![]() “I proved everything I had to prove,” he said. On April 27, 1977, Blake announced that he would leave after completing his contractual run on the show for the season. The song was released as a single in the US, but only charted as high as #42 on the Adult Contemporary Chart, while it " bubbled under the Hot 100" at #101.įred the cockatoo was portrayed by two Triton cockatoos named Lalah and Weird Harold, the latter used as a stunt double for flying sequences. The Baretta theme song by El Chicano was a huge hit in many countries including Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, France and The Philippines. El Chicano also released the song as a 45 and also as a track on one of their albums. The music for the theme song was performed by Los Angeles-based Latin influenced Rock band El Chicano from Los Angeles, California. The song was released as a single in Europe in 1976, reaching number one in the Dutch Top 40 as "Baretta's Theme". Blake threatened to leave production if Davis's recording was rejected. Every episode of Baretta began with the song, which contained the motto, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time." According to Blake, studio executives did not want Davis's vocals for the theme song for fear that audiences would think Baretta was a black series. The theme song, "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow", was written by Dave Grusin and Morgan Ames initially an instrumental, lyrics were added in later seasons that were sung by Sammy Davis, Jr. The series came about as a reboot of Toma when actor Tony Musante chose to move on after completing his single season commitment to the series. Blake was given creative control in most aspects of production. Upon watching Blake in the 1973 film Electra Glide in Blue, then ABC executive Michael Eisner contacted the star about doing a police series, which culminated in Baretta. ![]() ![]() Muncie ( Paul Lichtman), the owner of a liquor store at 52nd and Main.
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