Theme Music
The show's theme song was the "Look Sharp/Be Sharp March" by Mahlon Merrick, an upbeat tune which got the listener's attention. The song was recorded, published (and sheet music printed) sometime between 1953-1956. It received quite a bit of play on US radio shows and was used in the repertoire of many high school and college bands of the day. There is a rendition of the song on YouTube.
The music can be heard in the 1980 boxing related film Raging Bull during the scene where Jake LaMotta (played by Robert De Niro) unveils his new nightclub. The music is also used in the Punch-Out!! series of video games published by Nintendo and the 1993 argentine film Gatica, el mono.
The band Glassjaw from Long Island, New York has a song named "The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports" on the album Worship and Tribute.
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Famous quotes containing the words theme and/or music:
“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)