"Green Acres" Opening and Closing Theme Song

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2012
  • From a public domain episode of "Green Acres". This episode was taken from TV Land, but, it is a public domain episode. Audio is owned by WMG. "Green Acres" is owned by Sony Pictures.
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  • @djhutcherson6761
    @djhutcherson6761 4 года назад +125

    I was lucky enough to meet Eddie Albert in 1999 when he was 93 years old. I had fallen in love with Green Acres in 1998 when I was 14 years old. In 1999 I asked my mom if we could go to Los Angeles for our summer vacation to try and find Eddie's house. So, in June 1999 we flew out to L.A. from Tennessee. On our second day there, we were quickly able to find his house using a Hollywood map to the stars homes. When we found it, we stopped out in front to take some pictures. Eddie just happened to be sitting at his dining room table and saw us out the front window. We saw him get up and head towards the front door. He came out on his front porch and waved for us to come up, so of course we did. I shook his hand, and told him how much I loved Mr. Douglas and that Green Acres was my favorite TV show. Then I had my picture made with him. I was in shock...I couldn't believe it was happening. He was so nice to do that for us. I will remember that day for the rest of my life. For those that would like to see the photo of me with Eddie, here is the link to it on Dropbox : 1drv.ms/u/s!AnBR7VqwuLFZiENOzOBLSNU6phQ3

    • @kendallrivers1119
      @kendallrivers1119 4 года назад +8

      Just started watching this show a few months ago after hearing about it for years but man I wish I had discovered it earlier. Definitely one of the funniest and original series ever made. There's not a show on the air now that can even compete with it's absurd brilliance. I'm also developing an unhealthy obsession with this theme song lol.

    • @djhutcherson6761
      @djhutcherson6761 4 года назад +4

      @@kendallrivers1119 I feel the same way about the theme song, I just can't get enough of it, and I can't get it out of my head, lol! 😁

    • @alishataylor6017
      @alishataylor6017 4 года назад

      Wow you’re so lucky I wish I could have met him & got a pic with him. Can u text me at 706 768 7613 so we can chat ? When u text me let me know it’s u & send the pic of u & Eddie Albert.

    • @suzannemarienau2760
      @suzannemarienau2760 Год назад +8

      Saw your picture and it was terrific! What a heartwarming story, thanks for sharing! 😊

    • @maureenschuljak7264
      @maureenschuljak7264 Год назад +2

      That is so cool!

  • @briangriffin4937
    @briangriffin4937 Год назад +276

    If you listen closely the catchy Green Acres theme is constructed exactly like the theme from “The Addams Family.” Both were written by Vic Mizzy. Two of the best theme songs in Classic TV history.

    • @zebdawson3687
      @zebdawson3687 11 месяцев назад +13

      If you listen closely to Harry Potter, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and more, they’re constructed exactly like each other. All were written by John Williams, some of the best music in the film industry.

    • @selenawilliams2219
      @selenawilliams2219 10 месяцев назад +4

      ❤️ this song🎼🎵🎶

    • @sydneymerrifield2176
      @sydneymerrifield2176 9 месяцев назад +7

      That definitely explains why they're both my go to song to sing to myself lol

    • @vinnyrussomanno5357
      @vinnyrussomanno5357 7 месяцев назад +4

      Top 5 best opening theme songs in the TV prpgraming

    • @swivel_lock
      @swivel_lock 6 месяцев назад +3

      Yea that because greats are great!👍

  • @179cpv
    @179cpv 5 лет назад +215

    “This has been a Filmways presentation, dahling.” Always loved Eva’s accent. My mom was Hungarian too.

    • @normturner4849
      @normturner4849 3 года назад +6

      Dahlink. Gotta do the K at the end. My wife’s family are Hungarian as well. 🙃

    • @Americanshortz7
      @Americanshortz7 2 года назад +2

      Her name is Lisa not Eva

    • @marshamariner7897
      @marshamariner7897 2 года назад +5

      @@Americanshortz7 Eva Gabor played Lisa Douglas 🌹💖

    • @douglasgriffiths3534
      @douglasgriffiths3534 2 года назад +1

      @@marshamariner7897 Younger sister to ZsaZsa Gabor. (Jan Griffiths).

    • @alkholos
      @alkholos 2 года назад +1

      She was the classiest of the three Gabor sisters. Ever notice how nobody talked about the Gabor brothers?

  • @sparkymahoney4343
    @sparkymahoney4343 8 лет назад +517

    "Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue." I always say to this people as a random. It's always so much fun when they get it.

    • @RedroomStudios
      @RedroomStudios 5 лет назад +22

      the whoe song is just full of fantastic random one liners!

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 4 года назад +7

      Eva wouldn't have been reminiscing so fondly about Times Sq. not many years later when it was stuffed with junkies, muggers and porn theater patrons...

    • @Los150
      @Los150 4 года назад +1

      Love it! Never change. 😂

    • @dennis1345
      @dennis1345 4 года назад +1

      I would rather bone ZSA ZSA

    • @SuperWolsey
      @SuperWolsey 4 года назад +2

      I sometimes thought it was "forgive me, Park Avenue"

  • @Cowboy1959
    @Cowboy1959 4 года назад +81

    One of the all-time greatest theme songs for a TV show.

