graceh@security.UUCP (Grace L. Hammonds) (09/20/83)
I have never been able to understand part of the "All in the Family" theme song. Even after they remade the opening, and seemed to be trying to sing the words more clearly, I still couldn't make them out. Anyone remember? ... Don't you wish that you were then? Goils (girls) were goils and men were men. Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. Didn't need no welfare states Everybody pulled his weight Gee WERE ALL THE SALRIEDS GREAT ????????? Those were the days! If this question has already been answered recently in this group, please just send me mail instead of posting. Thanks. Grace Hammonds Mitre Corporation
mauney@ncsu.UUCP (09/20/83)
References: security.495 Apparently, this lyric confused everybody. In the later seasons, they re-recorded the theme, and v-e-r-y c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y enunciated the line "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great" (LaSalle was an automobile manufacturer) Jon Mauney mcnc!ncsu!mauney
bdot@hogpd.UUCP (09/21/83)
I think that line is "Gee our old LaSalle ran great" John Barrett AT&T ISL
rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) (09/21/83)
The line is "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great." There were so many questions about this line (to the network), that more recent All In the Families (I think the ones made after Gloria and Mike moved to California) had a re-recorded song, In which the LaSalle line was enunciated very clearly. (LaSalle was a brand of car.) Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611 Bell Labs Naperville, Ill.
mag@whuxlb.UUCP (Gray mike) (09/21/83)
The missing line from the song is: "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great," A LaSalle was a car. Mike Gray, BTL, WH .
halle1@houxz.UUCP (09/22/83)
The line in question is: Gee, the old LaSalle ran great. LaSalle was a kind of car. (Back then there were probably 100 brands)
berry@zehntel.UUCP (09/27/83)
#R:security:-49500:zinfandel:17700010:000:409 zinfandel!steve Sep 26 13:21:00 1983 I have it from a very reliable source that the words to the song actually were "Gee were all the salrieds great", but when people started asking what was being said, nobody knew what salrieds were or who wrote the line, or how it got into the song in the first place. That is when they started the "LaSalle" story, and, as was mentioned, they ultimately re-recorded the song. Really. zinfandel!steve nelson