I still am amazed at the creation of nostalgia only twenty years later. I can’t see a series today capturing this same feeling about 2004. Not sure of why this isn’t possible today.
I think the cultural and technological differences between the 50’s and 70’s are significantly greater than the differences between the 00’s and the 20’s now. As someone who was born in 1990, I could be wrong.
Look at Hill Valley 1985 Then go look at small town America today. Pretty similar. Cars were boxy, cars today are rounded. Clothes are about the same. Hair is similar if you don't get into the bizarro Wokesters. Smart phones is really the major visual change. Many are still listening to 80s music. That was not true 1975 to 1955 (HD) to 1935 (Waltons). 1960s was a major shift in style, tech, consumerism and music. Seeds were there in the late 50s but they bloomed in 1964.
Now when I was a kid in The 70's, watching Happy Days in syndication, we always knew the episode was going to be good when "Rock Around the Clock" kicked in. The Fonz wasn't the main character yet. He was much more cool in these early ones.
Same for when the girl in the front seat had her false hair lifted (at 0:50) by the convertible top! Love the reaction from the 2 guys and other girl, and the mortified look by the girl who lost part of her hair!
AHHHH! The FULL ORIGINAL 1974 theme, not like all the edited versions they're showing on today's TV, METV, etc. " Make sure we butcher the full version for more commercials"! Corporate America BS! Thank you for posting. Haven't seen the full original version in a looooong time!!! That felt good to see that!
I was seven. But every Tuesday, I was sitting in front of the television waiting for 8 o'clock and Happy Days. Fifties music was my favorite until I discovered the Beach Boys when I was nine in 1976.
During the first two seasons of Happy Days (1974-1975), each episode began with "Rock Around the Clock", which was written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers, and performed by Bill Haley & His Comets. The song was recorded in the fall of 1973. Although, the original 1954 recording returned to the American billboard charts in 1974. When Happy Days entered syndication in 1979, the show became "Happy Days Again", and used an edited version of the 1954 recording. The closing theme in the first two seasons was a fragment from "Happy Days".🙂
Cody M season 2 should have Rock around the clock as the theme, but for some reason if you watch this on Netflix, they replaced it with the happy days theme. I prefer rock around the clock much better
@@crt5300 it probably costs Netflix royalties so they used Happy Days song. Netflix probably wanted to appease the fans who like “Rock around the clock “and paid season 1 royalties.
It's kind of like the TV shows from the '60s that were in black and white for a few years before the switch to color. They seemed to go downhill afterward, and so did HD with the theme song switch.
Just as I thought, the guitar solo on the Happy Days version is shorter than on the original. I've been getting into Bill Haley lately, and I had to check out this version of the song, because I heard it so many times as a kid, and every note of the guitar solo was stuck in my head. Good to know that my mind was not playing tricks on me.
The hook to this theme is at the beginning when you hear the Wurlitzer drop the record and then dropp the needle, Bill Haley starts it and finishes it. That is what makes this theme so Kick-Ass, not the second season theme which really sucks
First year and a half it was a pretty good 50s teen comedy. Maybe 2.5 years then it became That 70s show (long 70s hair and attitudes) and it lasted well into the 80s when Joannie had the eighties frizz doo and then there was Chachi and the John Davidson type guy that replaced Richie. I forgot that it was still on when Marty McFly was about to go to the 50s himself. I stopped watching when I got a car and started dating in 77. Same thing happened to MASH. Period comedy for two years and then they shot down Henry Blake and it became the Vietnam War disguised as the Korean War. TV has trouble sticking with period shows, but both those shows were successful.
It's almost like season 1 and season 2 exist in a parallel universe from the rest of the show. The Missing brother the door being on the wrong side of the Cunningham house Etc.
i love this version of the Happy Days opening. The later theme song was fine. But unlike that one this was an actual 50's song. I wish they had kept it for the whole series. Loved the whole series of course anyway.
I totally forgot about this original version for the show. Yes i remember now..they used rock around the clock for the 1st and 2nd seasons i think, then switched to the happy days theme.
