The Neighbours theme song is the theme tune to the Australian soap opera Neighbours. It was composed by Tony Hatch with the lyrics written by his then wife, Jackie Trent, It was once voted the world's most recognised television theme song. Neighbours was originally recorded by Barry Crocker. After Trent and Hatch relocated to Australia in the 1980s, they were asked to write the theme song for Neighbours. The soap opera was going to be called Ramsay Street, before the couple penned the song. Trent told Jessie Stoelwinder from The West Australian, "We wrote the song as Neighbours because we said Ramsay Street was too close to Coronation Street, which was the major soap in Britain." The theme was written and recorded in a day and Trent said "We called in Barry Crocker at about 10pm to put his voice on it and it was on the producer's desk by 10am the following morning. And they loved it, so the series was then called Neighbours." Since 1985, there have been nine different renditions of the theme broadcast on television. They were sung by the following artists:
1 Barry Crocker 18 March 1985 – 6 July 1989
2 Barry Crocker7 July 1989 – 15 May 1992
3 Greg Hind 18 May 1992 – 27 November 1998
4 Paul Norton and Wendy Stapleton 18 January 1999 – 14 December 2001
5 Janine Maunder 21 January 2002 – 20 July 2007
6 Sandra de Jong 23 July 2007 – 12 April 2013
7 Stephanie Angelini and Daniel Boys 15 April 2013 – 5 December 2014
8 Garth Ploog 5 January 2015 – 24 March 2020
9 Bonnie Anderson 25 March 2020 – present.
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