Musical Allusions 4 by AlexanderD

The original theme music to an ill-fated (some would say ill-conceived) NBC series of the 1970s formed the bumper music to the network's own "Chain Reaction". Makes sense, because both were scored by Bob Cobert. Name the series that was mercifully sent to the roundhouse in May 1979 after nine episodes.

Greg Lake's 1975 holiday hit "I Believe In Father Christmas" samples in between its verses the "Troika" from whose "Lieutenant Kije Suite"?

Take the chorus of Sly & the Family Stone's "Everyday People", then rap on the verses and flip the two words in the title to "People Everyday", and you'll have a 1992 hit that reached No. 8 on the Hot 100. What group recorded it?

One of the few songs to feature Pachebel's "Canon in D Major" NOT to be released around Christmas time was "C U When U Get There", a song featured in 1997's "Nothing to Lose". It was covered by Jonah Hill when he hosted "Saturday Night Live" 15 years later, but who originally recorded it with 40 Thevz?

What Joan Jett song became the theme to "NBC's Sunday Night Football", "Waitin' All Day (For Sunday Night)"?

The theme music for the short-lived Bob Eubanks opus "Rhyme and Reason" is credited to Score Productions, but legend has it that it was actually the instrumental of an Amboy Dukes one-hit wonder that charted in 1968. Of course, because ABC wiped all of the episodes of "Rhyme and Reason", we don't know for sure. Name this footnote in psychedelic rock history which takes its title from a Jules Verne work.

What singer released "Everything" in 1997, which alluded the chorus to the Stylistics' "You Are Everything" and the A Taste of Honey version of Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki"?

Perhaps the most famous musical allusion in a kid's series came in the early 1990s, when lyrics to "This Old Man" were rewritten and sung by what anthropomorphic tyrannosaurus? The series that featured said dinosaur also repurposed "Yankee Doodle" for its theme music.

Name the game show that featured an instrumental version of Eddie Rambeau's "Summertime Guy" (as well as a sample of Mendelssohn in the beginning) as its theme music. It recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.

What fast-food chain used the 1974 song "Life Is a Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)" in a unique promotion that, in the late 1980s, awarded $1 million to whoever had the only one out of 80 million records that featured singers that could recite all of the menu items correctly?

And no, you do not get any bonus points for doing so yourself. I couldn't even do it for crying out tears. :)

Blackstreet wrote new Gospel-centric lyrics to a DeBarge hit from 1983 and released it on their "Another Level" record as "The Lord Is Real". Its rhyming parenthetical title is the title of the original DeBarge song. What is it?

One of the earliest instances of a video game appropriating Bach's "Toccata & Fugue in D minor" (although when used in game, it's in the key of C natural) is in what sequel, the first (and so far only) instance in which Mario is the villain?