Nostalgia 'R' us proudly presents...

Rentaghost - Theme Tune

Thanks to Paul Rhodes, though, as well as the theme tune, we have the full version of the song. That follows the version with which you may well be more familiar:
If your mansion house needs haunting
Just call Rentaghost
We've got freaks and fools and creeps and ghouls
At Rentaghost
Hear the phantom of the opera
Sing a haunting melody
Remember what you see is not a mystery
At Rentaghost

Lyrics to the closing credits were slightly different:

If your party needs a Smartie
Just call Rentaghost
We've got freaks and fools and creeps and ghouls
At Rentaghost
For a biography we've ghost writers
And not forgetting a ghost script
Remember what you see is not a mystery
At Rentaghost

[Witches' cackle to fade]

Full version lyrics, by Paul Rhodes: Those lyrics in full! Just one line I can't quite make out (and a couple more that don't seem to mean anything at all). The song was written and sung by Michael Staniforth, who played Claypole.
Opening titles:
If your mansion house needs haunting, just call Rentaghost.
We've got spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools, at Rentaghost.
Hear the phantom of the opera sing a haunting melody.
Remember what you see is not a mystery, but... Rentaghost!

Closing titles:
At your party be a smarty and hire Rentaghost
???If you're white of fright like the spooky heights, with Rentaghost
You can let our spirits move you and for fun play ghostman's knock
Because we aim to shock we hope your knees will lock, that's Rentaghost

Let me say the most horrific simple ghosts not scientific
 merely supernatural ghoulies of the day.
Heavy footsteps in your attic means a spectre telepathic
 is descending just to spirit you away (Yaaay!).

We are extraordinary fellas here at Rentaghost
To be another Uri Geller come to RRRRentaghost
For a biography we've ghostwriters, and not forgetting a ghost script
An apparition quipped from deep inside a crypt
Ring Rentaghost
An apparition quipped from deep inside a crypt
Ring Rentaghost.
(manic laughter and fade out...)

Copyright: someone from the BBC (Michael Staniforth?) presumably?

HTML edition by Chris M. Dickson. However I did nick it from a posting by RandleIJ@phymat.bham.ac.uk and mail from paulr@liffe.com


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