(ABC Primetime, 1958 - 1959; Syndicated) [The name "Rough Riders" has been used in various ways in the history and mythology of the United States; From the Teddy Roosevelt group that charged up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, to various B-Pictures with that name in the title (like "Rough Riders Round-Up", etc.; This series produced by ZIV Television had little bearing to anything that went before it; it was a routine low-budget western about three Civil-war soldiers who become buddies -- two Union soldiers and a Confederate soldier -- who go around cleaning up various groups of ante-bellum bad guys and renegade Indians; This was one of the few ZIV-TV series that was aired on a network first and not sold directly via First Run Syndication]
[The name Cliff Radford appears to be a BMI pseudonym for an anonymous ZIV ghost writer such as David Rose or Ray Bloch who created a library track re-purposed for this THEME from the ZIV-owned World Broadcasting Service (WBS) Library; Original publisher information from an internal BMI Theme list courtesy CD producer and library music expert Paul Mandell] Composer: Cliff Radford (not affiliated) Original Publisher: Esteem Music, Inc. (BMI) div. of ZIV-TV, Inc. 2001 Publisher: EMI-Unart Catalog, Inc. (BMI) c/o EMI Music Publishing, Inc. of New York, NY 2018 Publisher: EMI-Unart Catalog, Inc. (BMI) c/o EMI Music Publishing, Inc. of Nashville, TN Copyright Date: Renewal Date: Recordings: