Chuck Barris - Discography

Discography

Barris composed music and released them on the following 45 rpm records. Songs with an asterisk (*) are songs not composed by Barris, yet featured on the recordings:

• Too Rich / I Know A Child (Capitol Records)
• Baja California / *Donnie (Dot Records)
• Why Me Oh Lord / Sometimes It Just Doesn't Pay To Get Up (MCA Records)

Barris also composed the following songs (with performer, who performed the music first, listed on each). The first two songs were released on "Swan" 45rpm records, and the third released on a "Decca" LP record:

• Summertime Guy (Eddie Rambeau; an instrumental version of this song was used as the theme for The Newlywed Game)
• Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon)
• Love Sickness (Milton DeLugg)

In 1973, Barris released an LP of television game show music, Chuck Barris Presents Themes From TV Game Shows (Friends Records). All tracks are instrumentals and are arranged by Tom Scott, Mike Barone, and Dale Oehler. The tracks for the LP, as listed from the back of the LP jacket, are as follows:

Side 1

• "Dating Game Theme" (January/CBP Music, Inc. BMI Chuck Barris/David Mook)
• "Dating Game Closing Theme" (Little Rosie)
• "Newlywed Game Theme"
• "Treasure Hunt Theme"
• "True Grit - Winners Theme" (Bernstein) Famous Music ASCAP
• "Treasure Hunt Losers Theme"
• "People Pickers Theme" (Pretty Maidens)

Side 2

• "Operation Entertainment Theme" (Road Of Love)
• "Family Game Theme" (Too Rich)
• "Cop-Out Theme" (Little Russian Song)
• "Mother-In-Law Theme" (Mother Trucker)
• "Parent Game Theme" (Baja California)
• "Dream Girl Theme" (Hunk Of Love)