Just Good Friends | Full Theme Song | Paul Nicholas | BBC | 1983 to 1986

[@KOKINGWAYNE]

Brings back so much memories of my innocence, young, carefree and single as a schoolboy in the 80’s

[@RayDaley]

Your comment really made me smile thank you for typing it

[@KOKINGWAYNE]

@@RayDaley No worries 😉

[@christopherchristos7275]

Snap. Best of days 👌🏽👍🏽

[@KOKINGWAYNE]

@@christopherchristos7275 I’m sure that Paul Nicholas is no longer with us!?

[@stewartmcrae8007]

@@KOKINGWAYNE he is still alive

[@smoothvelvetsinger]

Such good memories. I love those English shows back in the 80s.

[@RayDaley]

me too i was not born for most of the eighties but I love everything about the decade and just good friends is definitely one of my favourites

[@nickkent5226]

The greatest decade of my life. X

[@stewartmcrae8007]

mine too and I wasn't even born for most of it

[@seanwilson8318]

Definitely take me back any day 👌

[@robinbrl]

What a voice. Wow. Love Paul Nicholas.

[@helmsly2010]

I remember my mum and dad watching this show, its one of my earliest memories and hearing this theme song brings it all back

[@bethanymasih9720]

Miss the 1980's

[@stewartmcrae8007]

me too and I wasn't even born for most of it

[@jwc-lw3sp]

Me too and I wasn’t even born in the 80s 😢

[@stewartmcrae8007]

Excellent

[@SG4860]

This is the better version!!

[@edwardcowley42]

Who sang the other version?

[@squirrelhughes43]

Lovely melody, smooth and chocolaty voice

[@tupp686]

The song and comedy series were both written and created by John Sullivan, who also directed the series. John Sullivan wrote the theme music for all the comedy series he created. The most well-known being Only Fools and Horses. The only reason Sullivan didn't sing the tune was because Paul Nicholas was a popular singer with many hits who wanted to get into acting and this was his first opportunity, which made him famous world-wide.

[@rachelalbert666]

I loved this series so much. Hurts me to see how much my life has changed

[@MALONEYCAMFIELD]

Paul Nicholas didn't direct the series, it was directed by Ray Butt and Sue Bysh.

[@jeanniefitzgerald8763]

The music was written by RONNIE HAZLEHURST also the music for Only Fools and Horses

[@theoloyla]

Another one of Paul's records that I did promo work on

[@jwc-lw3sp]

Oh wow really? What was that like??

[@bigboibenz]

Such a brilliant theme tune. Suited the show perfectly. One of the great underestimated comedies.

[@markfox1545]

It was massively successful. Idiot.

[@MALONEYCAMFIELD]

@@markfox1545 He probably means underestimated today compared to Sullivan's other BBC comedy at the time, Only Fools and Horses, which has become iconic and seems to have now eclipsed everything else he did.

[@jwc-lw3sp]

Completely agree

[@bigboibenz]

​@@MALONEYCAMFIELDPrecisely

[@madjazzmike]

Cheers / what a lovely series this was = it’s still. Being shown on Drama TV - now & then = they don’t write great music like this hardly anymore ❤️🍷✅👋

[@yvonnesmith4198]

Me and my loved him was real charmer and loved his cheeky smile very good looking :)

[@darrenhirst9900]

I remember watching this

[@RayDaley]

can't believe that this didn't chart

[@MALONEYCAMFIELD]

I can. It didn't really fit into the '80s music scene, it sounds a bit like a romantic ballad from the 1940s. Plus, Paul Nicholas' pop star days were already over by this time, he'd had a few hits in the '70s. Maybe if he'd got his old mate David Bowie to sing it, it might have stood more of a chance of charting.

[@stewartmcrae8007]

@@MALONEYCAMFIELD and this is by far the best of all of his songs the fact that it didn't chart is insane

[@MALONEYCAMFIELD]

@@stewartmcrae8007 It's a sweet little song, but to get in the charts it probably would have needed to get on the Radio 1 and commercial radio playlists, and I don't think it ever stood much of a chance against Duran Duran and Wham! etc, which were on the playlists at the time. It wouldn't be considered poppy or rock enough, it would have been considered too old-fashioned musically I think.

[@paulanderson79]

Beautifully played bass line. Most won't hear it because they listen to things with speakers the size of a rice grain.

