{"id":1394,"date":"2013-02-21T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:04:57","slug":"the-familiar-sounds-of-david-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/the-familiar-sounds-of-david-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Familiar Sounds of David Rose&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of a departure, but bear with me. Yesterday, I wanted to add some &#8220;stereotypical travel&#8221; music to a video I was editing on Final Cut Pro&#8211;something along the lines of 50s-TV incidental music (or the background to a 90s Ren and Stimpy cartoon). A long, twisty search engine path took me to this, and it is perfect:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f2u0BvyDxdM\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It just screams idyllic 50s suburban neighborhood, at least in my head, even though it was written in the mid-40s.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/includes\/projects\/hollywood\/portraits\/david_rose.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"210\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you know this man? I didn&#8217;t.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s &#8220;Holiday for Strings&#8221; by David Rose and, if you spent any time in the 20th Century, I&#8217;m you&#8217;ve heard it a thousand times in many incarnations (including my favorite flavor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ar_v-SIeh8w\">Spike Jones<\/a>). I did a little searching into David Rose, and what I found blew away my pop-cultural sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll spare you the Wikipedia copypasta about Rose&#8217;s life, except to mention that he was married to both Martha Ray and Judy Garland, and had a long, productive career. (His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GC7wvaFYZmk\">granddaughter<\/a> makes the sort of unremarkable technopop that seems to dominate nowadays.)<\/p>\n<p>Rose has a place in pop culture legend for &#8220;Holiday for Strings&#8221; alone, but I was floored when I heard he also wrote a good number of familiar TV themes, with a particular fondness for Michael Landon projects. He wrote the themes for <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ejxE3B4Wy0w\">Little House on the Prairie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UrM4AsBkc9w\">Highway to Heaven<\/a> and, most importantly:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/305ii4lmAjM\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Each theme is different, yet you can sense the genetic connection.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s what really floored me. &#8220;Holiday for Strings&#8221; is one of those &#8220;Oh yeah, that song&#8221; type affairs, but nothing compares to this David Rose classic:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6piLMMfgFPM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I mean, really. What are the chances that one guy wrote &#8220;Holiday for Strings,&#8221; &#8220;Bonanza,&#8221; AND &#8220;The Stripper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mind=blown.<\/p>\n<p>Any joker can whistle a phrase from &#8220;The Stripper&#8221; in the workplace and instantly warrant a written warning from Human Resources. That&#8217;s how much influence David Rose has had on your life. I salute you, my previously anonymous, long-since-dead friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My god, did you know what David Rose did? 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