Mike Post

MIKE POST
 
 
Mike Post  (born Leland Michael Postil; September 29, 1944 in Berkeley, California) is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning American composer, best known for his TV theme songs for such series as Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, The A-Team, NYPD Blue, Renegade, The Rockford Files, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I., and Hill Street Blues.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Popsicles and Icicles by the Murmaids is a long-time favorite of mine that has a timeless quality to it, and a remarkable convergence of talent went into its creation.  The vocal group was composed of sisters Terry Fischer and Carol Fischer plus Sally Gordon.  Mike Post was a schoolfriend of Terry Fischer and cut several demos for the trio; Post would sometimes bring the women to Gold Star Studios to provide backing vocals on various recordings. 

 

While he was in basic training in San AntonioMike Post provided early guidance to the legendary Texas garage rock band the Outcasts; he wrote and produced the band’s first single, “Nothing Ever Comes Easy” b/w “Oriental Express”.  He also recruited the Outcasts as the back-up band for performances by Jimmy Carlson (who was active in the New York folk music scene) and by Jimmy Hawkins (a long-time actor who later worked in Elvis Presley films and on The Donna Reed Show). 

 

Mike Post’s many later musical credits include producing the first three albums for the First Edition (where Kenny Rogers got his start) and creating the theme music for Law & OrderThe Rockford FilesHill Street Blues, and many other TV shows.  

 

Terry FischerCarol Fischer and Sally Gordon came to the attention of Kim Fowley while they were doing backing vocal work for Mike Post, and he offered to record a single for them; at the time, according to Wikipedia, Fowley was “the in-house producer for Chattahoochee Records”, which released the single.  Fowley produced Popsicles and Icicles and four other tracks for the band (now known as the Murmaids), each of which served as the “B” side for various releases of the song. 

 

(January 2015/1)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021