The Aldrich Family (situation comedy)

      (NBC Primetime, 1949 - 1953)
      [based on long-running radio series]

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Theme 1: "All The World's a Wonderland"

    [also heard on radio, 
     Jack Miller theme credit from collector Ray Clark]
    [aka: "Aldrich Opening"]

     Composer: Jack Miller (ASCAP)
              [probable pseudonym of Nelson Cogane]

     Original Publisher: Macap Music Publishers, Inc.
                        [in ASCAP Bio Dict 1952 under "Miller"]

     2001 Publisher: [listed in ASCAP Repertoire 
                      under the composer "Nelson Cogane", 
                      but without publisher]

     Copyright Date:
     Recordings:

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Theme 2: "This Is It", from the 1939 Broadway musical "Stars In Your Eyes"

    [also heard on radio, theme credit in Stetcheson Song Guide]

     Composers: music by Arthur Schwartz (ASCAP), with
                lyrics by Dorothy Fields (ASCAP)

     Orig. Publisher: Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP)

     1997 Publishers: The Songwriters Guild (ASCAP), of
                         Weehawken, NJ, and
                         Arthur Schwartz Music, Ltd., of
                         Upper Nyack, NY
     Copyright Date:
     Recordings:
          78rpm single: by Artie Shaw  

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Theme 3: "Aldrich Sub-Theme"

     Composer: Charles F. Paul (ASCAP)

     Orig. Publisher: Emil Ascher, Inc. (ASCAP)
                        [as seen in ASCAP Index 1954 and 1978]

     1997 Publisher: [listed in ASCAP Repertoire, but no pub.]

     Copyright Date:
     Recordings:                 

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