  • @skovner
    @skovner 7 месяцев назад +6

    Arnold the Pig was the smartest one on the show. He really hammed it up

  • @samson3000
    @samson3000 5 лет назад +417

    This theme song was written by Vic Mizzy and Irving Taylor. Vic wrote it "backwards" because he knew he wanted to end with the pitchfork scene on the last two notes. He told the producer to shoot the opening from a helicopter, showing "Green Acres" on the barn's roof -- then to illustrate each action described in the lyrics. Eddie Albert learned the words and music easily but Eva Gabor struggled. So Vic told her to speak the words, rather than sing them -- except the last four notes, which she performed on the first take. The guitarist on the recording is Tommy Tedesco, using the new "fuzz box" effect for the first time in a film score.

    • @michaeldavis9077
      @michaeldavis9077 5 лет назад +10

      There was always a debate on who played bass on Stevie Wonders I Was Made To Love Her. If you listen closely to the fuzz guitar on that ? I'm saying that was Tommy T. Now Carroll Kaye played bass with a pic. It's never been credited but Motown contracted out occasionally to get different moods on some recordings.

    • @facebookcom-ej7dm
      @facebookcom-ej7dm 4 года назад +13

      Vic Mizzy also wrote all the music for “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” movie starring Don Knotts.

    • @Tmanaz480
      @Tmanaz480 4 года назад +9

      I love the bass harmonica.

    • @robertspencer703
      @robertspencer703 4 года назад +12

      Amazing this show was the reverse version and 3rd spinoff of the Beverly hillbillies

    • @Adsleeze
      @Adsleeze 4 года назад +1

      U ARE SMART BOI

  • @AldenRDavis
    @AldenRDavis 5 лет назад +203

    “This has been a Filmways Presentation, darling.”

    • @rossrussell2277
      @rossrussell2277 4 года назад +9

      Alden R. Davis I still say that at the end I take it you do too

    • @dennis1345
      @dennis1345 4 года назад +3

      This has been a butt plug up yours presentation , darling

  • @amyfisher6380
    @amyfisher6380 2 года назад +71

    Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor recorded the theme song in a single take. 👏

    • @Uhohlisa
      @Uhohlisa Месяц назад

      You can tell.

  • @paxromano7264
    @paxromano7264 6 лет назад +22

    The line that Eva / Lisa sing's "I just adore a penthouse view, darling I love you but give me Park Avenue" is pure genius!

    • @Music81rock
      @Music81rock 6 месяцев назад

      You know, I never knew she was saying penthouse! I thought she was saying fantage!! And now it's over 30 years of me saying that and I've finally been corrected. Thank you so much lol!

  • @apocalypseplough8089
    @apocalypseplough8089 8 лет назад +516

    She didn't wash the dirty dishes ... she just threw them out the window.
    Wish I could do that.

    • @johngault3388
      @johngault3388 8 лет назад +21

      That fancy Park Avenue lifestyle!

    • @ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist
      @ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist 8 лет назад +23

      We just visited NYC for the first time the other day, and we saw a dumpster covered in rats on Park Avenue, and I couldn't help thinking of this song and laughing. Fancy Park Avenue lifestyle :) I suppose the rats were fond of all the food scraps on the plates she threw to them.... ;)

    • @KingHenryVR4
      @KingHenryVR4 6 лет назад +9

      Yeah she either threw them out the window or just tossed the tablecloth with everything in it into the dishwasher :)

    • @sonofizzy
      @sonofizzy 6 лет назад +3

      Apocalypse Plough: You can. You can do most anything you wish. There are just consequences. :)

    • @daleva187goligo
      @daleva187goligo 5 лет назад +5

      what dishes were u talking about? I don't see any in this video

  • @lexi2681
    @lexi2681 5 лет назад +179

    I remember hearing this play in my house all the time when I was little. This and Golden Girls, Unsolved Mysteries, MASH, Happy Days, and Laverne & Shirley just to name a few. This song popped in my head today and was driving me crazy. So glad I found it.

    • @Lightguardian_HOH
      @Lightguardian_HOH 4 года назад +3

      Same!

    • @kaykorzenowski3562
      @kaykorzenowski3562 4 года назад +4

      I've had this song going round in my head for a few days ... not sure why...maybe nostalgia got caught up with me

    • @dennis1345
      @dennis1345 4 года назад +1

      I'm so glad that you found it too you little BITCH. !!!!!!!!!!

    • @loubarrios4207
      @loubarrios4207 2 года назад +1

      Me too beautiful.

    • @Lulusvideos1
      @Lulusvideos1 2 года назад +1

      Me too!! The good old days! Wish I was there now!

  • @nanlisa
    @nanlisa 10 лет назад +185

    I'm 56 and Green Acres is still my favorite show.

    • @arethawhite3712
      @arethawhite3712 5 лет назад +3

      I agree 💯 percent with you on that one, I'm 55 years old and I still love this show!!! So funny 😂!!! I always watched it on TV Land channel, along with The Monkees, The Wild,Wild West etc. Great memories of the good old days 😂!!!!!! From Aretha White from Bunn NC Peace out ok✌✌✌!!!! Holla ok?!!!!

    • @jimboramba
      @jimboramba 5 лет назад +3

      Now you are 61

    • @charleshansen9502
      @charleshansen9502 5 лет назад +3

      I also love Get Smart.

    • @emilylombardo2113
      @emilylombardo2113 4 года назад +1

      Im 22 but i remember loving this show many years ago! And the old fashioned lost in space

    • @alexramos1435
      @alexramos1435 4 года назад +2

      I've never seen this show but it is in my bucket list now.

  • @jodybrai
    @jodybrai 9 лет назад +48

    I have vivid memories of my Dad on a riding lawn mower singing this song when we moved out of the big city into a little town with big yards.

  • @SharlieTapia
    @SharlieTapia 3 года назад +27

    I went to show my fiancé this show because Paris Hilton referenced it when mentioning her home remodeling plans and now I’m about to cry because I miss cuddling up with my grandparents and watching this together 😭❤️ R.I.P. Grandma.

  • @sharondhixson
    @sharondhixson 2 года назад +63

    I absolutely loved watching this show when I was little.

    • @uncleken7955
      @uncleken7955 2 года назад +2

      It still plays on metv every weekday.
      channel 55-1 8:30 central time.

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 Год назад +2

      Hell yeah! My favorite as a kid too!👍☺️👍 STILL holds up!

    • @stevediverniero4190
      @stevediverniero4190 Год назад +1

      A very STUPID Show but I loved it

  • @kendallrivers1119
    @kendallrivers1119 4 года назад +70

    This has got to be one of the most unique, original, quirky and genuinely funny shows ever made! I mean, the breaking of the fourth wall to the extreme to where the characters acknowledged the credits has yet to be topped even to this day. I always wondered why this show was such a hit and thanks to METV now I know :).

    • @AvitalShtap
      @AvitalShtap Год назад +6

      LOL I had no idea it was so irreverent, I love shows like that! Seems I should give it a watch!

    • @daviddave7392
      @daviddave7392 Год назад +6

      @@AvitalShtap Oh yes, they got pretty inventive with sneaking in the credits :)

    • @80srockman53
      @80srockman53 Год назад +4

      I see you also watch better mtv-i mean metv

  • @joeykonyha2414
    @joeykonyha2414 5 лет назад +430

    You may be cool, but you’ll never be Eddie Albert plowing the back 40 in a waistcoat and slacks cool.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 4 года назад +9

      Yeah, why's he wearing a business suit to farm? Because he's a businessman turned farmer, that's why. Geddit, morons?
      Let us not sentimentalize the green and other-colored acres of condescending crap during TV's 'vast wasteland' days. The Bilkos and Lucys were the exception.

    • @kendallrivers1119
      @kendallrivers1119 4 года назад +12

      @Esmee Phililps You sir are an idiot. Go get a life STAT.

    • @Zeldarw104
      @Zeldarw104 4 года назад +2

      Okay! Now that's stomped, down, sharp, cool, with a little hay as an accessory! 😂😁

    • @Zeldarw104
      @Zeldarw104 4 года назад +9

      @@esmeephillips5888 my goodness what is your damage?!🤨

    • @OriPrior66
      @OriPrior66 4 года назад +5

      Legit there was an episode on last night, he was showering and had to go under the house to fix the problem. He got DRESSED in a SUIT after showering to just crawl in dirt! WTF?

  • @pacerguy01
    @pacerguy01 2 года назад +88

    Not only is the theme song a total classic, the American Gothic pose by Eddie and Eva at the end is iconic! 😁

    • @chuckdabney1443
      @chuckdabney1443 Год назад

      In the game Masterpiece, we nicknamed the painting”The Cornhuskers”

    • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
      @LindaMerchant-bq2hp 8 месяцев назад

      Like on the. Over of Saturday evening post

  • @apolloniaaskew9487
    @apolloniaaskew9487 5 лет назад +61

    Eddie Albert was the man in Hooterville. He was a lawyer turned farmer, a dumb but good looking wife, a big shiny Lincoln car and a raggedy farm. Can you beat that?

  • @66kprdwd
    @66kprdwd 8 лет назад +368

    Green Acres has to unique things about it. 1. It never had a pilot episode. 2. It was the first TV show to have it's theme song sung by the cast (beating the Monkees by 6 months).

    • @johngault3388
      @johngault3388 8 лет назад +5

      Zsa Zsa has a really good singing voice.

    • @66kprdwd
      @66kprdwd 8 лет назад +37

      It was Eva, not Zsa Zsa. ;)

    • @johngault3388
      @johngault3388 8 лет назад +4

      John Greene
      Thanks for the clarification!

    • @66kprdwd
      @66kprdwd 8 лет назад +2

      No prob. ;)

    • @palletbitch
      @palletbitch 8 лет назад +5

      and for me how did they meet a farmer and a rich woman from the city

  • @SaxonC
    @SaxonC 4 года назад +257

    This was the reversal of the Beverly Hillbillies plot! lol

    • @travis7310
      @travis7310  4 года назад +19

      Pretty much!

