Re: TV theme show?

[SICULAR <SICULAR...>]

it is The Munsters, he has been doing for years, and it is also on the new 
CD.  

by the way, there's a great routine by a NY Jewish performance artist 
comparing the Jewish socioeconomic strata represented respectively by the 
Munsters (working class, always striving for acceptance by the mainstream) 
and the Addams Family (patricians - no pun intended - who never feel they 
have to fit in; rather, supplicants come to them).  he takes for granted that 
both sitcoms did have a Jewish subtext in the "freak" families meet America 
narratives.  also, this routine of his fit in to a larger story of being 
picked up at a gay bar by a man he'd known in high school; he then launches 
into this brilliant soliloquy about the two TV shows as contrasting 
Jewish-themed premises during the walk back to whosever place they go to.  I 
saw him perform the piece twice in the early 90s, about the same time I first 
heard Krakauer play the medley which includes the Munsters tune.  Maybe those 
particular 1960s theme song writers were intentionally going modal here, 
dontcha think?  (I wish the Twelve Tribes booklet attributed each theme to 
its own writers... the credits for that track are one looooong string of 
names.)

-Eve

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