The Theme from the Green Hornet and other selections…
Tag: Music
The Sweetback Sisters
The Sweettback Sisters can best be described as a western swing fusion act that formed in 2007. The King of Killing Time was released in 2017 and is their 6th album.
original art by Nickolas Muray, c1950
Music To Be Murdered By
Album cover of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music To Be Murdered By, 1958
A Foreign Artist’s Idea…
… Of Modern Day New York
Vanity Fair, 1924, by Belgian artist Frans Masereel
Edie at the Microphone
A couple of beautiful promotional shots of Lola Albright posing with a microphone for the show Peter Gunn.
Jazz Noir
Nice 3 CD/60 song collection of various, original jazz songs from various sources, starting with the theme from Peter Gunn.
Theme to Peter Gunn
Henry Mancini Signed Music Quote to the Theme to Peter Gunn.
Lola Albright
Lola Albright (July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017) Was probably best known for her role as Edie Hart, Peter Gunn’s love interest, in the TV show bearing the character’s name. For the first two seasons she sings in a local jazz club called Mother’s, by the last season she was running the joint. Continue reading “Lola Albright”
Other Worlds Other Sounds
Esquivel & his Orchestra – Other Worlds Other Sounds
Discogs classifies this as “Space-Age, Latin Jazz, Easy Listening, Big Band” but he calls it “space-age bachelor pad music”… I’m kinda fond of “It had to be you”
RIP Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
Ennio Morricone was a prolific Italian composer, with 540 credits to his name. He is best know for his iconic theme to The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which helped define the spaghetti western genre. Besides his work in The Man With No Name trilogy, he also composed the score for Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), the Thing (1982), the Untouchables (1987) and more recently he composed the score for Quentin Tarantino’s, The Hateful Eight (2015). His inventive use of non traditional “instruments” (due to budget restraints) shaped the mood of the dollar trilogy, giving it the atmosphere we all know so well. He died at the age of 91 in the town in which he was born, Rome, Lazio, Italy