Song 227 (Duke Ellington (Earle Hagen) --"Harlem Nocturne")

Most would remember this as the theme for Mickey Spillane's "Mike Hammer," however, the song existed before the series. It was originally written by Earle Hagen and is a Big Band Jazz standard. The song actually got a lot of notoriety when it was covered by the Viscounts, which can be found here on YouTube; they took it away from the Big Band Jazz sound and gave it more of a Surf Rock feel. One of the most interesting aspects of this song musically is that they use a whole tone scale in places within the song.

Here is a recording of the song on YouTube.

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