Wednesday, November 30, 2011

TV Series' Music

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Todd Mason said...

Yup. I posted this a year or so back. It's a nice set...I'd only ever heard the unadulterated Brubeck Quartet recording of "Mr. Broadway" so wasn't aware of the odd doubletracking of a harpsichord over Brubeck's piano. Also should check sometime to see if that was the same theme for BURKE'S LAW as for the spy season variation.

7:53 PM
Todd Mason said...

No, not a harpsichord...a Hammond organ, or even a Farfisa.

7:55 PM
pattinase (abbott) said...

Farfisa? Have to check that out.
It was a male white world, wasn't it?

8:03 PM
Todd Mason said...

Well, Mr. Broadway had a Japanese-American woman assistant, Toki (Lani Miyazaki, also in the third Poitier Vergil Tibbs film, THE ORGANIZATION). It fascinates me how many more Asian-American actors were regularly on US television in the 1960s than in the '70s or '80s, even granting HAWAII FIVE-0 and MAGNUM PI (both heavily Caucasian series, with a key exception or two usually)...and how they were employed, either to make Euro and Afro-Ams more Amurrican (notably the I SPY gambit in the first season), or to be hilariously American themselves.

8:39 PM
Todd Mason said...

SUSPENSE THEATER, btw, was/is the syndication title for KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER, script-edited for a while apparently by Anthony Boucher. Still haven't managed to catch any in living memory (maybe Way back when).

8:40 PM
Todd Mason said...

?, of "and the Mysterians" favored a Farfisa--"96 Tears"...it was the poor band's Hammond.

8:41 PM
Todd Mason said...

And are we sure Gene Barry wasn't an elf?

8:44 PM
Todd Mason said...

Oh, and, of course, the gimmick in HAWK was that he like myself is apparently of mixed native nation and Euro ancestry...and looks about as little like it as I do.

8:49 PM

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