Loved the first two seasons especially since the use Rock Around The Clock instead of the Happy Days song , the show was more like American Graffiti then they started filming in front of a live audience that's when the show went downhill
Exactly! The later theme was ok but this was an actual 50's song. I wish they had kept it for the whole series at least for the opening. They could maybe have the other theme song for just the closing credits.
A great version and the last time Haley recorded the song in studio. It's bizarre though that the label on the 45 shows the credits to the actual Happy Days theme song. This version was specially recorded for the opening; in syndication they used the original 1954 version which didn't fit as well.
I remember a variant of this Season 1 intro where they played that red-light game (running around the cars to try to beat the green light). I saw some people playing it last night, so I started singing "Rock Around the Clock."
I had no idea that Ron Howard was a Child Star. I was Eight when Happy Days premiered in 1974. I also didn't know that Tom Bosley was in Broadway Shows and worked with Jerome Robbins and when Nancy Walker came on the show it was a reunion for them both. In the UK they did a Show and the Kids went crazy. They had other hits like Shake Rattle & Roll (originally done by Big Joe Turner) and See You Later Alligator but by the late 1950's their career panned out.
@@moleqle Oh Yes! I remember the Opening Sequence. I thought what a great relationship he had with his "Pa". I used to spend time with My Cousin but we wouldn't go Fishing. We'd go to The Park, The Mall and even after all of these years I take him out each year for his Birthday which he loves.
@@moleqle Also Happy Days as you know was a Drama called "New Family In Town" based on Summer Of '42 by Herman Raucher. Michel Legrand did the Movie Theme and did the Music for "Happy" for Lady Sings The Blues starring Diana Ross. He along with Bill Conti (Rocky), and Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther) were considered to be some of the greatest composers of all time.
The first season was classic. Fonzie hardly spoke and didn't wear the leather jacket yet. It jumped the shark when they changed the song for the opener.
This starting should have been on more seasons.I liked the action scenes as well, the bit with the 2 cops was funny.I was age 13 when this show premiered.The boys should've been sophomores in high school when it began, that way their high school days and the 1950's would've lasted longer.They were baby faced enough to be passable.That show sped downhill after Richie and Ralph left, then other people came on it.I hated that Chachi.He had long hair, too...and in that era of the show! I watched the Debbie Reynolds show on tv when new, and Tom Bosley and his wife lived in the apartment below Reynolds and her husband.I think Bosley was brother-in-law to Reynolds, on the show.That makes me feel old! Laverne and Shirley were hilarious until they moved to California.Tv shows during the 1980's and all decades before had actual song themes to them.Ever since the 1990's shows barely have a start.
Lyrics (this version): One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock! Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock! Nine, ten, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, rock! We're gonna rock around the clock tonight Put your glad rags on, and join me, hon' We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one We're gonna rock around the clock tonight We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight When the clock strikes two, three and four If the band slows down we'll yell for more We're gonna rock around the clock tonight We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight (Guitar solo by Danny Cedrone) When the chimes ring five, six and seven We'll be right in seventh heaven We're gonna rock around the clock tonight We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight When the clock strikes 12, we'll cool off, then Start a-rockin' round the clock again We're gonna rock around the clock tonight We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
First season was the best intro, it was 1950s accurate. It had an American Graffiti feel to it...Funny, how it was the idea and reason why Ron Howard was cast as the lead actor. Also, when Potzie was a main character in the series, and not a forgotten background extra in the later crappier 80s years of the show. Ritchie and Ralph Malph leaving and Joanie and Chachie's cornyass relationship killed Happy Days. Fonz seemed more cooler when he wore the barracuda jacket instead of the image stereotypical Greaser leather jacket.
I couldn't believe it when I found out. She played Joanie Cunningham very well. As well as, the show Joanie and Chachi. She grew up in the public eye. She disappeared from acting until those insane paparazzi people found her. She just wanted to be left alone. Especially, from all of that Hollywood mess. RIP miss Erin Moran.
