electrical transcriptions catalog in 1954 during Ben Selvin's tenure as A & R Manager for RCA Victor. Performances on the radio also continued during this period and included: appearances as a member of the Magnante Accordion Quartet, on The Lucky Strike Hour, Waltz Time, and The American Melody Hour (1940s). He occasionally substituted for the quartet's founder Charles Magnante. On the Broadway stage he performed under director Harold Clurman in a production of Arthur Laurents play The Time of the Cuckoo with Shirley Booth and Dino Di Luca. By 1953, he had also arranged music which was edited by Lawrence Welk and utilized in a course of study for the piano accordion by the U. S. School of Music, which was described years later as the oldest home study music school chartered by the Board of Regents in New York State with a total worldwide enrollment of over one million students. The school also utilized his photograph to encourage enrollment in its course of study for the piano accordion. In the same year, he appeared as a featured soloist at an accordion concert hosted at the Rajah Theatre in Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1956 Serry composed, arranged and performed several compositions for Dot Records (#DLP3024) with Al Caiola and Bernie Leighton on his album Squeeze Play during Billy Vaughn's tenure as music director at Dot Records.<ref>[http://www.grandorchestras.com/bvaughn/bvaughn_biography.html Biography of Billy Vaughn" : Vaughn becomes music director of Dot Records in 1954 on grandorchestras.com]</ref> The production received a critical review as a new popular album in The Billboard in 1956 and was cited for establishing a beautiful soothing mood. The album was also critically reviewed in Cash Box magazine later that year. It features his original composition Garden In Monaco which is adapted from the theme of an ancient Italian serenade."Garden in Monaco"; composer John Serry on BMI Songview catalog Serry was applauded for establishing a wide variety of musical moods with grace, while simultaneously emphasizing a relaxed performance style. In 1958 several songs from the album were released once again in France by Versailles records (# 90 M 178) as Chicago Musette - John Serry et son Accordéon. These activities led to Serry's nomination to the "Who Is Who In Music International" in 1958. His advanced grade composition for accordion, American Rhapsody was completed and published during 1955. In addition, his Concerto For Free Bass Accordion was completed in 1966 and transcribed