Theme Music
The show's theme song was the "Look Sharp/Be Sharp March" by Mahlon Merrick, an upbeat tune which got the listener's attention. The song was recorded, published (and sheet music printed) sometime between 1953-1956. It received quite a bit of play on US radio shows and was used in the repertoire of many high school and college bands of the day. There is a rendition of the song on YouTube.
The music can be heard in the 1980 boxing related film Raging Bull during the scene where Jake LaMotta (played by Robert De Niro) unveils his new nightclub. The music is also used in the Punch-Out!! series of video games published by Nintendo and the 1993 argentine film Gatica, el mono.
The band Glassjaw from Long Island, New York has a song named "The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports" on the album Worship and Tribute.
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Famous quotes containing the words theme and/or music:
“And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream,
That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its farrow that so solid seem,
Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme ...”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)