Thanks to David, I watched the whole series with Earle Hagen. The man has an amazing memory. You also get that he is very professional and very sure of his abilities and is not afraid to tell it like it is. I learned a great deal from Jon Burlingame's interview here and recommend it highly if you have the time to watch it all.
Now if we could only get a release of music from The Mod Squad that would be great. It would be a nice companion piece to I Spy.
Earle Hagen's book 'Memoirs of a Famous Composer Nobody Ever Heard Of' is well worth a read too.
I SPY is one of my favourite CDs from FSM. The music sounded great and - like the series itself - was full of invention and colour. As well as melody. The fusing of ethnic elements (eg the Chinese 'Sho') with jazz put the scores in a class all of their own.
It's a source of constant regret to me that FSM were not able to do further volumes. It would be nice if another label picked up the baton.
Don't care for the show, but the music is fantastic. FSM's excellent release was a tantalizing tip of the iceberg and a series of further I SPY releases would be welcome.
