Frank Gari is a popular singer and songwriter from the late 1950s and early 1960s. His best known songs as a performer are "Utopia" (#27), "Lullaby of Love" (#23) and "Princess" (#30), all of which hit the U.S. Top 40 in 1961. He co-wrote with Roger McGuinn

Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records...

 the song Beach Ball for Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin , born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and musician.Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country...

. Gari and McGuinn appeared on the 1963 record billed as the City Surfers. That year, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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, becoming a jingle writer for TV commercials. Some of his early jingles included Ohio Bell, Genie garage doors, and the first Wendy's commercials as well as the early music in Leo Burnett's "Fly The Friendly Skies of United" campaign for United Airlines

United Airlines

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Gari is best known today as a jingle

Jingle

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 writer for television

Television

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 and radio stations. Gari is also one of the most sought after composers of music for television newscasts in America. His first television theme and image campaign was the popular Catch 5, originally written for WEWS-TV

WEWS-TV

WEWS-TV, virtual channel 5 , is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio. WEWS has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception, and is an affiliate of the ABC television network...

 in Cleveland in 1970. He also continued composing jingles, such as "Be All You Can Be" for the U.S. Army, "Be A Pepper" for Dr Pepper

Dr Pepper

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, and four slogans for the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 television network during the early and mid-1980s, such as 1982's "Come on along with ABC", with Artie Schroeck

Artie Schroeck

Arthur "Artie" Bruce Schroeck is an American musician, best known for arranging and composing popular songs and jingles. He has won multiple Clio Awards, such as when he composed the music for the 1981 ABC-TV promo "Now is the time, ABC is the place". He also composed the 1982 promo "Come on...

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Gari also has international acclaim; Sky News

Sky News

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 used The Great News Package as their main theme from 1989 (when they launched their four-channel Astra

SES Astra

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 lineup) until September 1993, and continued to use it (for main news bulletins on Sky News only) alongside the 'Sky Symphony' until 1995. In 1993 he composed the 'Sky Symphony' theme for BSkyB

British Sky Broadcasting

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 in Europe, and the 1997 'It's On Sky' (AKA 'No Turning Back') image piece. The Sky signature from the 1990s was not only found in the news theme, but also spread to all the Sky channels, including Sky One

Sky One

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, Sky Movies

Sky Movies

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, and the defunct Sky Soap and Sky Movies Gold. The signature was combined with Great News for Sky News' 90s look. He also composed the early 1990s theme for RTL

RTL Television

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 in Germany called "News Line", which was later adopted by Maryland Public Television

Maryland Public Television

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 in the US,In 2010 a theme newscast as TV Patrol on ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN

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Television news music packages written by Frank Gari

• Advantage
• Allegro
• B Package
• Catch 5
• The CBS Enforcer Music Collection
• Champion News Series
• Countdown
• Daily News (formerly "Evolution" and "New News")
• Empire
• Eyewitness News (ABC O&O News Collection)
• First News
• Freedom News
• Good Day
• Good News
• The Great News Package
• Hello News
• Hometown News
• Image
• Innovation
• It's All Right Here
• Making A Difference
• The NBC Collection
  • NBC - Speed of Life
  • NBC - News Now
  • NBC - New Millennium
  • NBC - Premier
  • NBC - Flagship
  • NBC - New Generation 1, 2, 3, & 4
• Newschannel
• News Horizon
• News Line
• News Series 2000
• News Series 2001
• News Source Now
• News Station
• News Watch
  News Watch
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• On Your Side
• The One and Only
• The One For All
• The Paramount
• Pride Inside
• The Reporter
• So Good to Turn To
• Stimulus (formerly "News Series 2000 Plus")
• Target News (formerly "Revolution")
• Telemundo News Package
• Teletrece
  Teletrece
  Teletrece is a Chilean news program on Canal 13 that, since 1970, has had the title of being the longest running news program in Chilean television, replacing TVN's 60 Minutos and subsequent programs TV Noticias, Noticias and 24 Horas....
  
   (Chile)
• This Is Your News
• Turn To News
• TV Patrol
• We'll Take You There
• Where It All Happens
• Working For You
• The World at Home
• The X Package
• The X-2 Package
• You've Got A Friend

External links

• Gari Media Group