| 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).
- Jack and Loretta Clemens - "Just A Little Girl" -
S. B. Fishburne
- Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy - "Wave The Flag (For Hudson High)" [aka: "Have You Tried Wheaties?"] -
possibly James Peterson
- Jack Benny Program, The
- "J-E-L-L-O" [original commercial jingle] -
Don Bestor
- "Old Jello Theme" [aka: J-E-L-L-O] -
Don Bestor (m); Meredith Willson (adapter/arranger)
- Open Medley: "Yankee Doodle Boy" [from the 1904 musical "Little Johnny Jones"] -
George M. Cohan
- Main Theme: "Love In Bloom" [from the 1934 Bing Crosby film, "She Loves Me Not"] -
Leo Robin; Ralph Rainger
- Lucky Strike Open Theme: "Be Happy, Go Lucky [Lucky Strike Jingle]" -
Raymond Scott (pseudonym of Harry Warnow)
- Closing: "Hooray For Hollywood" [for the 1937 film "Hollywood Hotel"] -
Richard Whiting (m); Johnny Mercer (w)
- Jack Berch Show, The - "I'm a Whistlin'" -
Jimmy Eaton; Terry Shand
- Jack Fina -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Dream Sonata" -
Harold Spina; Jack Fina
- Jack Haley Show, The - "This Can't Be Love" [from the 1938 musical "The Boys From Syracuse"] -
Richard Rodgers (m); Lorenz Hart (w)
- Jack Jenney [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "City Night" - William Engvick (BMI); Truman Elliot ["Jack"] Jenney
- Jack Kirkwood Show, The - "Hi, Neighbor" [from the 1941 film "San Antonio Rose"] -
Jack Owens
- Jack Teagarden [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues" -
Harold Arlen (m); Ted Koehler (w)
- Jack Pearl Show, The
- "Happy Days Are Here Again" [from 1929 film "Chasing Rainbows"] -
Milton Ager (m); Jack Yellen (w)
- "Two Cigarettes In The Dark" [from the 1934 film "Kill That Story"] -
Paul Francis Webster; Lew Pollack
- Jack Webb Show, The -
"Our Director (March)" -
F. E. Bigelow
- Jake and Lena - "Hello! Hello! Hello! (What a Wonderful Word Hello!)" (1948) -
Calvin ["Cal"] De Voll
- Jan Garber -
Signature Theme on various shows: "My Dear" -
Edwin Frederick Large; Jan Garber
- Jan Savitt [orchestra shows]
- Signature Theme 1 on various shows: "Quaker City Jazz" -
Jan Savitt; Jimmy Schultz
- Signature Theme 2 on various shows: "It's A Wonderful World" -
Jan Savitt; John Kluczko Watson; Harold Adamson
- Jesse Crawford [organist] -
"Forgotten Melody, The" -
Gustave ["Gus"] Kahn; Jesse Crawford
- Jimmie Gallagher [vocalist] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Dear One Good Night" (radio title: Saying Adieu) (1931)-
Jimmie Gallagher; Bob Ellsworth; Jack Erickson
- Jimmie Lunceford [big band shows]
- Signature Theme 1 on various shows: "Jazznocracy"
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Will Hudson
- Signature Theme 2 on various shows: "Uptown Blues" -
Jimmie Lunceford
- Jimmy Dorsey [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Contrasts" -
Jimmy Dorsey
- Jimmy Durante
- "Inka-Dinka-Doo" [from the 1933 movie "Palooka"] -
James ["Jimmy"] Durante (m); Ben Ryan (w)
- "You Gotta Start Off Each Day With A Song" -
James ["Jimmy"] Durante (m); Ben Ryan (w)
- "Good-night, Good-night, Good-night" -
Jack Barnett; James ["Jimmy"] Durante
- Jimmy Wakely Show, The
- Opening: "Cimarron" [aka: "Cimarron (Roll On)"] (1942)-
Johnny Bond
- Closing: "Rainbow Valley"
- Gene Autry; Smiley Burnette
- Joan Davis Time- "Nobody's Sweetheart" -
Billy Meyers; Elmer Schoebel; Gus Kahn; Ernie Erdman
- John Charles Thomas - "Home On The Range" -
Traditional U.S. Western Folk Song
- John's Other Wife - "Sweetest Story Ever Told, The" [aka: "Tell Me, Do You Love Me?"] -
R. M. Stults
- Johnson Family, The
- "My Old Kentucky Home" (1853) (aka: "My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight") -
Stephen Collins Foster
- "Listen To The Mocking Bird" (1855) -
Richard Milburn (m); pseudonym of Septimus Winner) Alice Hawthorne (w)
- "Whistler and His Dog, The" (1905) -
Arthur Pryor
- Johnny Green [big band shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye" -
John Green (m); Edward Heyman (w)
- Johnny Long [orchestra shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "White Star Of Sigma Nu, The" [fraternity song]
- Johnny Mercer Show, The [aka: "The Johnny Mercer Music Shop"] -
Closing: "Dream" -
Johnny Mercer
- Johnny Richards [orchestra shows] -
Signature Theme on various shows: "Young At Heart" -
Johnny Richards (m); Carolyn Leigh (w)
- Jonathon Trimble, Esq. - "Days Gone By" -
Jack Meakin
- Joseph White, Radio's Favorite Tenor- "Roses In The Moonlight" -
Peter De Rose; Joseph White
- Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern - ""Poeme" [vocal title: My Moonlight Madonna] -
Zdenko Fibich (m); William Scotti (adapter); Paul Francis Webster (w)
- Judy Canova Show, The - "Go to Sleepy, Little Baby" -
Judy Canova (m); Zeke Canova (m); Harry Tobias (w); Henry Tobias (w)
- Jumbo Fire Chief Show, The [with Jimmy Durante ] - "Over and Over Again" [from the 1935 musical "Billy Rose's Jumbo" and the subsequent film] -
Richard Rodgers (m); Lorenz Hart (w)
- Jungle Jim, The Adventures of - "William Tell Overture" [from the opera, "storm" motif section] -
Giacchino Rossini
- Just Neighbors - "If I Never Dream Again" -
LeRoy ["Roy"] Shield
- Just Plain Bill
- Opening: " Darling Nellie Gray" -
Benjamine R. Hanby
- Closing: "Polly Wolly Doodle" -
Traditional U.S. Southern Minstrel Song
- Juvenile Court - "Juvenile Court Theme" -
Jerrald ["Jerry"] Goldsmith
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