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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).
- Baby Rose Marie
- "Baby Shoes" (1916) -
Joe Goodwin; Ed Rose; Al Piantadosi
- "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are" [used in the 1944 film "Step Lively"] -
Jule Styne (m); Sammy Cahn (w)
- "When The Moon Bids The Sun Goodnight (1938)" -
Basil Ziegler; Lou Shank
- Bachelors Children
- "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" [from "Naughty Marietta"] -
Victor Herbert (m); Rida Johnson Young (w)
- "Brahms' Lullaby" (Wiegenlied) Opus 49, No. 4 -
Johannes Brahms
- "Could My Song On Wings Go Flying?" (1942) -
Reynaldo Hahn (m); Victor Marie Hugo (French w); Roy Ringwald (Eng. w)
- Backstage Wife [aka: Mary Noble, Backstage Wife]
- "Stay As Sweet As You Are" -
Harry Revel; Mack Gordon
- "Rose of Tralee, The" -
Charles. W. Glover; G. Mordaunt Spencer
- Bar X Days / Bar X Days and Nights - "Long, Long Ways From Home" -
Carson J. Robison
- Barron, The - "Barron's Theme, The" -
Gustave W. ["Gus"] Haenschen
- Bartons, The / Bud Barton / Story of Bud Barton -
- "Bartons, The" -
Don Marcotte
- "Schottische At Sunrise" -
Don Marcotte
- Beat The Band
- [1940 - 41 w/Ted Weems & Hildegarde]: "Out Of The Night" -
Harry Sosnik; Walter Hirsch
- [1943 - 44 w/Harry Sosnik]: "Out Of The Night" -
Harry Sosnik; Walter Hirsch
- Believe It Or Not [with Robert Ripley] - "March Moderne" -
Bob Miller
- Ben Bernie
- Opening: "It's A Lonesome Old Town (When You're Not Around)" -
Harry Tobias; Charles Kisco
- Closing: "Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams" -
Jack Meskill; Jean Schwartz
- Ben Pollack [orchestra shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Song Of The Islands" -
Charles E. King
- Benny Carter [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Melancholy Lullaby" -
Benny Carter; Edward Heyman
- Benny Goodman [big band shows]
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- Opening: "Let's Dance" [adapted from "Invitation To The Dance" by Carl Maria Von Weber] -
Joseph Bonime (adapter); Gregory Stone (adapter); Fanny Baldridge (w)
- Closing: "Good-Bye" -
Gordon Jenkins
- Benny Goodman's Swing School - " Let's Dance" [adapted from "Invitation To The Dance" by Carl Maria Von Weber] -
Joseph Bonime (adapter); Gregory Stone (adapter); Fanny Baldridge (w)
- Betty and Bob - "Salut d'Amour" (Opus 12) -
Edward Elgar
- Between The Bookends - "Auld Lang Syne" -
Traditional Scottish Air w/words by Robert Burns
- Beulah Show, The
- "Got The World In A Jug" [aka: "Down-Hearted Blues"] -
Fletcher H. Henderson
- "Downhearted Blues" -
Alberta Hunter; Lovie Austin
- "Lazy Heart" -
Alexander Laszlo
- Bickersons, The - "Anyone Can Dream" -
Joseph J. Lilley (m); Mack David (w)
- Big City Serenade(1951 - 53) - "Big City Serenade, A" -
Don Marcotte
- Big John and Sparky [weekend show title: No School Today] - "Teddy Bears' Picnic, The" -
John W. Bratton; Jimmy Kennedy
- Big Show, The
- Opening: "Handful Of Stars, A" (1940) -
Ted Shapiro; Jack Lawrence
- Closing: "May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You" - Meredith Willson
- Big Sister
- Opening Billboard: "Westminster Chimes" [aka: "The Westminster Carol"] -
William Crotch (organist in 1793 for St. Mary's Church of Cambridge England)
- "Valse Bluette" -
Riccardo Drigo
- "Theme for Big Sister" -
Dean Herrick
- Big Story, The
- Theme Medley, Part 1: "Big Story Theme, The" -
Wladimir Selinsky
- Theme Medley, Part 2: "Prowess In Battle, a section from the Tone Poem "Ein Heldenleben"" [A Hero's Life] -
Richard Strauss
- Big Town - "Tell The Story" -
F. Frey
- Billie Burke Show, The [aka: Fashion In Rations]
- Opening: "Look For The Silver Lining" [from the 1920 musical "Sally"] -
Jerome Kern (m); Buddy G. De Sylva (w)
- Closing: "Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody, A" [from Broadway revue "Ziegfeld Follies of 1919"]-
Irving Berlin
- Billy Butterfield [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "What's New?" [orig. title: "I'm Free"] - Bob Haggart (m); Johnny Burke (w)
- Billy May [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Lean Baby" -
Billy May (m); Roy Alfred (w)
- Bing Crosby - Signature Theme on various shows: "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" -
Fred Ahlert; Roy Turk; Bing Crosby
- Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show, The
- Opening: "Side By Side" (1927) -
Harry MacGregor Woods
- Closing: "Don't Worry (About Tomorrow)" [from the 1943 film "Salute For Three"]-
Jule Styne (m); Kim Gannon (w)
- Blackstone Plantation [w/Frank Crumit & Julia Sanderson] - "Spain" (1924) -
Isham Jones; Gus Kahn
- Blue Barron [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Sometimes I'm Happy" [from the 1927 musical "Hit The Deck"] -
Vincent Youmans (m); Leo Robin (w); Clifford Grey (w)
- Blue Monday Jamboree - "Jamboree" [aka: "Jamboree March"] - Meredith Willson
- Blue Playhouse- "Jamboree" [aka: Jamboree March] - Meredith Willson
- Bob and Ray - "Mention My Name In Sheboygan" (1947) -
Bob Hilliard; Dick Sanford; Sammy Mysels
- Bob and Victoria -
"I'm Falling In Love With Someone" [from the 1910 musical "Naughty Marietta"] -
Victor Herbert (m); Rida Johnson Young (w)
- Bob Burns Show, The -
- "Arkansas Traveller, The" -
Traditional U.S. Folk Song
- "I Like Mountain Music" -
James Cavanaugh; Frank Weldon
- Bob Crosby [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Summertime" [from the 1935 opera "Porgy And Bess"] -
George Gershwin (m); Dubose Heyward (w)
- Bob Hope -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Thanks for the Memory" [from the film "The Big Broadcast of 1938"] -
Leo Robin; Ralph Rainger
- Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys [orchestra shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "San Antonio Rose" -
Bob Wills
- Bobby Byrne [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Danny Boy" [Londonderry Air] -
Traditional Irish Air
- Bobby Sherwood [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Elk's Parade", The -
Bobby Sherwood
- Bold Venture -
"Bold Venture Original Theme" -
David D. Rose
- Boston Blackie -
"Boston Blackie" - Lew White
- Box 13 [produced by and starring Alan Ladd]- "Box 13" -
Rudy Schrager
- Break The Bank -
- "Gold Diggers' Song, The (We're In The Money)" [from the musical revue "Gold Diggers of 1933"] -
Harry Warren (m); Al Dubin (w)
- "Break The Bank Theme" -
Peter Van Steeden Jr.
