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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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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 […]
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June 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Bill Frisell: When You Wish Upon A Star

Bill Frisell When You Wish Upon A Star Sony Masterworks Continuing to explore – and re-explore – differing/difficult musical terrain Bill Frisell here serves up a set of TV and film themes. If at first you feel like drifting off on this nostalgic wave (To Kill a Mockingbird, You Only Live Twice, the title track) […]
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June 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 682

Geoff Love and His Orchestra, Big Terror Movie Themes (1976) I didn’t know he was Geoff Love at the time – or rather didn’t know who he was, whoever was at the helm of so many of these things, but I loved the records I found in my grandparents’ collections. Both sets of the grannies […]
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April 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

CeeLo Green: TV on the Radio

CeeLo Green TV on the Radio Soundcloud A wee novelty project, not quite and album and a wee bit more than just an EP, but mostly this serves as a reminder that before he sold/souled out and took  the easy-easy money CeeLo Green had passion and vibrancy and was innovative and interesting and could rap […]
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