(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: