(ABC Primetime, 1958 - 1959;
Syndicated)
[The name "Rough Riders" has been used in various ways in
the history and mythology of the United States; From the
Teddy Roosevelt group that charged up San Juan Hill in
the Spanish-American War, to various B-Pictures with that
name in the title (like "Rough Riders Round-Up", etc.;
This series produced by ZIV Television had little bearing
to anything that went before it; it was a routine low-budget
western about three Civil-war soldiers who become buddies --
two Union soldiers and a Confederate soldier -- who go
around cleaning up various groups of ante-bellum bad guys
and renegade Indians;
This was one of the few ZIV-TV series that was aired on a
network first and not sold directly via First Run Syndication]
[The name Cliff Radford appears to be a BMI pseudonym
for an anonymous ZIV ghost writer such as David Rose or Ray
Bloch who created a library track re-purposed for this THEME
from the ZIV-owned World Broadcasting Service (WBS) Library;
Original publisher information from an internal BMI Theme list
courtesy CD producer and library music expert Paul Mandell]
Composer: Cliff Radford (not affiliated)
Original Publisher: Esteem Music, Inc. (BMI)
div. of ZIV-TV, Inc.
2001 Publisher: EMI-Unart Catalog, Inc. (BMI)
c/o EMI Music Publishing, Inc.
of New York, NY
2018 Publisher: EMI-Unart Catalog, Inc. (BMI)
c/o EMI Music Publishing, Inc.
of Nashville, TN
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