Now they don’t write theme songs at all. At most, they might pick an actual old-timey tune, a real one — and just pay the old songwriter a lot more than $750 for it.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Food Lion's Bloom chain will introduce itself to shoppers in the Washington, D.C., market with a television ad campaign recalling "The Partridge Family," reports said.

I was too young to get the joke about “Those Were the Days” back then, but it was the most arresting theme song on TV — if that’s even the proper way to categorize its function on the ...