Mission: Impossible Theme

Lalo Schifrin · 1966 · Theme from the television series, in 5/4 time; re-recorded on Music from Mission: Impossible (Dot, October 1967).

Context

Theme composed by Argentine Lalo Schifrin for the television series Mission: Impossible (1966-1973), written in a five-beat meter that Schifrin linked to the Morse code for the letters M.I. Released as a single on Dot Records in 1967, it reached No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Theme in 1968; the recording entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2017.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Third stream. Among the origins and influences of Third stream: Cool (Birth of the Cool).

By the same artist

• Bullitt (Main Title) (1968)

Sources

• EN: Theme from Mission: Impossible

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