Mike Post - Television Theme Songs (1982) (LP) - 8,00

Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil; September 29, 1944) is an American composer, best known for his television theme music for various shows, including The White Shadow; Law & Order; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; The A-Team; The Byrds of Paradise; NYPD Blue; Renegade; The Rockford Files; L.A. Law; Quantum Leap; Magnum, P.I.; Hill Street Blues, and Mammoth. 

He was also the producer of the Van Halen III album by the band Van Halen

One of his first jobs in television started when he was 24, as the musical director on The Andy Williams Show. Another early job was writing the theme music for the short-lived detective series Toma in 1973, but his big breakthrough (together with co-composer Pete Carpenter) came in the following year with his theme song for The Rockford Files, another series by producer Stephen J. Cannell. The theme also got cross-over Top 40 radio airplay and earned a second Grammy for Post.

The Rockford Files theme became a Top 10 hit in both the U.S. (number 10) and Canada (number 8). It ranks as the 85th biggest U.S. hit of 1975, and the 84th biggest Canadian hit of 1975.

Post subsequently won Grammys for Best Instrumental Composition for the themes of the television shows Hill Street Blues in 1981 and L.A. Law in 1988 as well as another Grammy in 1981 for Best Instrumental Performance for the Hill Street Blues theme, which also reached number 10 in the U.S.

Post won an Emmy for his Murder One theme music, and had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others. He has won Broadcast Music, Inc. Awards for the music for L.A. Law, Hunter, and the various Law & Order series. The theme for The Greatest American Hero (co-written with Stephen Geyer) is one of the few television themes to reach as high as number 2 as a single record on the Billboard Hot 100. The "dun, dun" sound effect he created for the Law & Order franchise has entered popular culture and he has written variations on it for each new series.

At the peak of his career, Post was the go-to composer for all of the series created by Donald P. Bellisario, Steven Bochco, Stephen J. Cannell and Dick Wolf. Due to the considerable amount of music to be created, Post operated an office with multiple staff composers, among them Walter Murphy, Velton Ray Bunch, Frank Denson, Jerry Grant and Greg Edmonson, all composing side by side in cubicles. Each would write music cues to complement specific scenes from each show in Post's signature style.

This music man has a mile long list of t.v. theme classics."Rockford Files",The Greatest American Hero","Hill Street Blues","Magnum P.I","Hardcastle and McCormack" to name a few.He has defined a generation of television viewers,and beloved series when tv was quality family entertainment,not dependent on ratings.

Side A

A1. Mike Post - Theme From Hill Street Blues – 3:12

A2. Joey Scarbury - Theme From The Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not) (Backing Vocals – Linda Dillard) – 3:13

A3. Mike Post - Theme From White Shadow – 3:15

Side B

B1. Mike Post - Theme From Magnum P.I. – 3:25

B2. Mike Post And Herb Pedersen - School’s Out (From Richie Brockelman Private Eye) – 3:03

B3. Mike Post - Theme From The Rockford Files – 3:08

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Warner Communications
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Elektra/Asylum Records
• Copyright © – Elektra/Asylum Records
• Manufactured By – Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
• Distributed By – WEA Records Ltd.
• Lacquer Cut At – Strawberry Mastering
• Pressed By – WEA Records Pressing Plant, West Drayton

Credits

• Featuring – Craig Harris, Dan Ferguson, David Kemper, Glen Garrett (2), Herb Pedersen, Ian Underwood, Jeff Gerson, Joey Scarbury, Larry Carlton, Mike Baird, Neil Stubenhaus
• Producer, Arranged By – Mike Post

Notes

Release: 1982

Format: LP, Vinyl

Genre: TV Soundtracks

Label: Elektra Records

Catalog# E1 60028

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen (G)

Prijs: €8,00