    • @bttrflygal
      @bttrflygal 3 года назад +13

      Yah ..never thought of that

    • @hab9609
      @hab9609 3 года назад +4

      Good call

    • @hab9609
      @hab9609 3 года назад +5

      It’s also nothing like Batman

    • @Theeartofme_
      @Theeartofme_ 3 года назад +2

      Oh my it was. I love both of them

  • @viperaputakeyteaparyou8237
    @viperaputakeyteaparyou8237 3 года назад +28

    I remember watching this as a kid with my dad in the early 2000s on a rerun here in my country. Looking back I see how this show was way ahead of its time. It had smart gags, breaking the fourth wall, some nonsense humor, and even though it repeated the same formula again and again it was never repetitive or tiresome. Seeing Arnold the pig communicating and doing human stuff always cracked me up! This show was a gem.

    • @aaronposteraro1986
      @aaronposteraro1986 Год назад +1

      Same here, my late father would always watch this show. Hearing this theme brings back so many memories

  • @EyeLean5280
    @EyeLean5280 4 года назад +13

    The musical opening to this show scared me as a little girl. I thought it was possible for a random man to just walk up to a woman and say "you are my wife" and yank her away from everything she loves. 😬

  • @simplemann101
    @simplemann101 2 года назад +16

    Green acres is my go to comfort show, it's far from current but still relatable to some people. Epic in my mind.

  • @markreimer3852
    @markreimer3852 5 лет назад +38

    One of the most recognizable guitar "riffs" of that time period.

  • @AshKetchum442
    @AshKetchum442 10 лет назад +327

    i passed by a cemetery called Green Acres the other day. i guess you could say the people there "bought the farm"

    • @JerryAdams0044
      @JerryAdams0044 10 лет назад +5

      You stupid. lol

    • @allenbooth7033
      @allenbooth7033 9 лет назад +18

      AshKetchum442 People are always dying to get into places like that.

    • @therealwrestlinggenius6390
      @therealwrestlinggenius6390 9 лет назад +4

      AshKetchum442 hillarious

    • @DeadRaymanWalking
      @DeadRaymanWalking 7 лет назад +3

      Somewhere in Amherst, NY, there's an Animal Hospital called "Green Acres Animal Hospital". Weird, isn't it?

    • @jsmedbond
      @jsmedbond 6 лет назад +2

      I see what you did there.

  • @SuperDobieGirl
    @SuperDobieGirl 5 лет назад +4

    When I was 8 years old, I had a very Starstruck father and he took me and my brother and sister to audition for The Music Man in the st. Louis Municipal opera house which was equivalent to Summer theater. Me and my brother or cast as the town children an Eddie Albert was the star and we had such a blast working with him back in 1966. He was at the height of his career, and we were just a couple of city kids that loved Green Acres. Well my father is gone these days, but had it not been for his determination that one of his children become a star, I never would have had those glorious 3 weeks. I did grow up to be in the show world, I'm just showing dogs instead, LOL

  • @jettcarlburg356
    @jettcarlburg356 4 года назад +8

    Eva was always known as "the nice Gabor". True that. She had a wicked sense of humor and a personality that never hesitated to poke fun at herself. She was a treasure!

  • @marinareal8452
    @marinareal8452 Год назад +7

    I am from Portugal and I remember these episodes when I was maybe 5/6 years old and the song has been the knocking on the door sound for the whole family ever since . Now my children follow the tradition and I was showing them the origin of the music they never wondered ! Eternal actors ! ❤

  • @oreo3740
    @oreo3740 4 года назад +21

    Rest In Peace Eb, I hope you’re in a better place

  • @Kaizerzydeco1
    @Kaizerzydeco1 5 лет назад +9

    Little-known fact: Hooterville was based on the real town of Porterville, CA. If you ever go there you'll see why. There's even a Pixley next town over. However, the world's best citrus fruit is grown in Porterville.

  • @kyleshiflet7932
    @kyleshiflet7932 5 лет назад +27

    Im 21 years old and by god it's still on my top 10 shows

    • @dr.jonesmurphy5743
      @dr.jonesmurphy5743 2 года назад

      Let’s marriage

    • @henry12397
      @henry12397 Год назад +1

      Kyle great shows are hard to let go....I'm 70 so I never missed one of their shows!!!

  • @theonlyonestanding8079
    @theonlyonestanding8079 2 года назад +3

    Im 53yrs old now and I loved this theme song since I was a boy in the 70s

  • @alexlacaze8773
    @alexlacaze8773 3 года назад +9

    I’m 17 and I remember growing up watching this along with my cartoons 😂

  • @DP-hy4vh
    @DP-hy4vh 4 года назад +23

    RIP Tom Lester (Eb) - 1938 - 2020
    All of the cast members are now gone.

    • @musiccollector
      @musiccollector 3 года назад

      So sad.

    • @brian-td2um
      @brian-td2um 3 года назад

      Tom was a great guy
      Did radio guest spots up here in Boston all the time.

    • @denisemayosky1955
      @denisemayosky1955 3 года назад

      I remember getting a kick out of seeing Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney) as one of the "old regulars" in the saloon in "Back to the Future 3". He still had that distinct voice even then.

  • @a.b.sproductionsllc
    @a.b.sproductionsllc 4 года назад +12

    This theme song/opening used to make me laugh as a kid in the 1990’s. I guess it was just seeing that high shot over the fields. Vic Mizzy went to work on the ending theme.
    When I was in elementary school I recited the theme and a few teachers were impressed I knew the show. 😆😆

  • @tnawcwvictoria
    @tnawcwvictoria 6 лет назад +6

    I remember this in reruns very well
    I use to watch it on SuperStation WTBS Atlanta, Pat Robertson's CBN (now Freeform), Nick @ Nite, TV Land, thistv and now on Me-TV and Antenna TV
    R.I.P. Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor, God Bless You and Thanks for makin' this an AWESOME 60's Sitcom

  • @frankieclayton9303
    @frankieclayton9303 3 года назад +27

    I hope people choose to do TV shows like this again.

