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Various American Composers

Skitch mentions that he flubbed a musical cue at the start of the show's theme song (though it's barely noticeable to listeners). The opening musical number is called 'The Great Lover's Theme.'

The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" was coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal, more commonly known simply as the Theodicy. The claim that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds is the central argument in Leibniz's theodicy, or his attempt to solve the problem of evil.

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“Various American Composers.” Best of All. Radio broadcast, July 19, 1954.

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