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Although OTRCAT.com does not have recordings of every series listed below,
the following is
quick reference guide to old time radio show series, theme music title, and composer (when available).
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A & P Gypsies, - "Two Guitars" -
Traditional Russian folk melody
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Abie's Irish Rose- "My Wild Irish Rose" -
Chauncey Olcott
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Academy Award Theatre - "Opening Motif Sig" -
Leith Stevens
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Ace Williams, The Adventures of - " Poet and Peasant Overture" -
Franz von Suppe
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Action Theatre **RR7** -
"Concerto for Piano, in A Minor (Op. 16)," -
Edvard H. Grieg
- Adventure Parade **RR7** [children's show with John Drake]
- Opening Fanfare: "Adventure Parade Fanfare" -
John Marion Gart
- "Adventure Parade Theme [aka: "Adventure On Parade"]" -
John Marion Gart
- Against The Storm -
- "Ich Liebe Dich [I Love You]" -
Edvard H. Grieg
- "The Song of Bernadette" [1943 film] -
Alfred Newman
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Al Jolson Show, The
- "Colgate Jingle ["Use Tooth Powder Ev'ry Day, Brush Your Teeth The Colgate Way"]"
- Opening: "I'm Sitting On Top Of The World" -
Ray Henderson; Samuel M. ["Sam"] Lewis; Joseph ["Joe"] Young
- Closing: "April Showers (from the 1921 musical "Bombo")" -
Louis Silvers; B. G. ["Buddy"] DeSylva
- Aldrich Family, The
- "Who? (Stole My Heart Away)" [from the 1925 film "Sunny"] - Jerome Kern (m); Otto Harbach (w); Oscar Hammerstein II (w)
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"Aldrich Sub-Theme" -
Charles F. Paul
- "This Is It!"[from the 1939 musical "Stars In Your Eyes"] -
Arthur Schwartz (m); Dorothy Fields (w)
- "All The World's A Wonderland [aka: "Aldrich Theme"]" - Jack Miller (pseudonym of Nelson Cogane)
- Alias Jimmy Valentine - "If I Should Lose You" [from the 1936 film "Rose of the Rancho"]-
Leo Robin; Ralph Rainger
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All-American College Show, The - "Alma Mater (We Love You Well)" -
Norman Cloutier (wm); Vaughn de Leath (wm)
- Alvino Rey [orchestra shows] Blue Rey &
Kenneth Farrar - Signature Close Theme on various shows: "Nighty Night" -
Leslie Bacon (pseudonym of Joseph M. ["Joe"] Davis)
- Amanda of Honeymoon Hill- "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (1854)" -
Stephen C. Foster
- Amazing Mr. Tutt, The - "Amazing Mr. Tutt Theme, The" -
Marlin H. Skiles
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American Radio Warblers - "Tales From The Vienna Woods" -
Johann Strauss Jr.
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American Album of Familiar Music, The - "Dream Serenade" -
Gustave W. ["Gus"] Haenschen (m); Alfred Bryan (w)
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American School of the Air **RR7**- "eonore Overture No. 3, The" -
Ludwig von Beethoven
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Amos 'n' Andy
- until 1943: Perfect Song, The [for the 1915 silent film "Birth of a Nation"] -
Joseph Carl Breil (m); Clarence Lucas (w)
- from 1943-1966: Angel's Serenade -
Gaetano Braga
- Andy Kirk and His Clouds Of Joy [big band shows] - "Until The Real Thing Comes Along" -
Saul Chaplin (birth name: Saul Kaplan); Sammy Cahn (birth name: Samuel Cohen); L.E. Freeman; Mann Holiner; Alberta Nichols
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Arabesque- " Scheherazade" (a theme from the symphonic poem) -
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Are You a Genius? - "School Days (1906)" -
Gus Edwards; Will D. Cobb
- Armstrong Theater of Today, The
- "Fanfare & Opening, for Armstrong Theater" -
Harold Levey
- "When The Organ Played At Twilight" (The Song That Reached My Heart)(1931) -
Jimmy Campbell (m); Reginald ["Reg"] Connelly (m); Raymond Wallace (w)
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Arnold Grimm's Daughter - "Andante Cantabile, First Movement Theme from the "Pathetique" Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Opus 74) [popular title: "The Story of a Starry Night"] -
Piotr Ilyich ["Peter"] Tchaikovsky; Joseph Carl Breil (adapter/arranger)
- Art Jarrett [big band shows] - "Ev'rything's Been Done Before" (from the 1935 film "Reckless") -
Harold Adamson; Edwin Knopf; Jack King
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Art Linkletter's House Party **RR7** [aka: Pillsbury House Party] -
- "You (Gee But You're Wonderful)" [for the 1936 film "The Great Ziegfield"]
- Walter Donaldson (m); Harold Adamson (w)
- "Pillsbury House Party Theme"
- Muzzy Marcellino
- Arthur Godfrey Show, The - "Seems Like Old Times" -
Carmen Lombardo; John Jacob Loeb
- Arthur Godfrey Time
- "Beautiful Dreamer" -
Stephen C. Foster
- "Seems Like Old Times" -
Carmen Lombardo; John Jacob Loeb
- "Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The" [aka: In The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia] -
Ballard MacDonald; Harry Carroll
- "Pale Potomac Moon" -
Arthur Morton Godfrey
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Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
- Opening: "Lipton Tea Jingle" [adapted from "Sing a Song of Sixpence"] -
Traditional Nursery Tune
- Closing: "Seems Like Old Times" -
Carmen Lombardo; John Jacob Loeb
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Arthur Tracy, the Street Singer [aka: The Mystery Man of the Air] - "Marta (Rambling Rose of the Wildwood)" -
L. Wolfe Gilbert; Rodriquez Moises Simon
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Artie Shaw [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Nightmare" -
Artie Shaw
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Atwater-Kent Hour, The - "Now The Day Is Over" [an 1865 poem, set to the Joseph Barnaby hymn tune "Merrial" (1868)] -
Sir Joseph Barnaby (m); Sabine Baring-Gould (w)
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Auction Gallery [aka: Victory Gallery; Radio Auction] - "You Are My Lucky Star" [from the film "Broadway Melody of 1936"] -
Nacio Herb Brown (m); Arthur Freed (w)
- Aunt Jemima / The Jad Hour (1929 - 33) - " Where Were You Last Night?" -
Al Dubin; Harry M. Woods
- Aunt Jemima [aka: Cabin at the Crossroads] (1933 - 53) -
(circa 1943): "Dixie" [original title: "Dixie's Land"] -
Daniel Decatur ["Dan"] Emmett;
- Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories - "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" -
Irish Air: "My Lodging Is In the Cold Ground" (m); Thomas Moore (w)
- Aunt Mary- "Dear Old Girl" -
Theodore Morse; Richard Buck
- Avalon Time - "Avalon" [from the 1920 musical "Sinbad"] -
Vincent Rose; Al Jolson
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