold of them they put this loud annoying generic opening on all the films. I always hated it. Made me not want to watch the film.
If you really want to see the Columbia Pictures original opening titles for Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940), here's the link: ruclips.net/video/zC0bmoIZl50/видео.html It's the one with the 1936 Columbia Pictures logo in it.
Wow Deb I love this little tune. Although I have seen the original I still love this one. And I believe Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton did the singing on this tune and I just think it fits the Characters perfect. It made you not want to watch it, It was this tune and the movies that got me into reading the Sunday Funnies of Blondie every week as a kid. I guess it's true to each his or hers own.
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Loved watching Blondie as a kid in the 60s on WGN ! My brother and I drove my mom crazy by turning up the tv as loud as possible when Arthur Lake yelled "BLONDIE " during the opening theme song and credits!
I remember as a young kid watching this on Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia from 11:30 to 1:00, in the mid 60's. Brings back such great memories.
I absolutely love this theme- there is something very rock-solid about the bass line and the tight horn riffs.
tomovox Reminds me of Earth Wind & Fire.
Movies! TV Network has been showing Blondie lately on Saturday early afternoons. I’m watching “Blondie’s Hero” now.
I used to steal the comics for dagwood and blondie when my parents got the paper every Sunday oh man so many memories to this day I still clip the dagwood and blondie comics ❤❤❤ thank you king productions
I remember watching a lot of those Blondie movies on channel 30 (now31)WUHF in Rochester, Ny back in the '80's. Good times.
I used to see this opening on Sunday Mornings during the 1970's on Detroit's Channel 20 (Back then known as WXON-TV, today a My-TV station.)
I recall WKBD running these in the early 80's.
When I was little I used to watch these blondie movies every Sunday on t.v. I love this intro.
I was born in '71 & I remember these being shown on Saturday (or was it Sunday) afternoon. This classic intro
is still has fun today. :)
This 1966 "standard" opening replaced the original Columbia theatrical opening titles for all 28 Blondie movies (1938-'50) when they were released by King Features into syndication. I believe the theme was co-written by King Features executive Al Brodax.
The "Blondie and Dagwood" theme, written especially for the 1965 TV reissue of these films, was indeed composed by Al Brodax- and Bernard Green.
Brings back memories.....they USE to show "Blondie and Dagwood" every Sunday mid. morning in Philly. Those were the days...thnx.
I remember watching a lot of those Blondie movies when they were televised in the Greater St. Louis area on independent station KPLR-TV 11 (now a CW affiliate) between 1968 and about 1984 or so.
Blondie was a sitcom of the early 1950's produced by Hal Roach Studios in Culver City California. My mother Marie Moore worked for Hal Roach Studios from 1936 until 1962 when the studio closed due to bankruptcy. As the studio bookkeeper, she signed many of the paychecks for the various actors that did films at Roach Studio's, including Gale Storm, who did Oh Susanna and the Gale Storm Show as well as her first sitcom, My Little Margie, along with Charlie Farrel Margie's father in the series, and many others. The original Blondie was played by Penny Singleton and after awhile when Penny Singleton's contract expired (in those days actors had contracts with the studios).. and when Penny Singleton left, Pamela Britton took over. She went on to be Mrs. Brown in My Favorite Martian with Bill Bixby and Ray Walston. Arthur Lake was Dagwood all through the short lived sitcom that lasted about 5 years
and the three stoogies on saturday night/sunday morning!
@@williammoore6010 Fascinating! Also Arthur Lake's pay check? I loved the guy!! He was married to Marion Davies niece or possibly daughter with William Randolph Hearst, and is interred in the Hearst crypt with his wife, and relatives. A native Kentuckian would God Arthur had gone to Washington and become minority leader in the Senate; Mr.Lake goes to Washington! His winsome humor and affable and serious character always will be remembered.
Dagwood's a wrecking ball on legs.
Penny Singleton was in a series of A pictures before she signed with Columbia to make Blondie movies. The Blondie movies kept her pretty busy and just thought that she would retire in 1950 but other oppertunities opened up doing cartoons.
