Not really. I mean, John Williams became famous with his symphonic style in Star Wars and Spielberg, so that became his main style since then.
But he had a career before that. Think that his first score was in 1960, and Star Wars happened in 1977. Williams had been scoring for 20 years before Star Wars. And his style during the 60s and early 70s was much more jazzy, very 60s.
This is one of my favorite Williams' themes, Valley of the Dolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-8W6HstaE
How to Steal a Million, a (absolutely lovely) cult classic 60s movie with Audrey Hepburn and Peter Sellers, it was scored by Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNJnkCRAvLc
No with me, you don't. This is pure 60s jazzy style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn39G8fjUjM
Penelope, a very jazzy pop score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrj_hZicr0
Of course, the 'post-Star Wars' scores shadowed everything he had been doing before that. But he already had jazzy pop career before Star Wars and Spielberg happened.
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