Lalo Schifrin wrote an amazing Mission Impossible theme song

I'm a big fan of this song, and familiar with some of Lalo Schifrin's other work, and am familiar with Brubecks hit album Time Out as well. The author certainly nails a combination of interesting points about the song, how it was written, and what it was influenced by.

I'm reminded of a couple very positive things about human artistic abilities. Schifrin was on a creative roll when he wrote this, and so it's not terribly surprising that he created a totally baddass piece of music that fits super well with the theme of the show.

Also, I totally love how a huge number of the best pieces of music were actually written in an astoundingly short amount of time. It happens a lot less often these days, when occasionally mediocre artists are propped up by multiple writers and producers helping turn a basic piece of music into something that will work as a 'pop hit', going thru revision after revision. Being able to write a classic hit tune in 90 seconds is to me an affirmation of how great artistic humans can be.

The same goes for producing, arranging and recording the music. In the 60's and 70's creating an amazing version of a song in a couple of hours was quite common, as long as the composer, musicians and producer were on a roll and familiar with each other. I'm reminded of how many of Elton John's smash hits were done when he quickly came up with a song early in the morning, and band learned and jammed with it a bit, and recorded all the main parts that afternoon. A bunch of famous Beatles tunes were written in similarly short periods of time.