"movin' on up"

Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford:  "The Jeffersons"


 

On the subject of theme songs for situation comedies in the 1970s:

We're movin' on up,

To the East Side;

To a deluxe apartment - 

In the sky --

We're movin' on up,

To the East SIde, 

We finally got a piece of the -

pie -

Fish don't fry in the kitchen,

Beans don't burn on the grill,

Took a whole lotta tryin'

Just to get up that hill;

Now we're up in the big leagues,

Gettin' our turn at bat,

Long as we live,

It's you and me, baby,

There ain't nothin' wrong with that --

We're movin' on up,

To the East Side...

Go on You Tube and type in 

The Jeffersons - Theme Song

if you would like to listen to it.

        The part where they say,

"Fish don't fry in the kitchen,

Beans don't burn on the grill..."

etc.

really gets into a fantastic funky groove....

"The Jeffersons" was a show that lasted quite a few years. 

It was good.

Isabel Sanford, the actress who portrayed Louise Jefferson (aka "Weezie") was in the 1967 feature film, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, along with 1940s and '50s movie stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

        (...Katharine Hepburn belonging to that same club with actor John Amos, requiring a specific zip code for her cheekbones... 

        Faces constructed for telling stories on-screen....)

Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner 

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