"Believe It or Not" was the song going through my head as I fell for my wife. 40 years later, we're still in love.
@Bajaprod019 ай бұрын
Do you also immediately think of "George isn't at home" from Seinfeld, too, or are you normal?
@melchiorvulpius47993 ай бұрын
@@Bajaprod01 Normal, mostly.
@SirFixAlot722 жыл бұрын
Wow, you get to 49 years old before you realize who Mike Post was and what effect his music had on your childhood. The hours I spent singing his songs, thanks Mike.
@xpavar9 жыл бұрын
The John Williams of television.
@sgtpepper11382 жыл бұрын
100%
@dukecraig24022 жыл бұрын
Perfect analogy.
@lincolnparc8897 Жыл бұрын
Perfectly said!!!
@2degucitas8 жыл бұрын
this is breaking my heart with nostalgia
@pantera898 жыл бұрын
me to...
@diamondluca13 жыл бұрын
You got that right, man how I miss those days, I was in high school in the late 70s in Buffalo ny, man we had some great times.
@TrumpetMAB3 жыл бұрын
About 10 years ago I met Joey Scarbury (singer of Believe it or Not - Greatest American Hero). He was selling cars of all things. Nice guy though, a little cold, but I cut him some slack because he was working. When he handed me his business card and I read the name, I said, "Oh, like the singer." He replied with, "That's me, or I'm him." As to the rest of this album, there are two songs missing from the version I had on LP. There was the theme from Richie Brockelman, Private Eye (a spin-off of Rockford) called "School's Out" and the theme from The White Shadow.
@tommybrown37893 жыл бұрын
Why can’t these days come back to us it just bring tears to my eyes thanks 🙏 of being in the great days of my life
@emeyer69638 жыл бұрын
Rockford theme is now over 40 years old and even though I have heard it a couple of thousand times it still sounds great.
@Lana2k64 жыл бұрын
Magnum, P.I. is now 40 years old. Hill Street Blues and The Greatest American Hero will celebrate their 40th anniversaries next year.
@brookelynne68888 жыл бұрын
The 'Hillstreet Blues' theme song used to pull at my heart strings as a little girl. I don't know why...the chords? maybe. The fact that my dad was a police officer and my mom and I prayed for him every night? That's a good possibility. It still affects me, though. i'm tearing up a lil now.
@mescko6 жыл бұрын
How is he now? Is he still with us?
@garyconner61515 жыл бұрын
It's great music.an era in time.
@mariozermeno26493 жыл бұрын
It's still a beautiful memory of your parents 🤗
@deepdiver30842 жыл бұрын
It’s the tense extended chords used.
@jellyrollnorton Жыл бұрын
I was 17 when Hill Street Blues premiered. Only saw it a few times, but heard the song on the radio. I get emotional when I hear it now, too. Better times? Younger times? Beautiful music? And, is this vinyl?? So clear.
@DavidThomas658 Жыл бұрын
Mike Post is a Genius !
@jimdorsey32234 ай бұрын
As Louie Shelton says about session work, it’s not about what stands out. It’s about what fits in.
@TheBoondoggler6 жыл бұрын
These songs literally ease my stress and anxiety. Great memories, thanks.
@almarble14 жыл бұрын
with you on that
@murphy817752 жыл бұрын
The Hill Street Blues theme will always be among my all-time favorites. Oh, the 80s vibes…🥰
@usmc-veteran73-773 ай бұрын
It was a great TV show, my Wife and I never missed it. We put our 2 baby boys to bed and lay on the couch together and watch Hill Street Blues
@Lana2k610 жыл бұрын
Also, each of these theme songs were Billboard Top 40 hits: "The Theme from Hill Street Blues" - #10, 1981 "Theme from Greatest American Hero (Believe it Or Not)" - performed by Joey Scarbury (#2, 1981) "Theme from Magnum, P.I." - #25, 1982 "The Rockford Files" - #10, 1975
@BetheasByteReloaded10 жыл бұрын
That right there is proof that Mike Post is a genius! 4 classic TV themes and they made the Top 40? Mind=Blown.
