The TF Hall of Fame and why you should vote for Ford Kinder & Anne Bryant... (Original content)

Colleagues,

If you haven't already voted in a TF HOF thread somewhere else, please allow me a moment of your time. This year, for the first time ever, we're allowed to vote for a specific musician or group of musicians for the HOF. I'm sure most of you are already planning to vote for Vince DiCola or "Weird Al" Yankovic, but let me explain just why you ought to give the team of Ford Kinder & Anne Bryant a thought.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: They wrote the G1 theme song.

In short, the entire sonic feel of the first 20 years of Transformers goes straight back to Kinder & Bryant. "Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons"? Kinder & Bryant. The five-note "more than meets the eye!" fanfare? Kinder & Bryant. If you're humming that old theme song while you read this post? Kinder & Bryant.

Some of the other artists that are more likely to get the nod owe a huge debt to Kinder & Bryant. Vince DiCola's (yes, excellent) score for the '86 film was built off of the sonic landscape Kinder & Bryant created. Lion's "Transformers Theme"? They just made Kinder & Bryant rock a little harder.

Did I mention that Kinder & Bryant also wrote the theme songs for "Inhumanoids" and "My Little Pony"? That Anne Kinder wrote *every single song* for "Jem & the Holograms"? And Ford Kinder? He wrote one other theme song you might know - a little ditty about someone who'll fight for freedom, wherever there's trouble? Yeah.

If that's not enough, one more thought - the duo ended up having to sue Hasbro years later over unpaid royalties for all the theme songs they created. They never even got fairly compensated for the role they played in creating a pop culture juggernaut.

KINDER & BRYANT 2015: THEY PUT THAT SONG IN YOUR HEAD.