used the chimes when someone hit all three of them in the head. In the 1943 MGM animated short film Who Killed Who?, the NBC chimes are heard when a mysterious killer in a heavy black cloak and hood shoots him dead with a large pistol. For a few years in the 1940s and 1950, NBC produced an in-house magazine named NBC Chimes. Danang Radio and Television in Vietnam has used this chimes and "The Tower" news music package since late 2017. Musical adaptations of the NBC chime notes A number of news theme packages have included the NBC chimes, for example ones made for exclusive use by NBC stations, or as a variant used by NBC stations in themes syndicated to stations regardless of network affiliation. Songwriters have also incorporated the sequence, and some NBC-owned radio stations, including WNBC (now WFAN) included chimes in their station ID jingles. Examples include: Songs: "I Love You (Three Little Tones)" (conjectured title; early 1930s?) A paean to the three-note NBC chimes of which little is known, including the singer, the orchestra or the circumstances under which it was recorded. Decades later, on October 7, 1978, the tune opened the first episode of the fourth season of Saturday Night Live. Garrett Morris sang the vocal, with backing by Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin, and Gilda Radner. Musical director Howard Shore conducted the orchestra. "Announcer Blues" by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra (1935) "The Chool Song" by The King's Men (1942) "The NBC Polka" by Kurt Maier (1949) "The Three Chimes of Silver" by Meredith Willson (1951—the silver anniversary of NBC's 1926 founding) Around September 1953, the radio network produced a program called Salute to the Three Chimes of NBC, which was summarized as: "Five very different musical groups play an original composition, based on the NBC chimes, called 'Bing, Bang, Bong: A Fantasy On A Trademark.'" "Let's Go" by Ray Charles (on his 1961 album Genius + Soul = Jazz) "Here's Love" from the 1963 Meredith Willson musical Here's Love (it plays during the lyric "CBS to NBC") "Chimes" by Stan Zabka, from his 1965 album Themes from Television. "Frosty" by Albert Collins (1969) "Do Your Thing" (album version) by Isaac Hayes (1971) "Twist On The 4th Chime" by Trunks on the album "Useless" (2007) Jingle packages: "NBC Stations" by Edd Kalehoff "It's a New Day" and "The Tower" by 615 Music "The Rock"