This page will contain additional articles about Mike Post, as they become available.Mike PostMike Post is a Grammy and Emmy award winning composer of music and theme songs for many of the most popular TV dramas first shown in the United States. He was born September 29, 1944 in Los Angeles, California. He won his first Grammy at age 22 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas." One of his first TV jobs started when he was 24, as the musical director on The Andy Williams Show. Another early job was writing music, including the theme for the series Toma, but his big break-through came with his theme song for another series by producer Stephen J. Cannell, The Rockford Files; the theme also got cross-over Top 40 radio airplay. He won an Emmy for the theme to Murder One, but had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others. He won BMI Awards for the music for L.A. Law, Hunter, and the various Law & Order series. Other noted TV music work includes The Commish, Newsradio, Blossom, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, Magnum, P.I., Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, CHiPs, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. This page about Mike Post includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Mike Post News stories about Mike Post External links for Mike Post Videos for Mike Post Wikis about Mike Post Discussion Groups about Mike Post Blogs about Mike Post Images of Mike Post |
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Other noted TV music work includes The Commish, Newsradio, Blossom, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, Magnum, P.I., Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, CHiPs, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. Partial discography (singles):. Law, Hunter, and the various Law & Order series. Although his style of music declined in popularity with the 1970s mass market, Tommy Roe maintained a following and continued to perform at a variety of concert venues, sometimes with sixties nostalgia rock and rollers such as Freddy Cannon and Bobby Vee. He won BMI Awards for the music for L.A. In 1986, Tommy Roe was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. He won an Emmy for the theme to Murder One, but had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others. A resident of Beverly Hills, California, Roe is married to Josette Banzet, an actress from France who won a Golden Globe Award for best supporting for her performance in the 1976 television mini-series, Rich Man, Poor Man. Another early job was writing music, including the theme for the series Toma, but his big break-through came with his theme song for another series by producer Stephen J. Cannell, The Rockford Files; the theme also got cross-over Top 40 radio airplay. During the 1960s, he had several more top forty hits until 1969 when his song "Dizzy" went to No.1 on the UK Singles Chart as well as to Billboard's No.1 in the USA. He won his first Grammy at age 22 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas." One of his first TV jobs started when he was 24, as the musical director on The Andy Williams Show. In 1965, he and Jerry Lee Lewis combined with Orbison to create an LP for the Pickwick International label. He was born September 29, 1944 in Los Angeles, California. Roe had a Billboard No.1 hit record hit in the United States and in Australia in 1962 with the song, "Sheila" and the following year scored two Top 10 hits with "Everybody" and the critically acclaimed "The Folk Singer." Following the enormously successful tour of the United Kingdom by friend Roy Orbison, Tommy Roe toured there and then moved to England where he lived for several years. Mike Post is a Grammy and Emmy award winning composer of music and theme songs for many of the most popular TV dramas first shown in the United States. Greatly influenced by the sounds of the late Buddy Holly, Tommy Roe developed a unique style that, combined with his All-American clean-cut image, made him a popular musical performer throughout the 1960s. Born Thomas David Roe in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, he was raised in Alpharetta, Georgia where he was part of a high school band. Tommy Roe, born May 9, 1942 is an American pop music singer/songwriter. "Jam Up and Jelly Tight" (1970). "Jack And Jill" (1969). "Dizzy" (1969). "Horray for Hazel" (1966). "Sweet Pea" (1966). "The Folk Singer" (1963). "Everybody" (1963). "Sheila" (1962). |