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Subject: Re: Theme song for video game Spy Hunter
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 18:27:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 18:27:37 1986
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Keywords: Older than Blues Bros. or ELP . . .
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In article <> glennr@rruxo.UUCP (G. Robitaille) writes:
>I have a question for anyone out there familiar with the video game
>Spy Hunter.  The song played throughout the video game (pardon the poor
>sentance structure), what is it's name and who did it.  I think It was
>an ELP (Emerson Lake & Palmer) song, but I'm not sure.  I believe it was
>also used in the Blues Brothers Movie (But I am not sure) and I know a few
>groups recorded it.
>
>Glenn H Robitaille

The background music in "Spy Hunter" is the theme from the old "Peter Gunn"
TV show.  In the years since the show was on the air it has been covered and
re-covered by an incredible number of artists, and deservedly so, I think it's
one of the greatest TV themes of all times.  (They thought so back then, too,
until Jan Hammer's theme from "Miami Vice" hit #1, "Theme from Peter Gunn" was
the ONLY TV show theme to reach the top of the record charts.)

Now . . . in a related question . . . I was led to believe a while ago that
the background music for the game "Gyruss" was actually taken from a work by
Bach, as arranged by the Australian group Sky.  Confirmation of this would be
appreciated, as would pointers to Sky on CD, if such a thing exists. 

.rne.

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