TV Jazz Themes for Detective Shows
TV Jazz Themes, with the Video All-Stars conducted by Skip Martin. Somerset SF-8800, 1960? Has the fantastic Peter Gunn Theme, Richard Diamond, The Thin Man (TV version), and 77 Sunset Strip. AKA “crime jazz.” I just watched some Peter Gunn this weekend. It’s an OK detective show, his character isn’t developed much, but it has great music by Henry Mancini and a female singing number in each show. Also, my wife likes that he pretty much keeps the same girlfriend through the series instead of a new girl every week. One episode where he didn’t was pretty much a rip-off of Out of the Past. The other shows I’ve never seen, but the album is really good.
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[...] of the five most iconic TV show soundtracks ever. Peter Gunn and Hawaii Five-0 being two others. This is obviously from the second season, as in Peter Graves [...]
Hey Robert. Even if these shows weren’t all that good, they had some really cool jazzy music in them. That’s the same way with some movies.
That’s for sure Keith. They all use pop music now instead of original swinging cool music.