A-Team [Original Television Score/Soundtrack]

by Steven McDonaldThe credits to the tracks on this album provide an immediate insight to the prolific Mike Post and Pete Carpenter television scoring team -- which was more a TV score factory catering to many of the 1970s/1980s action shows. Several other names are credited along with Post and Carpenter (their full names, alas, are nowhere to be seen); these were apprentices and journeymen, given a template and tasked to turn out specific cues, which would then be orchestrated. In some shows, the duo's hand was seen only at a distance by their score templates, but the work of the factory for the episodes. Silva has reissued a 1984 album that was produced by Michael Jones, though Derek Wadsworth was in fact the man in charge of putting together the various suites and carrying out the new recordings at the time. Wadsworth certainly was a perfect choice for this album, as he himself was a veteran of television scoring in England, with a long list of action shows to his credit, and it certainly is possible to hear his influence at work on this disc. This is a record that might well serve as a guilty pleasure for some. Enjoy it. Just don't start with the Mr. T impressions, okay?