Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra -Peter Gunn TV show theme
An evening pause: Performed live c2016. The Peter Gunn showed aired in the late 1950s.
Hat tip Don Carrera.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: Performed live c2016. The Peter Gunn showed aired in the late 1950s.
Hat tip Don Carrera.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I will forever know this as the theme from Spyhunter. Not even MIDI quality sound on the Commodore 64, but I spent hours listening to this tune.
That’s a good performance, but I’ve always preferred the Blues Brother version. Here is a pure studio version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRkxqkObCUk&list=RDRRkxqkObCUk&start_radio=1 and here is a more improvised live performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBYETv92fkU&list=RDUBYETv92fkU&start_radio=1
Boobah- back at ya’. At the arcade.
I eventually learned not to associate ‘William Tell Overture’ with ‘The Lone Ranger’, but, as I’ve never seen the 1958 movie, ‘Spyhunter’ is my cultural reference for this tune.
Unfortunately, the Lark cigarette commercial killed the William Tell Overture for me.
“Have a Lark, have a Lark today…”
Aaargh!
Never much of a video gamer and I never saw ‘The Blues Brothers’ movie either. But I did see the last two seasons of Peter Gunn on its original run. Missed the first season as my family got its first TV in the summer of 1959. Very memorable theme by Henry Mancini.
The second season of Peter Gunn was paired with another Blake Edwards half-hour drama, Mr. Lucky, for which Mancini also wrote the theme. Good tune, but quieter and less memorable than the theme for Peter Gunn. Mr. Lucky only lasted one season. John Vivyan wasn’t as compelling a lead as was Craig Stevens. Mr. Lucky was notable mainly for the excellent work of Ross Martin in the role of Andamo, the main character’s segundo. Martin would later go on to considerable aclaim as Artemus Gordon on The Wild, Wild West as Robert Conrad’s segundo.
“Short Skirt, Long Jacket”
A Tribute to Emma Peel
https://youtu.be/idtYckLIZnI?list=RDidtYckLIZnI
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