Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor and comedian. Coleman was the highest-paid child actor on television throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. He was rated first on a list of VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars".
Sheena Shirley Easton is a Scottish singer and actress who achieved recognition in an episode of the reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record deal and her eventual signing with the EMI label. Her first two singles, "Modern Girl" and "9 to 5" both entered the top ten of the UK Singles Chart simultaneously. She became one of the most successful British female recording artists of the 1980s. Easton became the first and only recording artist in Billboard history to have a top five hit on each of Billboard's primary singles charts: "Morning Train ", "We've Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers and "Sugar Walls".
Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. Among his best-known songs are "Joy to the World", "The Pusher", "No No Song", "Greenback Dollar", "Della and the Dealer" and "Never Been to Spain".
"Side by Side" is a popular song by Harry M. Woods written in 1927, and is now considered a standard.
Douglas Stevens, better known by his stage name Red Peters, is an American musician and comedian. He has released two albums and three compilations. He was the host of The Red Peters Comedy Music Hour from 2005–2013 on Sirius XM, and a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show.
"(Not Just) Knee Deep" is a funk song, with a running time of 15 minutes, 21 seconds, on Side 1 of Funkadelic's 1979 album Uncle Jam Wants You.
Television's Greatest Hits is a series of albums containing recordings of TV theme songs through the years. The series was first introduced in 1985 by the newly created Tee-Vee Toons (TVT) record label and ran until 1996. Each of the original seven numbered volumes contains 65 theme songs, with each volume focusing on particular decades. A spin-off volume containing commercial jingles was released in 1989.
Shandi Sinnamon is an American singer and songwriter.
Oglio Records is an American record company started in 1993 by Carl Caprioglio. The label issues compilations of rare 1980s modern rock and new wave songs, many previously unreleased on CD. In addition to releasing new material by artists such as BigBang, Nerf Herder and Wesley Willis, the label has also re-released albums by artists such as Brian Wilson and Barnes & Barnes. Oglio Entertainment has also released stand-up comedy CDs by the likes of Jackie Martling and George Lopez.
Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom, which aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, respectively, who are two boys from Harlem taken in by a wealthy Park Avenue businessman and his daughter. Phillip Drummond is a widower for whom their deceased mother previously worked; his daughter, Kimberly, is played by Dana Plato. During the first season and the first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred, as Mrs. Edna Garrett, the Drummonds' first housekeeper, who ultimately spun off into her own sitcom, The Facts of Life, as a housemother at the fictional Eastland School. The second housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker, was played by Nedra Volz. The third housekeeper, Pearl Gallagher, was played by Mary Jo Catlett, first appearing as a recurring character, later becoming a main cast member.
Television's Greatest Hits: 65 TV Themes! From the '50s and '60s is a compilation album of television theme songs released by Tee-Vee Toons in 1985 as the first volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. It was initially released as a double LP record featuring 65 themes from television shows ranging from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s.
Television's Greatest Hits, Volume II: 65 More TV Themes from the '50s & '60s is a 1986 compilation album of television theme songs from the 1950s and 1960s released by TVT Records as the second volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series.
Television's Greatest Hits: 70s & '80s, prefaced with "TeeVee Toons Presents", is a 1987 compilation album of television theme songs released by TVT Records as the third volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. It was recorded at Studio 900 and mastered at Bernie Grundman Studio.
TeeVee Toons: The Commercials is a 1989 compilation album of television advertising jingles and commercials released as a spinoff to the Television's Greatest Hits series created by the record label Tee-Vee Toons, later known as TVT Records.
Television's Greatest Hits: Black & White Classics, prefaced with "TeeVee Toons Presents", is a 1996 compilation album of television theme songs from the 1950s and 1960s released by TVT Records as the fourth volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series.
Television's Greatest Hits: In Living Color, prefaced with "TeeVee Toons Presents", is a 1996 compilation album of 65 television theme songs from the 1960s and 1970s released by TVT Records as the fifth volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series.
Television's Greatest Hits: Cable Ready, prefaced with "TeeVee Toons Presents", is a 1996 compilation album of television theme songs from the 1980s and early 1990s released by TVT Records as the seventh volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series.
All-Time Top 100 TV Themes, prefaced on the cover with "Tee-Vee Toons Presents", is a two-disc compilation album of television theme songs released by TVT Records in 2005 as a spinoff of the Television's Greatest Hits series. It included 100 themes taken from the seven volumes of the series plus newer themes from television programs that debuted after the last volume was released in 1996. Notably excluded was any Western themed television series.
