Do you all think that if the Beatles/Stones/The Who/Hendrix/Led Zeppelin. If they were never really big that the music of Mannix with the Rock and Roll Jazz score would be more of the music we would be listening to now?
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It is. Just look up the musicians who had music on the show.
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Whenever I hear source music, particularly from the '60s and '70s, from the likes of Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens, or Jerry Fielding (who scored a number of Mannix episodes)I often get the impression that they are lampooning the then-popular rock music with some wild, over-the-top compositions. I usually notice this when listening to said cues on a stand-alone listen.
I believe that these middle-aged guys, while hip in their own way and time period, didn't think much of the "Yeah Yeah Yeah" school of musical composition. Goldsmith's FLINT source music is a good example, as is Fielding's "Psychedelic Blues Rock Freak Out Music" from The Mechanic. After all, rock music (R.I.P.) was the bane of these guys' existence, was it not?
It's great stuff. I always wanted to live in a world where I could switch on the radio, get the last few sentences of a "News Flash" and then have an instrumental source cue from the likes of Lalo Schifrin smoothly making its way through the room.
In the '60s, there was that "generation gap." Now with fifty years of rock music in the pop culture memory, three of four generations have been immersed in and become familiar with rock, and now rap and techno.
Nowadays, it might be hard to imagine the culture conflict that existed during Elvis and the Beatles' heyday, but for every "A Hard Day's Night" that reached the top of the charts, there was an "Everybody Loves Somebody" and "Please Release Me" to take its place. There was enough of an "older" audience that still bought records and they would occasionally make their (sales) presence known.