Mike Post started out as a studio guitarist, recording on hits such as Sunny and Cher's "I Got You Babe." As a producer, he won a Grammy for "Classical Gas" in 1968 and worked with artists ranging from Sammy Davis Jr., to Dolly Parton (on her smash 9 to 5 album), to Van Halen.
But Mike is best known as the preeminent television composer of his generation. Often in conjunction with his longtime composing partner, the late Pete Carpenter, Mike crafted thematic earworms that reside in the collective consciousness. The A-Team, Doogie Howser, Quantum Leap, LA Law, Hill Street Blues, The Greatest American Hero, and the entire Law & Order Franchise represent just a slice of a body of work comprising thousands of hours of television music.
Mike discusses his decades spanning career, and he and Joe recall the unusual way they became friends.
278: Roger Manning, Jr. (Jellyfish, The Lickerish Quartet, The Moog Cookbook, Beck, etc.)
BNS: Charles Connor Revisited
277: Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchie, P.S., Eliot, etc.)
276: Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Merge Records, etc.)
Tony Allen, RIP
275: Julianna Barwick
274: Sean McGuinness (Pissed Jeans)
273: Johnathan Rice
272: Dot Wiggin (The Shaggs)
271: Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo)
270: Duncan Trussell (The Midnight Gospel, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour)
BNS: "Dreams Wash Away"
269: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
268: Andrew Becker (Human Potential, Medications)
267: Areif Sless-Kitain (Brokeback, The Eternals, Regulator Watts)
266: Thor Harris (Swans, Thor & Friends, Bill Callahan, etc.)
265: Makaya McCraven
264: Sean Solomon (Moaning)
263: Emil Amos + Britt Walford Returns (Holy Sons, Grails)
262: Meg Baird (Meg Baird + Mary Lattimore, Espers, Heron Oblivian, Watery Love
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