(NBC Primetime, 1951 - 1962) [Orig. title: "The Dinah Shore Show"; Vocalist Dinah Shore hosted a Primetime musical variety program in one form or another for over 12 seasons; she was a fixture during the Classic days of television; In the beginning, her show was only 15-minutes long, typical of block-formatted radio series and early television; Then in 1956 she was featured in a number of monthly specials sponsored by the Chevrolet division of General Motors; A year later, in 1957, her 15-minute series ended and Chevrolet began sponsoring her in a weekly expanded one-hour format, and their name was added to the title; She sang the Chevrolet jingle on the monthly specials and as her THEME song when the weekly show began being sponsored by Chevrolet; her recording was also used on radio and television spot commercials; Later she hosted two Daytime talk shows -- "Dinah's Place (NBC, 1970 - 1974)" and "Dinah!" (Syndicated, 1970 - 1980)]
[the revue for which this song was written was a showcase for Ethel Waters; but it was the 1932 recordings by The Mills Brothers and Bing Crosby which popularized it; Other recordings followed by Fats Waller and The Boswell Sisters, and it became a standard of the mid-1930s and early 1940s; aka: "Dinah (Is There Anyone Finer?)"; ASCAP title variations... aka: "Dinah Theme"; aka: "Dinah And Friends"] Composers: music by Harry Akst (ASCAP); lyric by Samuel M. ("Sam") Lewis (ASCAP) and Joseph Widow ("Joe") Young (ASCAP) Orig. Publisher: Henry Waterson, Inc. (ASCAP) of New York, NY 1966 Publisher: Edwin H. Morris, Inc. (ASCAP) of New York, NY 1978 Publisher: Mills Music, Inc. [Old Acct.] (ASCAP) and Morley Music Co. (ASCAP) 2001 Publisher: B & G Akst Publishing Co. (ASCAP) c/o The Songwriters Guild of Weehawken, NJ; EMI-Mills Music/Old Acct. c/o EMI Music Publishing, Inc. of New York, NY; and Morley Music Co. (ASCAP) c/o MPL Communications, Inc. of New York, NY Composition Date: 1925 Copyright Date: Renewal Date: Recordings:
[above is title as filed for copyright; ASCAP title variations aka: "See The U S A In Your Chevrolet (Chevrolet)"; Verified as the THEME in the TV Guide article "What's The Name of That Theme Song?" Feb. 19, 1954 on p.21] Composers: words by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and music by Leon Carr (ASCAP) Orig. Publisher: Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corp. 1978 Publisher: [Not listed in the 1978 ASCAP Index of Performed Compositions] 2001 Publisher: [listed without publisher in the 2001 ASCAP ACE Database] Copyright Date: July 23, 1948; EU 139 011. Renewal Date: Nov. 10, 1975; R 617 115. Recordings:
[theme verified in the Ray Clark TV Theme collection] Composer: Allie Wrubel (ASCAP) 1978 Publisher: [listed without publisher in the 1978 ASCAP Index of Performed Compositions] 2001 Publisher: Music Sales Corp. (ASCAP) of New York, NY Copyright Date: Dec. 5, 1951; Eu 258 069. Renewal Date: Jan. 5, 1979; RE -17-569. Recordings: