George Tipton wrote this theme along with lyricist Leslie Bricusse. I was a studio singer for 55 busy years and George called me to get three other girls to record this. The other girls were Edie Lehmann, Susie McCune and Lynda Harmon. We had a lot of fun.
Thanks so much for this. So great to hear the names of the singers. Believe me, as a teen watching this show, I wonder who you were. I thought Y'all sound amazing. I consider this theme song the very best lyrically, melodically, and vocally. It captures the spirit of the show. It reminds me of a well-considered, seemingly effortless, opening number for a hit Broadway musical.
Great job. My mom used to watch this show when I was in elementary school and like pretty much every theme show tune back then (themes were usually as good as the shows back then) it sticks in my mind and I hum them outta nowhere til this day in my forties!
When George called me to contract the singers, he said Call girls who love to get into the mic and aren’t afraid to push others out of the way LOL. I said I know just who to call!
This show ABSOLUTELY TOUCHED MY HEART, because back in the late 80's/early 90's my mom was a waitress and although a humble job, she managed to keep food on our table, clothes on our backs and the lights never got turned off, because she worked so hard and truly stayed on top of the bills, all that to support us (my brothers and I) So now as and adult, when I look back on those years? All I can do is THANK THE LORD he protected her so much and gave her the wisdom, strength and love to keep it all together WITHOUT resorting to marrying some man to simply support us.
I have been trying to remember the name of this show forever! I kept asking people: “do you remember that show with waitresses, and the theme song showed them walking towards a building together?” Everyone just looked at me like I had two heads. Finally! Another hidden memory brought to consciousness and put away.
I used to use a dolly for my work and when I started to get moving with it in a good stride, this song would come into my head. I guess I reminded myself of that beginning with the ladies walking at a brisk pace.
@@Oneofmyfavoritesongs remember when she played Stan Zbornack's cousin from Czechoslovakia on the The Golden Girls. It was the episode when Blanche thought her sister Charmaine wrote that novel about her. Marian was hilarious as Magda.
I was born in 1973 so I was definitely a child of the great 80's comedies but somehow I never heard of this show. Only recently, I started to watch Abbott Elementary on Hulu and remembered Sheryl Lee Ralph from shows from the past and looked up her Wikipedia page. I saw, "It's A Living" listed and the online rabbit hole began. I remember several of the stars from this series from other shows/movies but somehow never knew of or saw a single episode of this show. Now I want to go back and bing watch it to see what I might have missed.
Watched this show for the first time in December of 1981 on a Saturday night on ABC right after the Treasure Hunt game show when I was nine years old. Television was better back then than today.
Can't explain why I loved this show so much back in the day??!! Still do!! I think it was because of Anne Jillian--------she just had this something about her that drew me to her, but when she left, I'm glad they found the sassy and quick-witted Sheryl Lee Ralph to replace her. She and Crystal were both good fits toward the end of the show's run!!
Agreed w/ everything you said. I, too, couldn’t figure out why I liked this show! Just something about it, I guess. Ann Jillian was a big reason. In fact, I only really liked the 3rd Season, which was her last.
Yes!!! To everything!!! Crystal Bernard is as sassy as they come while still being sweet and between her and Sheryl Lee Ralph it just made it easier to stomach the loss of Ann Jillian. I still remember feeling that way about it as a kid because I was so obsessed with Jillian! But then I became obsessed with Bernard and Ralph. 😂❤️
I remember my mom watching it on KCAL 9 in Los Angeles in the mid 80s. That theme is infectious. Right up there with Jeffersons as one of the best TV themes.
I'm embarrassed as a guy to say I watched this show. Looking back now, it seems like a chic show. But, then again, it was the '80s and I was just an 8 or 9 year old kid. Theme song is catchy though. The part where they say "we're young and healthy" is kinda sad, because that was 30-40 years ago. Time just keeps moving. The young become old.
