Editing The Gong Show (section)

===Musical direction===
[[Milton DeLugg]] was a popular musician and bandleader during the 1940s and 1950s. He got the ''Gong Show'' job by default; as the longtime music director of NBC, he was responsible for any network project that required special music (like the annual telecasts of the [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]]). Although DeLugg had previously arranged the theme for ''The Newlywed Game'', Barris initially regarded him as "an anachronism"; however, Barris was soon pleased to discover that DeLugg was very much attuned to the facetious tone of the show and he appeared alongside Barris in recurring comedy skits as various characters including bad-joke perveyor, "Naso Literatus" and the aged philosopher, "Old Drool".

Veteran composer [[Joey Carbone]] provided musical arrangements for the late 1980s revival with his own lineup of studio musicians, known as "The Gong Show Guys".