| 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).
- T-Men
Theme: T-Men Theme
Paul Sawtell
- Take It or Leave It
Theme: Take It or Leave It Theme for Eversharp Radio Program
Raymond A. ["Ray"] Bloch
- Tale Of Today, A
Theme: Coronation March [La Marche du Sacre] from the opera "The Prophet" [Le Prophete]
Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Talent Scouts --
see "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"
Tales of the Texas Rangers
Opening Medley, Part 1: Eyes of Texas, The
Traditional folk song "I've Been Working On The Railroad" (m); John Sinclair (w)
- Opening Medley, Part 2 & Close Theme: Tales Of The Texas Rangers
David D. Rose
- Taystee Breadwinner, The
Theme: Tastyeast Is Tempting (jingle, to the tune of "Here's To Whiskey" [aka: How Do You Do, Ev'rybody, How Do You Do?])
Trad. WW I song: "Mademoiselle From Armentieres" (aka "Hinky Dinky Parlez-Vous")
- Ted Fiorito [big band shows]
Signature Theme on various shows: Rio Rita [from the 1926 Ziegfeld stage production "Rio Rita"]
Harry Tierney (m); Joseph McCarthy (w)
- Ted Lewis [big band shows]
Signature Theme on various shows: When My Baby Smiles At Me
Ted Lewis; Bill Munro; Andrew B. Sterling
- Ted Mack --
see the "Original Amateur Hour"
Ted Straeter Orchestra [big band shows]
Signature Theme on various shows: Most Beautiful Girl In The World, The [from the 1935 Broadway musical "Billy Rose's Jumbo"]
Richard Rodgers (m); Lorenz Hart (w)
- Ted Weems [big band shows]
Signature Theme on various shows: Out Of The Night
Harry Sosnik; Walter Hirsch
- Telephone Hour, The
Theme: Bell Waltz, The [aka: Bell Telephone Waltz][vocal title: Music of Love]
Donald David Voorhees
- Terry and the Pirates
Theme: Ambushes Everywhere
[composer under investigation]
- Tex and Jinks
Theme: Manhattan [from the 1925 revue "Garrick Gaities ]
Richard Rodgers (m); Lorenz Hart (w)
- Thanks for the Yanks (The Bob Hawk Show) (CBS, 1942-47)
Theme: Thanks for the Yanks
Jack Meakin; Bob Hawk; Robert Sour
- Theatre Guild On The Air --
see "The U S Steel Hour"
Thin Man, The Adventures of...[and "The New Adventures of..."]
Theme: Theme - Thin Man Show
Frederic ["Fred"] Fradkin
- Third Man, The (The Lives of Harry Lime)
Theme: Third Man Theme, The [title theme from the 1949 film]
Anton Karas
- This Day Is Ours
Theme: Love For Today
Don Becker
- This Is Broadway
Theme: This Is Broadway
Raymond A. ["Ray"] Bloch
- This Is Hollywood --
see Hedda Hopper
This Is Nora Drake
Theme: Theme for 'This Is Nora Drake'
Charles F. Paul
- This Is Our Enemy [mini-series title music]
Theme: This Is Our Enemy [cues]
Nathan Van Cleave
- This Is Your FBI (ABC, 1945-53)
Theme: FBI March, The [aka: Theme/FBI]
Nathan Van Cleave
- This Is Your Life (with Ralph Edwards)
Theme 1: This Is Your Life [aka: Life Theme]
Alexander Laszlo
- Theme 2: This Is Your Life
Von Dexter
- Those Happy Gilmans
Theme: Pop Goes The Weasel
Traditional English nursery rhyme tune
- Those We Love
Theme 1: Weeping Willow
Scott [??] Joplin
- Theme 2: Eventide
Arthur Kay
- Theme 3: Those We Love
Louis ["Lou"] Silvers; Sidney ["Sid"] Silvers; Calvin ["Cal"] Kuhl
- Thought for Tomorrow, A [formerly a segment of "The Household Hour"]
Theme: Cradle Song (1934)
Carl Hoeffle
- Three Suns, The [music shows]
Theme: Twilight Time
Al Nevins (m); Mortie Nevins (m); Artie Dunn (m); Buck Ram (w)
- Today's Children
Theme 1: Tales From The Vienna Woods [Waltz] (Op. 325)(1868)
Johann Strauss
- Theme 2: Aphrodite [& Aphrodite Waltz] (from the 1919 musical production "Aphrodite")
Anselm Goetzl
- Theme 3: Lonely Heart
Ireene Wicker
- Theme 4: Autumn Nocturne
Josef Myrow (m); Kim Gannon (w)
- Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (ABC, 1952)
Theme: Space Academy March
Henry ("Hank") Sylvern
- Tom Mix Ralston Straightshooters, The
Theme: Shredded Ralston jingle [variation of: When The Bloom Is On The Sage]
Nathaniel W. Vincent; Fred Howard (pseudonym of Fred Howard Wright)
- Tommy Dorsey [big band shows]
Signature Theme on various shows: I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
George Bassman (m); Ned Washington (w)
- Tommy Dorsey [shows sponsored by Kool or Raleigh Cigarettes]
Cigarette Sponsorship Theme: Two Cigarettes In The Dark
Lew Pollack; Paul Francis Webster
- Tommy Tucker [big band shows]
Signature Theme on various shows: I Love You (Oh, How I Love You)
Tommy Tucker
- Tony Pastor [big band shows]
Signature Theme on various shows: Blossoms
Alexander Albert Avola
- Tony Wons' [Radio] Scrapbook
Theme: Traumerei (Dreams) [No. 7 from "Children's Scenes"]
Robert Schumann
- Town Hall Tonight --
see Fred Allen
Travels of Mary Ward, The
Theme: Country Gardens [aka: "The Vicar of Bray"; aka: "The Quaker's Opera" (1728)]
Traditional English air from the 18th Century
- Treasury Star Parade
Theme: Any Bonds Today?
Irving Berlin
- True Detective
Theme 1: True Detective Theme No. 1
Chester ["Chet"] Kingsbury
- Theme 2: True Detective Theme No. 2
Chester ["Chet"] Kingsbury
- Theme 3 (circa 1950): Brutal Regiment, a B-movie cue adapted for the MUTEL Music Service as "Dramatic Main Title #1 (MT 14)" [aka: Q 12-2: THEME No. 2 Long Version (Dramatic-Full), in the Capitol "Q" Series library]
Herschel Burke Gilbert (m); Joseph Mullendore (adapter)
- Truth Or Consequences
Theme 1: Merrily We Roll Along
Traditional Children's Nursery Tune
- Theme 2: Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here [based upon "Come, Friends, Who Plough The Sea" from the 1879 Operetta "The Pirates of Penzance"]
W. S. Gilbert; Sir Arthur Sullivan; Theodora (adapter Morse
- Tune Detective, The [with Sigmund Spaeth]
Theme: Excerpt from the opera "Lohengrin"
Richard Wagner
- Twenty Questions
Theme: Twenty Questions
Bernard Green; Moe Jaffe; Dick Hardt
- Two For The Money (with Herb Shriner)
Open Theme: Indiana [aka: (Back Home Again In Indiana)
Ballard MacDonald (m); James F. Hanley (w)
- Close Theme: Hoop De Doo
Milton DeLugg (m); Frank Loesser (w)
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