I had no idea this Wendy Schaal was the same one who does the voice of Francine Smith on American Dad. Marian Mercer was definitely the Diva of this show. She later appeared on The Golden Girls as Stan's cousin Magda from Czechoslovakia. Lol
@@TheChain2011She went to Fantasy Island as Mr. Rourke's niece. Susan Sullivan went to Falcon Crest. That's the reason for such a big cast change in Season 2.
I like Sheryl Lee Ralph as ginger,as talented she is as an actress, especially an sitcom actress, i can understand why many fans of this series considered as a weak replacement for the wonderful Ms.jillian.she was kind of a hard act to follow,Sheryl Lee lacked Ann's pizzazz of verbal comic delivery, execution, and especially her timing.when Ann as Cassie uttered out a verbal line you know you're in for a genuinely good laugh.
@@josephcalderon906 Sheryl Lee Ralph was NOT AnnJillian’s replacement. Barrie became the lead actress after Jillian left. Two years later Sheryl came in to replace Susan Sullivan after she left got another show.
No, Louise Lasser replaced both Susan Sullivan and Wendy Schaal in Season 2. Crystal Bermard came in at Season 3. Sheryl Lee Ralph came in for Seasons 4 thru the end with Season 6. @@ashley.taylor174
@@Tech_Traveler Wendy was barely on "It's a Living", but you're quite right. I've never really watched "American Dad", but thank you so much because I never knew she has had a 20 year stint with that show. Brava!!
It's A Living Theme Song Title: "It's A Living" By: "George Tipton and Leslie Bricusse" Life's not the French Riviera Believe me, Life's not a charity ball. It isn't all a great, big bed of roses It's not like showbiz But the main thing I suppose is We're not the people you envy Believe me, We know we're doing okay We may be less than wealthy But better yet, We're young and healthy And anyone who's young and healthy knows That that's the way the traffic flows It's a living.
As a young boy in L.A. when then show came out when I would see that building complex in DTLA I always thought that the ladies from this show were actually working in them, lol. Now, when I see the complex (dwarfed by the other skyscrapers now in DTLA) this theme song flies right back to my head. What good memories! :)
Never heard or seen this show in my life lol. But crazy to see Sheryl Lee Ralph before Moesha, Crystal Bernard before Wings and Gail Edwards before Vicki from Full House.
I used to watch this Show All the time When i was a Kid. This is Where i knew All these Actresses From When i would Watch Wings,Moesha,Full House & Blossom It was a syndication it came on Saturday & Sunday Afternoons. Its on Now on DirecTV Logo Channel 272
I don't remember the original network broadcast of this show. But I remember this syndication run aired on Sunday afternoons here in Atlanta just before Mama's Family.
0:00 - (season 1, 1980-1981) 1:00 - (renaming for season 2, "MAKING A LIVING!" 1981-1982) 1:58, 2:57 - (seasons 3,4,5 and 6, 1985-1989. New episodes later aired in first-run syndication)
Probably not many people (besides TV trivia buffs) are aware that the show was called "Making a Living" its first season. I wonder how many of those actors are still making a living in showbiz now (I think both of the actors who played the chefs are deceased)...Of course, we know Sheryl Lee Ralph is doing great (2024).
this song had an impact on my musical ear as a child. i thought it was such an extravagant opening for a tv show. i watched the show for the sheryl lee ralph and the theme song
I was in elementary school when this was on the air, so I couldn't relate to the premise, but like most 70s and 80s sitcoms a kid could still enjoy the fun performances and lighthearted mood.
Having grown up during this era, I thought I knew all of the shows. I have never seen reruns of anything I didn't have some memory of...until this. I have zero memory of this show. Weird.
Weird, I just saw this on Antenna TV and wondered what it was. I looked at the guide and found the name...and I have no memory of this at all. I thought I knew all of the shows from back in the 1980s, even shows we didn't watch I was at least familiar with due to ads, commercials, etc. I do not understand how this show completely went under the radar...no memory of it at all.
