Mike Post, Composer of the Greatest American TV Theme Songs

i didn't know he did chips! that moog part scared the shit out of me as a kid.

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Hill Street Blues HANDS DOWN

who could it be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ZUSQQdoS4

chips was actually john parker. mike post did a previous version that wasn't used. i want my vote back!

http://chips-tv.com/wiki/%22CHiPs%22_Theme

CORRECTION! Mike Post only did some work for the series, and his theme for "CHiPs" was not used. John Parker's was. Can somebody strike out that line?

xp

He did the Blossom theme with Dr. John?

can't vote for anything but rockford files but some good stuff here

i am old enough to remember toma ffs, i think baretta was basically a watered down version/reboot of that show when the lead actor flaked.

love Rockford Files but can't not vote for the amazing Hill Street Blues

Quantum Leap

Rockford Files without a second thought.

Hill Street Blues HANDS DOWN
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i own the lp of the hill street blues soundtrack. it is mostly classy car chase funk.

weirdly the rockford files & hill street blues themes were US hit singles iirc

more "deserved" than "weird"

I've seen bar bands cover the Rockford Files song. That's good enough for me.

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And here's the UK picdisc single

weirdly the rockford files & hill street blues themes were US hit singles iirc

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:45 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more "deserved" than "weird"

― seapunk run. run punk run! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:46 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

certainly deserved; weird then because it was TV on the radio, so to speak, and in retrospect cause there hasn't been an instrumental hit in eons

it's an oddity yeah but i feel like the UK charts up to the (very early) 80s were always open to tunes from all sorts of fields other than "teenager's music" that had taken over public consciousness

over the years we had a few TV themes that were hit singles seemingly from simple public demand for the record

if gang gang dance were any good they would sound like the nypd blue theme

Quantum Leap

voted for Doogie Howser

http://images.45cat.com/mike-post-coalition-afternoon-of-the-rhino-1975.jpg

this guy must be filthy rich right?

NYPD Blues theme a total rip-off of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1NiNKwueE

My theory from childhood was that Mike Post themes all have hidden, Star Trek-style lyrics:

"Hill Street Blues/It's a show/I watch it on every Thursday night/It's that show I watch on Thursday night" (etc.).

"Here/ on/ L.A. Law."

"Law & Order's on/ Law & Order's on/ now."

Principle later applied to E.R..

"Wee nowww
here we are
Rockity Rockity rocka
Rockford files.."

Waka Flocka Rockford

All good TV theme tunes should allow you to at least insert the name of the programme. I remember seeing a documentary about "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" where the producers said they knew they had the right theme tune when they all started singing "who wants to be a millionaiiiiiire," at the end of it.

Greatest American Hero is a bit of a cheat because it is really a song, but it is really a great song. I would be hard pressed to choose between it, the Rockford Files, and Hill Street Blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Zmh-KlYZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CquMO3vJvo

(also a candidate for to cross-posting to the 'people who have figured out how to live' thread)

1976-1977 Black Sheep Squadron (TV series)

holy hell I just got the largest nostalgia rush

i had no idea that one guy did so many of these!

i had no idea that Mike Post wrote "My Opinionation"!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Fckin Mike fckin post! I spent so many bored hours at my piano practice trying to learn the Hill fuckin St Blues. FUCKN.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Doogie Howser was really the dark horse here.

Thanks to this thread ive had the damn rockford files stuck in my head since yesterday.

Wow, tightly fought

Kind of suprised L&O didnt get more votes tbh

hill street was robbed

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/86/332d5e341664452f8543901a96ad7890/l.jpg mick's pissed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Zmh-KlYZo

It's weird how Post is like this overwhelmingly important pop composer yet you can't buy the actual TV versions of these recordings on a fucking CD. Everything turns out to be re-recorded cover versions (sometimes by post himself, granted, but usually not). I guess it's cause the rights to the orig tracks are too insane what with all the different networks and studios etc etc.

I think this is the third recent poll I've decided! Much more empowering than the governmental charade.

My cousin claims to own the Rockford theme on 45, and it was released commercially.

It's weird how Post is like this overwhelmingly important pop composer yet you can't buy the actual TV versions of these recordings on a fucking CD. Everything turns out to be re-recorded cover versions (sometimes by post himself, granted, but usually not). I guess it's cause the rights to the orig tracks are too insane what with all the different networks and studios etc etc.

You can't *buy* the tv versions but sometimes you can find them online.

i think the hill street soundtrack album is the original versions tbh