Welcome
to the first Tuesday of September!!! For some of us, September is the
most wonderful time of the year! College Football begins, the Fed Ex
Cup tournaments are in full swing, (pun intended, groan now allowed),
and for some of us best of all...Television premieres are abounding!! NBC in Living Color.
It is a time where the favorite shows from the spring, return with more
laughter, drama, and suspense. (boo ABC for cancelling Forever, but yay for keeping Agents of Sheild). In COLOR, ABC Logo
Here for your convenience is a TV schedule for September and October. Not all of the new shows or premiere's of your favorites are in September, but the vast majority are.
Since televisions became a fixture in many homes (sometimes replacing the family piano...think about the space where your large screen TV sits...), music has played a supporting role. CBS in Living Color If you happen to own a television show on dvd, watch some of the extra features. They will occasionally show the unedited program without the underscore. Regardless of how good the actors are, there is just a little something more with the appropriate soundtrack connecting the scenes. Netflix Logo The swell of an orchestra as the hero comes to the rescue, or the underlying minor melody as the villain weaves his web of crooked schemes both serve to project the plot along to its thrilling end. But no place in a TV show does music play as important a role as the TV Theme song. Fox Television Logo
Take a few minutes, well about 13 actually and stroll down memory lane with some of the most iconic TV theme songs ever.
Tuesday's Musical Notes has never been shy about our love for TV theme songs. (Tuesday's Musical Notes - "The Beat Goes On", The Sonny & Cher Variety Hour, Tuesday's Musical Notes - (Theme from) Mission Impossible, Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Linus and Lucy", Anything Peanuts, Tuesday's Musical Notes - "It's Not Unusual", The Tom Jones Variety Show, Tuesday's Musical Notes - "The William Tell Overture", The Lone Ranger)
Because
of this love of music from the tube, we are spending the entire month
of September on some of our favorite tv themes. We launch the month
with a song that tends to be near the top of EVERY "all time favorite TV
theme song" lists. It just so happens to be a reprint of the Tuesday's
Musical Notes email from February 7, 2012. You might recognize it. It
includes some of TV's favorite Friends.
It's Tuesday!! Here's the notes....
On whom do you depend when it hasn't been your day, your week, your month or even your year?
What is your first response to the following question? Who is your absolute best friend? Do you have their face pictured in your mind? Let me ask some questions about that person. Do you consider them absolutely trustworthy? How would you describe their integrity? Do they have other friends or are you exclusive? How long have you known them? Would they bail you out of jail if your crime was disgusting to them? Would they be the first to forgive you? If you have positive, life affirming answers to each of these questions, do everything in your power to maintain and grow the relationship you have with that friend. Are you a friend like that?
For seasons of my life I have had friends who confirmed most of the questions above in great ways. I think they would even bail me out of jail. It is my hope that I am that kind of friend as well. But let's face it, having a life long friendship with anyone is very difficult to do. Time passes, both of you change, perhaps someone moves away, or maybe even one of you dies. Now before you start renaming Tuesday's Musical Notes to THE MOROSE LETTERS, let me reassure you of some things. This type of friendship is possible through out your life, no matter the circumstances. You just need some one to tell you....."I'll Be There For You."
Debuting September 22, 1994 on NBC was a television show that
would change a generation and start the craze for the $5 cup of coffee. They were never positioned as great
representatives of virtue, however, Friends, went on to be one of
the highest rated television shows of all times. I remember hating
Thursday evenings due to the NBC line up as it ate into the video
rentals of the store I managed, but when the theme song hit as a
single.....let's just say we made up the revenue.
The single never went higher than #17 on Billboard's Hot 100.
It did however become the theme song for a generation of people who
faced the change of the millennium as well as many other life challenges
with a little help from their friends. (Joe Cocker "With A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker, title track from the 1968 album or The
Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends" from the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band pick) With it's upbeat pop sound and real life lyrics it
touched a nerve in a decades worth of TV watchers who were looking for
real relationships. "I'll Be There For You" was a last minute addition
to The Rembrandts 3rd Album, 1995's LP, causing it to go platinum.
Now let's go back to your friends. You may not have a Ross or
Rachel, a Chandler or a Phoebe, a Monica or a Joey, but you probably
have a group of friends surrounding you in which you trust and depend.
These people are irreplaceable in many ways. They are sometimes slow to
provide counsel, but quick to provide a listening heart. I think these
are the kinds of people we should be for anyone who is a member of our
church. Granted you may not even know everyone who attends your church,
but you do have a kinship, a bond much like players on many teams. We
have something in common that is much more powerful than anything that
can be found in sports or on television. A bond that comforts us when
we are hurting, and celebrates with us when we are joyful. We are a
part of the same body. Jesus sacrificed all for this body and he is
preparing a place for his friends to enjoy for an eternity. He cares
that much. In fact, 1 Peter 5 New International Version of the Bible/The Message Paraphrase of the Bible parallel gives us some instruction for times
when we feel discouraged or full of despair. It says to cast your care
on Him, for He cares for you. I can depend on the person who gave up
everything, so I could have a relationship with Him, His Spirit, and His
Father because He cares about me. Regardless of my situation, or what I
have done....He cares for me. In other words, Jesus is always singing
to us....."I'll Be There For You!!!".
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving you,
Randy
Randy
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