Track Listing
1. Rockford Files, The - Mike Post
2. Mannix - Lalo Schifrin
3. Charlie's Angels - Jack Elliot & Allyn Ferguson
4. 77 Sunset Strip - Warren Barker
5. Vega$ - Dominic Frontiere
6. Peter Gunn Theme
7. Cannon - John Parker
8. Hart to Hart - Mark Snow
9. Remington Steele - Henry Mancini
10. Wild Honey - Alfred Perry
11. Hawaiian Eye - Warren Barker
12. Spencer For Hire Theme - Steve Dorff
13. Harry O - John Gregory Orchestra
14. Checkmate - Johnny Williams & His Orchestra
15. Tenspeed and Brown Shoe - Mike Post
16. Magnum, P.I. - Mike Post
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Producers: Bill Inglot, Steve Pokorny.
Compilation producers: David McLees, Steven Chean, Chris Clarke.
Includes liner notes by Thane Tierney.
Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch.
Hot on the heels of television's arrival in the '50s came private eye protagonists and the pulp stories that helped spring them from radio to this new medium. As the years passed, plenty of P.I.'s came and went along with numerous theme songs that also offered a reflection of musical trends of the time. As evidenced on the earliest tracks contained on TV'S GREATEST P.I. THEMES, cool jazz provided the primary influence on shows of the late '50s and early '60s.
This mix of 16 tracks includes dramas both well-known, such as Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn," and obscure, like "Checkmate," written and conducted by film composer Johnny Williams (a.k.a. John Williams of STAR WARS fame). Jazzy sophistication also held sway over the Arthur Lyman-flavored "Hawaiian Eye," and the syncopated pep of Lalo Schifrin's "Mannix." Mike Post is undoubtedly the most successful of '70s rock & roll-inspired TV composers. He's represented by the Top 10 hit "The Rockford Files," along with "Magnum P.I." and the Jeff Goldblum flop "Ten Speed And Brown Shoe." "Charlie's Angels" and "Vega$" recall feathered hair and bell-bottoms, while "Hart To Hart" (by a pre-X FILES Mark Snow) and Mancini's classy "Remington Steele" reek of '80s excess.
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