In 1950, Hal Roach senior of Roach Studios in Culver City California signed Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake for a sitcom called, you guessed it 'Blondie'. Sadly it was short lived went to reruns by the late 1950's and by about 1960, it went off the air. Hal Roach studios did many movies beginning in 1919 featuring such celebrities as comedian Harold Lloyd, the Little Rascals and Our Gang Comedies, along with Laurel & Hardy. They did quite a few sitcoms in the 1950's: My Little Margie with Gale Storm, the Gale Storm Show, Oh Susanna, The Life of Riley, Trouble With Father now all off the air for decades. Sadly the studio closed in 1962 due to bankruptcy. My late mother Marie Moore worked for Hal Roach Studios as the head bookkeeper from 1936 - 1962 and signed many paychecks of these early movie celebrities. The studio is long gone having been on Washington Blvd @ Robertson Blvd and in fact was one of the first large companies in Culver City when it incorporated in 1917. The old studio location has a plaque in the ground in front of the former main lot, it reads 'former location of Hal Roach Studios, laugh factory to the World 1919 -1962'. Ah such good memories of a time long gone.
Wow, I'm 41 and used to watch these on Saturday mornings in the 80s. My mom and I would always sing the theme. At least now I know what the words are! As a child, I made up my own words!
Remember watching these re runs as a kid back in the early 1970's. They were ahead of there time back in the 1930's. Not too many comedies around back then on film that were as good !!!
My favorite theme song for the show.
They ran "Blondie" on Sunday afternoon's at 2:00 on (I think) KTVT channel 11, Ft. Worth - Dallas - in the early/mid '70's. At the time, I also thought the opening theme song had a "modern" sound (the base guitar maybe?) & the King Features graphics looked like what their cartoon openings had back in the '60's, only they were in color - Thank you everybody for answering these questions that WOW !, 40+ years later, brought me here today -
I also watched them on KTVT Channel 11 in the '70s. I remember them being shown as the afternoon movie on weekdays during the summer. One movie a week starting with the first movie in 1939 thru the mid-to late '40s with Baby Dumpling (he wasn't a baby anymore) and his little sister Cookie.
that was the show back in the day. Sunday morning, show about to come on had to have my Mountain Dew and a fat Dagwood sandwich!! I think I was 7, good times man good times.
Reminds me of many happy Saturday mornings - I think these movies were on Channel 5, WNEW, maybe Channel 11 (WPIX )--Blondie came on after Shirley Temple Theater...thanks for posting!
Me too! In suburban Phila. on what used to be called "UHF". Wonderful Saturday mornings with Blondie, Dagwood, Cookie, Baby Dumpling, and especially, Daisy!!Thank you.
Fun watching these on Saturday mornings in the early 70s in the Chicago area on WGN TV.
the music is so HIP for those days!!!!!!
@MrOwwl - Yes, I was around the same age, too...I used to watch it in the late 70's-early 80's. It would come on right after Abbott and Costello would go off. Yes, those times were GREAT!!
Just how I remember it.
Best and most accurate movie adaptation of a comic strip ever done
Such awesome memories.
I remember these openings from when I was younger when they use to show the movies in the late 80's and early 90's. The mailman never stands a chance when Dagwood runs out the door.
And taking the bus to work was perfectly ok: not everyone HAD to have or even drive a car! Dagwood and Blondie were thrifty!
I know it's a little late, but I just now found this. Thanks for sharing this information. I used to watch these on Saturday afternoons back in the 70's, and as a kid just couldn't quite figure out why the music didn't fit a 1930's-40's movie....and now I know.
Fabulous theme song for a 1940s show, unusually good !!!!!
That's because that theme was made in the 1960s when they wanted to market the Blondie films in a syndication package.
I have vol one (the first ten eps) on DVD...brings back SOOO many memories of my mom and I watching this EVERY weekend here in Cleveland on Ch. 61 LONG before it became the HSN.
I use to watch these in the 80s. Great :-)
The king features fanfare was also used for the beatles cartoon intro.
sdh568 Yes it does, the name of it was "I Should've Known Better".
@NinjaGhostScorpion Yes, she was a strikingly beautiful woman, a great dancer/singer and actress... it's sad and strange that she never made it past "B" movies; what I've heard is that she was so typecast as Blondie ,that no one would give her a "serious" leading role
Universal studios anyone??
Dee West yes
Dee West Actually, it's Columbia Pictures.
