All in the Family

All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. In September 1979, the show was retooled and given a new name, Archie Bunker's Place. With that title, the sitcom lasted another four years, finally ending its run in 1983.

Theme song

The series' opening theme song, "Those Were the Days" written by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse, was presented in a unique way for a 1970s series, with O'Connor and Jean Stapleton singing the tune on camera at the start of every episode. Several different performances were recorded over the run of the series, including one version that includes an additional verse. The song is a simple melody in which Archie and Edith wax nostalgic for the simpler days of yesteryear.

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Lee Adams - Charles Strouse

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:Archie: Boy, the way Glenn Miller played,

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:Edith: Songs that made the hit parade,

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:Archie: Guys like us, we had it made,

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:Both: Those were the days!

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:Edith: And you knew where you were then,

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:Archie: Girls were girls, and men were men,

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:Both: Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again...

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:Archie: Didn't need no welfare state,

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:Edith: Everybody pulled his weight,

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:Both: Gee, our old LaSalle ran great,

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::Those were the days!

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The closing theme was "Remembering You", written and played by Roger Kellaway.

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The theme song to the animated series Family Guy spoofs that of All in the Family: Peter and Lois Griffin sit at an upright piano in tribute to Archie and Edith, as Lois laments the current American inundation with "violence in movies and sex on TV."

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Family Guy - Spoof - Peter - Lois Griffin - Piano - American

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