Yes but Barrie Longfellow's no slouch, and imo Susan Sullivan, Crystal Bernard and Sheryl Lee Ralph were the finest out of all the women good lord! I never knew Susan Sullivan was ever that damn sexy.
I liked her better with curly hair...in fact, she said it became a trademark for her in auditions. When she straightened her hair in the second season it didn't look right.
I never knew that the title was changed to "Making a Living" during the second season (and in the lyric of the theme song!)...I have a few episodes from that season on tape with the regular "It's a Living" title and theme song!
ABC wanted to call it “Living It Up” when it returned for a revamped second season. But there were legal issues with that name, so they went to Making a Living instead. The syndicated revival a few years later used the better, original title. And when the whole package went into reruns, the second season episodes were retitled It’s a Living for consistency.
I can't remember 💩, but I remember TV themes. I have hummed pieces of this theme for years having no idea what show it came from because I rarely watched this one. Minutes ago I was thinking how the current reboots, revivals, and rescue of canceled shows on streaming services was done in the 80s. What's Happening, WKRP in Cincinnati came back, The Munsters came back (albeit with a new cast), and shows like Charles in Charge and some show about women waitresses got new seasons in syndication. But what was that show? Suddenly I thought of this theme song. I wanted to look it up, but I didn't know the name of the show and only remembered fragments of thr lyrics, then I remembered Crystal Bernard! I looked her up on iMDB, found the show's name, and found this video! It's a decades long mystery solved!
OMG! That's Gail Edwards from Blossom and Full House. I had no idea who she would become back when I used to watch this in the 80's. So I don't even remember her being in this.
I absolutely adore the decor of the restaurant, the wall to wall mauve/pink carpet everywhere is just so 80s. I also love the dresses from season 1, the more spaghetti strap one. It fit well with the early 80s soft glam sort of look that the girls had
You can really see the power dynamics shift as the show goes on, who gets more time and who gets less. Like that Marian Mercer made sure she was second placement most of the time
Actually I think second placement is last - and you get your character name as well. No idea why this format seems to be so common ; so the last season was Barrie (RIP), Marian, Gail, Paul in order of seniority.
I was up super early this morning and this show was on the Logo channel. I didn’t recognize it until the next episode and this theme song came on. Memories from my childhood then came flooding back. Th was so much better back then.
I recently stayed at the Westin Bonaventure with my wife, which is where this show takes place. And I’m here to report that none of them work there anymore.
The song sounds like a mix between a British Henry Mancini, Camarata and Joe Raposo musical and the first time I heard this song when it aired on Antenna TV I thought it sounded kinda like a sped up version of that You'll be swell song from Gypsy because that line 🎵It's just like showbiz🎵 sounded like they're saying 🎵Everything's coming up roses.🎵
I like how the hair styles get larger as the end of the 70's becomes the center of the 80's. I've been to the restaurant at the top of the Westin Bonaventure, it is pretty good!
same little poses when they flip around and look... "hair shot"... LOL I love the sound of the theme, showy, and it sounds like it could be all these girls singing... even if it's not them.
George Tipton wrote this theme along with lyricist Leslie Bricusse. I was a studio singer for 55 busy years and George called me to get three other girls to record this. The other girls were Edie Lehmann, Susie McCune and Lynda Harmon. We had a lot of fun.
Thanks so much for this. So great to hear the names of the singers. Believe me, as a teen watching this show, I wonder who you were. I thought Y'all sound amazing. I consider this theme song the very best lyrically, melodically, and vocally. It captures the spirit of the show. It reminds me of a well-considered, seemingly effortless, opening number for a hit Broadway musical.
Great job. My mom used to watch this show when I was in elementary school and like pretty much every theme show tune back then (themes were usually as good as the shows back then) it sticks in my mind and I hum them outta nowhere til this day in my forties!
