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. 1980's Cross Talk saw them incorporating influences of punk and new wave into their hard rock sound; like most of their records, it was an artistic but not a commercial success. Law, Hunter, and the various Law & Order series. Their material in the early 1970s tended towards more the hard rock and early heavy metal end of the spectrum, on albums like Silk Torpedo, although still blues based. He won BMI Awards for the music for L.A. From this point on they would enjoy less in the way of commercial success but the devotion of a strong cult following, especially with critics and other rock musicians as well. He won an Emmy for the theme to Murder One, but had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others. Sorrow. 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. Beginning in 1966 they drifted more towards psychedelia, with the 1968 concept album S.F. 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. They were known for wild "rock and roll" behavior and shocking the establishment; their song "Midnight to Six Man" defined the Mod lifestyle. He was born September 29, 1944 in Los Angeles, California. Their early material was hard edged blues-rock influenced by Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed, much like that of their contemporaries like the Stones and The Yardbirds. 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. Their only U.S. hit was their first single in 1964, "Rosalyn", but the band had a considerable amount of success in their native United Kingdom and in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands in the middle of the decade. The Pretty Things are a 1960s and 1970s rock and roll band from London. Guitarist Dick Taylor was an original member of The Rolling Stones before founding the band with singer Phil May. Cross Talk (1980). Freeway Madness (1975). Savage Eye (1972). Silk Torpedo (1971). Parachute (1969). Sorrow (1968). S.F. Emotions (1966). Get The Picture (1965). The Pretty Things (1964). |