NETWORK RADIO'S MOST DRAMATIC NEWS SOUNDER

[loretano]

My Grandfather, Jack Allen was New York Bureau chief for Mutual for a time in the 1950s. He stayed with WOR in the 1960s. Do any recording of him exist anywhere?

[byrd56]

The "World Today" theme has been used more recently on Current TV's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", as a music bed for the oddball news video segment "Time Marches On".

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

This theme sounds like the work of Maury Laws (musical director/supervisor and sometime writer on many of the Rankin/Bass cartoons). Uncertain of who really wrote this...I'm adding this to my mp3 collection and to a future mixed CD as an opening.

[fricker05]

This reminds me of the old background music for the old Rankin/Bass cartoons! What a tremendous yet a joyous theme! Thank you very much Dennis!

[GaryW48]

WOW! Thanks for the memory of Mutual sounders.

[Harlan346]

Dennis, thanks so very much for posting this and your other MBS memories. I worked for three Mutual network affiliates in the Midwest. And I surely miss Mutual. Are there Mutual get-togethers that we other broadcasters could attend? I know there was a ten-year event that ChicaBoombox posted here on YouTube.

[Toral3533]

Thank you for this. I had been looking for a while for the lead-in to the Mutual hourly news. It, as I remember it, was like the beginning of this, but a little crisper and sharper. I still play in in my head when dramatic events happen!

[batterymaker]

I use one of their sounders as my ringtone along with ABC's and CBS' news sounders. Entire bodies turn around when my phone rings! :-)

[cdr102en]

Thank you ! I have been looking for the MBS theme for years. Great music.

[drosse100]

Dennis! How are you, guy?  Enjoyed your tribute to TWT.

Dick Rossé

[MarkJ1961]

@drosse100 WOW, Dick Rosse' posting here! It REALLY DOES "Seem like only yesterday"!