Laverne and Shirley

Making our Dreams Come True by Norman Gimbel & Charles Fox.  Sung by Cyndi Grecco

Original Air Dates: 1976 - 1983 (ABC)   Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin & Los Angeles, California (for the last season, or two)

In 1976 the theme song was popular on the radio and charted as high as #25 in the Top 40.  This was Grecco's only hit.
Spoken: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Schlemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated. 
  
We’re gonna do it!
Give us any chance, we’ll take it.
Give us any rule, we’ll break it.
We’re gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin’ it our way.

Nothin’s gonna turn us back now, 
Straight ahead and on the track now.
We’re gonna make our dreams come true, 
Doin’ it our way.

There is nothing we won’t try,
Never heard the word impossible.
This time there’s no stopping us.
We’re gonna do it.

On your mark, get set, and go now,
Got a dream and we just know now,
We’re gonna make our dream come true.   
And we’ll do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true,
And do it our way, yes our way,
Make all our dreams come true
For me and you.

   

HIGH HOPES

Written by: Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn
Originally from the film: A Hole In The Head, 1959

Sung frequently during the series by Shirley to encourage Laverne to do something fool-hearty in a "Shirley-esque" sort of way.

Just what makes that little ole ant
Think he'll move that rubber tree plant?
Anyone knows an ant can't
Move a rubber tree plant

But he's got hi-i-igh hopes, he's got hi-i-igh hopes
He's got high apple pi-i-ie-in-the-sk-y-y hopes
So, any time you're gettin' low, 'stead of lettin' go, just remember that ant
Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant

When troubles call and your back's to the wall
There a lot to be learned if that wall could fall

Once there was a silly old ram
Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram scram
He kept buttin' that dam

'Cause he had hi-i-igh hopes, he had hi-i-igh hopes
He had high apple pi-i-ie-in-the-sk-y-y hopes
So, any time your feelin' bad, 'stead of feelin' sad, just remember that ram
Oops, there goes a billion-kilowatt dam
 

LENNY & THE SQUIGTONES LYRICS

 

Thanks to Steve N. for some help.

NIGHT AFTER NIGHT

(From the Laverne & Shirley episode "The Second (Almost) Annual Talent Show").  Sung By: Michael McKean & David Lander a.k.a. Lenny & the Squigtones.  Music By: Michael McKean

Night after Night I held you in my arms.  Night after Night I sampled all your charms.
Night after Night lately I can tell you're marching to a wedding bell.

I only want to do what's right, but who wants to look at the same broad night after night? (4X)

Night after Night I treat you like a queen, darling.  Night after Night cause you were seventeen.
Night after Night then you're birthday rolled around.  So you let me go to town.

Now I've lost my appetite, 'cause even true love can be boring night after night. (4X)

We have nothing in common girl - You know that's a fact.
To marry you girl, I’d have to be cracked.

Night after Night I'll think of you and smile, darling.  Night after Night but only for a while.
Night after Night then I'll find me someone new.

Who won't be someone dumb like you.  Someone who won't know how to fight.
And who wont make me sleep on the sofa night after night. (5X)

STARCROSSED 

(From the Laverne & Shirley episode "The First Annual Shotz Talent Show")  Sung By: Michael McKean & David Lander a.k.a. Lenny & the Squigtones.  Music By: Michael McKean & David Lander

I live on the north side.  She lives on the west.
The west is the worst side.  The north is the best.

Our mothers are drunk.  As fat as a punk.
But I know, yes I know, that our love, yes I know, could be real.

But we're star-crossed.  We're like Romeo and Juliet.
Star-crossed.  She just don't belong in my social set.
But I know, yes I know that someday, that someday, the Lord will look our way.

And we'll be free.  We meet in the shadows and wish on the stars.
We kiss in a phone booth or under a car.

Our friends put us down, they say we're a clown.
But it hurts, yes it hurts, yes it hurts, yes it hurts.

And we're star-crossed.  We're like lollipops and caviar.
Star-crossed.  So we'll drive up to the reservoir.
Even though, even though, it's a sin, it's a sin to love each other in and we'll be free.

"On a Christmas show Lenny & Squiggy sang the following song. This is strictly from memory, and I only saw this episode once or twice when the show was still in production, so one or two words might be incorrect, but what the heck. I'm pretty sure it's at least complete:"  

Thanks to Robert W. of New Brunswick for providing us with these lyrics!

"It was Christmas Eve night at the poorhouse and all of the paupers were there.
I stepped in because it was snowing, and snow always screws up my hair.

Near a pot-bellied stove, sat a pot-bellied man. He spoke with some lumps in his throat.
His story was sad, and his diction was bad, and these are the words that he spoke:

'I once was the jolliest fat man with roses in all of my cheeks.
I'd load up my sleigh every Christmas and go on a drunk for two weeks.

My friends said they saw me on rooftops and sliding down chimneys at dawn.
With my reindeer in hand, I would glide 'cross the land and wake up on somebody's lawn.

Then one morning my wife left this message: "Each Christmas I've spent by myself.
I'm sick of your stupid traditions, so I've run off to Spain with a elf."'

Just then the old man started dyin'. He screamed "May the Lord take my soul!"
We went through his wallet (to see who he was); the address read simply "North Pole".

So the next time you go by the poorhouse - if by the poorhouse you go
just take off your hat to a dead guy who's fat, and whisper a silent "Ho Ho".

(The last line of the second verse might be "and this is the song that he wrote")