A-Team [Original Television Score/Soundtrack]

• Artist: Mike Post & Pete Carpenter
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1984
• Total Time: 35:10
• Type: Soundtrack
• Genre: Soundtrack

Review

The 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? ~ Steven McDonald, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Theme from the A-Team	Pete Carpenter, Mike Post	Mike Post	(3:16)
Young Hannibal	Pete Carpenter, Mike Post	Mike Post	(2:59)
B.A.'s Ride	Pete Carpenter, Mike Post	Mike Post	(2:36)
The A-Team in New York City	Pete Carpenter, Mike Post, Keith Grant	Mike Post	(2:45)
Bandits!	Mike Post, Pete Carpenter	Mike Post	(2:10)
Taxi Chase	Mike Post, Pete Carpenter	Mike Post	(2:14)
The A-Team Escape	Keith Grant, Mike Post, Pete Carpenter	Mike Post	(2:18)
The A-Team Prepare for War	Keith Grant, Mike Post, Pete Carpenter	Mike Post	(2:10)
Showtime	Keith Grant, Pete Carpenter, Mike Post	Mike Post	(3:34)
Move, Sucker	Mike Post, Pete Carpenter	Mike Post	(1:05)
Let's Get Busted	Pete Carpenter, Mike Post	Mike Post	(1:08)
Murdock's 'Face'	Pete Carpenter, Mike Post	Mike Post	(3:02)
Helicopters	Mike Post, Pete Carpenter	Mike Post	(2:38)
More Bandits	Pete Carpenter, Mike Post	Mike Post	(1:24)
Theme from the A-Team	Mike Post, Pete Carpenter	Mike Post	(3:31)

Credits

David Stoner (Album Release Supervisor), Keith Grant (Engineer), Michael Jones (Concept), Jimmy Fitzpatrick (Supervisor), Michael "Busta" Jones (Producer), Derek Wadsworth (Music Direction), Michael Caton Jones (Concept), David Stoner (?), Mike Post (Performer), Derek Wadsworth (Director), James Fitzpatrick (Album Release Supervisor), Jimmy Fitzpatrick (Album Release Supervisor), Doug Bennett (Mixing), Derek Wadsworth (Music Adaptations), Derek Wadsworth (Direction), Derek Wadsworth (Adaptation), Michael Caton Jones (Producer), Daniel Caine (Conductor), Michael "Busta" Jones (Concept), Jimmy Fitzpatrick (?), David Stoner (Supervisor), Michael Jones (Producer), Reynold da Silva (Executive Producer)