Harry Salter (1899 – March 5, 1984)[1] was an American music director and an orchestra conductor for radio and television programs.
One of Salter's radio orchestras in the late 1920s had as members Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa and Jack Teagarden.
Salter led the orchestra for Your Unseen Friend,[2] Mr. District Attorney,[3]: 316 Honolulu Bound,[3]: 302 What's My Name?,[3] Hobby Lobby,[4] Pot o' Gold[5] and Harry Salter and His Band Box Revue, a series of transcribed[6] syndicated programs that were "placed on various stations.
Salter was also the creator, executive producer and orchestra conductor for the TV show Name That Tune from 1952 to 1959, and was the creator and musical director of Stop the Music on both radio and television, which was broadcast on radio from 1948 to 1949[10] and became a one-hour TV show on ABC from May 1949 to April 1952, then came back again as a half-hour show from September 7, 1954, to June 14, 1956.
During World War II, Salter was a captain in the U.S. Army's Special Services Division.