This song was my jr. high theme song our high school band played the heck out of this song and we had a program near the end of of school one time and the band played this song and our whole school got up and danced to it even our principal was dancing too we had fun that day in the gym room lol😊
In every iteration of this opening, I always thought that the turntable needle head, as it appears over the LP, was an animated addition. It seems even more so in later seasons.
One day I heard Bill Haley and The Comets "Rock Around the Clock" playing in a a Cosplay Comic book Cafe and I had to blurb to one of the workers telling him "This was the original Happy Days theme before the Happy Days theme"
This is hilarious - I've been watching this opening for literally decades and I only just now realized that the guy who falls out of the car with his girlfriend is RALPH! I have no idea why I never noticed this before.
Happy Days are here again, 1974, the last time the Milwaukee Bucks were in the NBA finals, way back in season 1 of HD. The Bucks are going to the 2021 NBA finals!
If you watch this on streaming services like Netflix, you won’t find season 1 ANYWHERE!! This really ticks me off since I’m just starting to get back into happy days and I have to be stuck watching season 2 first! 😡
Also The Sweater that Potsie wore was also on The Episode where Richie tried to get Potsie's Bike back for him and a meeting took place with the dukes at The Pool Hall.
It's hard to believe but it's the 50th anniversary of the TV series, " Happy Days". I saw it on Channel 7, KABC, Los Angeles with my parents, January 15, 1974. My parents were teenagers in the 1950s, and the show was on in the era of nostalgia for the 1950s. In the early 1970s, the winding down of the Vietnam War,inflation ,and Watergate made people yearn for a simpler time when Presidents were trusted, the economy was booming and the U S respected as a world power. Now it's 50 years, later, and I'm nostalgic for the 1970s . I try to get my son and his girlfriend interested in the history of the 1970s, but they said no thanks. I told them my generation had the best music, the best movies and our parents could afford to buy a home. They said , " Ok, Boomer!". I told them to be more original in their blase attiude.. I told them, " Boomers rule!"
The show was fantastic the first two seasons. When it focused on Richie and his pals, it had an American Graffiti feel. When it became the "Fonzie Show", it was crap.
I know why they recorded and used their own theme song starting S2, but now on DVD or Streaming aps, they got rid of the Bill Hailey theme altogether and are using an extended version of the S2 theme song for S1 episodes. I'm not sure why.
Always was intrigued as to why they start with a Rock-Ola jukebox pulling the record out, then flashing to a Seeburg when the song starts. Why didn't they stay with the Rock-Ola? Am I the only one who ever noticed?
Great family show. I still watch it on classic tv channels. The funny season opener. Where the guy in the convertible accidently squirts ketchup in his girlfriends face. What season number opener was that?
I wish I could have lived the 50s everyone seemed so cool nobody worried about terrorism or school shootings rock n roll bill Haley Hank Williams sure there was tension with the cold war it was a time to be happy and free regardless people were more happier and outgoing no cell phones no social media no video games
I EXSTREAMLY AGREE THE WORLD WAS ALOT MORE BEAUTIFUL RESPECTFUL GREATFUL COOL N NON LASEY TV SHOWS WHERE EVEN ALOT BETTER. HOW I'VE WAITED YEARS FOR SOMONE TO SAY WHAT YOU SAID
......... I couldn't find Season 1 anywhere back then, had to find it on a pirating site (yes dont judge i was born in 2004) i dont remember this. i rmember them just using the one from season 3 and after. Maybe they edited it in I suppose. Edit: actually i do recognize this. I thought i remembered this being an unused prototype theme song, possibly a placeholder until the real song was finished. i guess i was wrong.
This is the best opening to Happy Day’s,the early episodes were the best.❤😊
I love it when the record drops and Bill Haley does his thing 👍
I still am amazed at the creation of nostalgia only twenty years later. I can’t see a series today capturing this same feeling about 2004. Not sure of why this isn’t possible today.
I think the cultural and technological differences between the 50’s and 70’s are significantly greater than the differences between the 00’s and the 20’s now. As someone who was born in 1990, I could be wrong.
Look at Hill Valley 1985
Then go look at small town America today. Pretty similar. Cars were boxy, cars today are rounded. Clothes are about the same. Hair is similar if you don't get into the bizarro Wokesters.
Smart phones is really the major visual change. Many are still listening to 80s music.
That was not true 1975 to 1955 (HD) to 1935 (Waltons).
1960s was a major shift in style, tech, consumerism and music. Seeds were there in the late 50s but they bloomed in 1964.
@@loofonmeyou’re spot on
That 70s Show pulled off. That 90s Show might have worked, except the kids acted like Gen Z, and it didn't work.
Now when I was a kid in The 70's, watching Happy Days in syndication, we always knew the episode was going to be good when "Rock Around the Clock" kicked in. The Fonz wasn't the main character yet. He was much more cool in these early ones.
They really made a concerted effort to get the period details right first season, and it made for a much stronger show.
yup, they dropped the ball when ritchie, potsy and ralph started the band at Arnolds. the guitar amplifier was a '70's Fender Silverface.
100% agree!
Best season of the show by far. Before The Fonz and Catchphrases took over.
@@sonsofguns1903 lol it’s true and their feathered longish hairstyles were 1970’s
@@analogkid4957 Seems I recall in one of the last seasons Tom Bosley was wearing a digital watch in an episode.
The original and my favorite opening credit intro of this series!
I just saw this intro with the happy days theme of the later seasons.
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FAVORITE SONG !!!!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN !!!
LIKE IN THE 50S !!
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Yep they should have left well enough alone
@@brettthebassist yea, this show post 1st season is a prime example of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
I love it when Ralph Malph and his date fall out of their car while making out, and Potsie's laughter was priceless!! LMAO!!!
Same for when the girl in the front seat had her false hair lifted (at 0:50) by the convertible top! Love the reaction from the 2 guys and other girl, and the mortified look by the girl who lost part of her hair!
the question arises why Potsie and Richie were in the car together at the drive-in ...
I know right?!
@@freeguy77 nvm,mm,,,,,..
N mmh
Second season had the best clips
Amazing that Fonzie is not even in the original intro at all. And in a short couple of seasons he would become basically the star of the show.
The 1st season theme song/intro always gives me American Graffiti vibes.
Awesome TV show, those were the good old days
....just the 1st 2 seasons!!.......
The 50s or the 70s?
I always preferred this song for intro to Happy Days
Yeah me too. I wished they had kept it for the whole series. The other intro song was good but this was an actual 50's song.
Where can I watch it??
Me Too 😂
Same
Even though I liked the other one too. The one I hated was from season 11
Brings back so many teenage memories. Happy Days ran for the years of my secondary years. Melbourne, Australia.
The early episodes were the best, when the show was actually about the Fifties and not Fonzie.
This intro actually looks like the 50s, unlike later seasons.
Lol, seriously...in the later seasons Joanie looked ridiculous with that early-EIGHTIES perm in the "early '60s".
@@serfcityherewecome8069 Scott Baio's mullet didn't belong in the era either.
@@needles1987 True, although they did have something vaguely similar back then called the duck-ass.
AHHHH! The FULL ORIGINAL 1974 theme, not like all the edited versions they're showing on today's TV, METV, etc.
" Make sure we butcher the full version for more commercials"! Corporate America BS!
Thank you for posting. Haven't seen the full original version in a looooong time!!! That felt good to see that!
This was the BEST start theme of the show.I saw this new, was in 7th grade when it premiered in 1974.
8th grade for me,.......every Tuesday night at 8pm...
I was seven. But every Tuesday, I was sitting in front of the television waiting for 8 o'clock and Happy Days. Fifties music was my favorite until I discovered the Beach Boys when I was nine in 1976.
Form 1 (7th grade) for me too. Loved RnR then and still do today.
In my opinion Happy Days jumped the shark when they replaced this theme song with the other one, lol
But jumping the shark is literally something that happened on Happy Days.
