Mr.Lucky/Untouchables & 6 Other TV Actio [Original recording remastered, Import]

Mundell Lowe | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Bmg Japan
• ASIN: B000051T9Y
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,756,572 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Theme From Tightrope

2. Hawailan Eye

3. Theme From Mr Lucky

4. Theme From The Untouchables

5. Bourbon Street Beat

6. Detectives Theem

7. Markham Theme

8. Johnny Staccato's Theme

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Crisp arranging; Clean guitar work., June 22, 2008

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This review is from: Mr.Lucky/Untouchables & 6 Other TV Actio (Audio CD)

Sometime ago -- when New York City still had a few dirt roads -- my piano teacher gave me a $1.98 monaural copy of this old RCA Camden for Xmas. Nice of her; if only by default, she knew what she was doing. Ergo, I was delighted when -- 40 years later -- the Japanese, God bless 'em, gave this 'the treatment'. My system & ears keep telling me their processing leads domestic efforts by about 6 years (K2 20 bit in this case). At the time, I was under the thrall of the quaint notion that the Ventures were good guitarists, so Mundell Lowe was a revelation. (Not to mention the blistering, powerful bass work by George Duvivier, Eddie Costa in attack mode on piano & Clark Terry, who seemed to be able to laugh with a trumpet).
These are 8 very different arrangements of then-commercial TV themes derived from assorted shows about cops & private dicks. It's a short recording, but so well done it's worth the money. A great deal of pop music turns into an embarrassment 5 minutes after it was recorded, whereas good jazz doesn't seem to 'date' nearly so badly. 'The Detectives' still catches my ear; originally a bombastic march introducing the forgettable, red-baiting star Robert Taylor, Lowe turned it into a ballad (so THAT'S what a nice hollow-body sounds like -- to Hell with the Ventures).