I think that's enough for me to determine that this legend is.īe sure to check out my archive of TV Legends Revealed for more urban legends about the world of TV. So on the one hand, you have the producer saying it was written by Hoffer and Bass, you have Hoffer saying he wrote it (along with all of the other music), you have the music all officially credited to Hoffer and on the other hand, you have a reader-submitted piece of trivia on IMDB. When "Thundercats" was released on DVD, they did a whole bonus feature video on Hoffer's work, including quotes from Lee Dannacher, supervising producer on "Thundercats," about how they hired Hoffer to write the theme. The lyrics for the theme song were written by Jules Bass, the Bass of Rankin-Bass. The composer of the "Thundercats" theme song was a man named Bernie Hoffer, who had already had an extensive career was a jingle writer before he did music for Rankin-Bass (the company that made the "Thundercats" cartoon) for a number of their cartoon series, including the theme song to "Silverhawks," a series that came out after "Thundercats." The "fact" has entered into the public consciousness for the most part, whether true or not.
For the most part, people stopped writing new articles about this interesting "fact" after 2010, but the damage was pretty much done. Solely based on that, the information was passed like wildfire around the internet back in 2010.
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However, the whole story was basically predicated on someone adding the information to the "Trivia" section on the "Thundercats" Internet Movie Database page and that's it.
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