"Hill Street Blues" is a 1981 instrumental by

Mike Post Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil, September 29, 1944) is an American composer, best known for his TV theme music for various shows, including ''Law & Order''; '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''; ''The A-Team''; ''NYPD Blue''; ''Renegade ...

. It is the theme from the TV series ''

Hill Street Blues ''Hill Street Blues'' is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. The show chronicles the lives of the staff of a single police station loca ...

'', and features

Larry Carlton Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts such as Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. He has participated in thousands of recording sessions, recorde ...

on guitar. The single spent over five months on the charts and reached number 10 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It became an Adult Contemporary hit in the U.S. (No. 4) and Canada (No. 29). It became Post's second Top 10 hit, matching the performance of his first hit in 1975, " Theme from the Rockford Files". The single also charted in the UK (No. 25).

Notable covers

* Jazz pianist

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on his 1981 LP, ''Endless Flight''. *

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on ''Special Requests'' 2001.

Chart history

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

* 1981 songs 1981 singles 1980s instrumentals Elektra Records singles Television drama theme songs Song recordings produced by Mike Post {{1980s-song-stub