| Whenever people start talking about the popular TV | | | | Mike Post has a talent for, among other things, penning |
| show, Law and Order (and who doesn't?), invariably | | | | great music for cop shows: The Rockford Files, the |
| someone has to sing the opening strain of the theme | | | | aforementioned Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Law and |
| song: "dun dun dun dun daaaaaa." It's that familiar, and | | | | Order...and many many more. |
| that closely associated with the show. | | | | "...Post's ability to encompass a show's character in his |
| It's not an accident. It's the work of famed composer | | | | music is what has landed him atop the elite class of |
| Mike Post. Few people in the music industry have | | | | Hollywood composers. Only Pat Williams, Henry |
| made such a mark on one aspect of the business as | | | | Mancini and Dave Grusin have attained comparable |
| Mike Post has on TV theme songs. | | | | levels of success and respect in this field." --Museum |
| Remember "Hill Street Blues"? It won two Grammys in | | | | of Broadcast Communications |
| 1981--Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best | | | | Before his success in television, Post worked as a |
| Instrumental Composition. Post's songs not only work | | | | session musician for a number of major artists including |
| for the shows they are written for, but are so good, | | | | Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. He played guitar on |
| so catchy, so memorable that they chart on the radio. | | | | Sonny and Cher's #1 hit, "I Got You Babe," in 1965. He |
| Such was the case with the "The Theme from Hill | | | | won a Grammy at age 22 for Best Instrumental |
| Street Blues." Another Post song, "The Greatest | | | | Arrangement on the Mason Williams' guitar classic, |
| American Hero," actually hit #1 on the Pop charts. Both | | | | "Classical Gas. |
| were popular in the early 1980s. | | | | |