<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">​Thanks to Bll Haesler and Jerry Gordon for their research.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I had the wrong band in mind. The band was Ralph Flanagan.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Long ago when I was a teenager, the big name bands would</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">come and go through Los Angeles and play a week long gig</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">at the Orpheum theatre. They alternated each day with a</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"B" movie. The band would appear on a moving platform</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as the band played their theme song while the curtain opened.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It was like magic for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Flanagan's band was yet to be formed at that time. Benny</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Goodman (with Peggy Lee at that time), Jimmy Dorsey,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Charlie Spivak, Alvino Rey, Woody Herman (I think),</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Louie Jordan, are names that come to mind. Their</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">theme songs always lingered in my mind. I've only</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">heard the Flanagan theme song on a recording. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Here's a link to it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuuqFP8YK8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=VJuuqFP8YK8</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">My favorite was the sign off from Benny Goodman--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"Goodbye"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxz6Ak2mp8c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxz6Ak2mp8c</a><span></span></div></div>