Law and Order Theme

In episode 15, listeners learn where the show`s theme music comes from. Composer Mike Post talks about the creation of the song. Post and Dick Wolf met while working on Hill Street Blues. Wolf was hired as a writer. The two had a «working friendship.» From the drum and saxophone rhythms of L.A. Law to the poignant piano ballad of Hill Street Blues, Mike Post`s powerful TV theme music is known for its ability to evoke the mood of a high-profile crime series. Streaming options. Whenever people start talking about the iconic crime series Law and Order, someone always has to sing the opening song of the theme song: «dun dun dun dun dun dun daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Virtually everyone has listened to the iconic theme music from an episode of a Law & Order show. There`s a way to get stuck in your head and before you know it, you`re humming the song all day. But where does the song come from? Read on to find out.

Dun dun. «Law and Order» «Dun Dun» has created a legacy like no other. The subject seems to have a strange, almost scary effect on babies and small dogs. When composer Mike Post was commissioned to compose music for Law & Order (and its endless spin-offs), he had only one task: to set the audience in the mood. For the title track, they wanted a sound that really defined New York. The sound arrived at Post, and with his new guitar, he put things together with a clarinet in the background. Wolf really liked it the way it was, and it immediately became a hit with fans of the show. Most people have heard the iconic theme song that defines the show for what it is. Mike Post Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil, Septem) is an American composer best known for his theme music for various shows, including Law & Order; Law & Order: CSR; Team A; NYPD Blue; Renegade; Rockford files; L.A. Law; Leap; Magnum, Prince Edward Island; and Hill Street Blues. Law & Order is a unique show in itself and the music and theme really make it better. This is no coincidence.

It is the work of the famous composer Mike Post. Few people in the music industry have shaped one aspect of the business as much as Mike Post has on TV theme songs. Post began his career in Los Angeles with the country-rock band First Edition with Kenny Rogers. In the late 1960s, he teamed up with Pete Carpenter, trombonist, arranger, and television music veteran, and began writing music for television. Post and Carpenter started for producer Stephen J. Cannell and first wrote the theme for the detective series Toma de Cannell in 1973. However, the theme of Rockford Files was their revolutionary mission. The synthesizer`s whimsical melodies seemed to fit perfectly with James Garner`s ironic Rockford. The score sealed his reputation and earned Post his first Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement in 1975. Mike Post Pete Carpenter The Rockford Files/Compositori The Rockford Files is a 1975 instrumental piece by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. The song is the theme song for the television series The Rockford Files starring James Garner. Music and sound effects Post wrote the title track with electric piano, guitar and clarinet.

«We had a very complete library, so we started looking around and I said, `Hey, give me the sound of a prison door slamming.` Ok, we think so. Rattle. It`s a bit of an iron sound,» Post explained. Do you remember «Hill Street Blues»? It won two Grammys in 1981 – Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Composition. Post`s songs not only work for the shows they were written for, but are so good, so catchy, so memorable that they hit the charts on the radio. This was the case with «The Theme from Hill Street Blues». Another post song, «The Greatest American Hero», reached #1 on the pop charts. Both were popular in the early 1980s. Mike Post has a knack for writing good music for crime series, among others: The Rockford Files, the aforementioned Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Law and Order. and much, much more.

«So I`m doing the pilot, and that`s good. I know it`s good, he knows it`s good. It`s just good. And it was really short. And he gave me great direction. I just want to say short, simple sentences of what he was trying to do as a filmmaker. Really good direction,» Post explained, «so I`m done. I`m done. The phone rings, it`s Dick on the phone. «Hey, how are you?» And it`s like the day before we finished.

So I`ve been done for a week, you know? And he said, `Hey, I decided to go out with scene changes.` I said, «Oh, so just print something on the screen, the time and date, and where are we?» He says, «That`s right. So I need a sound that goes with it. Post thought it was a «great» and «fabulous» idea. He wanted to be a part of it almost immediately and they got to work. Post set to work on the iconic sound. So I walked into the studio and said, `Okay, Dick needs something to do something on the little map that`s going to find the place and the time for scene changes.` It was just at the dawn of samples and sounds, and the music was fully sequenced. [Mike] Post is considered the youngest musician to be appointed music director of a television show, assuming that role in 1969 at the age of 24 on The Andy Williams Show. Prior to this appointment, Post worked primarily as a session musician for a number of major artists, including Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and Sonny and Cher – he played guitar on «I Got You Babe» in 1965. He was also a successful producer and arranger, winning a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement for Mason Williams` «Classical Gas» at the age of 22. West Coast, you`ve waited long enough.

#SVU now begins the @NBC. pic.twitter.com/OlJNwUl81p A few years after working on the series, Post receives a phone call from Wolf asking him to meet him for a drink. Wolf told her about his idea of an iconic drama for police officers and lawyers that is unique on television so far. «. Post`s ability to incorporate the character of a show into his music propelled him to the top of the elite class of Hollywood composers. Only Pat Williams, Henry Mancini and Dave Grusin have achieved a comparable level of success and respect in this area. Then Florek, Captain Craigan apparently identified it as «doink doink» on both the original and SVU, while Richard Belzer calls it the creator`s «box office sound.» NBC, the network on which the shows air, reportedly sold a ringtone (you know, back when buying ringtones was a thing) called «Ching Ching.» Then he heard the sound of someone hitting an anvil with a hammer. Then they made some drum noises in the studio. They took some sounds together and combined them, but it wasn`t enough.

Then he found a sample of 100 men in Japan on a wooden floor stamp. They combined that sound with what they already had, and Dick Wolf loved it. Law & Order: SVU has its own podcast called Squadroom. It was created by NBC and Wolf Wolf Entertainment.