Revue Studios Logo/ Kayro Vue Productions (1958)

[justTrinidad]

Even the logo's were cooler back then- it really was the golden age of TV

[Sarahsaturday01]

I see that I'm not the only one who was scared by the Revue music. That, the Screen Gems music,and Leo the MGM lion all used to scare the hell of the toddler that I was. I still get the chills from those three logos even today!

[angelpichu1]

look closly at the tpo row of letters...they also spell revue!

[parkman35]

That was a terrifying ending!

[MattTheSaiyan]

I could watch this logo all day.

[burger414]

This logo used to scare me. The music and the animation. LOL I used to turn my head away from the screen when I saw it!

[yardlet6]

@burger414 Hell I thought I was the only one.

[burger414]

@yardlet6 I just wonder what made these logos scary to us??

[yardlet6]

@burger414 The volume was amped up and the moving graphics were oddball. Also little kids are scared of stuff that puzzles grownups.

[radamail]

@burger414 For me, it was always the giant lettered logos with loud orchestral "stabs" that used to send me fleeing from the living room TV as a kid. I mean, I chuckle at all of that today, but back then it was sensory overload! lol.

[burger414]

@radamail :-D I look back on those days and think ... strange memories LOL. Believe it or not, I still kinda get a little tingle from these old logos. I don't know ... I guess the fonts and animation kinda look "mean" to me. LOL i'm a little embaressed to say that. :-0

[08chet]

I Remember This One From Leave It To Beaver After The Closing Credits

[vividwatch47]

The music is actually a combination of themes by Revue/Universal Television director Stanley Wilson and Juan Equiviel.

[markojameow]

I might have been born in 1968 (10 years after this musical bumper was recorded), but it is familiar to me. They used several variation of this very familiar song until 1975 - and it has to be the most powerful studio theme I've ever heard. They should bring it back, with the retro trend still going strong.

[tardit]

Let's get this straight...The Revue theme was made in '58. Am I right? (I keep thinking the logo is from either '61 or '62) and the MCA-TV logo started in '74 (which I keep thinking it was from '85 because I first saw this on Puttin On The Hits).

[ShaDeed329]

Yep. The theme originated in 1958. Not 1959, 1960, 1961, or 1962.

[MooseShady]

I did check it and Revue Jingle did composed it in 1958, but did not came until 1960.

[ShaDeed329]

There ya go!

[westpoint64]

This is true. They didn't start using it until '60, as far as I know.

[revueguy]

@ShaDeed329 I have to disagree with you on that. The logo theme wasn't composed until 1960. Check out any Revue shows between 1958 and 1960, and you'll see what I mean. The logo, along with the MCA-TV 'arrowhead' were just stills that were shown, regardless of a show's theme music. I have the Wagon Train seasons 2 & 3 DVD sets to prove my point!

[revueguy]

@ShaDeed329 But the animated version known as 'the sliding filmstrips' with theme music didn't exist until 1960, so check out Wagon Train S2 & S3, The Restless Gun S2, and even Johnny Staccato S1 (its only season in 1959-60) and you'll see what I mean, the logo existed only in still form its first two years 1958-60.

[meesterfonnyboy]

What show did this come from? The only Kayro-Vue program I can think of is "The Munsters." (Kayro was Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher's company, which had produced "Calvin and the Colonel" independently. The "Vue" part came from Revue.)

[JohnnyL80]

Leave It To Beaver. But only During Seasons 5 and 6

[meesterfonnyboy]

Thanks for that. Loved that jazzy theme variation "LITB" used in season 6.

[Joe500000]

Um... you know its not Kayro Vue ,its just Kayro, for the later years the added Vue with Kayro

[bongomanfromdalou]

George Gobel was an original partner in Gomalco productions, which produced "Leave it to Beaver" in its first four seasons. Kayro-Vue, as JohnnyL80 commented, took over in 1961--that was also the year that the Cleavers moved from the old house to the new one, if I remember right...

[MooseShady]

Their orginial company name was Golamco until 1961 when Mosher and Connelly changed it to Kayro Productions.

[wmbrown6]

Actually, around 1961 was when George Gobel and his business partner David O'Malley sold their interest in "Beaver" to Connelly and Mosher. "Kayro" was named after Connelly and Mosher's wives, Kathryn (diminution = Kay) and Rose. Also, production shifted at the same time from Republic Studios to Revue Studios.

[revueguy]

@wmbrown6

Production of all Revue shows were all actually shifted to the Universal-International lot in 1959. Maybe that should explain why the Cleavers moved to their new home at the start of season three!

[Jim856796]

Notice that on this version, the words "filmed in hollywood at" and "studios" are missing in the TV-tube-like shape that the revue logo is in.

[ShaDeed329]

Yeppers!

[ShaDeed329]

Using the "original" Revue logo theme.