[net.tv] All in the Family Theme Song

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!


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			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)

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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