    • @SeekingHisWill
      @SeekingHisWill 11 месяцев назад

      Me too ❤ I loved this show when I was a kid.

    • @peteyp123
      @peteyp123 10 месяцев назад +1

      Them days are long bud

    • @peteyp123
      @peteyp123 10 месяцев назад

      Gone*

  • @emiddlebrooks7183
    @emiddlebrooks7183 4 года назад +9

    Loved watching this on Nick at night as a kid

  • @pattyjackson9215
    @pattyjackson9215 3 года назад +5

    This was one of the great Classics in Television shows.

  • @AllenMQuinn
    @AllenMQuinn 7 лет назад +24

    I miss shows like this on TV. Shows that were fun and didn't take themselves so seriously.

  • @brianhenson8083
    @brianhenson8083 5 лет назад +38

    My friend's uncle owned the building upon which the title is on. It was in Paso Robles, California.

    • @bmaiceman
      @bmaiceman 5 лет назад +4

      Really??? Does it still stand???

    • @shadowdabber2759
      @shadowdabber2759 5 лет назад +4

      Is it still standing?

    • @carolevans823
      @carolevans823 4 года назад +1

      Really?? I just love the soaring opening view. I figured the words were superimposed onto a blank roof somewhere. Thanks for sharing!

    • @musiccollector
      @musiccollector 3 года назад

      WOW!!! I hope it is still there. I LOVE the scenery in the show, including the house.

    • @azznbad1
      @azznbad1 3 года назад

      @@carolevans823 they didnt do alot of green screen for TV back then. lol

  • @logansmith9231
    @logansmith9231 6 лет назад +12

    I grew up watching this show and loved it! What was the funniest part about this show, is that all of Oliver's fellow "Farmers" and citizens of "Hooterville", all made fun of him because he THOUGHT he was a great "farmer", but they all thought he STANK.
    Conversely, they ALL LOVED Mrs. Douglas and thought Mr. Douglas was NUTS for taking her out of NYC. :)

  • @rossrussell2277
    @rossrussell2277 4 года назад +3

    what a beautiful couple

  • @garynarborough
    @garynarborough 4 года назад +11

    Enjoyed this, brings back memories from my childhood 60 years ago. Nothing like a bit of nostalgia to lighten ones day! Thanks for posting this.

  • @koalar8tion
    @koalar8tion 10 лет назад +12

    I watched this show all the time as a kid. The theme song gets in my head to this day! I'm just realising - why is he shoveling hey in a suit?

  • @agenttheater5
    @agenttheater5 6 лет назад +16

    Every evening after my homework was done, followed by 'The Lucy Show'.

    • @jamesogrady6612
      @jamesogrady6612 5 лет назад +2

      agenttheater I did the oppiside I met a girl in North Dakota & brought her to a big City 2000 miles away from her family. I think I helped her ND is nothing but farmland. They don't talk like that movie FARGO

  • @Emberfireflow
    @Emberfireflow 3 года назад +4

    WHY DOES THIS SONG GET ME SO HYPED

  • @okrajoe
    @okrajoe 9 лет назад +161

    The greatest theme song ever!

  • @mrobillard7553
    @mrobillard7553 5 лет назад +2

    I used to love watching as a youngster. Then in 1968 my father moved our family from the city to the countryside, a new house he built himself. This new country neighborhood, unknown, just developing and named "Green Acres", the street we were to live on was called "Sunset Boulevard"! Nothing like this well loved TV show. We were out in the middle of nowhere. This is a real life story, absolutely. Lol!

  • @andthepoetliftshispen5752
    @andthepoetliftshispen5752 11 месяцев назад +1

    What a life Eddie Albert had. A US spy in Mexico, spotting U-boats while undercover as a traveling circus performer, prior to WWII.
    As a coxswain of a landing craft, he saved 47 stranded marines, supervised the rescue of 30 more, and was awarded the bronze star!

  • @jamespollman6616
    @jamespollman6616 10 лет назад +33

    I don't know why... but I have a great appreciation for Eddie Albert!
    He was talented.
    This show made me laugh so hard I cried at times.
    The silliness is "classic"!

    • @albundy6008
      @albundy6008 5 лет назад +7

      You should, he was a war hero.

    • @josepharcidiacono7256
      @josepharcidiacono7256 5 лет назад +7

      James Pollman
      Eddie Albert was a genuine much decorated US Navy hero in the Pacific during WW II.

    • @sdacj
      @sdacj Год назад +1

      He was a man who did much to be admired - he was a very talented singer and actor, a war hero, a conservationist (Earth Day is celebrated on his birthday, April 22), a world traveler, speaker, and a dedicated husband and father

  • @SaxonC
    @SaxonC 4 года назад +60

    Growing up in the 1970’s, more people knew all the words to the theme song from Green Acres than the National Anthem! lol

    • @daniellescott477
      @daniellescott477 2 года назад +1

      Still do. 51

    • @lesaboo4740
      @lesaboo4740 2 года назад +1

      I never sang the song. Worst show ever . Incredibly stupid

  • @anthonyrobertson7062
    @anthonyrobertson7062 5 лет назад +1

    In the summers of the late 70s my grandma would always watch this. It was on weekdays around 4 pm. I'd think "Good, those soaps are finally done for the day."

