In addition to the cinema, Tiomkin composed for television, including such memorable theme songs as "Rawhide" (1959) and "Gunslinger." (A cover version of the theme from "Rawhide" was performed in the musical film "The Blues Brothers" (1980); the in-joke that the composer was a Ukrainian-born Jewish American was lost on the crowd at the cowboy bar.) Although Tiomkin was hired to compose the theme for "The Wild Wild West" (1965), the producers rejected his music and subsequently hired Richard Markowitz as his replacement.