(ABC Primetime 1951 - 1955)
[hosts included Robert Q. Lewis, Dennis James, the comedy
team of Bob and Ray, and Clifton Fadiman]
[verified by comparing the Chappell track below with
an aircheck from the show, supplied by TV quiz-show theme
collector Gary Stark of Beachwood, Ohio]
Composer: Sidney Torch (British PRS/ASCAP/BMI)
Original Publisher: Chappell Music, Ltd. (British)
1998 Publisher: Chappell Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)
Composition Date: [1948, as seen in liner notes to the CD]
Recording:
78rpm in the Chappell Recorded Music library
Chappell C267.
Re-issue:
CD: "Sidney Torch" in the EMI Historic Recordings series
"British Light Music" (1992)
EMI CDP 7 99256 2
UK: CDHMV 2
[verified by Mark Koldys, of Dearborn, MI, who heard this as
the THEME when the series was re-broadcast recently on the Game
Show Network; he explains that when Bob and Ray (and Fadiman)
were hosts, the sponsor was Ralston-Purina, whose headquarters
were in St. Louis, MO.]
Composers: music by Kerry Mills (ASCAP), and
lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling (ASCAP)
Original Publisher: [unknown]
1998 Publisher: [Public Domain]
Composition Date: 1904
Recordings: