Oh yeah, Bay-beeee!
Too cool. 
Just got it.
Everybody know the Peter Gunn Theme, but this CD is brimming with Henry Mancini goodness!
I recommend:
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[li]The Brothers Go To Mother’s[/li][li]Fallout![/li][li]Timothy[/li][li]Odd Ball[/li][li]Spook![/li][li]Walkin’ Bass[/li][/ul]
Playin it on this.
You, sir, now own the two albums I would take to my desert isle! Enjoy.
I’ve got the original Peter Gunn LP. Also, a different Mancini CD with 22 tracks. What a talent!
If you like that, then definitely get Mancini’s film score to Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil.
As good as that album in the OP is, there are 2 versions of the Peter Gunn theme that I have that are not on the album.
First is the ELP version. I have it from their Best of album, I think it originally was on a live album of theirs.
The second one that I have is The Art of Noise version (featuring Duane Eddy) from In Visible Silence.
It is a great song and every band should probably cover it.
Just a quick note - if you love Peter Gunn, you’d love Rhino’s Crime Jazz CD’s. Great original TV series music from the late 50’s / early 60’s crime series. Some are just amazing.
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Just a quick note - if you love Peter Gunn, you’d love Rhino’s Crime Jazz CD’s. Great original TV series music from the late 50’s / early 60’s crime series. Some are just amazing.
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That sounds like a great concept. I was going to suggest at least the Mr. Lucky album as a follow-up, but a collection of themes from other cop, spy and detective series would be good, too. Without even trying to locate that CD online, I wonder how many of those shows’ music I can name.
Here’s a few off the top of my head:
Naked City
Mannix
Mission: Impossible
Richard Diamond
Checkmate
I Spy
Who can add some others?
What are some others on that CD?
Other Mancini from that era:
The Blues and the Beat
The Mancini Touch
Experiment in Terror
Hatari
Charade
Pink Panther
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That sounds like a great concept. I was going to suggest at least the Mr. Lucky album as a follow-up, but a collection of themes from other cop, spy and detective series would be good, too. Without even trying to locate that CD online, I wonder how many of those shows’ music I can name.
Here’s a few off the top of my head:
Naked City
Mannix
Mission: Impossible
Richard Diamond
Checkmate
I Spy
Who can add some others?
What are some others on that CD?
Other Mancini from that era:
The Blues and the Beat
The Mancini Touch
Experiment in Terror
Hatari
Charade
Pink Panther
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A few of those are on the first volume of Crime Jazz - Richard Diamond just flat-out smokes! What great theme music…
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A few of those are on the first volume of Crime Jazz - Richard Diamond just flat-out smokes! What great theme music…
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The music to Checkmate was composed by John Williams, back when he was Johnny Williams. As such he was the main piano player on the Peter Gunn stuff.