Richard Rodgers' haunting tango in Episode 10, Beneath the Southern Cross, is likely the very first made-for-TV original orchestral work (and perhaps the only one) to be converted into a song in a Broadway musical. When Rodgers and Hammerstein's unsuccessful musical "Me and Juliet" opened on Broadway in 1953, the principal love song from the show, "No Other Love", used the melody of the tango with lyrics fitted to it by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Richard Rodgers' haunting tango in Episode 10, Beneath the Southern Cross, is likely the very first made-for-TV original orchestral work to become a popular song on radio and records. Lyrics were written to it along the lines of "No other love have I."