(CBS Regular Season NFL football, 1964 - 1968) [CBS paid millions for the rights to broadcast coverage of the NFL regular season games during the mid-1960s. During the 1968/69 season, when NBC won the rights, they committed a monumental gaffe by truncating the last 8 minutes of game coverage so the network movie "Heidi" could start on time...and never heard the end of it from fans.]
[ASCAP alternate titles... aka: "N F L Today Theme"; aka: "NFL Football (Opening & Closing Theme)" Composers: Walter ("Walt") Levinsky (ASCAP), and Elliot J. Schrager (BMI) 1978 Publisher: 2018 Publishers: Aspenfair Music Inc. (ASCAP) c/o Sony-ATV Harmony of Nashville, TN; and EMI-Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) of Nashville, TN Copyright Date: Renewal Date: Recordings:
[aka: "The Walter Mitty March"; ...verified from details in a published Marching Band arrangement of "Confidence" also referred to as "The N.F.L. TV Theme (March)"... this musical production scored by Carr and Shuman was based upon the James Thurber classic short story about a man who lives for adventures in his daydreams.] Composers: music by Leon Carr (ASCAP) and lyric by Earl S. Shuman (ASCAP) 1978 Publisher: April Music, Inc. (ASCAP) 2000 Publisher: Music Sales Corp. (ASCAP) of New York, NY [as "Confidence, from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"]: Unpublished Copyright Date: Nov. 10, 1964; Eu 852 715. Unpublished Renewal Date: Jan. 3, 1992; RE-567-443. [as "Walter Mitty March, from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"]: Unpublished Copyright Date: Nov. 10, 1964; Eu 852 727. Unpublished Renewal Date: Jan. 3, 1992; RE-567-454 . Recordings: