This video is the theme song to the classic 60’s sci-fi kids show ( although more adults watched than kids ) Fireball XL-5.
It’s a show that was spawned by the great Gerry Anderson who brought us such classics as Stingray and my favorite Captain Scarlet.
Gerry Anderson did everything right on his productions. Just so much fun and entertaining. He used marionettes as his characters and darned well effective too! One of the major tributes to him is due to his use of great theme songs and scores. His puppet productions were often head and shoulders above the live actor shows! His miniatures are masterpieces to this day.
Yet back to the theme songs. This one is from Fireball X-L5 recorded by Don Spencer and Flee Rekkers. This tune was so popular when I was a kid that we would all dance to it whenever it was on. I still love this tune and don’t mind singing it now and then to myself.
Here’s another cool theme from Gerry Anderson’s Stingray show
It’s got only one lyric, but it is a rousing tune too.
Now here’s my favorite, Captain Scarlet. This was a great show and a must have. Nobody went throught the stuff Captain Scarlet went through. Not only that he had hot babes on his show and a kick butt theme song
Someone ought to make a live action Captain Scarlet movie starring Brendan Fraser or Jason Staham. That would be soooo cool and full of humor. Captain Scarlet was like Indiana Jones meets the X Files vs Doom.
Finally, this show UFO had a kick butt theme too. Very hot show!
All in all, it would do you good to get some Gerry Anderson shows on DVD as they’re lots of fun, quite historic, way ahead of their time.
Posted under Comic Book Artist
This post was written by Greg Boone on September 19, 2008