@@FineWineFletch I’m in my 50s but same hum the songs all the time! I was just having the theme song from the greatest American hero the other day.
@@chocolatesouljah exactly! I still sing (and play) the theme song to wkrp in Cincinnati theme song too! Lol
When George called me to contract the singers, he said Call girls who love to get into the mic and aren’t afraid to push others out of the way LOL. I said I know just who to call!
An observation...my pop was in the beauty business for 45+years. Ann Jillian always had the best edgy "Vidal Sassoon" haircut!
This show ABSOLUTELY TOUCHED MY HEART, because back in the late 80's/early 90's my mom was a waitress and although a humble job, she managed to keep food on our table, clothes on our backs and the lights never got turned off, because she worked so hard and truly stayed on top of the bills, all that to support us (my brothers and I) So now as and adult, when I look back on those years? All I can do is THANK THE LORD he protected her so much and gave her the wisdom, strength and love to keep it all together WITHOUT resorting to marrying some man to simply support us.
Amen to that! Sounds like she's a great mom!😊
@bigdaddygru thank you sir!!!
Amazing mother.
We don’t truly appreciate until we become adults in the real world to see what our parents contended with
I have been trying to remember the name of this show forever! I kept asking people: “do you remember that show with waitresses, and the theme song showed them walking towards a building together?” Everyone just looked at me like I had two heads. Finally! Another hidden memory brought to consciousness and put away.
Nice, the building is the Bonaventure in downtown LA
I've experienced that, too haha
I loved watching this show as a kid in the '80s and '90s. Such a great theme song!
I WATCHED THIS SHOW AS A KID!!
still, the show did have two titles, so you're excused for not nailing it down...
Everytime I see a hotel, I think of this song. Sheryl Lee Ralph has come such a long way
She sure has. And whatever happened to Crystal Bernard?
I used to use a dolly for my work and when I started to get moving with it in a good stride, this song would come into my head. I guess I reminded myself of that beginning with the ladies walking at a brisk pace.
@@toddanthony6664 Crystal must have decided to give up acting and live a private life. Her last credit on IMDb was in 2008. I loved her on Wings.
@@toddanthony6664 Crystal has a great singing voice too! She did a duet with Peter Cetera back in the day.
Yeah, throughout the 80's, on Saturday afternoons my grandma and aunts watched this, along with Bosom Buddies, and Benson.
I miss those days terribly.
The good ol' dinner and a beer routine!
All great shows I watched as a kid with my mom and/or whole family!
@@hume7171 didn't Amen come on Saturday afternoon also
I believe you're correct. I miss those days.@@pp3k3jamail
R.I.P. Barrie Youngfellow
October 22, 1946 - March 28, 2022 (aged 75)
Yes. 😔💗
Aged 75 years 157 days
She was my crush
RIP Barrie Youngfellow, Marian Mercer, Richard Stahl, Bert Remsen and Earl Boen.
This was actually a good show, all the different actresses were really good and relatable.
Yeah, I think of it as a younger version of Golden Girls, but at work.
RIP Barrie Youngfellow (1946-2022)
R.I.P. Marian Mercer
November 26, 1935 - April 27, 2011 (aged 75)
Marian Mercer was Every. F***ing. Thing.
@@Oneofmyfavoritesongs remember when she played Stan Zbornack's cousin from Czechoslovakia on the The Golden Girls. It was the episode when Blanche thought her sister Charmaine wrote that novel about her. Marian was hilarious as Magda.
@@seanpowell1661 Cousin Magda, with her love of Slurpees😉
@@Oneofmyfavoritesongs exactly! 🤣🤣🤣
Sean Powell, thank you 🙏 for that information. Definitely will look 👀 her up
I was born in 1973 so I was definitely a child of the great 80's comedies but somehow I never heard of this show. Only recently, I started to watch Abbott Elementary on Hulu and remembered Sheryl Lee Ralph from shows from the past and looked up her Wikipedia page. I saw, "It's A Living" listed and the online rabbit hole began. I remember several of the stars from this series from other shows/movies but somehow never knew of or saw a single episode of this show. Now I want to go back and bing watch it to see what I might have missed.
