M Squad Theme

[pablo71153]

I AM AN URUGUAYAN TV WATCHER , I REMEMBER THIS SERIES FROM THE BEGINING, I LIKE THE PERFORMANCE OF LEE MARVIN , GREAT ACTOR , NEVER MISS A CHAPTER , CONGRATULATIONS... GIVE ME BACK A LOT OF MEMORIES.

[vraydio]

By the time M Squad came along the big band era was over. However, this song simply fit the attitude of the show and it worked.

[lrlforfun]

Pay no attention to the picture. This is the Basie Band in heat. Just an ity bitty blues thing that explodes and lands you in another room!!

[engelundgeister]

Nothing beats Count Basie...and, they don't make men like Lee Marvin, anymore. More's the pity...

[norristerse]

does anyone else need it explained to them that the above picture is not a genuine vintage advert/public service announcement, but a parody?

good.

you may laugh now if you wish

[Chicago10281]

Hope they do a movie remake of the NBC-TV show "M Squad"

[Chicago10281]

Theme song to the TV Series from 1957-1960 on NBC

[downrightman]

They dont make them like Lee anymore. They dont make them like Basie anymore, either. Two Great Americans.

[Yourdeadmeat69]

The truth? The ad was was, a counter to smoking beginning to be recognized as a serious detrimental health impediment put out by the tobacco industry, which they eventually lost in 1964 and all those warning labels started to be put on cigs by law.

That ad made a lot of folks uneasy. It was not devilmaycare, it was just irresponsibility and struck many of us as just desperate and wrong headed.

However funny, fag is another name for cigerette. Had nothing to do with sexuality back then.

[wolfmanflight303]

Lee Marvin was, to me (a poor American Indian kid growing up in Los Angeles, '63 -'71) the baddest of all asses - his ultra-masculine baritone, super-cool affect, violent, brutish swagger and ways with the ladies prompted me to emulate him as I had no positive role models growing up in Barrio Keystone, north of "Wilmas."

In this sissified society, they no longer "make guys like that anymore."

[qqrk1372]

Amen brother!

[jmreisser]

The tune, composed by Count Basie, was recorded here in Chicago in 1969 by himself, the ONLY time he recorded officially with his band. (Basic Basie, SABA/MPS Records)

[Alfie4]

This is what the Police Squad theme is based on (Naked Gun)

[Vincentdeep]

Thanks for posting Nancywarren, don't know why some people find a political angle to everything these days! I guess everything offends Somebody Somewhere!

[IDLERACER]

What that still photo is in effect saying, is that it's foolish to worry about one's future health because there is an overwhelming chance of meeting with a fatal tragedy within a short period of time. By that logic, it might as well read "Go On, Snort A Line."

[nancywarren]

That's just the way people thought back then, before people realized sun bathing causes skin cancer and the Flinstones were characters in cigarette commercials. I picked the picture as a JOKE......

[Vincentdeep]

Meanwhile, this is count basie at his best. This theme is hot!

[zekepig]

so they let bus drivers do all the gay bashing in that era

[Vincentdeep]

I hope you're not serious!!!!!!!! of course you know a fag is a ciggarette in some others cultures!

[zekepig]

ohhh, ok, now I see one guy offering a cigarette to the other - my mistake!

[zekepig]

now that is class!

[garrisoncreek]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!