During the first two seasons of Happy Days (1974-1975), each episode began with "Rock Around the Clock", which was written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers, and performed by Bill Haley & His Comets. The song was recorded in the fall of 1973. Although, the original 1954 recording returned to the American billboard charts in 1974. When Happy Days entered syndication in 1979, the show became "Happy Days Again", and used an edited version of the 1954 recording. The closing theme in the first two seasons was a fragment from "Happy Days".🙂
Cody M season 2 should have Rock around the clock as the theme, but for some reason if you watch this on Netflix, they replaced it with the happy days theme. I prefer rock around the clock much better
Thank you for posting this!!!
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This is the intro I remember seeing the most!! :)
@@crt5300 it probably costs Netflix royalties so they used Happy Days song. Netflix probably wanted to appease the fans who like “Rock around the clock “and paid season 1 royalties.
It's kind of like the TV shows from the '60s that were in black and white for a few years before the switch to color. They seemed to go downhill afterward, and so did HD with the theme song switch.
Season One of “Happy Days” was the best. Theme song and all.
This opening takes me straight to my youth. Great times!!!!!!!!!
I always enjoyed the first season theme. I like jamming to it. The song is always rocking.
the first 2 seasons were great then fell off the cliff with rest of tv and studio audience schtick
@@zxccxz164 this show was the origin of the term "Jump the Shark".
@@zxccxz164 exactly. The 1st 2 seasons were great until it went before a live studio audience.
Happy 45th Anniversary Happy Days. AYEE!
Reminds me of my boyhood. I loved happy days.
I wish this recording of the song would get released. The guitar is so much snazzier than in the older recordings.
It was an updated remake specifically for the series. Love it.
It was actually re-recorded by Bill Haley and the Comets in the Happy Days style..... ruclips.net/video/JjzFqaUgyeI/видео.html
Just as I thought, the guitar solo on the Happy Days version is shorter than on the original. I've been getting into Bill Haley lately, and I had to check out this version of the song, because I heard it so many times as a kid, and every note of the guitar solo was stuck in my head. Good to know that my mind was not playing tricks on me.
@@sirrobin4394 Thanks - I was wondering if this was a re-recording.
The hook to this theme is at the beginning when you hear the Wurlitzer drop the record and then dropp the needle, Bill Haley starts it and finishes it. That is what makes this theme so Kick-Ass, not the second season theme which really sucks
Well, Bill Haley and his Comets created the song
Oh wow so in season 2 while they still used this song they deleted the drop sound and needle sound? Never noticed it
First year and a half it was a pretty good 50s teen comedy. Maybe 2.5 years then it became That 70s show (long 70s hair and attitudes) and it lasted well into the 80s when Joannie had the eighties frizz doo and then there was Chachi and the John Davidson type guy that replaced Richie. I forgot that it was still on when Marty McFly was about to go to the 50s himself. I stopped watching when I got a car and started dating in 77.
Same thing happened to MASH. Period comedy for two years and then they shot down Henry Blake and it became the Vietnam War disguised as the Korean War. TV has trouble sticking with period shows, but both those shows were successful.
S Tho I still want to know what happened to Chuck
It's almost like season 1 and season 2 exist in a parallel universe from the rest of the show. The Missing brother the door being on the wrong side of the Cunningham house Etc.
@@ennuiblue4295 Chuck Cunningham went to basketball practice one night and never came home and was never mentioned ever again
@@michaelstorm7552...sadly...the show went down quickly once Chuck strangely disappeared ......
i love this version of the Happy Days opening. The later theme song was fine. But unlike that one this was an actual 50's song. I wish they had kept it for the whole series. Loved the whole series of course anyway.
I bet using it cost them royalties. It probably was cheaper to write a song just for the show.
@@robinorlowski2449 that’s exactly what it was
0:51 I always got a huge kick out of seeing the girl lose her fake ponytail.
wonder if that was planned lol
I totally forgot about this original version for the show. Yes i remember now..they used rock around the clock for the 1st and 2nd seasons i think, then switched to the happy days theme.
Loved the first two seasons especially since the use Rock Around The Clock instead of the Happy Days song , the show was more like American Graffiti then they started filming in front of a live audience that's when the show went downhill
So true...
I like this opening for the show better. It fits more in with the era that the show takes place in.
Exactly! The later theme was ok but this was an actual 50's song. I wish they had kept it for the whole series at least for the opening. They could maybe have the other theme song for just the closing credits.