@andreaverdi79075 жыл бұрын
Lolol Wow. This dude wrote the soundtrack to my entire life of TV watching! Mike Post you are the talent whose work everyone in the states knows (if you have ears, live in the states and own a tv that is)but whose name only few know. I am amazed at the amount of tv shows of which you're the composer!!!!
@terrymalloy698 жыл бұрын
Easily some of my favorite tv themes ever. Mike Post....the man
@louisescanlon74783 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD..... THAT TUNE BRINGS BACK SO MANU MEMORIES. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING IT. 🤗⚘🤗🌹🤗⚘😂🍹
@wandapost77876 жыл бұрын
So glad to have found this when I Googled "Mike Post Theme Songs", although there is info here I didn't even know. Having loved the theme from "Hill Street Blues" and seeing his name on some other themes, I bought a cassette of them (yes, way back in the 'old days'). For some reason, I thought of this in the wee hours yesterday morning, and was trying to remember what the tracks on the tape were...but couldn't. I finally had to try to find out, and I ended up here (in the course of watching "Hill Street Blues" from the beginning on Hulu). I was aware that Mr. Post was quite talented, but hadn't realized how prolific he had been. I'm even more impressed than I was 20+ years ago!
@lockedin60 Жыл бұрын
I watch 3 out of 4 of these TV series regularly. Greatest American Hero was just a tad bit out of my age level. Great for little kids not so great for an adult. But I remember coming home from College and Dad and I would watch Rockford Files. Dad always got a kick out of Isaac Hayes calling Rockford "Rockfish". The character "Angel" always scheming and Detective Sgt Later LT Becker seemingly at odds with Rockford but then coming around to his ideas. Now that I am approaching 70 these "TV" heroes are slowly dying off. Dad passed in 2014 and mother passed in June 2022. The simple fact is that we are all aging. But TV has and to some degree will always be a part of our heritage.
@usmc-veteran73-773 ай бұрын
My wife and I never missed "Hill Street Blues." We would put our two baby boys to bed, and lay on the couch together and watch the "Best Show" on TV.
@daniellum69252 жыл бұрын
These pieces are an epic part of history and life - really captures the mood and emotion of an simpler era. Beautiful music for the quality and love of music
@kellyjermainebrown56598 жыл бұрын
hill street blues....ah the 80s
@Gramps19753 жыл бұрын
Back when the political commentary actually meant something more than what it means today
@bearmann394911 жыл бұрын
We'll get QUANTUM LEAP on another edition (Volume 2? ...) of Mike Post themes - promise! I mean, seriously, the guy has composed SOOOO much TV music and soooo many classic (no ... LEGENDARY) thmes, it's just impossible to do 'em all justice. Hey, we so wanted to get his theme to WHITE SHADOW in this suite this time around too, but the constraints of time just wouldn't allow.
@ABheat6 жыл бұрын
You bring back sooo many memories with these themes. Mike Post is one of the best.
@trob09144 жыл бұрын
Loved this theme song ( Hill Street Blues)and it was my favorite show when it aired! "Lets Be Careful Out There!"Just adding that Magnum PI and the Rockford Files were also great scores as well as top notch productions!! Thanks for the trip down nostalgia lane!! CUDOS, MIKE POST!!!
@navblue207 жыл бұрын
Hill Street Blues - one of the greatest TV themes ever. When my uncle Albert retired from the Chicago PD in 2012 after 32 years on the force we created a video of his career-we used this song. as the BM. ..... The last two pictures on the video were his rookie picture from the Academy and his last as a Lt. I never saw him cry until we showed that video......what memories must have going thru his mind.
@damon68525 жыл бұрын
Cool story!! Thanks for sharing ;)
@bill126169 жыл бұрын
I bought the album years ago with Mike post directing a group of tv screens, still have it
@mescko6 жыл бұрын
I've got it as well. Great album except for the re-orchestrated (read: inferior) version of The Rockford Files
@cucamongaduke36003 жыл бұрын
I once tricked a DJ into playing the Rockford Files theme at my sister’s friend’s birthday party. It was like 1997.
@amywilkins543Ай бұрын
Hill Street Blues was my Favorite!!❤
@keonjenkins18528 жыл бұрын
Also lets not forget his partner Pete Carpenter. R.I.P. Mr. Carpenter.
