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Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His compositions include the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV show Love, American Style; the theme song for the late 1970s ABC series The Love Boat; and the dramatic theme music to ABC's Wide World of Sports [1] and the original Monday Night Football; as ...
ABC's Wide World of Sports is an American sports anthology television program that aired on ABC from April 29, 1961, to 1997, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Jim McKay, with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be used for general sports programs on the network until 2006.
Pages in category "Wide World of Sports (American TV program)" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
ABC's Wide World of Sports was intended to be a fill-in show for a single summer season, until the start of fall sports seasons, but became unexpectedly popular. The goal of the program was to showcase sports from around the globe that were seldom, if ever, broadcast on American television.
He has written, composed, and scored music for several films and television shows, such as: Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, As the World Turns, ABC Wide World of Sports, NBC Sports, Official Songs of the Olympic Games, Fame, Princess Diaries II, Dear God, [5] Heart Like a Wheel, and Pretty Woman, [6] just to name a few.
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition… this is ABC's Wide World of Sports! Ross wrote for song parodist Allan Sherman, and then co-wrote with Arbogast an album of parody songs titled My Son, the Copycat (as Stan Ross). [4]
ESPN on ABC (1993 closing sequence) ABC World News Tonight; Wide World of Sports; Nightly Business Report; The Price Is Right, including all the show cues and the updated The New Price Is Right theme in 1994; Concentration (1973) Tattletales (1974) The Big Showdown (1974) for Don Lipp-Ron Greenburg Productions; Double Dare/Card Sharks (Same ...
The two were the creators, and first producers for the Wide World of Sports television show. In 1970, he was coveted by ABC's Arledge for the new Monday Night Football, but Gowdy was bound by his contract to NBC Sports (although he continued with Grits Gresham of Natchitoches, Louisiana, to host The American Sportsman on ABC).