William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Music From Mission: Impossible ; Year: 1967; Genre: Jazz Saw Lalo Schifrin's name come across my news feed a couple days ago; of course, as expected, we lost another legendary composer and musician. While I could list the extensive breadth and depth of film scores and seemingly endless recordings from his discography, I thought that I would pick one of his most known and famous compositions. Suffice it to say that the majority of the people of Earth have heard at least one of his pieces of music. Anyway, even without the title, from the first couple of notes you'll instantly be taken mentally into the series and films of the franchise, which have used it regularly. Heck, without this theme music it just wouldn't be Mission: Impossible . To top it all off he had the famous First Call Gang, or Wrecking Crew to play it, so it was bound to be memorable. Rest in Peace Maestro.    Hear the theme from Mission: Impossible on YouTube.         My song pick 1...

705 ( Lalo Schifrin - Scorpio's Theme ) This is one of my favourite pieces of music from the score of this film. As the title suggests it is the music that accompanies The Scorpio Killer, who is the main villain in the movie. Actor Andy Robinson performed an excellent and very memorable job in his portrayal of a villain in his role of the killer. I have always loved the soundtrack to this film and for me this one of the standouts in the score; it fit the character it was written for quite well. Here is the full song on YouTube. +