Monday, October 21, 2024

Various Artists - TV’s Jazziest Theme Songs, 1957-1993 (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

It's time for another Mike Solof guest post. This one has a rather unusual theme. It turns out Mike is a big fan of TV show theme songs, especially jazzy instrumental ones from decades ago. So he put together a collection of about 30 of his favorites.

As usual, Mike has written his own notes, which is included as a PDF file. It comes with lots of photos as well. So I recommend you read that to learn more.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long.

01 Midnight Caller Theme (Rick Braun)
02 Banacek (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
03 Lou Grant Theme (Patrick Williams)
04 Hill Street Blues - Blues in the Day - Hill Street Blues [Edit] (Mike Post)
05 L.A. Law (Mike Post)
06 The Streets of San Fransisco (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
07 Mission- Impossible (Lalo Schifrin)
08 Mannix (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
09 Theme from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra)
10 Hawaii Five-O (Ventures)
11 Mod Squad (Al Caiola)
12 Jonny Quest (Hoyt Curtin)
13 I Spy (Earle Hagan)
14 Police Squad Theme Song (Ira Newborn)
15 Get Smart Original Theme (Irving Szathmary)
16 The Pink Panther Theme (Henry Mancini)
17 Peter Gunn Theme (Blues Brothers)
18 The Magician (Patrick Williams)
19 Policewoman (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
20 Harry-O (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
21 McMillan and Wife (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
22 Mike Hammer (Earle Hagen)
23 Spenser- For Hire Theme (Larry Herbstritt & Steve Dorff)
24 Perry Mason (Fred Steiner)
25 Night Court (Jack Elliott)
26 Barney Miller (Jack Elliott)
27 Frasier (Bruce Miller)
28 The Bob Newhart Show [The Home to Emily] (L.&H. Music)
29 The Cosby Show Theme [Kiss Me] [Alternate Version] (Stu Gardner & Bill Cosby)
30 Angela [Theme to Taxi] [Edit] (Bob James)

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At first, I didn't know what to depict for the cover of this album. But I noticed that Mike had put in a couple dozen pictures of different images for these sorts of TV shows. So I picked out 16 of them and made a collage.

6 comments:

  1. Cool compilation and great job on that cover! Some of these bring back some old memories. If Mike ever does a followup he might consider the Joe Jackson theme to the short-lived "Private Eye" from the late '80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZocVTc7Rk-s&ab_channel=TheRapSheet

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    1. Good suggestion. I was unaware of that Joe Jackson song. Nice find.

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  2. Thanks for the suggestion... nice track!

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  3. Excellent. Many thanks Michael!! (^v^)
    Many thanks Paul!! (^v^)

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  4. This is fantastic! I was hoping that the theme song for The John Larroquette Show would be on here, but no. Maybe it wasn't jazzy enough? Maybe for the next TV theme song CD? Thanks again to both of you, G.

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    1. I checked it out and unfortunately it is more bluesy than jazz but thanks for the suggestion!

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