@WhateverTX3 жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful heartfelt theme for a show with such heart and soul. One of the greatest series ever. This song is one of the most special in my lifetime.
@cityrob41503 жыл бұрын
Mike Post all my favorite shows growing up. Memories
@thorsvensson81723 жыл бұрын
This was the icing on the cake of what was one of the greatest TV shows.
@garyconner61515 жыл бұрын
Great memories.great t.v shows.now look what they got.
@jerrypaugh31335 жыл бұрын
Mike post is a genesis win com to making tv theme song he truly one best tv theme arts of all time
@skweek256 Жыл бұрын
It's just that killer chord progression that just never lets up.
@MRHSDM316SD181869 жыл бұрын
John Williams watched the STAR WARS movies as he was directing the orchestra. This way, he knew what type of "mood" to set the orchestra to. Mike Post in a way "shot from the hip" when he did the ROCKFORD FILES theme song.......
@bill126169 жыл бұрын
A perfect classic piece, thanks Mike Post
@rubyparisi47862 жыл бұрын
Mike Post che bella voce che hai, wonderful voice🥰🥰🥰
@dawnmcgroarty86258 жыл бұрын
Awww do these take me back. Thank you for posting.. ****SIGH*** :) :) :)
@Taverens_Pull3 жыл бұрын
That first song. I never knew where it was originally from but the second I heard it I recognized it as one of the background scores to my kindergarten video cassette yearbook from my school in Germany when my dad was a U.N. peacekeeper after the berlin wall fell. That brought tears of joy I haven't shed since 1993.
@lrosas80883 жыл бұрын
How did we stray so far to fall into the ditch were in? I want to go home when i get off, cuddle up next to you and never let go.
@sherlockholmeslives.16059 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting! The best music ever!
@waynecaton72069 ай бұрын
Love this show
@diamondluca13 жыл бұрын
It takes me back to the 70s, man what a time to come of age in Buffalo ny, it was great!
@normvw4053 Жыл бұрын
Classics, pure classics...one and all.
@neilm2794 Жыл бұрын
I didn’t even need to look it up to notice it had to be Larry Carlton playing the guitar riff on the Magnum, P.I. theme. The same sound from one of the greatest guitar solos in rock history, Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan
@TheOLDDOG4410 жыл бұрын
that's very cool your playing all my favrites
@janicejames89911 ай бұрын
Best hill street blues theme song bring back old school memories
@robertzeigler8778 жыл бұрын
Thanks for POST ing this...sorry. :)
@bearmann39498 жыл бұрын
Ohhhh, that's bad, ... but witty, so we'll let it slide! :)
@Yaris5107 жыл бұрын
Hi Bear Man - I second Zeigler's comment. Your write-up of Nov 2012 on Post's craft is very interesting; I grew up watching 'The Rockford Files' and 'Magnum PI' amongst others - I had no idea what a long and illustrious career he had
@Bigada18 жыл бұрын
still love it on dvd
@BiggerFatterBlog8 жыл бұрын
Mike Post genius!
@keithleeuwen8778 жыл бұрын
GREAT !
@dantesegovia36219 жыл бұрын
Un genio!!!!! Buen gusto y calidad al hacer bandas de sonido !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@carlbeing97362 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful
@theirishshowman6 жыл бұрын
Welcome to County Kerry Mr Post. Delighted to have ya...
@Finland19653 жыл бұрын
I rememer them all..and i love them too
@craigusselman5464 жыл бұрын
Basically my childhood talented/talented man.
@terrypreston1975 жыл бұрын
Class tv shows and themes
@jeffdeprato74727 жыл бұрын
ok the delorean is fueled and ready. to go, any takers?
@TheLordGoat7 жыл бұрын
Total genius.
@danielyoung66306 жыл бұрын
G E N I U S
@shauner110810 жыл бұрын
My next door neighbor had this album when I was a kid and recorded a copy for me on cassette. My question is why wasn't the 'White Shadow' theme included? That was a groove thumpin track.
@bearmann394911 жыл бұрын
He really does. Big time!
