The Chesterfield Supper Club (musical variety, starring Perry Como)

    (NBC Primetime, 1948 - 1950)

    [This series was the FIRST of four regular primetime musical
     variety TV series hosted by Perry Como. It was an extension 
     of the radio series of the same name which aired on NBC.

     The SECOND one was a 15-min. series following the news on
     CBS, also called "The Perry Como Show" with Mitchell
     Ayers and his orchestra (CBS, 1950-55), which see...

     The THIRD series was also called "The Perry Como Show"
     (NBC, 1955-59), which see...

     The FOURTH was "Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall" (NBC, 1959-67),
     which see...]

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Theme 1: "A Cigarette, Sweet Music and You"

     Composer: Roy Ringwald (ASCAP)
     1978 Publisher: Shawnee Press Inc. (ASCAP)
     1999 Publisher: Shawnee Press Inc. (ASCAP), of
                     Delaware Water Gap, PA
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Theme 2: "Smoke Dreams"

     Composers: John Klenner (ASCAP),
                Lloyd Shaffer (ASCAP), and
                Ted Steele (ASCAP)
     1978 Publisher: Sherwin Music Pub. Corp. (ASCAP)
     1999 Publisher: Colgems-EMI Music, Inc. (ASCAP),
                     of New York, NY
     Composition Date: (circa 1937)
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