........should have been used IN THE BEGINNING instead! I hate that original theme song --it's so sappy. That END theme is slam-bang! And it's F U N to decipher the lyrics!
"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"
I read somewhere long ago that the lyrics to the end theme are gibberish. They recorded it that way with plans to write new lyrics before the series debuted. But they never did for some reason.
May The Force Be With You As You Live Long And Prosper!🚀
According to our old pal Wikipedia -
"The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits," was a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he improvised a semi-comprehensible story about a bartender to give an idea of how the finished theme would sound. Wilson decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberate gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs.[18] Because CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would hear the closing theme lyrics. In one pop-cultural nod to the closing theme, a character performs the song in the film Ready to Rumble. The closing theme is also played at the end of the syndicated morning radio show The John Boy and Billy Big Show."
But what do I know. I'm just a girl.
I wish it were an actual rock song. The guitar riffs are better than in many "real" ones.
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