who sang the theme song to that 70s show
Big Star Todd Griffin Cheap Trick
title: That '70s Show text: for the show. The show usually opens with the theme song, "In the Street", written by Alex Chilton and Chris Bell of the band Big Star. The original version of the song appeared on Big Star's 1972 debut album "#1 Record". In 2000, Chilton confirmed that he was paid $70 in royalties each time the show aired, an amount he thought ironic, given the show's title. Big Star's original version of the song was not used on the show. Instead, a cover version sung by Todd Griffin was used as the theme song for the show's first season. Beginning in title: In the Street (song) text: In the Street (song) "In the Street" is a song by the American rock band Big Star. It was written by Chris Bell and Alex Chilton. The song was featured on the 1972 album "#1 Record". The song was the "B" side of their first single, "When My Baby's Beside Me." Lead vocals on "In the Street" were handled by Chris Bell. "In the Street" was recorded by Todd Griffin as "That '70s Song" with additional lyrics by Ben Vaughn as the theme song for the television sitcom "That '70s Show". Another recording of "That '70s Song" by Cheap Trick title: Alex Chilton text: was released in Europe in 1998. Chilton subsequently toured with the original group annually. Chilton had toured Europe in 1991 with a version of the band, and had sung Box Tops material as a featured singer in oldies package tours during the 1980s and 1990s. After Chilton's death, the Box Tops were to reform again in 2015 with guitarist Gary Talley as lead vocalist. In 1998, the Alex Chilton / Chris Bell song "In the Street" (from the first Big Star album) was chosen as the theme music for the U.S. television series "That '70s Show" at the suggestion of title: That '70s Show text: the second season, the theme song was performed by the band Cheap Trick. Unlike previous versions of the song, Cheap Trick ended the song with the repeated phrase "We're all alright!" quoting the ending of their 1978 hit song "Surrender". Both versions of the song (Todd Griffin and Cheap Trick) used on the show end with somebody yelling "Hello, Wisconsin!" In Griffin's version, Danny Masterson is the one yelling "Hello, Wisconsin!" while it is unknown who yells it in Cheap Trick's version during the opening. On the soundtrack, "That '70s Album (Rockin')", Cheap Trick's lead singer Robin Zander yells "Hello, title: Ardent Studios text: alongside Pro Tools rigs. It is managed by Jody Stephens (also drummer for Big Star, an early Ardent group whose first two albums appeared on Ardent Records label in the early 1970s). All three Big Star albums were named in Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of all time, and “In The Street,” from their first album, became the theme for “That 70s Show.” Early on, the studio recorded Sam & Dave, Led Zeppelin, Isaac Hayes, Leon Russell and The Staples Singers, and in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s recorded James Taylor, ZZ Top, R.E.M., George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers, Bob