Harry Salter

For main character portrayed by Michael Elphick on BBC television, see Harry (UK TV series)

Harry Salter (1899 – March 5, 1984) was an American music director and an orchestra conductor for radio and television programs. One of Salter's radio orchestras in the late 1920s had as members Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa and Jack Teagarden. He was the orchestra leader for such radio shows as the Hit Parade, Your Unseen Friend, Philco Show, Musical Grocery Store, Hobby Lobby and Mr. District Attorney. He also conducted for performers such as Lanny Ross and Milton Berle.

Salter was also the creator, executive producer and orchestra conductor for the TV show Name That Tune from 1952 to 1959, and was the creator and musical director of Stop the Music on both radio and television, which was broadcast on radio from 1948 to 1949^[1] and became a one-hour TV show on ABC from May 1949 to April 1952, then came back again as a half-hour show from September 7, 1954, to June 14, 1956.

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Salter was born in New York and had two brothers Louis and Bert and a sister Sylvia Werner. He was married to Roberta Semple Salter. The two later developed many musical shows on television. The couple had one daughter, Victoria. He died in a nursing home in Mamaroneck, New York at the age of 85.

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