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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnyone remember the "Peter Gunn" t.v. series?
The theme song alone is golden...
I saw it as a kid, revisited on youtube. It was interesting to note the differences between the "beatniks" and the "hippies". Beatniks = jazz, literature, hard boiled. Hippies = acid, music, nonviolence. (Manson being the exception.)
The beats seemed to give us more literature, the hippies more music.
Thoughts?
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Only know the theme because it was on the video game Spy Hunter, which I played the hell out of at our local Domino's Pizza whenever my family went there when I was a kid.
Awesome theme.
60's counterculture also gave us a lot of our greatest film directors: Spielberg, Coppola, Stone, Kubrick, Lucas (questionable, I know), and many others either came of age or experienced their heydey in the 60's.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)of booze, sex, and fisticuffs!!!
Paladin
(28,269 posts)They show the series on an oldies station I get, but it's on at like 4:00 AM or so, something ridiculous like that. The episodes I've seen indicate the show has really held up well over the years. And jeez, that amazing musical score......
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Sam, and those great legs?
10 points if you know who that was without looking it up.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)... I will have to look it up!
rurallib
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(4,734 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,557 posts)Moore's first regular television role was as a mysterious and glamorous telephone receptionist on Richard Diamond, Private Detective. To add to the mystique, her voice is heard, but only her shapely legs appear on camera.
Bombero1956
(3,539 posts)on Richard Diamond Private Detective? All you saw were her legs.
Brother Buzz
(36,456 posts)It's really a shame the TV series, Mike Hammer, totally sucked.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)Stacy Keach, if that is the show you refer to. Not in the same league as Peter Gunn, though. Way too slick and commercial.
Brother Buzz
(36,456 posts)It's just that Mike Hammer was extremely unmemorable. I blame the writers and producers for cranking out such mediocre work after the first couple of episodes. Would have, could have, should have been.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)You were surely missed!!!!!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I may have found my next (used car) while driving around up there.
My very small car needs to retire so I can drive it just for fun.
Great video!
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Sounds much better, even on my computer speakers, that those old TeeVee speakers. B&W TeeVee & monophonic sound.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)that I do not remember it that well.
trof
(54,256 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Of course the theme is one of the most recognizable themes in TV history.
Last winter, I get a DVD for a few episodes of Peter Gunn from the public library. He was one cool cat. The TV show seemed to have a lot of night scenes.
mucifer
(23,558 posts)sarge43
(28,942 posts)Mancini would write music that could melt your bones.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)progressivejazzredux
(44 posts)Mike Hammer was one tough dude in that series. Mean.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 18, 2013, 07:20 PM - Edit history (3)
in strings class when I was in junior high in the 60s (upright bass, cello, viola, and violin - I played the latter) while waiting for the teacher to get in gear. I remember when the top 40 radio stations actually played some jazz tunes, like Cast Your Fate To the Wind or Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto doing Girl From Ipanema, or even Brubeck's Take Five. Cannonball Adderly's Mercy, Mercy, Mercy? Windy by Wes Montgomery. Grazin' In The Grass by Mongo Santamaria. The In Crowd by the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Stan Getz' Desafinado. Walk on the Wild Side, by Jimmy Smith & The Big Band. There were quite a few others like Jankowski's A Walk through The Black forest or even Nelson Riddle's Route 66. Jazz on AM radio on top hits stations is probably extremely rare today.
Examples of 60s jazz tunes making it into the Billboard Pop 100 and getting AM radio air play:
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)I knew the theme because my brother had it on a record. Never saw the show as it came on way past my bedtime.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I just heard it on a cable news break just now.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I used to play it over & over when I was young. Loved it.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)77 Sunset Strip - with office next to Dean Martins club!!!
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(4,734 posts)the Harley Davidson Topper Scooter from 77 Sunset Strip!
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)My all time fav t.v. P.I.!!!
"Is that an UZI"?!? (great line from "Air America" )
progressoid
(49,992 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)thanks!!!