[@metalman4141]

Totally agree with you, people just didn’t understand 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@dianerobison617]

Not me. I hate putting little things in my ears and don’t even use headphones.. My hubby got some proper speakers recently (secondhand)and we listen to our vinyl! It’s fab.

[@paulanderson79]

@@dianerobison617 I was thinking of proper studio ones, not the little in ear ones. I, too, have some very high quality equipment here. Speakers in excess of £1000 and other equipment along the same lines. Sound bars and the like are not for me at all.

[@metalman4141]

“ That’s the way to play the plumpet “

[@sunkat76]

I like the trumpet

[@BF1GUN]

It’s actually a flugelhorn, but sounds very similar to a trumpet.

[@chillired5389]

Written by John Sullivan and arranged and conducted by the great Ronnie Hazlehurst

[@jeanniefitzgerald8763]

The theme tune was written by RONNIE HAZLEHURST who also wrote Only Fools and Horses and many other theme tunes during that period.

[@yvonnesmith4198]

Very good :)

[@fattossa]

Jan francis was hot stuff

[@MALONEYCAMFIELD]

All the girls fancied Paul Nicholas back then, he was one of the big TV pin-ups of the '80s.

[@Martin_in_Glasgow]

Graham Perry: Do you know what a vegan is, Vince? Penny Warrender: Of course he knows what a vegan is, don't you, Vince? Vince Pinner: Absolutely, I never missed an episode of Star Trek.

[@petermerron2268]

Spurs had a good team and I finally left school what could be better

[@allankent1011]

Does anyone know who the excellent flugel soloist is please. ?

[@nyalltimothy]

❤ Seriously Corny but, amazing lyrics! Come home! 🐻 it's always been you ❤

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

a grand theme, back when england was england and we were inhabited by mostly english folk.

[@ronaldogun8462]

pratt

[@shitstainknobknocker]

@@ronaldogun8462 Can you refute what he said, though?

[@RayDaley]

@@ronaldogun8462 sorry that your sensitive feelings were hurt but what he said was a accurate statement i know that you weak pathetic snowflakes don't like to hear the truth and live in a fantasy world but you cannot rewrite history or change facts just to suit your narrative

[@RayDaley]

@@ronaldogun8462 we know you are

[@Martin_in_Glasgow]

I watched it in Scotland

[@davidfriend4328]

This version seems off to me. The orchestral backing is intrusive and sometimes fights Paul's voice, which isn't high enough in the mix. It's like he's trying to sing quietly because he doesn't want to disturb anyone in the next room. His delivery is also quite mannered, and he comes in late at 1:12. On the whole, it's a decent song, sounding like a late '70s Neil Diamond or Barry Manilow album track (though Nicholas is easily a better singer than Diamond). Too sleepy for a single, though, and lacks a proper chorus.

[@squirrelhughes43]

I agree, but still a decent version. Paul voice in the Jazz Singer was spot on

[@kayleighoxo8678]

So you was mrs prat?😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭

[@marcsy2012]

Such a good series and a nice theme tune - reminds me of happier pre-Brexit times.

[@DaveWheldrake]

"Pre Brexit times"....oh dear me, dry your eyes and get on with life! 😂👍

[@cmoogster]

@@DaveWheldrake David is definitely a flag shagger

[@bobbyv879]

This is so corny.

[@jimmyyoung4187]

Corny yes, but then that was the 80's & it's sitcoms for you. This one is just one of many that were equally corny, both in the theme tune & it's overall screenplay.

[@robinbrl]

Not to me. Beautiful song, beautiful voice. But then, I'm a woman. Men are about as romantic as a shoe.

[@unexplainedoccurrences]

@@robinbrl Ha ha, that line should have been in the show. It was a great comedy.

[@robinbrl]

@@unexplainedoccurrences LOL. George, I have no idea why I said shoe. Just the first thing that came to mind I guess. It was a great show.

[@unexplainedoccurrences]

@@robinbrl It was, those guys were just great on screen together, everyone loved them. The next time I date someone and they give me the cold shoulder, I'm gonna say, "You're about as romantic as a shoe", ha ha.

[@89awcock]

Well Paul Nicholas did record this song for an album just good friends but it had a different feel to the song it wasn't the same as the theme to the TV series This is the definitive version of the theme and the song for me with the Horns brass section

[@sodd1000]

Utterly amazing but very strange that you know this information. 😆

[@SG4860]

This is the better version!!