Talk:The Syncopated Clock

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:...and is the longtime theme of The Early Show and (far more so) The Late Show, a pair of regular movie features on CBS television for many years.
because no source citations are given and I don't think the information is presented is quite correct. 
It may be, but I'd like to see a reference. 
*The Late Show links to an Australian sitcom, and The Late Show (disambiguation) links to half a dozen articles, none of which refers to the movie feature.
*Although I certainly remember "The Late Show," I am much less certain that it was a CBS network show. I think it may have been a WCBS program, i.e. one seen only on CBS's New York City affiliate. That would make it familiar to people living in the New York Area, but not elsewhere.
*What years was "The Late Show" presented? The sentence suggests that it's no longer on the air. If so, the use of the piece as a theme song for a defunct television show doesn't seem to rate mention in the opening section. Even less so if it was the theme song for a defunct television show on one station in one city... even if that city happens to be New York. 
Its use as a television theme should go back in the article, but not until we've got the facts straight and are clear on whether this opening-sentence material or just a nostalgic side-note of interest only to people who grew up in the New York area.
As long as we're on the topic... remember the "Gone With the Wind" theme for "Million Dollar Movie?" Dpbsmith (talk) 13:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I.I.N.M., The Late Show was a movie umbrella used by all of CBS's owned-and-operated stations, WCBS-TV included; I once saw an album by Columbia Special Products of Music from "The Late Show" - only the movie umbrella mentioned actually pertained to Chicago's WBBM-TV, not WCBS, and they had a shot of the Chicago skyline on the cover.  Would anyone know what theme WBBM's Late Show used? –Wbwn 22:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The syndicated American late night TV show that ran movies and used this as its theme song was called The Late Late Late Show. The only info I found that related in any way to it is Moviesunlimited.com's catalog.  Jaguara 23:24, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Argh.  How many lates were there?  stand corrected or else my memory is real lousy. hooray for insomnia! 23:27, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I actually have Percy Faith's version on a 10" Columbia album from 1955, and his recording was indeed used on WCBS-TV's The Late Show for many years until about 1971 or 1972; a small piece of the opening (or closing) sequence with Faith's rendition, as variated in the mid-to-late 1960's ("in color," as seen at a justified right angle below the show title on the top left corner of the screen) was seen in a 1991 special celebrating the 50th anniversary of WCBS-TV's commercially broadcasting.  After 1971-72, the station inaugurated a synthesized version whose arrangement was along the lines of Hot Butter's 1972 hit "Popcorn" (with an animated sequence of stars flocking to, and ultimately cluttering up, a TV screen), and only used by them for about a year; that was then followed by a Lite-Brite - style opening sequence used on all of the station's movie umbrellas (also including The Early Show, The Late Late Show and Picture for a Sunday Afternoon) through the 1980's.  Other CBS stations' Late Shows apparently used other songs entirely; one clip occasionally seen on the Web, from the 1960's, with a theme song with lyrics, used the same channel 2 logo variation (with the CBS logo to the left of the "2" as set in Grotesque No. 9) as used then by WCBS-TV in the opening sequence, but that opening may have actually originated from its Los Angeles sister station KNXT (now KCBS-TV).  Might this be of help in clarifying the saga of "The Syncopated Clock" on The Late Show? –Wbwn 22:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

text: P.S.  As far as The Early Show is concerned, KNXT's theme music was the theme from the 1969-1975 Australian detective drama Division 4.  Some web sources claimed WCBS-TV also used the opening sequence which used that music. –Wbwn 00:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Compress it into a longish sentence, make it clear that it was only a (wildly popular) New York local TV show, and put it back. Perhaps someone will scream OR and take it out, but I think it's sound and perhaps nobody will quibble about the OR aspects.  Dpbsmith (talk) 00:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if this'll work, but the CBS part was modified to read that "The Syncopated Clock" was used on some of its O&O's, and specified WCBS-TV.  Only the "25 years" part is in dispute; I distinctly remember c.1971-72 as when it was last used - that was 20-21 years after Percy Faith recorded his version. –Wbwn 02:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: The redirect from "musical clock" should be removed, as it alresdy has a redirect to musical boxes which is the appropriate one Chrismorey (talk) 00:47, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
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