Iconic Movie and TV Theme Songs from the '60s Quiz

Answer: The Ventures

The TV show "Hawaii Five-O" debuted in 1968 with the theme composed by Morton Stevens. The Ventures' cover version spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart and remains popular to this day, especially with school marching bands.

Answer: Henry Mancini

Eleven "Pink Panther" movies have been released spanning four decades. Henry Mancini's score for the original, "The Pink Panther" (1963), was nominated for the Academy award for best musical score in 1964. The single won three Grammy Awards.

Answer: Al Hirt

Al Hirt was nominated for 21 Grammy awards during his lifetime. "The Green Hornet" TV show only lasted for one season, 1966-1967, but had lasting cult status largely due to Bruce Lee.

Answer: Monty Norman

This song was used in every Bond movie produced by Eon Productions beginning with the 1962 release of "Dr. No." John Barry arranged and led the performance of the song. Courts have ruled that the theme was written by Norman despite claims and testimony by Barry that he had actually written the theme.

Answer: Ennio Morricone

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966) was the third of Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns" which also included "A Fistful of Dollars," (1964) and "A Few Dollars More" (1965). Ennio Morricone was a highly acclaimed and prolific composer scoring more than 400 movie and TV shows.

He won two Academy Awards and three Grammy Awards. Try listening to all three "Spaghetti Western" themes and see if you can match the song with the movie.

Answer: Maurice Jarre

From the movie "Dr. Zhivago" in which it was an instrumental piece, it became the basis for the song "Somewhere My Love". In 1967, "Somewhere My Love" won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus.

Answer: Alfred Newman

During his lifetime, film music composer Alfred Newman was nominated for 45 Academy Awards and won nine. The epic film "How the West was Won" (1962) was filmed in the wide screen Cinerama process with a huge cast of well known actors including John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds and Henry Fonda.

Answer: Lalo Schifrin

Lalo Schifrin has won five Grammy Awards for his music. "Mission: Impossible" originally ran on TV from 1967-1973. The theme peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The four note repeated phrase in each measure throughout the piece rhythmically corresponds with the Morse code representation of the letters M (dash dash) and I (dot dot).

Answer: Percy Faith and his Orchestra

"A Summer Place" was released in 1959 starring Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue. The theme was written by Max Steiner with lyrics by Mack Discant. The instrumental cover version was a Number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for nine weeks in 1960.

Answer: Al Caiola and his Orchestra

"Bonanza" ran for 14 seasons beginning in 1959. The theme song by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans is consider to be one of the top 100 western songs by the Western Writers of America. Johnny Cash and others covered this song but didn't chart as well as this instrumental version which reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100.