One of the catchiest intros ever.
R.I.P Barrie Youngfellow...She passed away today at 75 :(
1st Season outfits = BEST outfits.
Watched this show for the first time in December of 1981 on a Saturday night on ABC right after the Treasure Hunt game show when I was nine years old. Television was better back then than today.
It’s so cute how all of Jan’s credits are of her turning around at her locker and looking surprised
RIP Barrie Young fellow aka Jan Hoffmeyer
@@allanhernandez2508i didn't know 😢
Well i tuned in for the theme song. To see Ann Jillian and the anchor that held everybody together. Marian Mercer.
That's Right.
Can't explain why I loved this show so much back in the day??!! Still do!! I think it was because of Anne Jillian--------she just had this something about her that drew me to her, but when she left, I'm glad they found the sassy and quick-witted Sheryl Lee Ralph to replace her. She and Crystal were both good fits toward the end of the show's run!!
Agreed w/ everything you said. I, too, couldn’t figure out why I liked this show! Just something about it, I guess. Ann Jillian was a big reason. In fact, I only really liked the 3rd Season, which was her last.
Yes!!! To everything!!! Crystal Bernard is as sassy as they come while still being sweet and between her and Sheryl Lee Ralph it just made it easier to stomach the loss of Ann Jillian. I still remember feeling that way about it as a kid because I was so obsessed with Jillian! But then I became obsessed with Bernard and Ralph. 😂❤️
My mother was a waitress. I know why.
😊😊😊@@crazysingingchick
I miss the 80s!
All these years I had no idea that the one black waitress at the end of the series is Sheryl Lee Ralph who is now on Abbott Elementary.
Miss great 80s tv shows.
Same
Being a kid in Chicago watching this on WGN Chicago, when I was in kindergarten, memories #80sKid
I remember my mom watching it on KCAL 9 in Los Angeles in the mid 80s. That theme is infectious. Right up there with Jeffersons as one of the best TV themes.
I'm embarrassed as a guy to say I watched this show. Looking back now, it seems like a chic show. But, then again, it was the '80s and I was just an 8 or 9 year old kid. Theme song is catchy though.
The part where they say "we're young and healthy" is kinda sad, because that was 30-40 years ago. Time just keeps moving. The young become old.
I am 42 and grew up watching this show.
Saturday evenings in the 80s...everything in the 80s actually
The 80s had the best sitcoms
That's why this period of television was known as the golden age of TV sitcoms.
One of the best TV theme songs ever! 💖
Catchy theme song great comedy show great chemistry great cast 🙂
I remember HATING the change to Making a Living lol. I was a crabby old 10 yr old 😂
I remember watching the last cast and themes song, I love the theme, with that big, broadway sound.
My mother was on Broadway. I know why I found this so delightful. My mother was a star.
I had no idea this Wendy Schaal was the same one who does the voice of Francine Smith on American Dad.
Marian Mercer was definitely the Diva of this show. She later appeared on The Golden Girls as Stan's cousin Magda from Czechoslovakia. Lol
Wendy Schaal was in an episode of Friends as one of Monica's coworkers when she was a rollerskating waitress.
She was very funny in that first season.....They should have kept her.
@@TheChain2011She went to Fantasy Island as Mr. Rourke's niece. Susan Sullivan went to Falcon Crest. That's the reason for such a big cast change in Season 2.
Ann Jillian was great! She was the reason i watched this series. Love her!
Ann Jillian reminded me of Mae West. She was hilarious always throwing shade.
She was always one of my TV faves! 💛
I like Sheryl Lee Ralph as ginger,as talented she is as an actress, especially an sitcom actress, i can understand why many fans of this series considered as a weak replacement for the wonderful Ms.jillian.she was kind of a hard act to follow,Sheryl Lee lacked Ann's pizzazz of verbal comic delivery, execution, and especially her timing.when Ann as Cassie uttered out a verbal line you know you're in for a genuinely good laugh.
@@josephcalderon906 Sheryl Lee Ralph was NOT AnnJillian’s replacement. Barrie became the lead actress after Jillian left. Two years later Sheryl came in to replace Susan Sullivan after she left got another show.
No, Louise Lasser replaced both Susan Sullivan and Wendy Schaal in Season 2. Crystal Bermard came in at Season 3. Sheryl Lee Ralph came in for Seasons 4 thru the end with Season 6. @@ashley.taylor174
RIP Barrie Youngfellow
I used to love this show
As of 8/5/18, reruns of “It’s a Living” are back now that Logo Network has switched formats and now only shows vintage TV from the 70’s and 80’s.
Interesting that you mention that; I saw it on their listings a week ago; then, it seemed to disappear and now is not even mentioned on their website!
Watchin a LOGO commercial, is what brought me here.
If Logo has switched formats, where's RuPaul's Drag Race?
@@LogoMan7777 - VH1 has it now.
souderomana and now the show is on Antenna TV
I wish TV sitcoms still had that "videotape" look.
RIP Barrie. 😢
And only Miss Sheryl Lee Ralph has survived in show business! SNAP!!!
And she just most recently won a Emmy, you go girl!!♥️😘
Crystal Bernard did wings after this so she was still active for several years after this show ended.
@zt1053 "Has survived", meaning has remained in television shows beyond 1997.
Wendy Shal is killing it on American Dad. 😊
@@Tech_Traveler Wendy was barely on "It's a Living", but you're quite right. I've never really watched "American Dad", but thank you so much because I never knew she has had a 20 year stint with that show. Brava!!
I found myself randomly humming this song today. I remember watching this at like 3 or 4yrs old.
Incredible Show With An All Star Cast
Remember came on at 7:30pm on Saturday night in the east when in syndication
Season 3 had the best cast. I wish Ann Jillian would've rode out the syndicated run.
Me too! I was disappointed when she left.
@allanhernandez2508 It just isn't the same without her.
It's A Living Theme Song
Title: "It's A Living"
By: "George Tipton and Leslie Bricusse"
Life's not the French Riviera
Believe me, Life's not a charity ball.
It isn't all a great, big bed of roses
It's not like showbiz
But the main thing I suppose is
We're not the people you envy
Believe me, We know we're doing okay
We may be less than wealthy
But better yet, We're young and healthy
And anyone who's young and healthy knows
That that's the way the traffic flows
It's a living.
Thanks!
Some of your words are wrong, but thanks.
It’s on Antenna tv starting Jan 2020.
Where was I when this show was on in the early 80’s? Now I’m watching it on antenna tv every chance I can. Hopefully it’ll be released on DVD 📀 soon
I was looking for this show for so much years I used to watch it back in like 1987 to 1988 1989 I’m just 39 of age love the 80s n 90s Mann 👈🏽
You made sure that you never did miss one episode. Some of the best tv shows ever
As a young boy in L.A. when then show came out when I would see that building complex in DTLA I always thought that the ladies from this show were actually working in them, lol. Now, when I see the complex (dwarfed by the other skyscrapers now in DTLA) this theme song flies right back to my head. What good memories! :)
Never heard or seen this show in my life lol. But crazy to see Sheryl Lee Ralph before Moesha, Crystal Bernard before Wings and Gail Edwards before Vicki from Full House.
I used to watch this Show All the time When i was a Kid. This is Where i knew All these Actresses From When i would Watch Wings,Moesha,Full House & Blossom It was a syndication it came on Saturday & Sunday Afternoons. Its on Now on DirecTV Logo Channel 272
And Susan before Falcon Crest
Put it on blu-ray already!!