    • @michaelhegyan7464
      @michaelhegyan7464 5 лет назад

      And now look what is on t.v...corrupt housewives of Beverly Hills..

  • @richarddeleon8601
    @richarddeleon8601 4 года назад +7

    I had a Party with my mix of songs and I had this on the playlist. The whole party starting singing this. Must've been over 20 people singing out loud.

    • @heidisierra1250
      @heidisierra1250 2 года назад +2

      That reminds me of a time I was in a bar that wasn't in the best of neighboods and someone put on "Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield and EVERYONE black, white, mexican... gang members, drug dealers, prostitutes: we all knew and sang along! 😄✌️🤗

  • @danmccormick8592
    @danmccormick8592 8 лет назад +142

    116 people get allergic smelling hay.

    • @emihahn
      @emihahn 5 лет назад +1

      make that 300

    • @alora3304
      @alora3304 5 лет назад

      Make that 313

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 4 года назад

      You don't 'get allergic' smelling it. The allergy is with you before you do it.
      Farmers don't paint the names of their spreads on the roof for TV credit-filmers either.
      And even a dude farmer does not wear a three-piece suit to pitch hay.

    • @carnation_cat
      @carnation_cat 4 года назад +1

      @@esmeephillips5888 You're no fun! :/

    • @MayorOfFunkytown42
      @MayorOfFunkytown42 4 года назад

      Lol. Well done.

  • @beabelieverinlove8287
    @beabelieverinlove8287 5 лет назад +8

    Loved it! "The chores!...The stores!"
    ~_~.🌷

  • @richardmendez9422
    @richardmendez9422 6 лет назад +10

    Oliver always tried hard & things never went his way. Lisa just went with her instincts & it always worked out.

    • @Tmanaz480
      @Tmanaz480 4 года назад +2

      Such a good "straight man", wasn't he.

  • @wvanderwahl
    @wvanderwahl 4 года назад +1

    Eva Gabor my gosh so beautiful and with that Hungarian accent. I couldn't picture her driving a tractor trailer or shoveling hay. That leopard print sofa caught my eye. OMG.

  • @stevericks1540
    @stevericks1540 4 года назад +6

    Without a doubt, one of the funniest shows on television ever

  • @ianafranks457
    @ianafranks457 11 лет назад +6

    one of the best shows on TV Land

  • @mimiloberg338
    @mimiloberg338 9 лет назад +8

    I saw a few episodes on Antenna TV today and I already love this show. It's so cute and sweet!

    • @funch357
      @funch357 6 лет назад +2

      I loved it when I was a kid. 50 years later I still do.

  • @befdoglover1
    @befdoglover1 Год назад +1

    The part where they are standing in front of the house and Oliver banging his pitchfork in rhythm of the final 2 notes always reminded me of the American Gothic painting.

  • @frankieclayton9303
    @frankieclayton9303 3 года назад +4

    They don't make good TV shows like this anymore I love and miss.

  • @ltj2126
    @ltj2126 7 лет назад +3

    Best theme song ever. I was not even born when this show cane out but I still love the song.

  • @frankieclayton9303
    @frankieclayton9303 4 года назад +5

    I like this tv show

    • @David-yw2lv
      @David-yw2lv 3 месяца назад

      That makes two of us.

  • @bitmaxim
    @bitmaxim 11 лет назад +104

    I've seen enough reality tv ... I wish these corny types of sitcoms would come back!

    • @kendallrivers1119
      @kendallrivers1119 4 года назад +2

      @Mehrunes Dagon I don't think you can compare crap like Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory with classics like Green Acres. By the way instead of that Brookklyn nine nine thing I recommend you check out Barney Miller. That's one of the greatest comedies every produced and one of the most intelligent. Either on Antenna tv or here on youtube the full episodes are here to enjoy.

    • @kendallrivers1119
      @kendallrivers1119 4 года назад +3

      Corny? How about brilliantly and absurdly funny. These type of sitcoms were actually funny with high caliber casts. I mean you had Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor on a sitcom for god sake! You wouldn't get that type of talent doing a network sitcom today.

    • @musiccollector
      @musiccollector 3 года назад

      WOW! I have been saying the same thing for years. I HATE reality TV. Despise it.

    • @azznbad1
      @azznbad1 3 года назад

      @@kendallrivers1119 I. believe Charlie Sheen was quite an accomplished film star who people could not believe was taking a TV role
      I cant think of a more accomplished film star than sheen taking a t. role. Lucy's film time was passed. Andy Griffith made a movie or two but pretty average .. Carol O'connor was better on TV
      If not the biggest movie star to go to TV he is in the conversation. Look the tastes people have and what they find entertaining changes with time. Kids of today say Lynyrd Skynyrd and Led Zepplin are bands for the old and they are right. They will always be heard in my home but are fading from sight, kind of like when I would see Jimmy Durante sing on a variety show. As a kid that stuff sucked. For my grandmother if was the best of the best.. Entertainment is in the eye of the beholder and what is popular at the time.

