Mike Post provided early guidance for the garage rock band The Outcasts while in recruit training in San Antonio, Texas.
11 Facts About Mike Post
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Mike Post was the songwriter and producer for both songs on the band's first single, released in 1965, and arranged a local concert where they served as the back-up band.
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Mike Post won his first Grammy Award at age 23 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas", a number 2 hit song in 1968.
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Mike Post is credited as the record producer for Williams' LP that included that song, The Mason Williams Phonograph Record.
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Mike Post produced Dolly Parton's hit album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs in 1981.
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Mike Post won an Emmy for his Murder One theme music, and had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others.
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In 1994, Mike Post scored the Diagnosis: Murder episode "How To Murder Your Lawyer", designed as a backdoor pilot for a lawyer series.
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In 2014, Mike Post composed the score for the fake TV pilot Caged Heat in the All Hail the King short film for Marvel Studios.
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In 1994, Mike Post released a CD, called Inventions from the Blue Line.
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Mike Post referred to police in the traditional nickname of "blues", as in The Thin Blue Line.
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One of the tracks is called "The Blue Line", which Mike Post calls "the comradery theme".