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To: lee martell

Nurse Dixie was all the reason I needed to watch Emergency!


32 posted on 01/29/2014 10:31:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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Link at #2 above, is the theme from the TV series “Route 66” (1960-1964). . .

from Wikipedia

“Route 66 Theme” - by Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle was commissioned to write the instrumental theme when CBS decided to have a new song, rather than pay royalties for the Bobby Troup song “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66.” Riddle’s theme, however, offers an unmistakable homage to the latter’s piano solo (as originally recorded by Nat King Cole) throughout the number.

Riddle’s “Route 66 Theme” instrumental was one of the first television themes to make Billboard magazine’s Top 30, following Ray Anthony’s “Dragnet Theme” (in 1953) and Henry Mancini’s “Mr. Lucky Theme” (in 1960). The song earned two Grammy nominations in 1962.


36 posted on 01/29/2014 10:47:36 PM PST by deks
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