Dave Grusin was doing some really great scores in the early 1970s.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle Three Days of the Condor The Yakuza The Scorpio Letters.
I am listening now to "The Scorpio Letters." I love film scores of this period, and many of these Grusin scores encapsulate so much of what I love about this era of film and TV music.
Well here's one for ya - a western with a good performance from Don Murray. Maybe Dave could have done with a slightly bigger orchestra, but good stuff nonetheless...
Oddly, Mr Grusin would cover much of the same historical background two years later, doing the music for the feature film "The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid". I like "The Intruders" better.
I love the two versions of John Williams' THE LONG GOODBYE, performed by the Dave Grusin Trio. Tracks 3 and 5. Grusin is pretty damn great on piano there, and the percussion/drums is/are also pretty cool especially on Track 3. I think Grusin also backs the Irene Kral vocal.
But yeah, anything by Grusin from the late '60s to late '70s gets an almost guaranteed thumbs up from me. Hang on, he never got really bad like everybody else did. I love ON GOLDEN POND, MULHOLLAND FALLS and RANDOM HEARTS, and some of them are from as late as the '90s (?) - Still, I'm sure those ones wouldn't pass the OnyaBirri litmus paper test of cool cocktails music.
Don't forget DAN AUGUST, the first (?) and already quintessential funky 70s cop show theme! Absolute dope.. would love to have been able to see the orchestra perfom that track back in 1970... (especially the second version in that video)
Don't forget DAN AUGUST, the first (?) and already quintessential funky 70s cop show theme! Absolute dope.. would love to have been able to see the orchestra perfom that track back in 1970...
And thankfully released by LLL on the wonderful Quinn Martin Collection Vol. 1 in 2019!