0:52 His Cars top snatched up her weave! 🤣🤣🤣
A great version and the last time Haley recorded the song in studio. It's bizarre though that the label on the 45 shows the credits to the actual Happy Days theme song. This version was specially recorded for the opening; in syndication they used the original 1954 version which didn't fit as well.
This is much better as a theme then the rest of the series theme
I remember a variant of this Season 1 intro where they played that red-light game (running around the cars to try to beat the green light).
I saw some people playing it last night, so I started singing "Rock Around the Clock."
I had no idea that Ron Howard was a Child Star. I was Eight when Happy Days premiered in 1974. I also didn't know that Tom Bosley was in Broadway Shows and worked with Jerome Robbins and when Nancy Walker came on the show it was a reunion for them both. In the UK they did a Show and the Kids went crazy. They had other hits like Shake Rattle & Roll (originally done by Big Joe Turner) and See You Later Alligator but by the late 1950's their career panned out.
Did you know that he was Opie on the Andy Griffith Show? Dudes been around.
@@moleqle Oh Yes! I remember the Opening Sequence. I thought what a great relationship he had with his "Pa". I used to spend time with My Cousin but we wouldn't go Fishing. We'd go to The Park, The Mall and even after all of these years I take him out each year for his Birthday which he loves.
@@moleqle Also Happy Days as you know was a Drama called "New Family In Town" based on Summer Of '42 by Herman Raucher. Michel Legrand did the Movie Theme and did the Music for "Happy" for Lady Sings The Blues starring Diana Ross. He along with Bill Conti (Rocky), and Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther) were considered to be some of the greatest composers of all time.
The first season was classic. Fonzie hardly spoke and didn't wear the leather jacket yet. It jumped the shark when they changed the song for the opener.
Loved the Fonzie the first season. He was like a brooding, dark, mysterious tough guy character. He had that cool non- leather jacket as well
The episode where he jumped the shark was long after the show in general had already done so.
@@TS-ef2gv except the show, never really jumped the shark with the public. it remained incredibly popular for a long time
Fonzie wore a barracuda jacket from Kmart, but he was much cooler back then. Lol
The show was toast when Fonzie moved into the Cunningham's garage!
This starting should have been on more seasons.I liked the action scenes as well, the bit with the 2 cops was funny.I was age 13 when this show premiered.The boys should've been sophomores in high school when it began, that way their high school days and the 1950's would've lasted longer.They were baby faced enough to be passable.That show sped downhill after Richie and Ralph left, then other people came on it.I hated that Chachi.He had long hair, too...and in that era of the show! I watched the Debbie Reynolds show on tv when new, and Tom Bosley and his wife lived in the apartment below Reynolds and her husband.I think Bosley was brother-in-law to Reynolds, on the show.That makes me feel old! Laverne and Shirley were hilarious until they moved to California.Tv shows during the 1980's and all decades before had actual song themes to them.Ever since the 1990's shows barely have a start.
Lyrics (this version):
One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock!
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock!
Nine, ten, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, rock!
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
Put your glad rags on, and join me, hon'
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes two, three and four
If the band slows down we'll yell for more
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
(Guitar solo by Danny Cedrone)
When the chimes ring five, six and seven
We'll be right in seventh heaven
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes 12, we'll cool off, then
Start a-rockin' round the clock again
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
This show used to air on ABC over 40 years ago during the time when this sitcom was done all around television.
Thanks again George.
First season was the best intro, it was 1950s accurate. It had an American Graffiti feel to it...Funny, how it was the idea and reason why Ron Howard was cast as the lead actor. Also, when Potzie was a main character in the series, and not a forgotten background extra in the later crappier 80s years of the show. Ritchie and Ralph Malph leaving and Joanie and Chachie's cornyass relationship killed Happy Days. Fonz seemed more cooler when he wore the barracuda jacket instead of the image stereotypical Greaser leather jacket.
They got rid of this song and Chuck gets forgotten. Is this a coincidence? I don't think it is.
No coincidence.....fact!
Notice Donny, Erin, and Henry weren't originally listed in the credits.
The original title theme & the best
Rock around the 🕒 is a great song to start of the series and then later with the Happy Days theme.
RIP Joannie Cunningham
Robert Medved And Mr. Cunningham, Aachu and Al.
I couldn't believe it when I found out. She played Joanie Cunningham very well. As well as, the show Joanie and Chachi. She grew up in the public eye. She disappeared from acting until those insane paparazzi people found her. She just wanted to be left alone. Especially, from all of that Hollywood mess. RIP miss Erin Moran.
@@QCongress83 also Garry Marshall
When I hear this song I think of happy days,I’m from 84 lol
Perfection, and not a single shark or alien in sight.
I always laugh at the hair extension, arm around your girl, and car kissing scenes
The best one.
Back when Ron Howard still had some hair to comb.
@W B Really? Never knew that.
I always liked this intro better than the new Happy Days theme that came after season one,it got annoying at times.
It actually began with season three (1975-76); the season two theme was a shorter version of the season one theme.
Excuse me? Annoying? Are you deaf? Happy Days is better by million times, this song is cool and all but the original production song is better
@Slave Of Christ Wow, "Slave Of Christ" considers the "Happy Days Theme" something worthy of getting bent out of shape over!
This song was my jr. high theme song our high school band played the heck out of this song and we had a program near the end of of school one time and the band played this song and our whole school got up and danced to it even our principal was dancing too we had fun that day in the gym room lol😊
The best intro
seeburg 100. my favorite vintage jukebox. looks like a 1959
This was the best opening theme for the whole series. I didn't like it when they switch to Happy days.
@W B Yeah. Could have something to do with copyright laws.
@W B I like this version of the theme song better than the one used later on in the series.
In every iteration of this opening, I always thought that the turntable needle head, as it appears over the LP, was an animated addition. It seems even more so in later seasons.
The first intro of this TV show that I like much more that this season two. Cool 😉👍🏻
One day I heard Bill Haley and The Comets "Rock Around the Clock" playing in a a Cosplay Comic book Cafe and I had to blurb to one of the workers telling him "This was the original Happy Days theme before the Happy Days theme"
Odd that the Fonz isn’t listed I. The opening credits. They obviously didn’t know he would become the star of the sho w
Henry Winkler is now 74! Ron Howard is now 66! Henry was 28 when it started, Ron was 20.
Fonzie was a side character in season 1 and didnt became a regular until season 2. By Season 3 he became a main character.
Best intro to a television series.
This is hilarious - I've been watching this opening for literally decades and I only just now realized that the guy who falls out of the car with his girlfriend is RALPH! I have no idea why I never noticed this before.
Happy Days are here again, 1974, the last time the Milwaukee Bucks were in the NBA finals, way back in season 1 of HD. The Bucks are going to the 2021 NBA finals!
If you watch this on streaming services like Netflix, you won’t find season 1 ANYWHERE!! This really ticks me off since I’m just starting to get back into happy days and I have to be stuck watching season 2 first! 😡
If you have an tv antenna it airs over the air on me tv
This song me does think a man with scotland shirt that dance in a country local of Midwest LOL
Much better than the watered down opening they went on with.
Also The Sweater that Potsie wore was also on The Episode where Richie tried to get Potsie's Bike back for him and a meeting took place with the dukes at The Pool Hall.
Il telefilm + bello Americano del 20 secolo , Ehi 👍
Bill Haley cut that version for TV in 1973.
how he was dead since the 50's
@@retroguyretail1976 bill died in 1981.....took all of 3 seconds to look it up
I hope we get the copyright issues figured out so we can eventually get an entire box set in its original format, I'd love to own 1.
lol that white girl had a weave. 😆
That wasn't a weave, that was a hair piece
The actual "happy days" theme makes more sense for the show, but this was by FARRRRRRR the better song.
The first season was the only one worth rewatching. It became the Fonzi Show afterwards.
J. Cole - Happy Days Theme Song 1984 Friday 19 October 1984.
RIP Garry Marshall
Too bad jerk Norman Lear is still around
Not anymore he's not@@Ryan2022.
