The Breakfast Club (daytime variety, with host Don McNeill)

     (ABC Daytime, 1954 - 1955)

     [This was acutally a SIMULCAST of Don McNeill's radio show of
      the same name...which had been a fixture on radio since 1933;
      His earlier attempt at a TV primetime variety show ("Don McNeill's
      TV Club") only lasted one season also]


Theme 1: "Good Morning, Breakfast Clubbers"

     Composers: Leroy ("Roy") Shield (ASCAP), and
                Don McNeill (ASCAP)
               [professional name of Donald T. McNeill]

     1978 Publisher: Will Rossiter Publisher (ASCAP)

     1999 Publisher: Will Rossiter Publisher (ASCAP)
                        of Skokie, IL

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Theme 2: "Breakfast Club Makes Life Easier"

     [ASCAP alternate title: "Breakfast Club Theme"]

     Composers: Leroy ("Roy") Shield (ASCAP), and
                Don McNeill (ASCAP)
               [professional name of Donald T. McNeill]

     1978 Publisher: Will Rossiter Publisher (ASCAP)

     1999 Publisher: Will Rossiter Publisher (ASCAP)
                        of Skokie, IL

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Theme 3: "Breakfast Club Theme 3"

    [above is the title listed in the ASCAP database]

     Composer: Edward D. ("Eddie") Ballantine (ASCAP)

     1978 Publisher: [none listed]

     1999 Publisher: [none listed]

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Theme 4: "Breakfast Club Theme 4 or 2"

    [above is the title listed in the ASCAP database]

     Composer: Edward D. ("Eddie") Ballantine (ASCAP)

     1978 Publisher: [none listed]

     1999 Publisher: [none listed]

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Theme 5: "March Around the Breakfast Table"

     Composer: John Redmond (ASCAP)

     1978 Publisher: T. B. Harms Co. New Account (ASCAP)

     1999 Publisher: Universal-Polygram International 
                        Publishing Inc. (ASCAP), of
                        Los Angeles, CA

     Copyright Date: April 17, 1958; Eu 522 153.
     Renewal Date:    Jan. 27, 1986; RE-284-973.

     Recordings:
             LP: "March Around the Breakfast Table"
                  Eddie Ballantine and his Band
                  Coral CRL 57291 (1957)



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