[aka: "Charlie Wild, PI";
aka: "Charlie Wilde, Private Eye";
aka: "Charley Wilde, Private Eye"...
the lead character name was sometimes spelled like
"Charlie Wilde" or even "Charley Wilde"; He was sometimes
called a "Private Investigator"...or a "Private Eye"...;
In the early days of television this series produced by
Herbert P. Brodkin bounced around three networks for a
couple of years, ending up on DuMont;
The lead character was first played by Kevin O'Morrison
and then in 1951, John McQuade; Cloris Leachman made one
of her earliest TV appearances as "woman Friday"]
(CBS Primetime, 1950 - 1951;
ABC Primetime, 1951 - 1952;
DuMont Primetime, 1952)
[The above title and spelling as per ASCAP 2001...
previous spelling in 1952 ASCAP Index of Performed
Compositions was "Charlie Wilde";
Hollybrook Music Co. was a publishing company owned
by Ray Bloch who was bandleader for Ed Sullivan and
other early radio and TV shows...]
Composer: Charles Sherill (not affiliated)
1952 Publisher: Hollybrook Music Co. (ASCAP)
1978 Publisher: [listed without composer in the
1978 Index of Performed Compositions,
as published by:]
Hollybrook Music Co. (ASCAP)
2001 Publisher: [listed without composer in the
2001 ASCAP ACE database, published by:]
Hollybrook Music Co., Inc. (ASCAP)
c/o Wooden Bear Music Co.
of Scottsdale, AZ
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