The Internet is My Friend

     I don't have television on cuz I am working and need something soothing. I checked my tapes but realized I could not think of what I originally had in mind (don't ask what that means, I guess it means I just forgot what I was looking for). I went ahead and popped in The Nutcracker Suite CD, while it is very nice, it is not exactly what I was looking for. The only thing I could remember is that one of the cuts is from the old "Call for Philip Morris Theme", so that is what I typed in my search. Don't you know I found the information I needed? I just love the internet. Now how did I know about Philip Morris? Well, I remembered the music from??, I have never been sure, I know that I was quite young because that's where mind's eye takes me. Obviously, it made an impact. I learned the proper name of the piece in school, in music appreciation (grinning). This is one of my very favorite, maybe my favorite, classical music. Here is the info I found.  

Theme 1: "On The Trail" from "The Grand Canyon Suite"
     Composer: Ferde Grofé Jr. (ASCAP)

     1978 Publisher: Robbins Music Corp. (ASCAP)
     1997 Publisher: EMI/Robbins Catalog, Inc. (ASCAP)

     Copyright Date: 1933, in book "Who Wrote That Song?"

     Original 78 recordings by Paul Whiteman, and Sy Oliver (1948),
          [according to book "Who Wrote That Song?" by Dick Jacobs]

     New Recordings: numerous semi-classical 78s, LPs, and CDs

NOTE: The Philip Morris Tobacco company used "On The Trail" as a signature piece behind their commercial advertising on radio & TV, along with a midget bellhop (Johnny) who intoned: "Call for Phillip Morrr--rray--is". So the choice of this piece for their dramatic anthology series is a tie-in to the advertising.

You know, I suspect that the word "midget" is now politically incorrect. I have heard the term "little people", personally I would prefer being called midget. Hat's off to the invention of the Internet.