Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil on September 29, 1944) is a Grammy and Emmy award-winning composer of music and theme songs for many of the most popular TV dramas first shown in the United States. He was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was a architect and a personal hero. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music... An Emmy Award. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... The theme music of a radio or television program is a melody closely associated with the show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits. ... Braun HF 1, Germany, 1958. ... There are many articles named Drama: Drama, the art form. ... Nickname: City of Angels Official website: http://www. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Heroine, the feminine form of hero, should not be confused with heroin, the drug. ...

He won his first Grammy at age 22 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas". One of his first TV jobs started when he was 24, as the musical director on The Andy Williams Show. Another early job was writing music, including the theme for the series Toma, but his big break-through (together with co-composer Pete Carpenter) came with his theme song for The Rockford Files, another series by producer Stephen J. Cannell; the theme also got cross-over Top 40 radio airplay. Mason Williams (b. ... Classical Gas is an instrumental piece by Mason Williams. ... The Andy Williams Show was a television variety show which ran from 1958 to 1971 (alternating during the summer of 1970 with Andy Williams Presents Ray Stevens). ... Toma was a short-lived television series that ran on ABC in 1974. ... The Rockford Files was an American detective (private investigator) television drama that had its first run on the NBC television network between 1974 and 1980 and has been in constant syndication to the present day. ... Stephen J. Cannell (born May 2, 1941) (pronounced CAN-ULL) is an Emmy award winning television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor from the USA. Noted for sophisticated, character-driven writing within genre formats, Cannell has created or co-created nearly 40 different shows, including The Rockford Files, The Greatest... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ...

He also worked with Kenny Rogers in the 1960s and produced the first three albums he recorded with his country/rock group The First Edition. Kenny Rogers For the baseball player, see Kenny Rogers (baseball player). ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

He won an Emmy for the theme to Murder One, but had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others. He won BMI Awards for the music for L.A. Law, Hunter, and the various Law & Order series. Murder One was a television series first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. ... Dennis Franz and David Caruso on the NYPD Blue first season DVD cover NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama. ... The L.A. Law opening title featured a personalized license plate mounted on a Jaguar. ... Hunter was a police drama television series starring Fred Dryer which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. ... Law & Order is an American televison police procedural and courtroom drama set in New York City. ...

Other noted TV music work includes The Commish, NewsRadio, Blossom, Hill Street Blues, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, Magnum, P.I., Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, CHiPs, Hardcastle & McCormick, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Doogie Howser, M.D., Quantum Leap, Hooperman, Riptide, Remington Steele, Renegade and Silk Stalkings. The Commish was a television series that aired on ABC from 1991 to 1995. ... NewsRadio was an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 on NBC. It was created and executive produced by Paul Simms. ... Blossom was a half-hour comedy television series broadcast from 1991 to 1995 on NBC. The series starred Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo, a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers. ... Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. ... The A-Team was an action/adventure television show about a fictional group of ex-US Army commandos who are on the run from the military while working as soldiers of fortune. ... Cover for the second season DVD of Greatest American Hero The Greatest American Hero is an American television series which aired from 1981 to 1983 on ABC. It premiered as a two hour movie pilot on March 18, 1981. ... Magnum, P.I. was an American television show that followed the adventures of Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck), a private investigator living in Hawaii. ... Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American television series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. ... CHiPs was a US television series running on NBC from September 15, 1977 to July 17, 1983. ... See Hardcastle and McCormick ... Baa, Baa Black Sheep is a nursery rhyme set to a variant of the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star tune [1]. Baa Baa, Black Sheep is the title of a short story by Rudyard Kipling. ... The television show Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993) starred Neil Patrick Harris as a brilliant teenaged doctor who was also faced with the problems of being a normal teenager. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Hooperman was an ABC television series starring John Ritter that had a two-year run from 1987 to 1988. ... Riptide was a television detective series that ran on NBC from 1984 to 1986. ... Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist in Remington Steele. ... Renegade may refer to: a name given to Christians in medieval times who turned Turk, emigrating to the Ottoman Empire and converting to Islam Command & Conquer: Renegade, a first-person shooter set in the Command & Conquer universe Renegade (BBS), a Bulletin Board System Renegade (video game) Renegade (TV Series), produced... Silk Stalkings was a 1990s TV crime drama originally shown on CBS in 1991 as part of the networks late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package, and rebroadcast on the USA Network. ...

External link

• Mike Post at The Internet Movie Database
• Biography