- Breakfast Club with Don McNeill, The -
- "Good Morning" -
Walter Blaufuss; W. R. Williams; Donald T. MacNeill
- "Good Morning, Breakfast Clubbers" -
Leroy Shield (m); Donald T. McNeill (w)
- "Breakfast Club Makes Life Easier" -
Leroy Shield (m); Donald T. McNeill (w)
- "March Around the Breakfast Table" -
John Redmond
- Closing Song: "So Long, Breakfast Clubbers" -
Leroy Shield (m); Don McNeill (w)
- Breen and De Rose -
"Deep Purple" (1939) [instrumental version (1934)] -
Peter De Rose (m); Mitchell Parish (w)
- Brenda Curtis -
"Melody In F (Opus 3, No. 1)" (1850 - 51) -
Anton Rubinstein
- Brenthouse [Brent House] -
"String Quartet in G Minor, third movement" -
Claude Achille Debussy
- Bride and Groom -
"Wedding March" (1851) ["Marche des Fiancialles" from the opera "Lohengrin", aka "Here Comes The Bride"] -
Richard Wagner
- Bright Horizon-
- "Little Brown Jug -
Joseph E. Winner
- "Alt-Wien, Nr. 11 fur Klavier, fr. "Triakontameron"" [Old Vienna, No. 11 for Piano, from "30 Moods and Scenes in Triple Meter"] (1919) -
Leopold Godowsky
- "Bright Horizon" -
John Marion Gart; Tot Seymour
- Brighter Day, The -
- "At Dawning, I Love You" -
Charles Wakefield Cadman (m); Nelle Richmond Eberhart (w)
- Theme for "The Brighter Day" - William Meeder
- Brighter Tomorrow, The Gabriel Heatter Show -
- "Brighter Tomorrow, A -
John Marion Gart
- Gabriel Heatter Opening and Closing -
Melvyn Lenard Gordon
- Broadway Is My Beat -
"Manhattan" [from the 1925 revue "Garrick Gaities ] -
Richard Rodgers (m); Lorenz Hart (w)
- Broadway Playhouse [Armed Forces Radio Service version of Lux Theatre] -
"Lux Theme" -
Rudy Schrager
- Brunswick Brevities (1929) -
"Say It With Music" [from the "Music Box Revue of 1921" ] -
Irving Berlin
- Buck Rogers In The 25th Century -
"Les Preludes (a theme from the tone poem)" -
Franz Liszt
- Bughouse Rhythm -
"Fan Fare" -
John Brunker ["Jack"] Meakin
- Bullocks Show, The - "The Swan Lake Ballet, Op. 20" -
Piotr Ilyich ["Peter"] Tchaikovsky
- Bunny Berigan [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "I Can't Get Started" [from "Ziegfeld Follies"] -
Vernon Duke (m); Ira Gershwin (w)
- Burns and Allen
- "Comin' Through the Rye (When a Body Meets a Body) -
Traditional Scottish Air
- "Crazy People" [from the 1932 film "The Big Broadcast"] -
James V. ["Jimmy"] Monaco; Edgar Leslie
- "Campbells Are Coming, The" -
Traditional Scottish Air
- Main Theme since 1936: "Love Nest, The" [from the 1920 musical "Mary"] -
Louis A. Hirsch (m); Otto Harbach (w)
- 1950 Carnation Sponsorship: "Two-A-Day" [aka: "Vaudeville Days"], from the "Structural Music" library -
Alexander Laszlo
- Buster Brown Show, The [aka: Buster Brown Gang, Smilin' Ed McConnell] -
- "Happy Sound of Buster Brown, The [shoe jingle] -
Traditional WW I song: "Mademoiselle From Armentieres" (aka: "Hinky Dinky Parlez-Vous")
- "I Got-a Shoes, You got-a Shoes (Heav'n, Heav'n)" -
Traditional Negro Spiritual
- By Kathleen Norris -
"Remembering You" -
Elsie Thompson
- By Popular Demand -
"Way You Look Tonight, The" [from the 1936 film "Swing Time"] -
Jerome Kern (m); Dorothy Fields (w)
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