“Start with Today” 1997 Promo
Start With Today is composed by Jay Stollman, Fred Shehadi and Peter Primamore, then of Kingsize Music, and was used in many promos for NBC’s Today Show. The show...
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“Good Morning America” 1997 – 1999 Theme
This theme embodies the transfer of GMA from the entertainment division to the news division as it contains the ABC News emblem. It is the first...
“CBS This Morning” 1996 – 1999 Theme
After Harry Smith and Paula Zahn left CBS This Morning, the show was revamped. Its new main anchors were the former weather and news anchors, Mark...
“Good Morning America” 1992 – 1996 Theme
This theme was used during the latter years of the Lunden-Gibson era and is composed by Non-Stop Music. The early 90’s saw the morning shows travel...
“Good Morning America” 1989 – 1992 Theme
This theme is composed by Frank Gari, who has composed news themes and image campaigns for TV stations in almost every single local market. It was...
“CBS This Morning” 1987 – 1990 Theme
CBS This Morning premiered in late 1987 with co-hosts Harry Smith and Kathleen Sullivan, a former news anchor from Good Morning America. The only holdover from the previous...
“Sunday Today” 1987 – 1992 Open
In 1987 the Today Show expanded to six days a week: Sunday through Friday. The Sunday edition was a much more serious show. It was more...
“Good Morning America” 1987 – 1989 Theme
When David Hartman left Good Morning America, the program received a total makeover. The original GMA theme was dropped and the graphics were redone with a...
“The Morning Program” Theme
The Morning Program was CBS’s entry in the morning time slot for just under a year in 1987. It famously bombed. The show was produced by...
“Today” 1985 – 2005 Open
This is the cue from The Mission that NBC selected to open the Today Show and is the only John Williams cue that was still used...
“Today” 1985 – 1990 Theme
This is the third part of the four-part package that John Williams composed for NBC News. For Today, he wrote Scherzo for Today. In musical terms, a scherzo...
“CBS Morning News” 1982 – 1984 Theme
Since the 1960’s the title CBS Morning News has been used for various programs on the CBS schedule. In the early 1980’s it was used for...
“Today” 1982 – 1985 Theme
The next Ellis theme, a different arrangement of his “This is Today” theme, debuted during Bryant Gumbel’s first show on January 4, 1982, and was used...
“Today” 1979 – 1981 Theme
This bright and sunny piece called “This is Today” is perhaps one of the most popular themes used on the Today Show. It’s the second theme...
“Good Morning America” 1975 – 1987 Theme
ABC’s Good Morning America was launched in November of 1975. The first host was David Hartman with Nancy Dussault as his co-host (later replaced by Sandy...