What TV them song sounds like the opening of "if you leave me now" by Chicago?

[Anonymous]

Why does this thread get revived every two years since 2015? It's not exactly an existential subject.

[Anonymous]

Hi all. I literally just heard the Chicago song and was like "wtf is that a theme tune of?". Queue internet search and this is where I ended up. There is clearly no answer, and I will no doubt lose sleep over it.

[Anonymous]

In other media
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"If You Leave Me Now" is featured in the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto V (appearing on the in-game radio station Los Santos Rock Radio), and is also played when Trevor Philips returns the kidnapped wife of a drug kingpin.[81][82] The song is also featured in the episodes, "Casa Bonita" and "Awesom-O", of South Park,[83] as well as "Egg Drop", the 12th episode of the third season of the American sitcom Modern Family.[84] The song was also featured in a scene on the British comedy horror film Shaun of the Dead where Shaun is still reeling from his breakup and Ed is trying to cheer him up.[85] In the early 2000's, the song was performed by the mascot "Sockpuppet" in a commercial for the now-defunct website Pets.com.[86] "If You Leave Me Now" was part of the soundtrack for the 1999 film, Three Kings, which is set in Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Desson Howe, reviewing the film for the Washington Post, notes how film director David O. Russell cuts from the "frenzied din of confusion" outside a moving car in the scene to the interior of the car, where the "easy sounds" of the song are playing.[87] The song was also featured in the 2023 film The Flash, which is an installment in the DC Extended Universe.
In the HBO miniseries, "The Regime", the dictator portrayed by Kate Winslet sings a "cringy" rendition of "If You Leave Me Now" in the initial episode which first aired on March 3, 2024.[88][89] In an interview with Patrick Ryan of USA Today, Winslet discussed the song selection: "It’s such a great metaphor ... I thought that song choice was very much to do with her trying to express her gratitude for her loyal followers. It's a fantastic play on the world of ‘likes,’ and how she’s a leader by social media more than anything.” In the same article, series creator Will Tracey said the song was written into the very first draft, ' “I was trying to think of an American song that might’ve hit the airwaves in Europe when she was a kid: something seemingly innocuous and maudlin and soft rock. But I always felt there’s something in that rising hook in the melody; there’s a sadness contained in a lot of those seemingly vacuous radio ballads. So it seemed like the right song to mine for a ridiculous moment at the top of the show,” but one that also becomes “strangely poignant” by the series’ end

[Anonymous]

Wings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Days and Nights of Mollie Dodd

I don't remember the theme song but I have been waiting for this show to "reappear" in some form for the last 10 years or so. Guess it will never happen.

[Anonymous]

Chicago's song sparks LA Law memories for me. The theme song has resembling moments, and the interlude music is pretty close too. My parents watched the show and I'd be in the room vibing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DouX9Ubw-Xw

[Anonymous]

The Days N Nights of Molly Dodd

[Anonymous]

Canadian Tire commercial comes on with Chicago song and I immediately wonder "what 80s TV show music is this again?". Can't think of it. Commercial keeps playing and it bugs me that I can never come up with the answer. Also ended up here...
But in my mind, the memory is not of a theme song. Rather, coming back from commercial with just the horns of "If you leave me now" at the very beginning of the song. Just those slow seven notes. Crazy, eh ?