Oh, you definitely know the tunes. You can hum them right now:
- Law & Order
- The Rockford Files
- Magnum P.I.
- Hill Street Blues
- The A-Team.
And that's not even all of them!
But you probably don't know the name of the man who wrote all of them.
Meet Mike Post. He's defined the sound of television for 50 years. In this interview, we talk about the "obsession" required to write 7,000+ hours of music, why he wrote a hit song in a jacuzzi, and the two specific notes that—to this day—get him out of speeding tickets.
This is Part 1 of our conversation.
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