Perry Mason Opening & Closing Theme

[@spideraxis]

Theme reminds me of my Mom. She watched it, I'd be in bed falling asleep, but I could hear the tv from the bedroom. RIP Mom, another memory of you. It was a great show and you were a great mother.

[@kringles4]

I felt the same about my parents and this show. thank you.

[@JohnPiperBoots]

@spideraxis - Same here! LOL But it was my father watching this in 1959 he was going to college to work for Griffiss Air Force Base - electronics engineeer! Yeah I wolud be in bed hearing it too! Hhaha 😄Small world! :) RIP Dad! 👍✝

[@CarStreetGasGone]

I love you! And may she R.I.P love you so much for sharing ur story you beautiful person.

[@bluecollarscholarmelrosepa5673]

Beautiful Theme song music 🆒🆗

[@ChilesRussellTaylor]

And let’s not forget, R.I.P. Raymond Burr!

[@beverlythompson7046]

I am 68yrs old. There is nothing like these old tracks from past shows. Makes me smile. Loved me some Perry Mason .

[@maleake56]

One of the all time great TV theme songs--perhaps the greatest. When I was three or four years old and this was a prime time TV program, it would come on after my bedtime. I remember being scared by this theme as I lay in bed in the dark in my room, with the door cracked open, while my parents watched TV in the living room. Looking back, this was an early indication of how powerfully music would come to affect me. It was years later when I realized what a great piece of music this was, both in conception and orchestration.

[@DannyLinden]

Thank you for sharing this memory. So then if I understand correctly, I wasn't the only child terrified by this score?

[@edytjoson]

We didn't have tv when I was little, but I had a similar experience from bed hearing my folks listen to "Mr. District Attorney" on the radio. The theme song was so dramatic, to me, it made me wonder at the big wide world I wanted to discover when I was grown! ;)

[@mariapalomo2943]

I was never scared of it. I loved the theme song then because I got to watch it with my dad, and I still love it now cuz it reminds me of him. I'm glad I can hear now whenever I want to on KZbin.

[@hudsony777]

@@DannyLinden I wasn't scared of it exactly, but it was very different from anything I'd ever heard as a child on TV and it was very unsettling, somehow threatening.

[@soap1919jt]

Perry Mason would always air after our bedtime too, so I could never watch the originals. I loved the theme and could hear it as I would go to bed.

[@mariapalomo2943]

This theme song reminds me of my dad. I watched perry mason all the time.

[@mattjahnke239]

He had great taste. I watch it too. I loved the 50's version, not the '90'2 version where he had a beard.

[@ervinbizzlejr]

It reminds me of my mom

[@donnabryant9544]

The “perry mason” and the “twilight zone” themes are some of the most iconic music of that era

[@patrickperalta59]

I agree both themes are iconic

[@yvonnesmith5258]

Don't forget the "Peter Gunn" theme song. That too was iconic.

[@busyfloornurse]

@@yvonnesmith5258 I was planning to write the same thing and saw you wrote it already. Yes, Peter Gunn too! Also, the theme to "The Medic" was iconic in its time, "Blue Star" by Victor Young. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH-yhJh7ZqiLg5Y I was a toddler when "The Medic" was on TV and I was not only taken up about the show, about medical diseases/conditions, education, and treatment with a background story, but I was taken up with the theme song "Blue Star." I was sent to bed, but I kept sneaking down the stairs to secretly listen and watch the TV show.

[@AllenJones-w3p]

Amen!

[@Paladin1873]

Raymond Burr and the Perry Mason them lend a gravitas to the show that cannot be replicated or surpassed.

[@accam6734]

One of the few times the closing version of a tv show theme was just as good as the opening, imo.

[@David_Watts]

My mom was a stay at home housewife and she used to watch that during her washing and ironing and what not. And hearing that them just brings back so many memories.. syndicated TV in the early 70's is something I miss dearly 😞

[@keyzthevocalist8098]

This theme song makes me think of my dad the late Harvey Nixon III. He watched this show every day on MeTV, unfortunately he passed away September 27th, 2015 🥺💔 hearing this though warmed my heart. Daddy I hope you get to binge all your favorites uninterrupted in heaven, I love you dearly. Rest Easy BFF 🤞🏽😘😇

[@2msvalkyrie529]

🙏 🇬🇧 🙏 !

[@bluecollarscholarmelrosepa5673]

🌞 Sunday January 22nd 2023.... Hello and good day to you Ladies and Gentlemen watching this video 💯☮️ Peace and blessings to you and your family 🤗💯☮️🇺🇲Della Street is Beautiful and Gorgeous 💐🌹💕

[@anthonywalsh785]

still the greatest show ever on television after all these years.

[@eduardofraire4752]

Grande perry Yo lo miraba en la TV como alas 11 de la noche uuu cuando tenía precisamente 11 años y es por el que ahora estudio derecho

[@Kirke182]

Late night drama for me as a boy. First, I was too young to stay up and watch it but eventually saw pretty much all the episodes in syndication in my teens.

