Posted 6:28 PM by Gene

One last note about Johnny before we forget him: back in '83 he put together a syndicated package of his comedy bits (completely erasing Doc Severinsen's music a la WKRP on DVD) -- and boy if Art Fern didn't write its theme: the cheesiest, corniest tune this side of Bowling for Dollars. It's hard to tell from the open but it was. We forget for all his zillions Johnny had so little success in show biz outside The Tonight Show -- the only other property I can associate with him was a haunting video retelling of E. B. White's Stuart Little from '66. Curious thing: I am sure an outfit called Studer ReVox (now two separate firms) was credited with the theme -- which is mightily peculiar as anyone familiar with those names knows Studer was (and is) big in professional electronics, and especially for its famed tape decks -- but then it is highly possible this theme was written without human intervention.

P. S. on 3/16 at 8:05 p. m. The end titles DO say, "MUSIC RECORDING BY STUDER REVOX" [sic]! They also credit someone who now goes as "Nathan Sassover, Inventor and Technologist", as "Music Supervisor". So if he did write it, he could deny it, and if he didn't he could always blame Johnny, whom he probably never met. (Because this blogger's excerpt is an infernal Guba production I can't embed it. Thanks, Guba!)