Yesterday I wrote some little sentences about series and the music that belonged to them. After typing these words I remembered some famous soundtracks of the 70's. The music was written by Lalo Schifrin, an Argentinian born musician, composer and conductor who wrote so many soundtracks of movies we used to watch these days. Most of them are classics now and I still love this sound between funk, jazz, soul borrowings and rock. I grew up with his music and it is still worth to listen to them from time to time.
Yesterday was the last day of my illness and therefore we took a day of spending in our house. We went downtown to the next DVD shop to grab some DVD's. You can buy there every new movie for less money - no one will coast you more than 50 cent. Of course they are all ripped by Malaysian copy pirates but it doesn't bother me at all. The quality is mostly excellent - just the special features and more subtitles are missing. I bought me Hangover 3 and other new stuff as well as the collection of the Dirty Harry series. Nowing, that the story of self justice may be not correct I stand to this movies and they are just good entertainment.
One of my favorite scene is:
While in a local diner, Callahan sees a bank robbery in progress and, alone with his revolver, he kills two of the robbers
and wounds a third, challenging the man lying near a loaded shotgun:
I know what you’re thinking: "Did he fire six shots
or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement,
I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a 44 Magnu,
the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean
off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well,
do ya, punk?
Anyway, by reading the credits to the movie I remembered who's done the music to this movie: Lalo Schifrin, an Argentin pianist, composer and arranger mostly known for hisTV scores. In the early 60s he was a member of Dizzy Gillespies band to go afterwards writing TV scores like Mission Impossible and others.
Searching on youtube I remembered also Mike Post and his wonderful TV scores. I grew up with tv series like The Rockford Files and Magnum, PI. Wikipedia told me, that he started his career as a musician in a garage rock band called The Outcasts in San Antonio, Texas. Might sound totally different to his following works as a musican/producer.
