Miami Vice Theme
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The Miami Vice Theme is an instrumental piece by Jan Hammer from 1985 and the theme melody of the crime series Miami Vice . It became a number one hit and is also featured on the TV series' first soundtrack album.
history
Hammer, who was entrusted with the theme song for the series, made several suggestions; the very first theme he played was what was accepted. The theme apparently set the fast pace of the series. It felt less by its melody, but rather by the electronic " high-tech - Arrangement ".
The instrumental piece was heard for the first time in the first three episodes of Miami Vice , but there it was played with percussion , keyboard and without an electric guitar . According to Hammer's manager Elliot Sears, this was the first pre-release version that was not mixed down by Hammer. Drummer David Earle Johnson used a sampled Nigerian drum motif at one point, leading to a copyright lawsuit .
The instrumental piece was also used for the 1986 NBA All-Star Weekend and became its title track for several American radio stations over the years, for example on Westwood One's Radio Free DC: The G. Gordon Liddy Show , where the piece played from 1992 to 1997 Title track of the radio show was used.
Additional publication on sound carrier
Released on November 8, 1985, Miami Vice Theme became a number one hit in the United States . The song spent a total of 22 weeks on the American charts; in other countries it became a top 5 hit. In 1986 the instrumental piece won the Grammy Awards in the categories Best Instrumental Performance - Pop and Best Instrumental Composition . Since Miami Vice was broadcast for the first time in German-speaking countries at the end of 1986, the instrumental piece only celebrated chart success there in the spring of 1987 (Germany: 4th place, Austria: 5th place, Switzerland: 8th place), two years after the song was already successful in English-speaking countries was represented in the charts. In Germany, the song stayed in the charts for a total of 25 weeks from February 9, 1987.
Music video
The music video is a very short episode of Miami Vice, in the plot Sonny Crockett ( Don Johnson ) and Ricardo Tubbs ( Philip Michael Thomas ) follow Jan Hammer, who portrays a fugitive, while Hammer also plays the song on a synthesizer . At the end of the music video, Hammer escapes into a helicopter and flies away.
Cover versions
- 1987: Ed Starink
- 1993: Harold Faltermeyer
- 2000: Lopazz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
- ^ "I tried three or four other themes, but the first one I played him ended up being the 'Miami Vice Theme,'" said Hammer after Craig Rosen The Billboard book of number one albums: the inside story behind pop music's blockbuster records
- ^ Mademoiselle: the magazine for the smart young woman , Vol. 92 (1986), p. Iii
- ↑ See Molly McGraw Sound Sampling Protection and Infringement in Today's Music Industry (Berkeley Technology Law Journal) (PDF; 169 kB)
- ^ Richard D. Barnet, Bruce Nemerov, Mayo R. Taylor The Story Behind the Song: 150 songs that chronicle the 20th century , p. 224
- ↑ Almost at the same time, Glenn Frey's You Belong to the City , which was also used in Miami Vice, reached number two in the American charts, making the series' soundtrack even more popular. The first soundtrack record reached number one on the American charts and stayed there for a total of eleven weeks, making it the most successful soundtrack album in a series in the United States. After Steven Sanders Miami Vice (p. 95), it was the first television series that brought both a title and an album to number one
- ↑ As of December 6, 1986, the series Miami Vice was broadcast for the first time on Tuesday evening at around 9:45 p.m. on ARD's first program in Germany.
- ↑ Music video on MyVideo.de