Hit TV Themes: 50's

Richard Orchestra Gleason | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Simitar Ent.
• ASIN: B0000021QP
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #741,348 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Perry Mason Theme

2. Theme from "Leave It to Beaver"- Toy Parade

3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents

4. Theme from: "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer"- Riff Blues

5. Cimarron City

6. Peter Gunn

7. Tales from Wells Fargo

8. Navy Log- Navy Log March

9. The Restless

10. Theme from "Buckskin"- My Calico Gal

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars The "Perry Mason Theme" leads this album off--and rightly so, July 1, 1999

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This review is from: Hit TV Themes: 50's (Audio CD)

I've been familiar with that piece since I was a little boy, but you know TV themes--they're not considered music so much as a mixture of ID card for the show (you hear it from another room and you head for the tube) and the soundtrack for the opening credits. But I listened to this piece once a week for most of my childhood through a 3" TV speaker and never thought of it as music. Until about ten years ago, when my kid brother, driven by the First CD Revolution--Post-Audiophile phase, upgraded his copy of jazz violinist Jerry Goodman's live album to CD, and instead of dropping his vinyl off in the used bin, laid it on me. I listened to Goodman's straightforward treatment of the piece (now through a decent Dual turntable, Pioneer amp and Kenwood speakers) and realized that I'd been ignoring a really good composition for several years. Now I wish that Goodman disc was still available. Lesson number one--don't automatically trivialize TV theme music just because it's TV theme music. Sometimes the person who does it is a worthwhile composer. This album's going into my shopping cart before I log off.