    • @azznbad1
      @azznbad1 3 года назад

      @El Qone'ars and he doesnt appear to agree with his former self either

  • @Mmyers1177
    @Mmyers1177 5 лет назад +4

    A true classic as a kid I accidentally fell through a basement plain glass window screwing around and seriously cut my left wrist. As my friend and I ran inside to get help I will always remember the theme song to Green Acres. My dad took me to the hospital 🏥 where I received 25 stitches

  • @philldholes
    @philldholes 12 лет назад +9

    Such a classic. I love it.

  • @TheDunestrider
    @TheDunestrider 4 года назад +1

    Trivia fact: this TV show was loosely based on the 1950 radio show, "Granby's Green Acres", starring Bea Benaderet (who eventually played Kate Bradley on "Petticoat Junction", also based in Hooterville). "Granby's Green Acres" was about a former banker "who knew little about farming and proved it every week."

  • @armandwilliamgreenjr.8949
    @armandwilliamgreenjr.8949 4 года назад +2

    I wonder how many people in New York would love to be in Green Acres, Hooterville, the Shady Rest, with all the people there right about now?

  • @MujahbarrukaHunter
    @MujahbarrukaHunter 10 лет назад +6

    This show is definitely the business. Love the song! :)

  • @Sal.Manila
    @Sal.Manila Год назад +6

    This is one of the best sitcoms ever made. Each character (and there are a lot) has likable, comedic qualities. The theme music is so good. The story writing is excellent. I can’t think of one thing that makes the show bad. “Greeeen Acres is the show for me!”

  • @AndrewWarrenPatriotsfan
    @AndrewWarrenPatriotsfan 2 года назад +2

    Fun Fact: The theme composer to this show was named Vic Mizzy. Who also was the theme composer to the 1960's sitcom The Addams Family.

  • @MultiPaulomota
    @MultiPaulomota 8 лет назад +4

    A series of my life when I was young, just marvellous

  • @amandakmadden9312
    @amandakmadden9312 4 года назад +3

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  • @QuaaludeCharlie
    @QuaaludeCharlie 2 года назад +5

    The guitarist on the recording is Tommy Tedesco, using the new "fuzz box" effect for the first time in a film score.Green Acres has to unique things about it. 1. It never had a pilot episode. 2. It was the first TV show to have it's theme song sung by the cast (beating the Monkees by 6 months).

  • @IloveRA74
    @IloveRA74 2 года назад +2

    I watched this show on Nick at Nite with my parents, they had fond memories of it and I remember liking it too. Suddenly in 2021 this pops into my head about how the decision was made with "you are my wife" and that's that.

  • @funch357
    @funch357 6 лет назад +7

    "This has been a Filmways presentation dahling."

  • @kendallrivers1119
    @kendallrivers1119 3 года назад +4

    Since discovering this gem and Hogan's Heroes the past two years on METV I can't imagine how I lived my life without them! Now they're my nightly ritual. Green Acres was very much the precursor to Night Court, Newsradio, Community, Scrubs and other shows like that, that utilize absurdist, surreal and wacky humor and deserves the praise for it.

  • @musiccollector
    @musiccollector 3 года назад +3

    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this theme, LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this show! Love that dog she is holding. May the cast R.I.P., never to be forgotten. Got many seasons on DVD. A few hundred episodes.

  • @MrChuckdavey
    @MrChuckdavey 6 лет назад +1

    I had purchased seasons 1-3 a number of years ago. Back in December, I went into my local Sunrise music/dvd store here in Toronto and came across the complete series; all six seasons. I gave seasons 1-3 to a friend and kept seasons 3-6 for myself.

  • @cdybft9050
    @cdybft9050 2 года назад +4

    This was a high stress/anxiety show for me (like my favorite Martian). It was funny, but the situations were so surreal but real. Thing is I still love watching it.

  • @stevenelson379
    @stevenelson379 7 лет назад +68

    Zsa Zsa, the last of the Gabor sisters passed away today. I use to confuse Eva and Zsa Zsa because they looked so much alike and had the identical accents.

    • @garcemac
      @garcemac 7 лет назад +7

      And I am old enough to remember when the Gabor sisters were beautiful enough to make a young boy cry. Me being the young boy.

    • @funch357
      @funch357 6 лет назад +7

      I had little trouble: Eva's eyes were rounder and wider. I thought she was the prettier of the two.

    • @Robot-vv1yg
      @Robot-vv1yg 5 лет назад +3

      Eva and Zsa Zsa were really talented. It’s kind of wrong that they just get remembered as “socialites”

    • @vincentsartain3061
      @vincentsartain3061 5 лет назад +3

      Between Zsa Zsa and Eva, Eva was the more likeable of the two. And Eva didn't pull shameless publicity stunts or get herself arrested for slapping cops.

    • @odessafile75
      @odessafile75 5 лет назад +1

      @@vincentsartain3061 I agree. Eva was both more beautiful and apparently a much kinder person than Zsa Zsa. I don't remember much about Magda.

  • @j.jsmallz912
    @j.jsmallz912 9 лет назад +3

    Oh Tv Land in the 90's. I miss my childhood.

