“THE PRICE IS RIGHT”
“THE PRICE IS RIGHT” early ’70s music library
My grandmother retired from Hughes Aircraft in the mid ’80s, and from then until now in her retirement years, she watches “The Price Is Right” every weekday. After all that viewing, she is “convinced the show is fixed.”
She says “Note how Bob Barker never revealed what the ‘actual retail price’ was on those cards he was holding, in order to pull from the four-contestant ‘Contestant’s Row’ panel whomever he wanted to play the main games. Like Plinko!” I have to admit that she is right that the home viewer never got to see what was on those cards that he “revealed” only to himself — but — it’s far-fetched to think that the whole show is rigged. Sure, Barker and the show’s producers showed preference sometimes to whom they wanted in front of the camera in the first place, out of the entire cheering studio audience: bouncy busty ladies, military servicemen, thrilled-to-the-gills members of those twenty-large groups of friends/family/classmates/co-workers/ that all turn up wearing the same “Price Is Right is the best!” kinds of sweatshirts. But the whole thing? Dunno. Who’s to say?
Some of the music cues on this compilation survived well into the ’90s, when I was still watching the show with my grandmother — and some of them I’d never heard before, as they were retired for reasons unknown.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:58 am
This is the best blog I’ve come across in a really long time. I just spent the last hour or so perusing your archives and I found some really great stuff. Thanks!
December 26th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Bret, you’re approaching “Hero” status with all this continued excellence.
Not even exaggerating.
Anyone who frequents this place knows what I mean.
December 26th, 2007 at 10:36 am
It was only until recently (now that Drew Carey is hosting TPiR) that the theme song was rerecorded IN STEREO.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:17 am
Great stuff! “Splendido!” has lyrics:
Ohhh yeah…It’s nothing but furniture:
Sectional Living Room,
StainMaster carpet too.
Too bad….nothing but furniture:
Elegant Dining Room,
Michael C. Fina and you.
Aaaaand althoughhh,
the bed is soft and dee-eep,
You’ll get a good night’s slee-eep,
You will still have nothing there to drive…
no car…no truck…no vannnn…
…You’re stuck with furniture:
tan Broyhill furniture.
Maybe some of it reclines.
You can’t believe *this* is it.
Oh man, it’s nothing but furniture.
Rod Roddy’s spiel is done.
Should have kept Showcase One.
How will you get this home?
(repeat and fade)
January 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Something I have wanted for a very long time. Thanks!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Thank you so much for this! I’ve been looking for this for years, wasn’t sure if it actually existed. I was just hoping that one day I would come across all that great TPiR music I loved as a kid. I think it may have been the start of my lifelong 70’s obsession!
January 21st, 2008 at 10:52 am
Excellent compilation! The modern cues used on TPIR can’t hold a candle to these gems. Great job!
July 12th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Awesome collection… remember many of these from back in the day when I was a kid watching the show on sick days or summer. One thing missing, which I realize is game music not specifically a cue, is the yodeling song from the mountain climber game. THAT should have been on this if for no other reason than it’s the most memorable song on the show. Otherwise awesome!
May 26th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Between the switch to HD, the current director’s different style, and Drew just being Drew, you often CAN see what’s written on the cards these days. And I haven’t seen Drew “misread” one yet.
Even as a kid, it drove me nuts that Bob made sure you never, EVER saw what was on the cards, even after he announced it. I never thought it was rigged though; I just wanted to see whether they were typed or handwritten. Why, I have no idea.