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Home Entry, TV Show NAME THAT TUNE, First Year - 1953
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First year home entry in the very popular television shoe Name That Tune. Postmarked Jul 23, 1953.The first part of the lengthy Wikipedia entry:
Name That Tune was a television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs.
Premiering in the United States in the early 1950s, the show was created and produced by Harry Salter and his wife, Roberta.
Name That Tune ran from 1953 to 1959 on NBC and CBS in prime time. The first hosts were Red Benson and later Bill Cullen, but George DeWitt became most identified with the show. DeWitt could sing well, which was vital to the show's success; Benson and Cullen did not possess such talents.[citation needed]
Richard Hayes also emceed a local edition from 1970 to 1971. However, the best-remembered syndicated version aired once a week (expanded to twice a week for its final season) from 1974 to 1981, with host Tom Kennedy. Another version aired weekdays during 1984 and 1985, hosted by Jim Lange; this version was heavily re-run on cable TV for almost a decade. The orchestra was conducted by Bob Alberti (1974-1976), Tommy Oliver (1976-1979, and the entire run of the Lange version), and Stan Worth (1979-1981); a second band, Dan Sawyer and the Sound System, was also featured from 1978 to 1981. These versions were both titled The $100,000 Name That Tune.
NBC also aired two versions of Name That Tune in the 1970s. The first, hosted by Dennis James, ran from July 29, 1974 until January 3, 1975. The show was killed in the ratings by the CBS hit The Joker's Wild and never got off the ground (possibly due to the fact that it replaced the popular Dinah's Place). NBC tried again from January 3 to June 10, 1977, with Kennedy at the helm. Essentially, both were lower-paying versions of the better-known night-time program, a fact which may have turned viewers off. The NBC failures made Name That Tune distinctive for that era in that it represented a syndicated success that did not rely on a well-established concurrent run on a network.
Legendary television producer Ralph Edwards packaged the versions between 1974 and 1981; Sandy Frank, who earlier syndicated the Edwards-packaged episodes, staged the one-season Lange version in the mid-1980s. Veteran voice-over artist John Harlan announced the show during the entirety of this period.Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_That_Tune for more extensive info.This is a very unusual item from the very early days of television.Actual image on the front is of the Talon Fastener Company, Meadville, Pennsylvania.Card in excellent condition!I have no idea what this is worth so I'll just start it at $0.99 and see what happens.
Shipped in sturdy, folded cardboard, enveloped packaging.
Insurance required over $200. (We should all be so lucky!)
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