He passed away on December 5, 2023, at the age of 101.
@@marcusmontgomerys2ndlogotv226 I feel bad for his family personally, I didn’t really like Norman Leer’s work
It's hard to believe but it's the 50th anniversary of the TV series, " Happy Days". I saw it on Channel 7, KABC, Los Angeles with my parents, January 15, 1974. My parents were teenagers in the 1950s, and the show was on in the era of nostalgia for the 1950s. In the early 1970s, the winding down of the Vietnam War,inflation ,and Watergate made people yearn for a simpler time when Presidents were trusted, the economy was booming and the U S respected as a world power. Now it's 50 years, later, and I'm nostalgic for the 1970s . I try to get my son and his girlfriend interested in the history of the 1970s, but they said no thanks. I told them my generation had the best music, the best movies and our parents could afford to buy a home. They said , " Ok, Boomer!". I told them to be more original in their blase attiude.. I told them, " Boomers rule!"
The show was fantastic the first two seasons. When it focused on Richie and his pals, it had an American Graffiti feel. When it became the "Fonzie Show", it was crap.
Sounds like family matters and good times
I fully agree, however I am persuaded that had they not focused on 'Fonzie' more the show would not have lasted as long as it did.
The special episodes I used to think lol
I know why they recorded and used their own theme song starting S2, but now on DVD or Streaming aps, they got rid of the Bill Hailey theme altogether and are using an extended version of the S2 theme song for S1 episodes. I'm not sure why.
Copyright and royalties
Cool
Always was intrigued as to why they start with a Rock-Ola jukebox pulling the record out, then flashing to a Seeburg when the song starts. Why didn't they stay with the Rock-Ola? Am I the only one who ever noticed?
Josh Webster They may have been on a Budget
They didn’t want to pay royalties to Billl Haley
Diaper changing
Ive seen Cross and The Switchblade ..yeah...I was in it.
50s back in the 70s i love it😊
9 months ago
I like this theme much more than the other one, doesn't matter to me the other one were more popular or lasted longer
Great family show. I still watch it on classic tv channels. The funny season opener. Where the guy in the convertible accidently squirts ketchup in his girlfriends face. What season number opener was that?
Wonder why they changed the theme song? Bill Haley & His Comets, "Rock Around The Clock," was a perfect song for a series based in the 1950s.
Happy Days
This is the original. Rock Around the Clock was replaced by Happy Days in later seasons. Enjoy!
I wish I could have lived the 50s everyone seemed so cool nobody worried about terrorism or school shootings rock n roll bill Haley Hank Williams sure there was tension with the cold war it was a time to be happy and free regardless people were more happier and outgoing no cell phones no social media no video games
what about racism
I EXSTREAMLY AGREE THE WORLD WAS ALOT MORE BEAUTIFUL RESPECTFUL GREATFUL COOL N NON LASEY TV SHOWS WHERE EVEN ALOT BETTER. HOW I'VE WAITED YEARS FOR SOMONE TO SAY WHAT YOU SAID
@@samanthamiller3988 amen!
Thank you Mr Robert Medved for responding back to me. Amen to you
@@samanthamiller3988 I wish I was born in the 50s I'm an 80s guy so guess I can't say it wasn't a bad time
Belated Happy 79th Birthday to Henry Winkler.
How far behind the US were the UK. I remember this intro in the UK and wondering when it changed.
Engines to the Rescue
Not a scrap of Henry Winkler. Seems the producers didn't realize he was gonna steal the show immediately yet. 😆🤣
This is before they had their own original theme song of the show.
In retrospect, the first two seasons are great. After that, it was the Fonzie show.
......... I couldn't find Season 1 anywhere back then, had to find it on a pirating site (yes dont judge i was born in 2004) i dont remember this. i rmember them just using the one from season 3 and after. Maybe they edited it in I suppose. Edit: actually i do recognize this. I thought i remembered this being an unused prototype theme song, possibly a placeholder until the real song was finished. i guess i was wrong.
Plain & Simple We All Wanted To Be The Fonz
Bill Hayley and the Comets