I loved it, too. The openings of old tv shows were often better than the shows, themselves. I always loved the old Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew opening(with the maze). That opening was almost ALWAYS better than the hour that followed. Shows like Barnaby Jones and Hawaii 5-0 had brilliant openings...they both set the stage for what was intended to follow...
I was born in 1961 and I remember watching these great early 70's detective series on the black and white 405 line tv, brings back early teenage memories
I was born in Nov 61 . Tvs not the same now . The themes were so much better bk then woth the best composers in the business ! Goldsmith , Barry , Grusin , Williams , Schifrin etc etc !
That was one of hardest French Horn parts ever to play!!... U go from the..blast to staccato and back again over and over till the song ends!!... Whew!!... Lol
It sounds like you have good taste. You might also enjoy an even earlier great TV Crime Drama Series, "Highway Patrol",starring Broderick Crawford. It's from the 50s.
I totally agree that these type of shows were the best. But they're too "soft" to be shown on the rerun networks today (except in the early a.m. hours) unless you catch a weekend binge of them on Decades Network, which from time to time runs Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Mannix, and several others. I never miss them!
Michael ~ YUP! Lovely piece indeed! l'm into the Prog dudes, and listen to stuff like Bruford, Hackett, Zappa, Wakeman. l remembered this one from when l was a child! ...45 years ago.
Gotta love the composition by Jerry Goldsmith and the signature performance of the Wrecking Crew. Carol Kaye's bass-line gives it away, but the whole group is strong and a keystone to so many fantastic albums, themes, and commercials. There will never be another like that group.
You will soon be able to order a cd from www.screenarchives.com and get the music from this series as well as Quinn Martin's other shows. Search for the Quinn Martin Collection. I received an email that pre orders are now accepted.
It is cool when school bands or orchestras play big-time tunes. My school's orchestra played (at a school assembly) "Love's Theme" (Barry White/Love Unlimited) from the top 40 radio play, and even the deadheads were blown away!
I can remember my dad watching this show in the. 70s! And me listening to this song in my room while I was rolling a number! Thanks Barnaby for all the good times in the 70s! My dad never knew we was getting stoned upstairs because he was watching this show with all the other ones!! LMAO 😅😂!
One of the greatest Crime Drama Shows of all time ! It was on for 8 seasons because it was great. The acting, the music and the guest stars along with the fabulous Buddy Ebsen, quality all the way and of course produced by Quinn Martin need I say more !!!!!!!!!!
Barnaby Jones, McMillan & Wife, Cannon, The Rockford Files, The Streets Of San Francisco, Columbo, McCloud, Banacek, The FBI, Police Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, Quincy, M.E., Kojak and so many more. I want to go back and visit my 9 to 16 year old self and watch these all again for the first time. :)
I miss the 1970’s, it wasn’t all milk and honey, yet enjoyed this series, that catchy theme tune. And there were others from the US at the time here in the UK, it’s now 2020, and only the Americans could make classics like this.
QM was a high class act. It's no accident Ebsen and so many other actors with high standards worked with them. I did some of their legal work over the twenty one season's they had product on the air. Professional and always on budget and on time.
@@Mycroft9 I've listened to this theme a million times and just recently started actually watching the episodes, which I really like. So far, I've seen all of season 1 and 2. I've been recording them from MeTV and have season 8. Boy, they really butchered the theme!! Yes, the bell is a welcome enhancement, but the other changes really bug me.
Over the past week, I've been hearing a tune in my head. I could not figure out what it was or why I was hearing it. Today, it dawned on me that what I was hearing (in my head) was a theme from a 70s show; then it occurred to me that what I was hearing might be the theme from Barnaby Jones. RUclips to the rescue! What a relief to finally "name that tune". Now, to figure out why, some 4 decades since I last saw the show, the Barnaby Jones theme was playing in my head, LOL. I don't remember much about the program, except that I always loved the theme. Mind and memory are a mysterious thing!
It's playing in your head because it's very beautiful and you love it. The same thing happened to me with the theme from Exodus. My parents used to listen to it on vinyl when I was a child. The movie was recently on TV and when I heard the theme, it freaked me out, not only because it was so beautiful, but because I knew EVERY note of it. The music we hear in our childhood sticks with us. Finding it can be a problem though.
van smack ~ They did INDEED! l was born in '65. The 70's were the first full decade l remember, and Prog was _thee best_ Rock music of all time ....in my humble opinion. l know a good piece when l hear it!