    • @maggie65nc
      @maggie65nc 9 лет назад +1

      First run TV (on one of the only three existing channels at the time). I miss my childhood too.

    • @TheBrendadale
      @TheBrendadale 9 лет назад +2

      maggie65nc The Munsters, Adams Family, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, and many more shows I loved way back when I was a kid. We also had just 3 channels, and we had to adjust our atenna to get any one of the three available! Saturday morning I knew to adjust the antenna so I could watch cartoons. Sky King, and Black Stallion. At lunchtime I'd come home and watch Soupy Sales. Mom would be watching Dr. Kildare! The 3 Stooges were right with us all the time! Wonderful times.

  • @denisemayosky1955
    @denisemayosky1955 3 года назад +3

    My husband and I love to sing along with this! It's kind of our thing!

  • @francespuff381
    @francespuff381 7 лет назад +1

    This song has been stuck in my head for over a year, I had no idea what it was till today, how did this happen

  • @shannonwilson4098
    @shannonwilson4098 10 лет назад +3

    GREAT SHOW

  • @sethcarlow8363
    @sethcarlow8363 8 лет назад +43

    this was a funny show.
    i miss show like this and cartoons as well.
    why can't we have show like this any more ?

    • @ravensnflies8167
      @ravensnflies8167 5 лет назад +11

      S.J.W. MOVEMENT...

    • @johnnydenham1586
      @johnnydenham1586 5 лет назад +2

      Seth Carlow I feel the same way!✌️

    • @glowinggold9488
      @glowinggold9488 5 лет назад +4

      @@ravensnflies8167EXACLY! I was going to say it has to o about politics but this is better.

    • @russell5078084
      @russell5078084 5 лет назад +6

      Because Hollywood is bankrupt of imagination and ideas. As well as good taste.

    • @vincentsartain3061
      @vincentsartain3061 4 года назад +2

      Green Acres and numerous other "rural-themed" television shows and TV Westerns were suddenly and unceremoniously given the axe by then-honcho of CBS, Fred Silverman; this was due to Silverman's belief that the era of television for the benefit of viewers 34 and older was now dead and over, and that it was time to make way for "all-new," "all- mod," "socially relevant" programs. Gunsmoke BARELY survived what became known as "the Great Rural Purge" by nearly five years, ending its 20 seasons run in production in 1975. Admittedly, many of the older "rural" shows had long "jumped the shark" and were on their last legs, anyway, but numerous others that were still viable for several more seasons of production were simply given the equivalent of taking one's dogs, "sick" and "healthy" alike, to the woods and putting down each of them with a bullet to the brain. Silverman and his hatchet men did usher in quite a few great shows (All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, etc.); but they also threw out a lot of babies with the bathwater.

  • @misi3180
    @misi3180 Месяц назад

    Good golly, this sure brings back some very good memories! Thanks for sharing and bringing back memories of the good ole days!

  • @donnaphelan1
    @donnaphelan1 7 лет назад +12

    Zsa Zsa's little sister, Eva Gabor was the actress in Green Acres. Zsa Zsa wasn't in Green Acres. I too immediately thought of this show when I got the news this morning, but with little research realized all my life I thought Zsa Zsa was Eva. Eva died in the '90s.

  • @user-ec5rd9gk5c
    @user-ec5rd9gk5c 2 года назад +6

    Супер сериал! Жаль таких больше не снимают

  • @Simeautomatic100
    @Simeautomatic100 6 лет назад +3

    Lmao I remember back in the late 90s when I was a kid, my parents TV stayed on TV Land and I would watch this very rarely when nothing was on Nickelodeon or cartoon network. We even had a green acres cookie jar that was in the shape of a barn and when you open up the jar, this theme played lmao. Memories

  • @LOOGIETELEVISION
    @LOOGIETELEVISION 3 года назад +1

    This theme song takes me back to 2016 watching this with my dad on meTV

  • @williamweir9088
    @williamweir9088 5 лет назад +4

    This theme tune is now my ringtone

  • @MrJamieMurph4141969
    @MrJamieMurph4141969 8 лет назад +9

    Ah,yes, brings back memories of when I was six, and my brother was four going on five, when this would come on(reruns, of course),and no sooner would we hear "Green Acres is the place to be.."than we'd go SCAMPERING to the TV set to hear the song, simply because we liked it so much. I still am ever tickled pink by the song,to this day,with its triumphant ending-Oliver:"You are my wife," *(pulls Lisa towards him),Lisa,"Goodbye, city life!" both together:"Green Acres, WE ARE THERE!" BUMBUM!!! Absolutely FUN song!

    • @LKR0722
      @LKR0722 6 лет назад +2

      Almost the exact thing with my brother when I was four or 5 and he was 7. We'd beg to stay up to watch the reruns because we loved the song and the show, especially Arnold.

  • @Killer_Queen_bee
    @Killer_Queen_bee 3 года назад +3

    This show brings back memories, this what a kid should watch lol 😂

  • @skinner716
    @skinner716 3 года назад +1

    My grandpa passed away recently. He watched this show every night before he went to bed. I get choked up hearing this now lol. This song reminds me so much of him

  • @heidisierra1250
    @heidisierra1250 2 года назад +1

    This was my grandmother's favorite show--she was raised in the Arkansas Ozarks during the Great Depression so I guess it fits 😄😊😂