What they don’t mention is how seemingly almost every NBC affiliate in the country used various rerecordings of this as the theme music for their local news in the 1970s.
Not only NBC, when I was a child my local CBS also played this ditty right after the recorded announcement “We are now experiencing technical difficulties, regular programming will resume momentarily.” With a goofy still in the background, you could tell things were messed when the whole song got played on a loop more than 3 times until the shows got going again.
Not only NBC, when I was a child my local CBS also played this ditty right after the recorded announcement “We are now experiencing technical difficulties, regular programming will resume momentarily.” With a goofy still in the background, you could tell things were messed when the whole song got played on a loop more than 3 times until the shows got going again.