(CBS, 1954 - 1958)
[guest hosts also included Jack Benny]
[Verified as the THEME in TV Guide article "It
Seems To Me I've Heard That Theme Before" July 28, 1956,
pp. 12-13]
Composer: Leith A. Stevens (ASCAP/BMI)
1978 Publisher: Artists Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
2000 Publisher: Artists Music, Inc. (ASCAP),
c/o BMG Music, Inc.
of Beverly Hills, CA
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Recording:
[In his autobiographical journal "Musician", Lyn Murray
said he was hired by CBS Music Director Lud Gluskin to be the
new Music Director for "Shower Of Stars" on November 1, 1956;
Murray also described recording a New Opening for the show on
December 7, 1956 with the MGM Orchestra; he says when it came
time to edit the music tracks to match the new animated visuals
which were "animated and processed in France", he found that
somehow CBS "didn't have a 3-gang synchronizer nor a 3-headed
Moviola" so they had to do the synchronization "cold" which
resulted in the music being "off" from the animation by 2-3
frames...but by December 10, he wrote that the opening
"looked fine"; so it may have been corrected, or he decided
it wasn't so bad.]
Composer: Lyn Murray (ASCAP)
[pseudonym of Lionel Breeze]
1978 Publisher: Arpege Music (ASCAP)
2001 Publisher: Arpege Music (ASCAP)
of Los Angeles, CA
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