[@kristinahaskins46]

I'm 34 and I love this show

[@bluecollarscholarmelrosepa5673]

Hello Kristina- i am 54 years of age here in the west suburbs of Chicago ILLINOIS 🇺🇸 i also love this show and the theme Music...Peace and Happiness to you and your family and friends 😁

[@varyneempengt1296]

UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL......STUNNING!!!!!!!

[@linaipolandhill1577]

That’s exactly how I feel..

[@ChilesRussellTaylor]

R.I.P. Raymond Burr!

[@fredmichaels418]

Fred Steiner, a television and film composer who wrote the theme for the series “Perry Mason” , was also the composer of the Oscar-nominated score for “The Color Purple,”

[@Shemaiah439]

Those violins!

[@marikarlibradice14]

Great, great program!!! Thanks to share it!

[@leluseven]

Although I was born decades after its series finale aired, Perry Mason was a steady in daytime syndication. I feel like it was always on after the morning shows but before the onslaught of 1980's and 1990's talk shows. It's funny hearing people speak of being scared as children hearing this late night in their rooms. To me this is all about that random sick day or in-service day, at home, hearing my mom or auntie turn it on once the morning chores or errands were complete. Just found the whole series is streamable now on Prime Video. Looking forward to nostalgia as I fall asleep. Love to all in these different says.

[@hallieboy]

Well I was one of those kids hearing it during the origin run and WAS scared! Totally irrational, but here was something about that chilling string intro.

[@leluseven]

@@hallieboy Not irrational at all! It's just funny how people can interpret art really differently, depending on their own experience. One of the things that makes the world interesting.

[@MrTheEdge]

What a flashback. My grandpa used to watch these reruns. I never knew this is what the show was until now. Haven’t heard it in 25 years probably

[@genecook3571]

That outro cold af!!!

[@rolls-royceowner1108]

The theme song from Perry Mason still gives me goose bumps when I hear it! Always has and always will be my favorite opening and closing themes!♥🤍💙

[@CarStreetGasGone]

Gives me chills! Love it

[@matthewjahnke6956]

I know. I'm not a fan of the new one.

[@soap1919jt]

The closing has a little more bass to it and has a slower tempo. I always loved the theme from Perry Mason. For some reason, it didn't scare like it did a lot of kids. I could never watch the originals when I was a kid because on the West Coast Perry Mason air too late in the evening and my mother would make us go to bed just when it was coming on.

[@carolgirl29]

Title: "Park Avenue Beat" by Fred Steiner who died in 2011 at the age of 88.

[@blkmattymatt]

When I was a kid I would never go to bed without hearing this epic intro. I never understood what was going on but all I cared about was hearing that suspense opening and that man grinning everytime I saw something on that paper lol

[@rday710]

Love this and Alfred Hitchcock theme 2nd. Both chillingly haunting.

[@ljjackson3520]

This Perry Mason theme song is jamming ,I`m glad they found the right one!

[@xtremenortherner]

What a powerful opening! Such music as the themes for "The Twilight Zone", "Route 66", & this one were so engaging back then..., still like the original versions! Back in the day, even such legendary composers such as Aaron Copeland & Bernard Herrmann were not held in high regard by the highbrows of the time because they wrote film scores..., but good music endures!

[@kringles4]

well said.

[@edytjoson]

This theme is the only one I remember from the Armed Forces television network in Vietnam. Before they signed off with the National Anthem, and we settled our patients for the night, this program from home kept me connected. I'm glad to find it here, and on MeTV! Thank you!

[@dollcefina]

OMG - thank you for your service during such a horrendous time in history... Working in a military hospital must've been so hard. I'm so glad this show helped you feel connected to the rest of the world.

[@captainwakanda4894]

My dad fought in Nam and I remember he would make sure to watch Perry Mason after Night Court in the late 80’s- early 90’s. I had no idea that there was a connection. This is why I love the internet.

[@wolfganghasenmaier8350]

@@dollcefina Ahem what about the 3 mio genocided Vietnamese?

[@wolfganghasenmaier8350]

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[@jeanhodgson8623]

I used to watch that with my Dad. He said that when Perry smiled, it meant that he had just farted silently.

[@kimcamaccio5940]

You are disgusting,,,this should be remembered as one of the greatest ever on tv

[@kankanstwin]

Wtf lmao

[@marciapeak893]

There were a few orchestras that played this theme but this is my favorite. If you play other versions then this one, this has that it factor. The brass horns, the drums in the end the violins, memories, I love it. Thank you for posting beginning & closing theme.

[@simondavidwooliscroft7673]

Never saw the back and white version, only the one in colour but I still loved the and lost count of how many episodes I watched.

[@losangeles1954]

Oh that's so great.

[@stanleyboss3315]

When I here this song I hear justice. I here not guilty. Perry was a bad man. Love this shit

[@sabtahi13]

I could "audiolize" this before I even watched....Great theme!

