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Name: Mike Post  
   
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Date of Birth: 29th September 1944
   
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil on September 29, 1944) is a Grammy and Emmy award-winning composer of music and theme songs for many of the most popular TV dramas first shown in the United States. He was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was a police officer and a personal hero, a fact which influenced his compositions, many of them for police-oriented programs.

He won his first Grammy at age 22 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas". One of his first TV jobs started when he was 24, as the musical director on The Andy Williams Show. Another early job was writing music, including the theme for the series Toma, but his big break-through (together with co-composer Pete Carpenter) came with his theme song for The Rockford Files, another series by producer Stephen J. Cannell; the theme also got cross-over Top 40 radio airplay.

He also worked with Kenny Rogers in the 1960s and produced the first three albums he recorded with his country/rock group The First Edition.

He won an Emmy for the theme to Murder One, but had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others. He won BMI Awards for the music for L.A. Law, Hunter, and the various Law & Order series.

Other noted TV music work includes The Commish, NewsRadio, Blossom, Hill Street Blues, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, Magnum, P.I., Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, CHiPs, Hardcastle & McCormick, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Doogie Howser, M.D., Quantum Leap, Hooperman, Riptide, Remington Steele, Renegade and Silk Stalkings.

External link

  • Mike Post at the Internet Movie Database
  • Biography

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