@allanhernandez2508 - because every episode has Sonny playing a song - licensing is impossible due to the music that was used in every episode.
I don't remember the original network broadcast of this show. But I remember this syndication run aired on Sunday afternoons here in Atlanta just before Mama's Family.
Two of my favorites from the '80s!
Gail Edwards was always my favorite on the show!!
Me too..so damn cute!
Mine too!!
The lyrics and rhymes in the song are perfect!
I remember watching this show every once in a while and thinking that the cast kept changing.
0:00 - (season 1, 1980-1981)
1:00 - (renaming for season 2, "MAKING A LIVING!" 1981-1982)
1:58, 2:57 - (seasons 3,4,5 and 6, 1985-1989. New episodes later aired in first-run syndication)
I used to watch this when I was in elementary school! Loved it!
Probably not many people (besides TV trivia buffs) are aware that the show was called "Making a Living" its first season. I wonder how many of those actors are still making a living in showbiz now (I think both of the actors who played the chefs are deceased)...Of course, we know Sheryl Lee Ralph is doing great (2024).
this song had an impact on my musical ear as a child. i thought it was such an extravagant opening for a tv show. i watched the show for the sheryl lee ralph and the theme song
I was in elementary school when this was on the air, so I couldn't relate to the premise, but like most 70s and 80s sitcoms a kid could still enjoy the fun performances and lighthearted mood.
Susan Sullivan ohhh. Beauty
I remember watching this show as a kid.
I forgot about this show . Great memories
Rupauls drag race season 16 episode 3 sent me here.
This brings back so many great memories as a child.
I loved this tune. It had such a Broadway feel to it.
i miss barrie youngfellow dearly
I remember the show, the faces, and a few character names, but for the life of me cannot remember any plots
Having grown up during this era, I thought I knew all of the shows. I have never seen reruns of anything I didn't have some memory of...until this. I have zero memory of this show. Weird.
In your defense, the plots are all pretty thin.
I can’t even make out like 75% of the theme song 😂😂
@@stevekay1925 it doesn’t flow well like The Nanny intro.too many words.
The days watching this in Detroit on channel 20 on Saturday afternoons. Miss it.
Weird, I just saw this on Antenna TV and wondered what it was. I looked at the guide and found the name...and I have no memory of this at all. I thought I knew all of the shows from back in the 1980s, even shows we didn't watch I was at least familiar with due to ads, commercials, etc. I do not understand how this show completely went under the radar...no memory of it at all.
Gail Edwards is so pretty
Yes but Barrie Longfellow's no slouch, and imo Susan Sullivan, Crystal Bernard and Sheryl Lee Ralph were the finest out of all the women good lord! I never knew Susan Sullivan was ever that damn sexy.
I liked her better with curly hair...in fact, she said it became a trademark for her in auditions. When she straightened her hair in the second season it didn't look right.
@@TheMultialdo2009 Yes, absolutely. I agree about the curly hair too. What a babe. An early crush of mine.
I never knew that the title was changed to "Making a Living" during the second season (and in the lyric of the theme song!)...I have a few episodes from that season on tape with the regular "It's a Living" title and theme song!
retrorhythms that making a living version sounds horrible when they shoehorn in all those words lol
After the show came back years later for Season 3, they changed the name back for reruns in syndication, so what you have on tape were the reruns!
I remember when they changed the name, but I always still called it "It's a Living".
ABC wanted to call it “Living It Up” when it returned for a revamped second season. But there were legal issues with that name, so they went to Making a Living instead. The syndicated revival a few years later used the better, original title. And when the whole package went into reruns, the second season episodes were retitled It’s a Living for consistency.
Its a living was the best tv show of all time
Omg!! My favorite! And I'm a waitress to this day..or I guess server. Love to the whole cast !!!