[@lorenzogrant3036]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 classic

[@ohkay7418]

reminds me of tomorrow never dies

[@cliftonrobinson2043]

He was like 007 to me as a kid

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

Perry Mason was a great tv character.

[@clairerobsin]

The opening scene version @0:41 ...I was 6 years old when I first heard this Music - my Mom & Dad wouldn't let me see what followed!

[@stephenimhoff805]

A friend told me that when he son was little the music scared him - sounded to him like movie from a scary movie.

[@DannyLinden]

I believe that because the theme frightened me as well

[@johnroberts5226]

The closing credits are actually to The Case of The Fancy Figures

[@elizabethrech8822]

I LOVE IT

[@MitiAlbino-bn8bi]

Raymond Burr. Unico Perry Mason

[@nathanwalker826]

Actually like the ending theme better than the opening...yeah they're the same theme, but the extended version is better. The violins at 1:10 is sublime.

[@RyanWehr]

I would start falling asleep when I stayed at my grandma’s house when this came on.

[@billywalkabout5076]

When I was a little kid I was a big Perry Mason fan and still M but when I was young this song used to this theme song used to scare the shit out of me

[@viniciusribeiro3264]

Era disso que o Chris tinha medo?

[@juniorbraap3343]

kakakakak

[@kaikyHzz]

Né cara, também pesquisei por causa disso akakakakkakakakakak tamo junto

[@carlosu6437]

When u heard this as a kid it was time to go outside and play

[@patzimmer1052]

I live Tragg's lip smacking at the end of the opening credits in this version

[@lauraferreira9650]

Fodastica essa abertura que o Chris tinha medo, é que seu Madruga não perdia um capítulo.

[@taynarahuerta3107]

Brasileiro é surreal kk

[@DonRamonSeumadruga]

adorava os eps do pede mais um

[@ljjackson3520]

The classic

[@gildaafonso989]

Obrigada🙋‍♀️🙏💖🇵🇹🍀🍒🦅

[@gregoryray2979]

The best theme original H , 50 comes in second

[@JoseBronxRican]

0:21 - "VAAAAAAANCE!!"

[@wolfganghasenmaier8350]

Back when the USA had that limitless atmosphere...

[@DonRamonSeumadruga]

muito bom o tema do pede mais um

[@ronaldbaltar2998]

Só vim aqui pra ver doque o Crhis tinha medo kkkkkkk

[@RebornGun]

É nois kkkkk

[@Support_Ad_Blocker]

The first season closing theme was different. Same music, but someone was really hammering away on those piano keys at the start.

[@markm1784]

Uh...nobody but Mason bothered to open the folder and see what was inside. They just looked at the outside and reacted.

[@DannyLinden]

Now that is funny! Never really noticed it before now.

[@dagnabbit6187]

Well they say by 2060 we Boomers will be gone . It is going to take longer than that but as these theme songs might fade it is good to revisit them . Yes Boomers our culture is subject to obsolescence too. We have no control over what stays and goes .

[@philmasonbricklayerofficial]

Not as scary as I imagined.

[@jonathanmendez6366]

Everybody Hates Chris reference

[@Pasco-Spokane-Railfan-2024]

I'm a kid now you know

[@rday710]

Also Honeymooners theme.

[@DannyLinden]

Wasn't the Honeymooner's theme "Melancholy Serenade" that was written by Jackie Gleason? They both have a very big brassy sound.

[@rday710]

@@DannyLinden That's right. Something haunting about those songs. Btw, Jackie Gleason couldn't read music but his basic ideas were formatted into songs.

[@DeactivatedCharcoal]

The folder that Perry shows to Della and Paul and then Hamilton and Arthur Tragg doesn't seem to have anything written on it.

[@darrylanton9323]

Should play this theme at the start and finish each day Trump's upcoming public trials

[@filipeoliveira9804]

Vim pelo Chris

[@Gato...]

Porque o Chris tinha medo dessa abertura? 🤔

[@connorl7152]

Ta explicado porque o Chris tinha medo dessa abertura, isso é macabro KSKAKAK

[@FilhoDomagoMestre]

Procurei o vídeo justamente por isso

[@cynic150]

I liked this music from the first time I heard it as a child. It suits the character and mood of the series completely, with it's grinding American hard truth reality. The new series music adds a drum kit. How purile! Totally ruins it. This is NOT rock music! Stick with the original.

[@renatoseverinodossantos9635]

PEDE MAIS UM

[@prospermodestyspirit94]

Yall james bond theme song and perry mason intro song are alot alike just saying

[@yvonnesmith5258]

The Perry Mason theme came first, in the late 50's. The first Bond film was released in 1962.

[@franpowell6800]

I thought it sounded like a strip tease

[@rodrigocarvalhedo1907]

O maior medo do Chris kkk

[@fernandogomes4247]

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[@missyoli1227]

Mannix has a good theme song too.

[@dollcefina]

What's Mannix??

[@lucasbaker8393]

Every body hates chris reference, im from brazil, i love theses references, but not understen

[@arthurparker7705]

Must be the most boring trombone part.and depressing

[@CameronDavies1]

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