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Route 66 -- the TV show, the highway, the legend, and the dream. Everyone knows I'm fascinated with "life on the road", and today I learned
something wonderful.
That the theme to the Route 66 TV show has lyrics!
Nelson Riddle cleverly included a tinkling piano as a nod to Nat King Cole's version -- then wrote his own masterpiece. It was one of the first TV themes ever to make it into the top 40. And it may even have become a part of the new show's mystery, magic, and mystique. Every week, as the boys drove off in their shiny Corvette, the network played Nelson Riddle's beautiful song. Four years later, after 116 adventures, the journey ended for Tod and Buzz (and their traveling film crew of 50+ Hollywood technicians). But as the sun was going down, jazz singer Teri Thornton released an album called "Open Highway" -- and its first track was the Route 66 theme. A man named Stanley Styne had lifted his pen and tried to capture what it all had meant in a set of brand new lyrics. In the TV show's final season, the album "Open Highway" was released, and it opened with this exhilarating song.
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