STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - MIKE POST - RAILHEAD OVERTURE

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Good morning record junkies and welcome back to the Tuesday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Our subject of celelbration today is multi Grammy and Emmy award winning composer Mike Post, as he celelbrates his 76th Birthday. Happy Birthday Mike. You have heard his themes on televisionyour whole life, such as , Law & Order, , The A-Team, NYPD Blue, Renegade, The Rockford Files, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I., The Greatest American Hero and Hill Street Blues, to name a few. In honor of his big day, we take a listen to his second studio album, Railhead Overture. The instrumental LP was released in 1975 on the MGM label and produced by Post. Among the notable musicians on the disc are drummer Jim Gordon, and Herb Pedersen on banjo, whom we met and got an autograph from, at Gram Parsons Derry Down. I also have to mention Mike looks a bit like Napoleon Dynamite on the front cover ....

A1 Railhead Overture 3:37

A2 Manhattan Spiritual 3:19

A3 Georgia On My Mind 4:30

A4 Wouldn't It Be Nice
Electric Piano – Mike Post
2:33

A5 Pictures At An Exhibition 3:55

B1 The Rockford Files 3:06

B2 Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Piano – Mike Post
3:49

B3 Blade 3:40

B4 Lay Back Lafayette 3:24

B5 The Viking 4:53

Producer, Keyboards [Moogs], Arranged By – Mike Post

Arranged By – Danny Ferguson (tracks: B3), Pete Carpenter, Velton Ray Bunch (tracks: A5)

Banjo – Herb Pedersen

Bass – Lyle Ritz, Marty Tryon (tracks: A4, B2, B5)

Drums – Jim Gordon

Electric Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Dobro – Danny Ferguson

Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar [Acoustic], Liner Notes – Steve "The Wire" Geyer*

Harmonica – Tommy Morgan

Percussion – Gary Coleman

Piano, Electric Piano – Mike Melvoin

Trombone [Solo] – Joey Howard (tracks: A3)

Trumpet [Solo] – Chuck Finley* (tracks: B3)

Art Direction – Sheri Leverich

Coordinator [Production] – Joey Averback

Design – John Hair 

Engineer – John Boyd

Mastered By – Michael Reese

Photography By – Ed Caraeff