Sullie
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It's a 3 way tie for me between Magnum P.I., Baretta and Hill Street Blues.
If you follow music at all and you're familiar with Steely Dan, specifically a favorite of mine called Don't take me alive - the intro to that is done by a guy named Larry Carlton, he would also do more amazing work on Kid Charlemagne among many other things he did but, my point to my rambling, is that Larry Carlton does the solo guitar work on Hill Street Blues. And, I have to say, every time I hear the full song, I'm in awe, it's just amazing work. It's funny, I grew up in the late 70's, early 80's and I never paid much attention to Hill Street Blues but, like an old comfortable pair of shoes, I was very familiar with the theme song. Then one day, I heard the FULL song and it hit me like a ton of bricks and I connected the dots and I said to myself "holy crap, I know that sound, that guitar player, that HAS to be the same guy from my favorite Steely Dan song Don't take me alive!
Baretta is another one, my God I absolutely love that song, Sammy Davis Jr. has such an outstanding voice and absolutely crushes that song and I should say, the watered down version where they take his vocals out is complete crap - just sayin'.
And finally, talking about Magnum PI, I went back and watched the whole series all over again in order not too long ago and HOLY CRAP I completely forgot about the original intro to Magnum PI. Man, I was 12 years old when this started, I loved cars and I thought this was just the most amazing thing on television and I watched from age 12 to age 20, I never missed an episode, I use make damn sure I recorded each and every single on one my Dad's VCR. And every time we blew out a VCR, I made damn sure I programmed in Magnum PI!
PS: I left this out but Larry Carlton also did guitar work on the Magnum PI theme song that we're all familiar with - I totally spaced it on that - so there you go!
If you follow music at all and you're familiar with Steely Dan, specifically a favorite of mine called Don't take me alive - the intro to that is done by a guy named Larry Carlton, he would also do more amazing work on Kid Charlemagne among many other things he did but, my point to my rambling, is that Larry Carlton does the solo guitar work on Hill Street Blues. And, I have to say, every time I hear the full song, I'm in awe, it's just amazing work. It's funny, I grew up in the late 70's, early 80's and I never paid much attention to Hill Street Blues but, like an old comfortable pair of shoes, I was very familiar with the theme song. Then one day, I heard the FULL song and it hit me like a ton of bricks and I connected the dots and I said to myself "holy crap, I know that sound, that guitar player, that HAS to be the same guy from my favorite Steely Dan song Don't take me alive!
Baretta is another one, my God I absolutely love that song, Sammy Davis Jr. has such an outstanding voice and absolutely crushes that song and I should say, the watered down version where they take his vocals out is complete crap - just sayin'.
And finally, talking about Magnum PI, I went back and watched the whole series all over again in order not too long ago and HOLY CRAP I completely forgot about the original intro to Magnum PI. Man, I was 12 years old when this started, I loved cars and I thought this was just the most amazing thing on television and I watched from age 12 to age 20, I never missed an episode, I use make damn sure I recorded each and every single on one my Dad's VCR. And every time we blew out a VCR, I made damn sure I programmed in Magnum PI!
PS: I left this out but Larry Carlton also did guitar work on the Magnum PI theme song that we're all familiar with - I totally spaced it on that - so there you go!
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