About Mike Post
Mike Post is an American composer, best known for his television theme music for various shows, including The White Shadow; Law & Order; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; The A-Team; The Byrds of Paradise; NYPD Blue; Renegade; The Rockford Files; L.A. Law; Quantum Leap; Magnum, P.I.; Hill Street Blues, and Mammoth. He was also the producer of the Van Halen III album by the band Van Halen. Post's first credited work in music was cutting demos using two singing sisters, Terry and Carol Fischer. He was the songwriter and producer for both songs on the band's first single, released in 1965, and also arranged a local concert where they served as the back-up band. He won his first of five Grammy Awards at age 23 for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas", a number 2 hit song in 1968.
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