Sunday Showcase (variety)

    (NBC Primetime, 1959 - 1960)

    [aka: "NBC Sunday Showcase";

     This umbrella title was applied to a variety of programs
     airing on Sunday Nights on NBC for one season; They included 
    "The Milton Berle Show" -- a comedy variety hour, dramatic
     plays like Budd Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run" and the 
     historical drama "Our American Heritage"...] 

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Theme: "Sunday Showcase Theme (Sunday Drive)"

    [above is title as filed for copyright; ASCAP title variants...
     aka: "Sunday Drive";
     aka: "Sunday Showcase Theme";

     THEME credit in Gelfand "Television Theme Recordings";
     
     Notation on manuscript filed for copyright says "based
     upon 'The Sins of Pat Muldoon'"]

     Composer: Richard Adler (ASCAP)
    [Broadway composer of "Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees"
     and jingles for Hertz, Palmolive, Kent and Viceroy Cigarettes]

     Orig. Publisher: Andrew Music Corp. (ASCAP)

     1978 Publisher: [no listing found in the 1978 ASCAP Index
                      of Performed Compositions]

     2001 Publisher: Andrew Music Corp. (ASCAP)
                        c/o Frank Music Corp.
                        of New York, NY 

     Copyright Date: Sep.  2, 1959; Eu 592 292.
     Renewal   Date: Feb. 18, 1987; RE-331-813.

     Recordings:

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