Face the Music (1980)

Country

United States

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

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IMDb

How it feels

This is a 1980s game show where contestants guess the titles of songs played by a live orchestra. They then connect those song titles to famous people, places, or things. The host is actor Ron Ely.

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What happens

Face the Music is an American television game show that aired daily in syndication from January 14, 1980, to September 1981. The show was hosted by actor Ron Ely, with Dave Williams as announcer for the first season and John Harlan for the second with Art James as a substitute. The Tommy Oliver Orchestra, with Lisa Donovan as vocalist, was also featured. Face the Music was produced and distributed by Sandy Frank Productions. The basic premise of Face the Music was a musical guessing game in the same vein as Name That Tune, which Frank was also distributing when Face the Music premiered and for whom Oliver had been the orchestra director during the mid-1970s. The twist, however, was that in addition to identifying the songs that the orchestra played, the contestants had to link the song titles to famous people, places, and things. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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