This is the story behind the theme song of Eat Bulaga
The theme song of the longest-running noontime show Eat Bulaga featuring the TVJ (Tito, Vic, and Joey) has a colorful story.
Throughout the years, the noontime show has become a part of television history. For many generations, the show has brought laughter and big prizes to many people around the Philippines. It has also become a venue for aspiring talents to enter the entertainment industry.
From 1979, since it first aired, until today, the show has been introducing innovative concepts when it comes to noontime entertainment. Of course, who does not know its theme song?
However, many people may not know that the theme song of Eat Bulaga released in 1982 even though it started airing a few years back. That was the year when the viewers got to watch the show at the same time. It is because the first domestic satellite airing was launched that year.
“We changed pala our theme song. Because we didn’t have a theme song that time, e. It was only an ‘Eat Bulaga! Eat Bulaga,’ ganun lang,” TAPE, Inc. executive Malou Choa-Fagar shared. She was previously the show-runner of the noontime show.
The first line of the theme song “Mula Appari hanggang Jolo” symbolized that the show can be seen from North to South. “Yun yung first time na nakita lahat ng shows sabay-sabay sa Pilipinas. Kung hanggang saan, hindi ko alam. [Kaya] mula Aparri hanggang Jolo,” Malou Choa-Fagar said.
The melody of the song is quite catchy and people easily memorized the lyrics. However, the theme song has also become controversial because the province of Batanes did not agree to the first line of the song.
Sometime in the 1990s, Malou Choa-Fagar shared, the people of Batanes got mad because they were excluded in the song. The said province is in the northernmost part of the Philippines.
“Nagalit ang mga taga Batanes. [Sabi nila], ‘Kasali rin kami diyan.’ Meron silang circular. Alam mo, yung barangay, sumulat sa amin. Kaya naging mula Batanes. Mula Batanes hanggang Jolo,” the former Eat Bulaga show-runner said, based on the article from PEP.
Previously, the names of Coney Reyes and Aiza Seguerra were part of the song as they were before mainstays of the show but now it was replaced by the line “Barkada’y dumarami”.
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