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Location: NJ | 85.
Film/Television Composer.
Most noteable works:
"Courageous Cat", "The Odd Couple", & "Batman" |
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Location: Jet City | don't recall that first one, but those other 2. Man, the reruns of Odd Couple every day on the TV, I could probably still hum it note for note.
But BATMAN! When I was a youngin' I had one of those plastic kites that kinda looked like a bat, and I'd attach it to the front of my Huffy and ride all through the neighborhood singin nananananananananananananananana BATMAAAAAAN!
I suppose he probably touched many others with his work in similar ways. I'd call that a success.
RIP |
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Location: NJ | Courageous Cat |
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Location: Jet City | and i thought i knew all the old obscure cartoons
sounds just like batman. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | The Odd Couple was a pretty good show but if you really want the deal, see the Matthau/Lemmon movie. Great stuff. Revisited in Grumpy Old Men and GOM II. And I read not too long ago that the stage version was actually written for Matthau and Art Carney. That had to be classic. |
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Location: Jet City | the movie was classic, the tv show got the tune stuck in my head though. reruns everyday |
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Location: NJ | ". . sounds just like batman . . "
It was more along the lines of "Peter Gunn" . . . |
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Location: SoCal | I used to have the theme from Peter Gun as my cell phone ring. Nobody had a clue what it was.... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | It's on my cell phone now.....and you are right, almost nobody knows. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I used to have the theme from Peter Gun as my cell phone ring. Nobody had a clue what it was.... Come on now, didn't anyone play Spy Hunter back in the 80's? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Only Moody. |
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Location: Scotland | Peter Gunn? wasn't that scored by Henry Mancini, who also did the Pink Panther movies?
Cue a Matt Smith "spy chord" |
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Location: NJ | I think Hefti was doing a "play" on Mancini . .
When you're eight-years-old, CourageousCat was KILLER!!
Speaking of "MattSmithSpyChord" . . I've got a TUNE for you t'hear . . . |
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R.I.P. Neal Hefti