I can't remember 💩, but I remember TV themes. I have hummed pieces of this theme for years having no idea what show it came from because I rarely watched this one.
Minutes ago I was thinking how the current reboots, revivals, and rescue of canceled shows on streaming services was done in the 80s. What's Happening, WKRP in Cincinnati came back, The Munsters came back (albeit with a new cast), and shows like Charles in Charge and some show about women waitresses got new seasons in syndication.
But what was that show?
Suddenly I thought of this theme song.
I wanted to look it up, but I didn't know the name of the show and only remembered fragments of thr lyrics, then I remembered Crystal Bernard! I looked her up on iMDB, found the show's name, and found this video!
It's a decades long mystery solved!
I watched this show all the time as a kid....seeing the cast again after all these years. I can see why I liked it. The cast was a total smoke show.
I used to watch this as a kid in 80s waiting for wrestling to come on,it would always air on Saturday afternoons
RIP Earl Boen
I cam searching after Sheryl Lee Ralph won her emmy. I remembered this fondly from when I was a kid
R.I.P Barrie Youngfellow
It's A Living reruns on Antenna TV now!
OMG! That's Gail Edwards from Blossom and Full House. I had no idea who she would become back when I used to watch this in the 80's. So I don't even remember her being in this.
Think of the song and show each and every time I go by down town la CA USA
I absolutely adore the decor of the restaurant, the wall to wall mauve/pink carpet everywhere is just so 80s. I also love the dresses from season 1, the more spaghetti strap one. It fit well with the early 80s soft glam sort of look that the girls had
You can really see the power dynamics shift as the show goes on, who gets more time and who gets less. Like that Marian Mercer made sure she was second placement most of the time
Actually I think second placement is last - and you get your character name as well. No idea why this format seems to be so common ; so the last season was Barrie (RIP), Marian, Gail, Paul in order of seniority.
I was up super early this morning and this show was on the Logo channel. I didn’t recognize it until the next episode and this theme song came on. Memories from my childhood then came flooding back. Th was so much better back then.
I recently stayed at the Westin Bonaventure with my wife, which is where this show takes place. And I’m here to report that none of them work there anymore.
I am only 42 but this show reminds of the late 80s early 1990s I used to watch this at my grandmas lol idk why everyone saw the show with grandma.
Loved this show
The song sounds like a mix between a British Henry Mancini, Camarata and Joe Raposo musical and the first time I heard this song when it aired on Antenna TV I thought it sounded kinda like a sped up version of that You'll be swell song from Gypsy because that line 🎵It's just like showbiz🎵 sounded like they're saying 🎵Everything's coming up roses.🎵
My favorite show of all time
One good show to watch in the 80s and now!
Loved this show and had a huge crush on Anne Jillian ❤️💞💕💓
Jan was my favorite character; man, I used to have this stupid 😍 on her :)
I used to watch this show when it was a current show
I just loved this theme song. The show was wonderful!
Loved this show!
i wonder if antenna tv will pick up re-runs of it's a living in 2019
rich cerasale it's on logo network now
They confirmed they are
I read 2020!! I’m so excited!!
Antenna TV is currently airing episodes, weeknights @ 8pm & Sunday nights @ 10pm EST
I can confirm antenna is airing Its a living. I been watching omg been missing this series. Needs a dvd release now.
I love this TV show
St boneventure hotel where this show was made is still in Los Angeles California and I stayed here back in 2008.
I loved this show
This comes on Antenna TV right after Murphy Brown.
The show's second season, with Louise Lasser as the lead, was very good - all in all, I enjoyed the entire series!
I like how the hair styles get larger as the end of the 70's becomes the center of the 80's. I've been to the restaurant at the top of the Westin Bonaventure, it is pretty good!
same little poses when they flip around and look... "hair shot"... LOL I love the sound of the theme, showy, and it sounds like it could be all these girls singing... even if it's not them.