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Top 101 TV Theme Songs in History: Rolling Stone magazine
Drafe Hoblin:
Don't let anybody kid ya. Rolling Stone was as bland, formularized, and non cutting-edged as it gets, even in the 60's.
They didn't 'leave out' Elmer Bernstein's theme for Johnny Staccato (starring John Cassavetes as a jazz-pianist/private detective). They're so devoted to the safety of pedestrian commercialism that they have no idea who Bernstein, Cassavetes, or Staccato were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHRBNLcovw
And what about Lalo Schifrin's theme for T.H.E. Cat... ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOsFtxvpZhg
Eupher:
--- Quote from: Drafe Hoblin on December 26, 2022, 10:34:03 PM ---Don't let anybody kid ya. Rolling Stone was as bland, formularized, and non cutting-edged as it gets, even in the 60's.
They didn't 'leave out' Elmer Bernstein's theme for Johnny Staccato (starring John Cassavetes as a jazz-pianist/private detective). They're so devoted to the safety of pedestrian commercialism that they have no idea who Bernstein, Cassavetes, or Staccato were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHRBNLcovw
And what about Lalo Schifrin's theme for T.H.E. Cat... ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOsFtxvpZhg
--- End quote ---
Interesting. I've been a musician for 54 years, sometimes even professionally, but I've never read a single article in Rolling Stone. And I also had never heard of Johnny Staccato until now. Elmer, of course, was one of the big theme writers who pre-dated John Williams and he was obvious to everybody. Ditto for Lalo.
3rd-try:
I would have "Taxi" as number 1. I guess I should be happy it made the list at all. As my number 2 "St Elsewhere' didn't.
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