Instrumentally Yours: The Rockford Files

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Honestly, I can’t believe how well-remembered yesterday’s song was! Thanks for all the great comments, everyone! Today we’ll stay in the 70s, and a moog synthesizer (although it was a lot smaller by the time this song rolled around), and get back to the TV shows. The Rockford Files - Mike Post Mike Post may be the most frequently charted TV theme composer in history. This made the top ten. He also scored hits with the themes to Magnum P.I. and Hill Street Blues. Oh, and he co-wrote “Believe It Or Not,” the theme to The Greatest American Hero. That’s a busy career! In the dictionary, under ubiquitous, it says “see Mike Post.” In addition to the “hits,” there were theme songs to The A-Team, NewsRadio, Quantum Leap, and one of my underrated shows from the 70s, The White Shadow. He had so many theme songs that The Who did a song called “Mike Post Theme” on an album. That was a good era for TV themes to become hits, too, with themes to Welcome Back, Kotter, Happy Days, and Lavern & Shirley being successful in the same era. I wish “Lou’s Blues,” the theme to Lou Grant, had been released as a single, because I loved that theme. But that’s another story. This song is all over the place, with a rocking guitar, a synthesizer, and Herb Pedersen playing banjo????!!!!! It’s one of the great theme songs to one of the great shows of the 70s. The Rockford Files Written by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter Recorded by Mike Post Released as a single, 1975 And who can forget those great phone messages at the opening!