Pat Williams - The Streets of San Francisco

[Teasing the Korean]

Pat Williams' film and TV music is very underrepresented on LP and CD, but last year, Lalaland released a 2-CD set of his music from The Streets of San Francisco.

https://lalalandrecords.com/quinn-martin-collection-vol-3-the-the-streets-of-san-francisco-limited-edition-2-cd-set/

 

[HutchFan]

For some reason, I thought The Streets of San Francisco theme was written by Lalo Schifrin.  I guess not.

Maybe I confused it with Schifrin's music from Bullitt.

 

[Gheorghe]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

For some reason, I thought The Streets of San Francisco theme was written by Lalo Schifrin.  I guess not.

Maybe I confused it with Schifrin's music from Bullitt.

 

Me too. My God, WHEN was the series "Streets of San Francisco" ? I´m 62 now and sometimes I don´t know if something happened in the 70´s or 80´s . Malden and Douglas...., was it in the 70´s . I liked the funky theme at the beginning.....
I liked those series, San Francisco, Kojak (Telly Savalas), oh I think Kojak was in the 70´s.....

[JSngry]

All I ask is for a YT video of the OG "Bubbles Was a Cheerleader" instead of all of those ones by all those damn marching bands.

[Teasing the Korean]

Here is a 13-minute suite of the music.  I love that early 70s TV cop show funk sound.

 

[Bluesnik]

Very good. I love it too.You can find it on Marcos Valle records from the 70s.

[Teasing the Korean]

22 minutes ago, Bluesnik said:

Very good. I love it too.You can find it on Marcos Valle records from the 70s.

Yup.  Like this one:

 

Edited October 1, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[Bluesnik]

The cover of this one, what you posted, was my avatar here for quite a time. And yes it's very good. One of his masterworks IMHO.

[ghost of miles]

Thanks for the heads-up on the SOSF release--I just ordered a copy.  I love these kinds of score and soundtrack collections.

[Teasing the Korean]

33 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Thanks for the heads-up on the SOSF release--I just ordered a copy.  I love these kinds of score and soundtrack collections.

I was playing it on repeat for a couple of days at work.  It's a really good representation of the music, if you remember the show.

The other under-represented composer from that era is Billy Goldenberg.  I hope we get some more of his stuff in the near future.

[Daniel A]

Lots of great TV scores still remain unreleased as standalone albums. Maybe some of them are lost. 

Some of the very best scores of the mid 70s were in the first two seasons of Baretta. From what I can recall, Dave Grusin is credited with all or most of them, but there is a curious similarity to some arrangements Tom Scott did around that time, both in terms of a rougher edge than Grusin's other scores and some of the use of woodwinds (it sounds as if Scott was in the band anyway, like he was in the contemporaneous Three Days for Condor soundtrack). And Dave himself did not list the Baretta scores amongst his credits at his own website when I looked a while back. Maybe he was not satisfied? (In an interview in Keyboard Magazine I read decades ago, he complained that the schedule for doing the scores was unreasonable) In any case, he should be, as the scores were great. Still hoping for a luxurious release of those scores. 

Edit: Just checked the IMDB, and discovered that Tom Scott is indeed credited for a lot of the scores (which I didn't remember from watching the show in the 90s). 

Edited October 2, 2021 by Daniel A

[JSngry]

Grusin did great work on/for It Takes A Thief, which in itself was a great show.

I guess he did The Name Of The Game as well, but I never really watched that one. But he got a good 45 out of the gig.

 

[Teasing the Korean]

 

15 hours ago, Daniel A said:

Lots of great TV scores still remain unreleased as standalone albums. Maybe some of them are lost. 

Some of the very best scores of the mid 70s were in the first two seasons of Baretta. From what I can recall, Dave Grusin is credited with all or most of them... 

 

14 hours ago, JSngry said:

Grusin did great work on/for It Takes A Thief, which in itself was a great show.

I guess he did The Name Of The Game as well, but I never really watched that one. But he got a good 45 out of the gig.

When I was teaching myself about jazz as a teen in the late 70s, I avoided Dave Grusin albums, having no idea he had done all this film and TV work that made an impression on me as a kid.

Grusin also did most of the Girl from UNCLE scores.  There was an LP, credited to the arranger, Teddy Randazzo, but the CD reissue credits the album to Grusin.

Grusin also did some fantastic film scores in the 70s, including Three Days of the Condor, The Yakuza, and The Friends of Eddie Coyle.  I consider him a prime architect of the 70s urban sound heard in film/TV from that period.  

As to Daniel's question about the status of the scores, Most scores for US network TV shows from the 70s do exist, albeit in mono form most of the time.  Releasing them is a question of rights, demand, and the amount of work that would go into making a listenable release.  (Film score label producers have said that it is much harder to do TV releases, because there are so many short and static cues, they have a lot to wade through to get to the good stuff.)

Edited October 3, 2021 by Teasing the Korean