Joel Scarbury "Believe It or Not"

Believe it or not, television theme songs are no strangers to the radio. Think of "I'll Be There for You" from The Rembrants or "The Theme from St. Elsewhere" -- both songs made an impact on radio, particularly Adult Contemporary stations. Joel Scarbury got into the action back in 1981 with the "Theme from the Greatest American Hero: Believe It or Not".

The Rembrandts "I'll Be There for You"

If I never had to hear this song again, I'd be just fine with it.

Icehouse "Electric Blue"

I once worked for a radio station that featured an all '80s & '90s format with a playlist that consisted of only about 340 songs.  (Is that a lot of songs, you're asking?  No, it was not.)  Hearing the same tired '80s and '90s tunes really wore on me (and apparently our listeners since the station's ratings showed that we had very few of them).  When the station first launched, we'd get lots of requests for cool '80s and '90s songs that we all would have loved to hear, but instead we were stuck playing the same John Mellencamp and Rod Stewart tunes each day.  As a remedy, we pitched an idea of a daily '80s feature to our bosses.  Each morning we would play a forgotten '80s tune (outside of the 340 songs that we already played) and then would cross-promote the station's "Lost '80s Lunch" feature.  Surprisingly, the bosses gave our idea the green light.  To those of us in the studio each morning, the feature was a success because it meant one less time we had to play The Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You".  I distinctly remember this same guy calling in every couple of weeks to request "Electric Blue" from the group Icehouse.  I would always give him the standard line: "Yeah, we'll try to get that one on for you," but I knew that we would never play it.  Then, nearly a year later, we finally played "Electric Blue" as part of the aforementioned '80s feature.  I always hoped that the guy was listening that the day when we finally answered his request, but my gut tells me that he had stopped listening long before then.

The Rembrandts - "Just The Way It Is, Baby"

A few years before The Rembrandts struck gold with the theme song to Friends, they notched a Top 15 hit with "Just The Way It Is, Baby".  While "I'll Be There For You" would later be played to death on Adult Contemporary radio stations, "Just The Way It Is, Baby" dropped into obscurity.