Many of the theme songs of the decade were potted histories of the show. Searching My Soul, the chicklit-ish theme song to Ally McBeal, for instance, perfectly summed up ditzy, neurotic Ally, and her equally ditzy friends. The ’90s continued with some great theme songs. 1 on the UK charts, and has spawned over 20 different cover versions. Later, Robert Altman revealed that while he only made $70,000 for having directed the movie, his son earned more than $1 million for the theme song. Suicide is Painless climbed to No.

The lyrics made it to the film version, but an instrumental version was used for the TV series, perhaps because they were too grim.

Incredibly, these lines were written by a 14-year-old boy-director Robert Altman’s son-Mike Altman, with music by Johnny Mandel. The tragicomic hit M*A*S*H, about a team of surgeons operating during the Korean War, also had a very popular, though dark, theme song, Suicide is Painless. While Allen and Gimpel went on to star in other TV series, most of the Fame kids sadly and rapidly faded from public memory. Right here’s where you earn it? IN SWEAT!' The song also memorably featured dialogue from a young Debbie Allen. 'Mundian to Bach Ke,' recognized immediately for its use of the dynamic bassline from the Knight Rider theme song (used similarly in Timbaland & Magoo's 'Clock Strikes' and Busta Rhymes' 'Fire It Up,' both of which were released earlier) in addition to its incorporation of the traditional dhol (drums) and tumbi (one-string guitar) instruments, became successful across the globe, placing the MC on the U.K.'s Top of the Pops program while leading to a Jay-Z remix.“I am going to live forever', sang Erica Gimpel for the theme, as us viewers clutched our imaginary Grammys.

A steady release schedule throughout the '90s - including the albums Souled Out, Another Sellout, Grass Roots, and Legalised - made Panjabi MC one of the most prominent names in bhangra. And well before that, the MC was honing his skills as a freestyler as he began to record more of his own tracks, he began utilizing desi samples and eventually incorporated live musicians.Ī first single, 'Rootz,' was released officially on an independent, but it was banned - allegedly due to politics within the bhangra music industry. His professional career was even older, reaching back to 1993, when Ninder Johal of the Nachural label heard his desi/hip-hop hybrid remix of Kuldip Manak's 'Ghariah Milan De' and signed him for a handful of releases. When England's Rajinder Rai, better known as Panjabi MC, made his international breakthrough complete with 'Mundian to Bach Ke' ('Beware of the Boys') during 20, the song was several years old.

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