Conducted, Played and Composed by Lalo Schifrin Piano : Lalo Schifrin Bass : Jannick Top Drums : André "Dédé" Ceccarelli Recorded with the Marseille Philarmonic Orchestra, in Marseille, in 1995.
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Thank you for sharing this musical jewel, Martyprod2! I am curious to know what orchestra is Lalo directing in this video... I grew up in Argentina and was a fan of the show. Thank you 🙏
@@Nordestada The concert happened in Marseille at the Opera de Marseille, the orchestra is "Orchestre Philarmonique de Marseille", i have the full concert (didn't had the time to post it). lot of guest was there. the rythmic section with the orchestra here is jannick Top on bass / acoustic bass and andre ceccarelli on drums. singuer like Julia Migenes and Deedee Bridgewater did the vocals. It's from 1995.
Ooh! The memories this TV theme evokes! I still recall fondly sitting glued to the television set on Sunday nights in the latter 1960's, watching Peter Graves and the entire ensemble cast pursue and resolve the "MISSION: Impossible." And thank you Lalo Schifrin for such an engaging theme song --- one of the ten BEST in TV history (in my personal opinion). Amazing --- it was scored in the irregular 5/4 time signature!
@@michaelwascom62 I remember from the VERY first season before it had Peter Graves. That role was played by Steven Hill and the character name was "Dan Briggs". He left due to the production company going back on their promise that, as a devout Jew, he would not have to work on Saturdays. I thought he was far more believable as an undercover operative as he was rather plain looking compared to Peter Graves who is, well, not plain looking and not likely to "blend in." But Peter Graves was also very good.
@@trainliker100 Wow! Thanks for the reply and the "heads up"! I DID NOT KNOW there was another actor who portrayed the "head" of the spy agency before Peter Graves was hired in that role! But, admittedly, when Mission:Impossible first hit the airwaves (ca. 1966), I was only 13 years old, and rarely watched the show. I came to enjoy it in later years after it had gained traction, and was a popular ratings grabber. In my personal (unscientific) opinion, the the ensemble cast in the early years was the best ever. The later cast changes did not "kill" the excitement of the show, but it was never the same. Something indefinable was gone forever. Thanks!
@@michaelwascom62 The first season has only rarely been rerun. Perhaps some licensing issue. But it is very good. A bit more serious and less flashy in tone. Episode 8 "Ransom" in the first season is especially interesting. It is NOT one of the usual government sanctioned activities. Instead, the daughter of a friend of Briggs has been kidnapped and he gets his team together on his own initiative to ask them to help him. Of course, they agree. The bad guys made a big mistake not realizing they would be up against, as Liam Neeson famously said in "Taken", a group "with a particular set of skills." Some more trivia that many today don't know, and didn't know then, was that Peter Graves and James Arness (Gunsmoke) were brothers.
The theme is written in a 5 4 time signature which Lalo Schifrin has jokingly explained as being "for people who have five legs".Schifrin started from the Morse Code for M.I. which is "_ _ .."; if a dot is one beat and a dash is one and a half beats, then this gives a bar of five beats, exactly matching the underlying rhythm.The first notes of the theme are played by a bassoon utilizing a trill. Musician and composer John Belezikjian was asked by Lalo Shifirin to "see what he could do with the Mission Impossible music" - as John, at age 16 auditioned to become a Hollywood music composer. It was Belezikjian who played the theme music on his Oud (a Middle Eastern stringed instrument) - adding in the 3-note accents to the melody - using a Middle Eastern musical embellishment called "Tarjama". The original single release peaked at no. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 19 on the magazine's Adult Contemporary chart in 1967 (Leonard Nimoy, before playing Paris in Mission Impossible in 1969, also covered the theme two years earlier) In 2010, a fictionalized account of Lalo Schifrin's creation of the Mission: Impossible tune was featured in a Lipton TV commercial aired in a number of countries around the world.
I’ve heard a story that this got played as a dance tune on “American Bandstand” and the teenagers started dancing to it but quickly got out of step and increasingly confused because of the 5/4 signature. I’ve never seen the clip but that must have been hilarious to see.
The trouble with this theory-the Morse code origin-is that it completely ignores that the Mission impossible obstinate rhythm is obviously just a straight-eighth-note version of Paul Desmond’s “Take Five” (from 1959) which was a big hit, extremely well-known, and much copied seven years before Mission impossible (1966). Dave Brubeck himself wrote and recorded with his group another tune in the early sixties (“Castilian Blues”, 1962) which was a straight-eighth Latin version of the “Take Five” rhythm. The first version of the theme from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ((1964, two years before Mission Impossible) was in five as well. No, Schifrin was simply following a trend, which is not to disparage him; it was his job to follow trends. Television is scarcely ever a fount of originality; there’s too much invested money at stake.
Absolutely brilliant piano-play, with solid backup, by the composer of this memorable masterpiece, which will be an all-time favorite over the years. Cheers from Sri Lanka.
J'ai connu LALO en Argentine en 1958 (j'étais chanteur et j'avais mon programme de télévision tous les dimanches soirs à 20h30). Il m'a téléphoné un matin, pour faire pour enregistrer deux thèmes (Café a la italiana et En la estacion). Il venait de faire les plays backs. Café a la Italina, fut un énorme succès et je dois reconnaître que ce titre m'a beaucoup aidé dans ma carrière. Merci Lalo... à bientôt j'éspère.
Merci pour ce témoignage David ! tu habites en france aujourd'hui ? une de mes connaissances musicale est le compositeur argentin Mario litwin qui a bien connu Lalo également. peut etre vous connaissez vous ? (mon nom de musicien est Didier Martini)
Es un tema maravilloso,uno de esos que me llevaría cuando parta de éste mundo!! Además me invade el orgullo de que sea un compatriota el creador de esta obra tan bella!! Gracias por permitirme disfrutarlo. Saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. 🇦🇷🌞🇦🇷
One of the silver age greats in the early 60s, Lalo Schifrin, John Williams Jerry Goldsmith and Quincy Jones all had offices next to eachother at CBS where they would score a TV show every week and try yo one up one another.
Cool now I know who Lalo Schifon is. Love the theme from Mission Impossible The old Mission Impossible was the best even though if it was before my time. ⏱🇨🇺
Fantastic and choreographic the Lalo Schiffrin's conduction. However, warm applause strengthens the impression of musical excellence. The audience's interaction with the musicians is the true apotheosis.
Lalo Schifrin is still alive but retired, when Michael Giacchino worked on Mission Impossible 3 he booked a lunch for himself and Lalo just to ask him how he should approach the film according to Michael his only advice was to just have fun with it.
any other suggestion would have been a mistake. it's the only good one to tell when you're at this level of composer, from the Giacchino side or the Schifrin one. It remind me the meeting between Gershwin and Ravel !
Pensar que mí padre me llevaba de chiquito a la increíble Confitería El Cabildo,sita en la esquina de Corrientes y Esmeralda a ver a Lalo Schiffrin.MARAVILLOSO RECUERDO.
ah yes, it's cool for sure ;) would have loved to be on stage !! there is someone i know in the band, I studied jazz with his brother (andre ceccarelli), big french drummer family here, from father to son and brother.
Oh yeah! That's it! I like how the soft look of the 63 years old man at 0:88, calm kind eyes, wrinkles, is contrasting with the (elegant) power he is unleashing on the listeners.
