Music Played on TV Shows
I wonder if shows in the Fifties, like “Dragnet  ” or “Highway Patrol  ”, had songs playing in the background. I would guess probably not. This is a much more recent trend, and gradually the music played on television shows is becoming as important as the action. In “Cold Case”, for example, the music was cleverly taken solely from the year in which the action takes place. Several episodes of that show have featured the music of only one artist. Such as Bruce Springsteen, or Pearl Jam. When a show features a particular song, it can have quite an effect on the career of the artist, and can inspire a sudden surge in sales or downloads of the particular song. Sales of songs by such artists as Fauxliage, The Decemberists, and The Bravery jumped dramatically for a few days after episodes featuring their music aired.Another group to benefit from having their music played on TV is “The Kin”, who have had an upsurge in sales of their songs having been featured in “Army Wives” and “Moonlight”. Speaking of “Moonlight”, the vampire detective/love story which was inexplicably canceled after just one season by CBS, that show’s fans were frantically searching for the titles and singers of songs featured in each episode within seconds of the show having aired. People on the west coast were on forums searching for the music from fans on the east coast where the show had already been seen.The rise of iTunes over the last few years has been incredible to watch, and many fans of the shows have created “iMixes” of songs played during their favorite shows. “Moonlight” has more than its fair share of such fans.
One website gaining more and more devoted fans nowadays is www.TunesOnTheTube.tv which manages to list the songs played in shows usually on the same day that they are broadcast and covers an incredible 80 popular shows, past and present. This is a site by www.TunesOnTheTube.tv – check out all our pages for lists of the songs played in… 90210 – American Idol – Big Love – Bones– Brothers and Sisters – Californication – Chuck –The City – The Cleaner – Cold Case – Criminal Minds – CSI – CSI Miami – CSI New York –Damages – Dancing With The Stars – Desperate Housewives – Eli Stone – Entourage – ER–Everybody Hates Chris – Flashpoint – Friday Night Lights – Ghost Whisperer – Gossip Girl –Greek – Grey’s Anatomy – Heroes – The Hills – House – How I Met Your Mother – In Plain Sight – Kyle XY – The L Word – Army Wives – Life – Life On Mars – Lipstick Jungle – Lost –Medium – Monk – My Name Is Earl – Nip Tuck – One Tree Hill – Private Practice – Privileged –Pushing Daisies – Reaper – Rescue Me – Sarah Connor Chronicles – Scrubs – Smallville– So You Think You Can Dance – Supernatural – Swingtown – True Blood – Ugly Betty – Weeds –Without A Trace And these shows “Gone, But Not Forgotten” The 4400 – The Bionic Woman – Cashmere Mafia – Crossing Jordan – Jericho – Journeyman –K-Ville – Men In Trees – Moonlight – New Amsterdam – October Road – The Sopranos –Veronica Mars – What About Brian? Plus check out Music Played on British UK TV shows |
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