The "Bumstead" home was the same one the "Andersons" later occupied on "FATHER KNOWS BEST", and was also "Tony Nelson's" house on "I DREAM OF JEANNIE".
Toon Lagoon
Roy Phillips There is an area at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando that is themed to old comic strips and cartoons. They have a sandwich shop there called “Blondie’s” and they play this song throughout the area.
Islands of Adventure brought me here
In the early '80s these showed Sundays 12p, then a mystery at 2p, either Charlie Chan or Mr Moto. Then only millionaires in the 'burbs had cable.
WGN Channel 9,Chicago.
Mrs Jetson is that you?
Yup that's Penny Singleton as Jane Jetson.
A goofy dorky husband with a beautiful wife
Wow.... I can not believe I remember the words, and when I watched this I was lke what 8. This is great.
These arent the original film openings. They were done in the mid '60's.
Here's the link for the original opening titles for Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940): ruclips.net/video/zC0bmoIZl50/видео.html
That mailman should sue the sh*t out of Dagwood!
I remember watching this a child, it wasn't until I got older that I realized the opening was not the original opening credit
I so remember this opening
I miss sunday comedies after watching The Three Stooges Iraq Abbott and Costello Laurel and Hardy. and Blondie easy funny times the memories keeps me happy inside make my dark day a letter better ☺☺☺
the music was "ahead of its time"
Basically this came from a TV package of the movies that were distributed in the 60's, so the music was from that period, but the films themselves were already 20-30 years old by then.
I never KNEW that......Thanks dude!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought something with up with that!!
Basically there was a series of these films produced between 1938 to 50, 28 in total. King Features purchased the rights to these films from Columbia at some point and created a new opening sequence for all the films so they acted like an entire series this way. Stations often set aside a Saturday or a Sunday to play them weekly.
The "new" (1966) theme, "Blondie and Dagwood", was written for the opening titles by Bernie Green, Al Brodax and Dennis Marks.
Barry I. Grauman The recently departed Al Brodax, mind you!
wow thank you this brought back a memory. i loved this show!
For some reason, I was expecting The Beatles to sing the theme song...
Such a shame they didn't! I would've loved it!
Wtf is a baby dumpling?
Lol
It was what Alexander was originally named in the strip (as a "pet name").
Blondie did the voice of Jane Jetson
wouldve been funny if this was the wandavision theme song
It's skinny ennis lanes pin return 9 pins then game over that pin got gullied death valley for the cleansing
I was just going by what I read in a biography, and yes, she was best known as Jayne Jetson
Did you know that the Bumstead house was later used as the Anderson house on Father Knows Best, then later on it was used as the Nelson house on I Dream Of Jeannie? I wonder if the house is still there?
it IS!!
That is so great!
+Sheri451 Ask me about Mrs George Jetson?
I used to love Penny on The Jetsons.
Used to? O.K. Hello, from Houston, Texas.
Does anyone know which episode (movie) where the theme song is played the same as the one that starts 0:09?
Baby Dumpling 🤔
It was Alexander's original name.
This opening reminds me of an early Macintosh GUI
its the pretty girl witha funny hat..i also remember this in the 80's in the UK growing up. Never can remember it it was part of kids tv or old ppls tv back in the day. But an enjoyable show nevertheless
At the 1:04 mark - In film/tv production, I know what an "associate" producer does, but what does an "asociate" producer do?
Probably a typo that wasn't caught before they made this.
@tvnutboy It's so much a tie for me!
@tvnutboy Depends on which generation you are asking
Was that the same actress the voiced Jane Jetson?
Yes.
The original Columbia openings were all different for each film and very cute. When King Features got hold of them they put this loud annoying generic opening on all the films. I always hated it. Made me not want to watch the film.
I agree. This opening, and the lyrics, are infantile.
If you really want to see the Columbia Pictures original opening titles for Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940), here's the link: ruclips.net/video/zC0bmoIZl50/видео.html It's the one with the 1936 Columbia Pictures logo in it.
Wow Deb I love this little tune. Although I have seen the original I still love this one. And I believe Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton did the singing on this tune and I just think it fits the Characters perfect. It made you not want to watch it, It was this tune and the movies that got me into reading the Sunday Funnies of Blondie every week as a kid. I guess it's true to each his or hers own.