Dennis James hosted the first of these series, which ran daily for five months in daytime in 1974 and came to an end shortly after the new year in 1975.

In November 2020, Prestige Entertainment, Eureka Productions, and Fox announced a new primetime version of Name That Tune hosted by actress Jane Krakowski (with Randy Jackson of American Idol fame as bandleader), which premiered on January 6, 2021.

Stop the Music was created by Mark Goodson, orchestra conductor Harry Salter, and advertising executive Howard Connell.

[1][2] Stop the Music relied on studio audience members and random telephone calls to potential viewers/listeners to identify melodies played by an orchestra.

Also for the 1978–79 season, the series brought in choreographers Dennon Rawles and Jerri Fiala, the latter of whom was already working for show producer Ralph Edwards as hostess on The Cross-Wits, to serve as background dancers; and the Name That Tune Orchestra (with Burruss) was supplemented by The Sound System, a rock music ensemble led by Dan Sawyer with Steve March as its featured vocalist.

The 2021 version sees musician, record executive and former American Idol judge Randy Jackson as bandleader.

[5] Two contestants selected from the studio audience compete in various song identification games to earn points as well as cash and prizes.

Later in the run, corresponding with the change to five tunes, a champion was required to win the Golden Medley in order to return the next day.

From 1976 to 1978, Golden Medley winners on the syndicated series were given a chance to win an additional $100,000 in cash at the conclusion of the next week's episode by guessing the $100,000 Mystery Tune.

The host opened the inner envelope and read its contents aloud, after which the contestant's guess was played back and compared against the title.

On days when the Mystery Tune was played, the front game was abbreviated in order to leave time for it, such as by making Bid-a-Note a best-of-three round instead of best-of-five.

Typical episodes featured Melody Roulette and the new game Tune Topics for 10 points each, and Bid-A-Note for 20; the day's winner advanced to the Golden Medley, which if won, qualified the player for a monthly tournament for the grand prize.

For games with two players, they played Melody Roulette and Tune Topics for 10 points each, Bid-a-Note for 20, and the Golden Medley Showdown for 40.

The player with the most points at the end of the Golden Medley Showdown advanced in the tournament, with a sudden death tune played if necessary.

The high scorer advances to the Golden Medley, played as in earlier versions, with seven tunes to be named in 30 seconds and no vocals.

[7] George DeWitt took over in fall 1955 until the end of its run in October 1959. Notable contestants during this period included the young singer Leslie Uggams and child actor Eddie Hodges, who were followed by Betty Leary, a popular contestant whose 12 children filled the first row in the TV studio theater for seven consecutive shows.

Also in 1974, NBC picked up a weekday version of Name That Tune for its daytime lineup, which ran from July 29, 1974 to January 3, 1975, and was hosted by Dennis James.

A second iteration of the daytime version, this time hosted by Kennedy, ran on NBC from January 3 to June 10, 1977 (replacing the Kennedy-hosted 50 Grand Slam in its timeslot).

The New $100,000 Name That Tune returned to syndication as a weekday series in 1984, hosted by Jim Lange and produced by Sandy Frank.

[13] Prestige Entertainment Group, the format's current distributor, holds the rights to the syndicated Kennedy and Lange versions.

During the 1996-1997 season, an attempt to revived the show was made by Quincy Jones-David Salzman Entertainment[15]after their normal producing partner Warner Bros. passed up on the project, they later went to Columbia TriStar Television in an attempt to possible pair up with a revival of 50s/70s/80s game show Treasure Hunt but both were scrapped later on in their respective lifespans.

[25] On November 18, 2020, Fox officially announced the series, with actress Jane Krakowski as host and former American Idol judge Randy Jackson as bandleader.

Production was moved to Dublin, Ireland at the RDS and Font Hill Studios, with BiggerStage (which had previously collaborated with Fox Alternative Entertainment on its new talent show format The Big Deal) replacing Eureka as co-production partner.

Starting from January 2023, the show continues to air without Fremantle's involvement in the production due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

On June 4, 2023, a revival version of the show was broadcast as a segment of Programa Silvio Santos, which currently hosted by Patricia Abravanel.

Il Musichiere (The Musician) aired on Saturdays from 1957 to 1960 on the then-called National Program, but it ended after the conductor Mario Riva accidentally fell from the stadium and subsequently died.

Name That Tune – Indovina la canzone is on air from September 2020 on TV8 in the first two editions with Papi, replaced in the third by Ciro Priello with the participation of Fabio Balsamo (both members of the comedy group of The Jackal), focuses on the challenge between two teams of famous people in Italy.

شو إسم اللحن؟ (Name that Tune), is hosted by Maya Diab, airs weekly on Saturdays on LBCI starting on January 6, 2024.

The show was hosted by Karyn Bryant and featured contestants competing to name song titles by viewing the music video.

While playable, critics and players considered the machine's difficulty to be high due to the technical limits of the very basic synthesized music the machine was capable of generating, and songs being too difficult to name mostly because the wrong audience was targeted as teenage players of the arcade era simply weren't interested in trying to name songs from the 1940s through the 1970s.