Mike Post

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Railhead Overture
  US 195 11/08/1975 (3 weeks)
Television Theme Songs
  US 70 02/27/1982 (17 weeks)
Singles
The Rockford Files
  US 10 05/17/1975 (16 weeks)
Afternoon of the Rhino (Mike Post Coalition)
  UK 47 08/09/1975 (2 weeks)
Manhattan Spiritual
  US 56 09/27/1975 (7 weeks)
Theme from 'Hill Street Blues' (with Larry Carlton )
  UK 25th 01/16/1982 (11 weeks)
  US 10 08/22/1981 (22 weeks)
(Theme From) Magnum PI
  US 25th 01/06/1982 (17 weeks)
The 'A' team
  UK 45 09/22/1984 (7 weeks)
Theme from 'Hill Street Blues' (1985) (with Larry Carlton )
  UK 99 December 07, 1985 (1 week)

Mike Post (* 29 September 1944 in Berkeley , California ; born Leland Michael Postil ) is an American composer and music producer .

biography

Post was born the son of an architect in Berkeley. At the age of 23, the multiple award-winning composer won a Grammy in 1968 for the " Best Instrumental Arrangement " of Mason Williams ' Classical Gas .

In the 1960s, he worked with Kenny Rogers together and produced the first three albums , which he and his country - band The First Edition had added. One of his first television jobs was as musical director of The Andy Williams Show at the age of 24.

In the early 1970s, Post began writing the theme music for television series , working with Pete Carpenter from the beginning until his death in the mid-1980s . He made his big breakthrough in 1974 - together with Carpenter - with the theme music for the television series Detective Rockford - a call is enough (English The Rockford Files ) by producer Stephen J. Cannell . The music was so successful that it made it to number 10 on the US singles chart. It also earned him his second Grammy Award .

Post, who was nominated for an Emmy for NYPD Blue among others , received this for the background music of Murder One . Post received a BMI Award for the theme tunes in the LA Law ( Grammy 1989 ), Hunter and Law & Order series (and its various offshoots) . His theme songs for Hill Street Police Station ( Hill Street Blues , together with Larry Carlton , Grammy 1982 ) and Magnum , both of which also hit the charts , are particularly well known .

In 1984, Post was awarded a “ Golden Raspberry ” for the arrangement and as the conductor of the film music for Die Senkrechtstarter (English Rhinestone ) - together with Dolly Parton (original music and text) .

Post was also responsible for the production of the Van Halen album Van Halen III (1998).

Well-known compositions for film and television

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personal data
SURNAME Mail, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Postil, Leland Michael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley , California , United States