My sisters, niece and nephews were members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) during the 80's and 90's and we knew a lot of people in the entertainment business. I know that Jerry Goldsmith, who is credited for having written this and other theme songs, was a Jethro Tull fan and it definitely shows in this theme. He also worked with the script writers on Barnaby Jones, which is why the song "Wind Up", from Jethro Tull's Aqualung album, showed up in the "A Gold Record for Murder" episode, which aired in February of 1974. That one featured Buddy Epson playing the song on acoustic guitar. Even though Mike Post has always been my favorite composer, this one, by Jerry Goldsmith, is definitely my all time favorite single theme song.
As A Black Kid Born in 1971 ME Growing up Listening And Watching TV Shows From this Era Listening to this Brings me right back to That Era. I Just Love ALL 1970s Tv Show Themes AND A Little of the Early 80s too.. Just A Little..
We’re the same age, but I’m a 47 year old white chick. You’re right, tv theme songs were important. That was part of the whole show watching experience.
This music "ROCKS"! I just saw the "Decades" weekend "BINGE" this past weekend, on Sat. & Sunday & watched some classic episodes of "Barnaby Jones"! I Love that show & it was "GRR"-eat(great) to see it again after all these years & hear that "GRR"-eat(Great), powerful, "ROCKin" theme song, over & over! I LOVE it! Thank YOU for sharing it on RUclips! Yea, this "ROCKS"! Your "FIEND", ROCK! David ROCK Nelson, B-"Monster" Moviemaker/actor 26-Years & BEYOND, former "Chicago Golden Gloves" boxer & former MARINE Corporal OO-Rah" Nelson(served 1976-'80) in U.S. Marine Corps. I competed in 1976 "Chicago Golden Gloves" & came-back at age 29 after 4-years in the Marines & after 5-years in Bible college & fought in 4-more "Chicago Golden Gloves" tournaments, until 1991 at age 34. Then, 10-months later, on Oct. 23rd, 1991 I started videotaping & acting in my own "Monster"-comedy Movies & never stopped! I'm BIG "61" years-young & am still DOING IT, B-"Monster"-comedy Moviemaking/acting! "FIEND"(friend) me on "Facebook" & see me on "RUclips", by searching for: David ROCK Nelson.
Lovely chord progressions! l'm into Prog like Wakeman, Hackett, Zappa, Bruford, and all those dudes! l know a _good piece_ when l hear it! Haven't heard this for 40 years! Remembered it from when l was a kid!
For some reason this theme song plays in my head. I never watched the show (loved the Beverly Hillbillies) but probably watched the theme song play and then turned the channel.
Jerry Goldsmith did theme and action scores better than any musical composer who has ever been. I love this theme. Jerry loved it too as he later riffed and reworked this theme for Police Story, an anthology TV series he did later that same year. Both are among my favorite TV scores from him. However, the theme for Hawaii Five-O from Morton Stevens remains my all-time favorite TV score.
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Absolutely one of the best theme songs of all time!
I agree
The Quinn Martin shows all had good theme songs.
I loved it, too. The openings of old tv shows were often better than the shows, themselves. I always loved the old Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew opening(with the maze). That opening was almost ALWAYS better than the hour that followed. Shows like Barnaby Jones and Hawaii 5-0 had brilliant openings...they both set the stage for what was intended to follow...
Agreed !
By FAR !!
This was the era of greatest American TV theme songs!
Barnaby Jones is streaming now on prime and no commercials and loving it.
I was born in 1961 and I remember watching these great early 70's detective series on the black and white 405 line tv, brings back early teenage memories
The 70s had many great tv shows
I was born in Nov 61 .
Tvs not the same now .
The themes were so much better bk then woth the best composers in the business !
Goldsmith , Barry , Grusin , Williams , Schifrin etc etc !
@@alexanderwyllie7334 Agreed!
Great music, great tv.
@@alexanderwyllie7334Amen. Born Oct. ‘61.
That was one of hardest French Horn parts ever to play!!... U go from the..blast to staccato and back again over and over till the song ends!!... Whew!!... Lol
French horns definitely make this theme song a standout. Love the sound of the flute throughout the song.
Learned the flute back then and used to try and play along with the TV show! Lol
yes!!
And the bass
The piano does it for me.
Wonderful theme
I loved the announcer. "Barnaby Jones", a QM Production. Tonight's episode, Rise To Death!
