Posts Tagged Mike Post

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March 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 155

Mike Post, Television Theme Songs (1982) I feel like I learned about Mike Post from school – not that there were any of his songs to ‘sing’ (or his TV themes, rather) but his classic Hill Street Blues Theme was a staple of piano lessons. Ah! I’ve got it. We did sing one of his […]

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December 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 460

Mike Post, The Theme From Hill Street Blues [Single] (1981) Mike Post did the heavy lifting when it came to 1980s TV theme tunes – such a huge impact on my crazy little kid-brain; these themes all stay with me. None more so than Hill St. Blues though – a TV show I watched because […]

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April 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Radio on the TV: My Top 10 All-Time Favourite TV Themes

The other day I was listening to Carl Stalling for the first time in a while – his bonkers-brilliant cartoon music puts you right there. You no longer need the images. The same is true of any great soundtrack composer, for film or TV. I regularly give Danny Elfman’s Music For A Darkened Theatre a spin […]