CourtTV Theme Songs (1995-2000)

I wrote music for a number of shows on this network (now called TruTV) from 1996-2000 including Crime Stories, The Greatest Trials of All Time, Legal Cafe, Snap Judgment, Justice Factory, and Your Turn, mostly with talented producers Lynne Kirby and Lori Siegel.   I got to write a couple of fun pieces in my true medium,  TV theme songs.

The Greatest Trials Of All Time – Theme Song 

Legal Cafe – Theme Song 

“Holy Sh*t” Song Featured on Showtime

The finale song I wrote with my Centralia brothers for the 2002 Fringe Festival show Generica has been licensed by the Showtime Network and is being used as the centerpiece of their On-Air Promo campaign entitled, ‘The Best Shit on Television’, featuring a montage from the Original Series: Weeds, Dexter, the Tudors, and others, in what may be the first R-rated ad campaign in the history of American Television. And I’m singing on it! There is some incidental music at the beginning of the video, our song begins 30 seconds in and continues until the end of the promo. 

WARNING: CONTAINS AUDIO PROFANITY

Dora The Explorer Theme Song – Demo

I was the original music director and theme song composer for Nickelodeon’s Mega-hit show for preschoolers,  Dora the Explorer.  It was quite an experience.  In someways it was like winning the lottery,  in other ways it was like Manchurian Kindergarten.   Kinda corporate.  Anyhoo…I left the show in June 2000, actually a few months before it premiered in September 2000 (the initial episodes were produced in the year and a half leading up to that date).  I gave up a pretty cushy spot to follow my bliss,  and who knew…it became an international hit (4 billion in merchandise?!), which now pays for me to do more creative stuff.  YES!….I got creative freedom.  I didn’t get 4 billion.  :)

 

Here is an early theme song demo track from early 2000, with yours truly singing.  Notice the vegas-style transition into the chorus.