TunePlay - MIKE POST: CLASSIC TV THEMES

There’s a strange musical magic or creative alchemy separating “good“ film & TV compositions from those which famously become part of the pop culture lexicon: that certain “something“ singling out a song like “Goldfinger“, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head“ or “Shaft“, as well as instrumentals such as the CHARIOTS OF FIRE, JAMES BOND or STAR WARS themes from the rest of the pack. It’s certainly (partially) a “lightning strike“ synchronicity of composer sensibility combined with the subject of the film or show and the zeitgeist of the era. Hey, a few years earlier or later and John Williams’ STAR WARS could have been the worst of musical anachronisms. But when a composer “strikes lightning“ again, again and again there’s something more at work than a fortuitous alignment of artistic “planets“. We don’t have the answers to that one. But we somehow suspect Mike Post does. One probably has to b