Hank Sims is one of the very best!!
tonights episode the hairy ball sack lol
@@Kamandi1971 😂😂😂
yeah!
police squad spoofed it
very funny
very funny show police squad
My family grew up watching the show but my brothers and I loved the theme. Lee Meriwether and Buddy Ebsen were the best.
Great actors.
Agree❤
Despite the fact that I was only single digit age (I was born in 1970), I loved THIS era of TV 📺 Crime Shows growing up.
It sounds like you have good taste. You might also enjoy an even earlier great TV Crime Drama Series, "Highway
Patrol",starring Broderick Crawford. It's from the 50s.
SAME HERE !!
Me too 😁
I totally agree that these type of shows were the best. But they're too "soft" to be shown on the rerun networks today (except in the early a.m. hours) unless you catch a weekend binge of them on Decades Network, which from time to time runs Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Mannix, and several others. I never miss them!
I would watch the show for the opening and ending themes.
Buddy Ebsen knew how to reinvent himself.
A magnificent and brilliant piece of music!
Pure jazz, although I don't share your same level of enthusiasm.
Jerry Goldsmith theme...met him twice..NYC/LA...great guy!
Barnaby Jones is on weeknights at 4 am on MeTV. YAAAAYYY!!!!
I see somebody else is watching!!
3 am Central. 😉
Man I love this song! Brings back memories.
It sure does I miss it so very much 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
Me, too.
The best television show theme song ever!!!
Late night after Cannon METV was pretty cool ..
@@williamhaggard451 It's still on MeTV after Cannon, at 4 am est.
I've always loved this theme song-- especially the bass, drums, and woodwinds.
Loved the piano part..one of the few times I wish I could play piano..this song would be one of them!
Indeed, for me it’s the bass all the way to the end. Where did the great theme songs go? Today’s a bunch of synthesized crap.
jerry goldsmith hit it with this one.
Always loved this theme, the horns are the boss
TV shows had such great theme songs, once upon a time. 😃
Amen to that ! This is one of my all time faves ! :-)
When television themes were actually good.
Real good
@@terrelll.howard8660 Absolutely Barnaby Jones and The Fugitive above fantastic !!!!!
yep
This is one of my favorites. It's unique.
those french horns though!!!!!!! those rips are awesome
Michael ~ YUP! Lovely piece indeed! l'm into the Prog dudes, and listen to stuff like Bruford, Hackett, Zappa, Wakeman. l remembered this one from when l was a child! ...45 years ago.
Yes, what sweet sounds.
Gotta love the composition by Jerry Goldsmith and the signature performance of the Wrecking Crew. Carol Kaye's bass-line gives it away, but the whole group is strong and a keystone to so many fantastic albums, themes, and commercials. There will never be another like that group.
You will soon be able to order a cd from www.screenarchives.com and get the music from this series as well as Quinn Martin's other shows. Search for the Quinn Martin Collection. I received an email that pre orders are now accepted.
Yeah, recognized Kaye's bass from a million miles away.
Jim Horn on flute presumably?
Brings back memories of a time when TV shows had intelligent writers, as well as good characters and stories.
The 70s!! The best!! Watching Barnaby Jones and eating popcorn!
I can remember when I was a little one, going to see my sister in the high school orchestra and they played this song.
Very cool.
It is cool when school bands or orchestras play big-time tunes. My school's orchestra played (at a school assembly) "Love's Theme" (Barry White/Love Unlimited) from the top 40 radio play, and even the deadheads were blown away!
God bless the 70s
Fantastic and Unforgettable TV theme. A Fabulous Treasure. Certainly one of the most memorable of all time.
Greatest tv theme ever.
I can remember my dad watching this show in the. 70s! And me listening to this song in my room while I was rolling a number! Thanks Barnaby for all the good times in the 70s! My dad never knew we was getting stoned upstairs because he was watching this show with all the other ones!! LMAO 😅😂!
underrated song!!! love it just as much as the show. show is pretty well written.
I have a notion to second that emotion ! :-)
I wasn’t around when this show came out, but I love the music
One of the greatest Crime Drama Shows of all time ! It was on for 8 seasons because it was great. The acting, the music and the guest stars along with the fabulous Buddy Ebsen, quality all the way and of course produced by Quinn Martin need I say more !!!!!!!!!!
It's hard to go wrong when choosing to watch a "QM Production". Quinn Martin put out a lot of shows through the 1960's up to 1980.
