I had such a fun time spreading rumors about people I don't know that have never done anything to me in the name of generating site hits and attention that I've decided to make this a regular feature. So here's another urban legend that is not true. (Note: this urban legend is not true.)

The well-known, instrumental theme song to The Price is Right has lyrics, and they were from a Vietnam War protest song that called for the assassination of the President.

In 1965, outspoken anti-war folk singer Phil Ochs (often labeled "the next Bob Dylan) released the landmark I Ain't Marching Anymore, which included the vicious protest songs "Draft Dodger Rag," "That Was the President," the title track, and "Dead Colors," a slow, mournful, anti-Vietnam War track that not only implicitly endorses Communism, but also calls for an end to the draft, and the removal from power—by death—of President Lyndon B. Johnson. 

When CBS debuted The Price is Right on daytime television in 1972, it bought the Ochs song because producers liked the melody line…but not the arrangement (it was as slow as a dirge and consisted of just Ochs singing with his acoustic guitar), and definitely not the lyrics. So, TV theme song composer Mike Post was brought in to make it more jaunty and suitable for a happy little game show. He sped up the song, dropped the vocals, and added some horns. Ochs strongly objected to the co-opting of his political protest song to be used as a game show theme, but Elektra Records owned the rights to all his songs, so it really wasn't up to Ochs. The royalties he earned whenever "The Price is Right" aired, however, kept him financially afloat until his death, by suicide, in 1976.

Fun fact: "Dead Colors" was the source of the popular anti-war rally chant, "LBJ, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" 

(No YouTube embeds of the song are available, largely because I made up all of this.)