What is the This Old House theme music?
This Old House now has its own original theme music, composed by Peter Bell and called simply “This Old House ’97.” You’ll hear it on PBS when you’re watching episodes of the current project house, or when you’re watching This Old House Classics on one of our syndication channels. When you watch older episodes of This Old House on PBS you’re hearing our previous theme music, which was the opening bars of “Louisiana Fairy Tale,” written by Haven Gillespie, with lyrics by Mitchell Parish and J. Fred Coots, and recorded by Fats Waller in 1935.