I'd never noticed that crucial piano ostinato when hearing it on TV. Such a well-arranged and executed piece.
Barnaby Jones, McMillan & Wife, Cannon, The Rockford Files, The Streets Of San Francisco, Columbo, McCloud, Banacek, The FBI, Police Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, Quincy, M.E., Kojak and so many more. I want to go back and visit my 9 to 16 year old self and watch these all again for the first time. :)
Dan August was a cool theme too.
I miss the 1970’s, it wasn’t all milk and honey, yet enjoyed this series, that catchy theme tune. And there were others from the US at the time here in the UK, it’s now 2020, and only the Americans could make classics like this.
SO DO I.
@@christophersantana5895Better still the 1960’s
One of the best… shows and theme song!
I love this theme song it so relaxing i remember my grandparents always watching this show so i start watching it with them the good old days.
QM was a high class act. It's no accident Ebsen and so many other actors with high standards worked with them. I did some of their legal work over the twenty one season's they had product on the air. Professional and always on budget and on time.
Jerry Goldsmith
The bell that sounds on the off beat is just great!
My favorite part of the song!!
It was added in later seasons when the theme was rearranged
@@Mycroft9 I've listened to this theme a million times and just recently started actually watching the episodes, which I really like. So far, I've seen all of season 1 and 2. I've been recording them from MeTV and have season 8. Boy, they really butchered the theme!! Yes, the bell is a welcome enhancement, but the other changes really bug me.
Hi Mycroft9. Season 7's opening theme is the best. It highlights the bass and drums. Just beautiful.
Happy 50th Birthday Anniversary to the classic Crime fighting TV Series "Barnaby Jones"
RIP Buddy Ebsen🖤❤️🍇🍒🤍❤️💙🖤💙🤍
Bass guitars were the hero back in the 70s...damn.. I wanna play like that haha
Happy Birthday Betty Jones Lee Meriwether many more to go on ..
Over the past week, I've been hearing a tune in my head. I could not figure out what it was or why I was hearing it. Today, it dawned on me that what I was hearing (in my head) was a theme from a 70s show; then it occurred to me that what I was hearing might be the theme from Barnaby Jones. RUclips to the rescue! What a relief to finally "name that tune". Now, to figure out why, some 4 decades since I last saw the show, the Barnaby Jones theme was playing in my head, LOL. I don't remember much about the program, except that I always loved the theme. Mind and memory are a mysterious thing!
It's playing in your head because it's very beautiful and you love it. The same thing happened to me with the theme from Exodus. My parents used to listen to it on vinyl when I was a child. The movie was recently on TV and when I heard the theme, it freaked me out, not only because it was so beautiful, but because I knew EVERY note of it. The music we hear in our childhood sticks with us. Finding it can be a problem though.
Good theme can’t wait to get this on dvd love all the old shows from the 50s and60s also and I’m only 55 years
Good theme can’t wait to get this on dvd love all the old shows from the 50s and60s also and I’m only 55 years old
This was so on the money love this classic theme gem of a Instrumental music😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
Best TV show theme ever
Takes me back when was watching it
Another high quality show from the 1970s. Barnaby Jones a Quinn Martin production.
The 60s and the 70s had the best tv shows of all time.
ABSOLUTELY...another Quinn Martin production (You gotta do the deep voice when you say it) 😂😂👌
van smack ~ They did INDEED! l was born in '65. The 70's were the first full decade l remember, and Prog was _thee best_ Rock music of all time ....in my humble opinion. l know a good piece when l hear it!
To bad they can't do anything like this anymore
GREAT THEME SONG, 1 OF THE GREATEST EVER
I was 4 years old at this shows debut...and this theme song is still burned into my brain lol...along with the "Untouchables"
Admittedly my top notch favorite theme.
Me, too. #1 of all time.
pure magic
Ah! The good ol days.
That bass line.
I wish they still showed Barnaby Jones on cablevision in Long Island, ny. I like this show !!!
Streaming now on prime.
Best last 10 seconds ever
My sisters, niece and nephews were members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) during the 80's and 90's and we knew a lot of people in the entertainment business. I know that Jerry Goldsmith, who is credited for having written this and other theme songs, was a Jethro Tull fan and it definitely shows in this theme. He also worked with the script writers on Barnaby Jones, which is why the song "Wind Up", from Jethro Tull's Aqualung album, showed up in the "A Gold Record for Murder" episode, which aired in February of 1974. That one featured Buddy Epson playing the song on acoustic guitar.