@jubadjennadleconquerant80673 жыл бұрын
THE GREAT SIR MIKE POST
@chrisholley88765 жыл бұрын
Hill street blues now theres a flash back theme song
@jackgretler9308 Жыл бұрын
It was a special time
@jeffreywright22943 жыл бұрын
Good old days
@oneaburns3 жыл бұрын
They really used to do theme songs right. I miss that.
@reasy19784 жыл бұрын
Damn, I feel old lol. 😩
@jellyrollnorton Жыл бұрын
I also love Mike Post’s theme for Quantum Leap.
@drinkwater3194 жыл бұрын
Some themes are timeless....these are so idiosyncratic of their times I don’t know whether the times defined them or they defined the times, lol
@rhianjones13194 жыл бұрын
I love Mike Post theme tune to Hill Street Blues Detective series
@philchigges2955 Жыл бұрын
Before tv became propaganda!!!!better world then.good memories of what could of been.we had so much potential . I always watch old TV now.quit watching network crap after 9 11.
@JL-bk3pb Жыл бұрын
My personal favourite is NYPD Blue. A theme tune with drums
@thermopolopis7 жыл бұрын
Guenis at work here.
@robertvasquez27383 жыл бұрын
Love it
@Ingens_Scherz4 жыл бұрын
They're just geniuses. That is all.
@johnsinclair44483 жыл бұрын
Was there ever a hit show that didn't have a hit theme song?
@billgreen4003 Жыл бұрын
Cool too the Max be safe in Christ God Bless
@tompetty8173 жыл бұрын
Mike post was Tom Selleck a high school classmate now we no good theme song
@DarkPhoenixVirgo3 жыл бұрын
I wish he could have wrote for movies also
@tomlemery8490 Жыл бұрын
I thought Joey Scarborough composed GAH theme.
@robertvasquez27382 жыл бұрын
lol O Love it
@larschmitt8 жыл бұрын
Greatest American Hero, one of the best theme songs for one of the worst TV shows ever.
@victormordoh78346 жыл бұрын
actually its one of the best theme songs for one of the most underrated shows ever.. Robert Culp hilarious as Bill Maxwell
@michaelkish86958 жыл бұрын
Are these the original versions that played on TV or re-recordings?
@bearmann39498 жыл бұрын
They're "Concert" or "Radio" version (so to speak) re-recordings actually done by original composer Mike Post. In other words, they were expanded from their original 30 - 60 second running times within the TV series themselves into approx. 3 min . + renditions. But, where possible, Post attempted to keep the arrangements as close to the originals as possible.
@muzzledox13 жыл бұрын
Until getting Magnum PI on DVD I had not heard original intro music by Mark Snow it was so lame. ( though he did redeem himself with the X-files) they were right to change it.
@pauloricardoweller89568 жыл бұрын
Cadê o som do Esquadrão Classe A porra?
@thepub2453 жыл бұрын
Was it Larry Carlton playing guitar?
@Prof_Jeff2 жыл бұрын
On "Greatest American Hero" and "Hill Street Blues", yes, it is, but not for Rockford. Carlton did lead guitar on many of Post's TV themes, including also "Magnum, P.I." and "NYPD Blue". Additionally, Lee Sklar is the bassist on almost all of Post's TV themes!
@bradlafferty6076 Жыл бұрын
I would of made a great Ralph Hinkley
@bradlafferty6076 Жыл бұрын
I would of made a great Andy Renko
@aidenosborne49109 жыл бұрын
umm, Where's Law and Order?
@TheClintDavis9 жыл бұрын
***** And NYPD Blue. Two of his best.
@LeonTrimble10 жыл бұрын
wot only four? and the less good version of rockford?
@avmtech196810 жыл бұрын
The BEST version of Rockford
@JohnLRice9 жыл бұрын
avmtech1968 Yeah, I think this is the one I liked the best. The tone of the synth (MiniMoog?) and the parts played always makes me think it's Rick Wakeman playing it but I think it was Ian Underwood?
@mootbooxle9 жыл бұрын
John L Rice Gotta be Minimoog! Hear that linear glide! This is definitely a different mix from the 45 I've had for years...gotta dig that one out and compare the two.