I noticed that Wilbur Hatch has a music credit in The Untouchables....as he did on I Love Lucy.
Looks like Lucille Ball liked his work and was a loyal employer.
Check out an episode of The Lucy Show entitled Lucy, the Gun Moll. You might be surprised who shows up.
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For as talented as he was, it's a damn shame Hatch and others butchered Riddle's themes in the 4th Season.
shareWhat you don't like the punched up theme. I think it's good, but it is different and some people don't like change.
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The evolution of the score for the series was abruptly altered to fit other tasteless alterations to the successful formula. The intense bravado of the main theme was reduced to a carnival jazz sting, and the new arrangements of this theme and the other new pieces created for the fourth season all but deflated the bold and weighty themes of the years prior.
There are brief moments of inspiration in a few of the fourth season themes, few and far between, but between the rearrangements and re-orchestrations of the main theme and its tacky introduction everytime Ness and company do something "Untouchable-y" reeks of 60s sitcom.
It starts to sound less like a theme and more like a jingle.
You don't fix what ain't broke, and that should have been the motto for what was branded a "new and exciting fourth season."
Leonard Freeman and his new assemblage of writers and directors had amitious plans to abandon the documentary image in favor of a lighter, less pretentious format.
The alteration of the theme music was just one of these blunderous attempts.