Even though Mike Post has always been my favorite composer, this one, by Jerry Goldsmith, is definitely my all time favorite single theme song.
I have a printer made by Buddy Epson.
I remember watching Barnaby Jones here in my countri dubbed to spanish now watching it in English great memories
Such a cool soundtrack.
Just had a flashback of doing homework, in the living room of the house I grew up in, while watching this with mom..
"A Quinn Martin Production" .....deep voice for effect...
i love barnaby jones theme and telefilm
This is my favorite theme by Jerry Goldsmith, followed by Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Breakheart Pass and In Like Flint.
Mine too great taste.
Ape shall never kill ape.
The only reason I'm 13 and know about Barnaby Jones is cause at my grandma's I stay up late and my grandpa puts it on at 4:00am and I watch it sometes
It was a funky beat
The bass line tho!!!
Great tv show...With a fantastic intro ..From the super 70s ...
As A Black Kid Born in 1971 ME Growing up Listening And Watching TV Shows From this Era Listening to this Brings me right back to That Era. I Just Love ALL 1970s Tv Show Themes AND A Little of the Early 80s too.. Just A Little..
True; You think of all the family, friends etc that were around us back then; brings back instant memories
We’re the same age, but I’m a 47 year old white chick. You’re right, tv theme songs were important. That was part of the whole show watching experience.
I love white Chics - too sexy
@@tranurse Yep Exactly
@@niekko5969 Yep So True
Wonderful
This music "ROCKS"! I just saw the "Decades" weekend "BINGE" this past weekend, on Sat. & Sunday & watched some classic episodes of "Barnaby Jones"! I Love that show & it was "GRR"-eat(great) to see it again after all these years & hear that "GRR"-eat(Great), powerful, "ROCKin" theme song, over & over! I LOVE it! Thank YOU for sharing it on RUclips! Yea, this "ROCKS"! Your "FIEND", ROCK! David ROCK Nelson, B-"Monster" Moviemaker/actor 26-Years & BEYOND, former "Chicago Golden Gloves" boxer & former MARINE Corporal OO-Rah" Nelson(served 1976-'80) in U.S. Marine Corps. I competed in 1976 "Chicago Golden Gloves" & came-back at age 29 after 4-years in the Marines & after 5-years in Bible college & fought in 4-more "Chicago Golden Gloves" tournaments, until 1991 at age 34. Then, 10-months later, on Oct. 23rd, 1991 I started videotaping & acting in my own "Monster"-comedy Movies & never stopped! I'm BIG "61" years-young & am still DOING IT, B-"Monster"-comedy Moviemaking/acting! "FIEND"(friend) me on "Facebook" & see me on "RUclips", by searching for: David ROCK Nelson.
This is the best.
The GREAT Jerry Goldsmith.
The score hits
Back when you could watch TV as a family
High Quality, too the fullest.
I couldn't what until Tuesday night for Barnaby Jones
Lovely chord progressions! l'm into Prog like Wakeman, Hackett, Zappa, Bruford, and all those dudes! l know a _good piece_ when l hear it! Haven't heard this for 40 years! Remembered it from when l was a kid!
You can't have a weak show with a theme song like this.
My very favorite show, thanks for posting the theme.
These rips are now played within house music sets at clubs.
I love this show
Lived the show and Lee Meriwether was a total babe!
The master of giving older crimesolvers dynamic theme tunes (see also "Hawkins").
For some reason this theme song plays in my head. I never watched the show (loved the Beverly Hillbillies) but probably watched the theme song play and then turned the channel.
really good
May I have a glass of milk for Jerry? I have played this at least 1000 times and Never get tired of it so many working parts. I just [layed this again
Now I can catch Barnaby Jones on Pluto Network
Jerry Goldsmith did theme and action scores better than any musical composer who has ever been. I love this theme. Jerry loved it too as he later riffed and reworked this theme for Police Story, an anthology TV series he did later that same year. Both are among my favorite TV scores from him. However, the theme for Hawaii Five-O from Morton Stevens remains my all-time favorite TV score.
This song is perfect for a Marching Band.
The best theme of any police show
R. I. P., Buddy Ebsen.
I agree when tv was good
Classic
Great theme song, it sounds very much the music NFL films used for highlight shows
My high school band stayed playing this theme
In Ohio, reruns of "Barnaby Jones " are shown on the network known as METV from Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 4am local time.
THE BEST!