Talk:List of television theme music composers

Songs only, or all themes?

Many of the themes listed here are not songs, but rather instrumentals. Since the word "song" is specifically linked in the introduction to the article, I would say that this was intended to be an article only about songs. But would it be better to split themes without words into a separate article, or to rename this page and just specify whether each theme is a song or not? --ΨΦorg 08:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you're splitting hairs here. The word "song" in this context is synonymous with "melody", and includes anything used as the main title theme music for a TV series. With or without lyrics, a "TV Theme Song" is literally; a piece of music associated with the opening titles of a serial television program. That's what this "article" was intended to be. Less of an article in fact, and more of a simple expansive list.

What do you do about the theme from Star Trek, or M*A*S*H? There were lyrics to those, although not in the versions used on the TV show. In my opinion, if you're interested in details about each particular piece of music (e.g. whether or not it is a "song" in the literal sense), you should click the link that will take you to the article for that specific piece of music. --Tombstone 07:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Composers, right?

This list is supposed to be about who wrote the song, not who recorded the song, right? In that case, Joe Cocker didn't write "A Little Help...", Lennon/McCartney did. I'm sure that no one in "The Monkees" had ANY input whatsoever into their theme song, Bill Haley didn't write "Rock Around the Clock", etc., etc., etc....
It appears that this list needs some attention. —  MusicMaker5376 16:39, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

This could get large and unwieldy

For a "world view" of the subject, we'd literally have to include tens of thousands of television programs from around the world. And I wholly agree with the above comment about singers vs. songwriters and will be making appropriate patches. -- Davemackey (talk) 01:42, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Composers

The list is full of compositions that were merely used for a television show, but not specifically written as such. While such a list may be useful, this article's title suggests this is not the proper place for it. Bach, Gounod, McCartney, Oasis, Schubert, Townsend and some others didn't compose their works for TV. Maybe they ought to be listed at List of television theme music. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 15:44, 27 October 2020 (UTC)