[Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen]

On to THE LOST MAN (1969) now, and am I crazy or does the main title remind you of John Williams’ “Yub Nub”/”Celebrate the Love” ewok music from RETURN OF THE JEDI a little bit?

Ha! It sure does! Whether it’s an “inspiration” or coincidence is hard to say. To me they sound close enough that it could actually be the former.

I don’t have a lot of Grusin albums, but I got some of those that FSM released back in the day: THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, THE YAKUZA, and the I, SPY TV scores (two releases, one single CD and one 2CD). I don’t remember much of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, but the two others have a lot of his very listenable, smooth fusion style, with YAKUZA being my favorite. One disc of FSMs “TV OMNIBUS” release has Grusin’s TV scores for ASSIGNMENT: VIENNA, which is also good.