(CBS Saturday Nights, 1953 - 1954) [This ambitious half-hour series included abridged dramas starring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Claude Rains and Charleton Heston among others; despite the talented casts, the half-hour format and time slot wasn't favorable so the series was cancelled after a single season]
[aka: "The Passionate Friends"; aka: "Lovers' Moon from 'One Woman's Story'" TV THEME title credit verified in the Ray Clark collection; Richard Addinsell was one of the more well-known British composers who also contributed to the Chappell Recorded Music Library, a division of Chappell & Co. music publishers of London, England; The Chappell library was distributed in the United States by New York publisher Emil Ascher who was the sole selling agent during the 1940s and 1950s for Chappell as well as several other European "mood music" libraries; Addinsell was perhaps best known for "The Warsaw Concerto" a dramatic instrumental fantasy in the style of a concerto which he wrote for the film "Dangerous Moonlight", which was an international instrumental hit in 1943 for Freddy Martin, and was recorded by many others in the decades since then; Another version added a lyric to this melody under the name "The World Outside" which yielded yet more recordings; This THEME known as "Lovers' Moon" was also a tuneful piece recognized by the public, from the 1949 David Lean British film "The Passionate Friends", starring Ann Todd, Trevor Howard and Claude Rains (released in the U.S. as "One Woman's Story")] Composer: Richard Stewart Addinsell (ASCAP) 1978 Publisher: Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) 2018 Publisher: Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) c/o Warner-Chappell, Inc. of Los Angeles, CA U.S. Copyright Date: U.S. Renewal Date: Recordings: CD: "The Music of Richard Addinsell" (1997) The Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Kenneth Alwyn ASV Living Era