(Syndicated, 1950 - 1990; Cable TV Superstation WOR-TV) [As a teenager Joe Franklin was nostalgic; his first radio series at age 20 was a look back at vaudeville; At age 22 WABC-TV (then known as WJZ) offered him an opportunity to do a television show; At first the management balked when he said it was a "talk show" on the new visual medium; But Joe chose such a variety of guests and found ways to make talk entertaining; and a genre was born... At one point the show was named "Joe Franklin's Memory Lane." Joe Franklin became a fixture of East Coast TV/radio talk with a panoply of characters trying to make it in the big time, and/or on their way down after the big time; it survived a number of time slot changes from night to daytime; after 40 years, it was moved to the wee hours on WOR-TV (which was actually in New Jersey) although a whole week of shows were taped on one day; This show was syndicated up and down the East Coast as far as Florida so retirees from the Big Apple could stay in touch; and at the peak of its popularity was available via Superstation WOR on 2500 cable television systems coast-to-coast; His hour-long TV show on WOR was produced by Richard Ornstein]
[ASCAP title variations... aka: "12th Street Rag"; aka: "El Baile de la Doceaba"] Composers: music by Euday L. Bowman (ASCAP) and lyric by Andy Razaf (ASCAP) 1978 Publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) 2001 Publishers: Jerry Vogel Music Company, Inc. (ASCAP) of New York, NY; and Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) of New York, NY Copyright Date: 1914 Renewal Date: Recording:
[ASCAP title variations... aka: "Joe Franklin Show Theme"; aka: "Joe Franklin Theme"] Composer: Michael Karp (ASCAP) Original Publisher: M. Karp Music Company (ASCAP) 2001 Publishers: Michael Karp Music, Inc. (ASCAP) of New York, NY Composition Date: 1983 [as "Joe's Theme: Music Package (contains 12 versions)]: Copyright Date: Apr. 6, 1987; SR-80-579 Renewal Date: Recording:
[ASCAP title variations... aka: "Twelfth Street Rag"; aka: "12th Street Rag"; aka: "Joe Franklin"; aka: "Joe Franklin Closing Theme"; Obviously this was a variation on the "Twelfth Street Rag" Theme by Euday L. Bowman and Andy Razaf above...] Adapters/Arrangers: Brian Gari (ASCAP) and Jeffrey S. ("Jeff") Olmsted (ASCAP) Original Publishers: 2001 Publishers: Right Mind Music (ASCAP) of Chestnut Ridge, NY; and Tenacity Music (ASCAP) of New York, NY Composition Date: Copyright Date: Renewal Date: Recording: