The Untouchables Theme 1959
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. It was remade into a 1987 film by Brian De Palma also called The Untouchables, with a script by David Mamet, and a 1993 TV series.
The stories often revolved around Ness' enmity with the criminal empire of Chicago mob boss Al Capone, and many focused on crimes related to Prohibition. The show stars Robert Stack as Eliot Ness and was narrated by Walter Winchell. Neville Brand played Al Capone in The Desilu Playhouse episodes, and in a few episodes of the regular series.
One of my first TV shows I remember as a very young child. Today whenever I watch reruns, I can still appreciate the great theme song!
Robert Stack IS Elliot Ness. I just Love this theme song!!
Aaaah Yess... When musicians were musicians and Hollywood was full of skilled *professionals* of many disciplines... Have not heard this beautiful theme song in decades. Very "Gershwinesque"!
Excellent!
Melancholy serenade;
by Jackie Gleason.
Enjoy
@@royaljustice6219 Thanks for that one. Also, very nice...
@@JungleYT kool thanks for your Reply. Ten Fold.
Henry Mancini has a cool one called "Mr. Lucky"
Have you heard it b4?
@@royaljustice6219 Wow... If you mean from the "Mr. Lucky Goes Latin" album - Yes! My parents had that album when I was a kid. The version on that album is great!
I remember this from my childhood in Liverpool, England. My dad used to let me watch this when I was 8 years old. I fell in love with Robert Stack who will always be the best Eliot Ness in my eyes. The originals are always the best
I agree, i didn't know you could get that over in England
That's one of the best classic theme songs
The stirring music and Walter Winchell's narration voice is so uniquely distinctive, and the show's format, make this a truly an American classic. The acting had a believable element for it's time in advance of other crime shows, especially Robert Stack's no nonsense, steely eyed portrayal of Elliot Ness. I worked for a person that was personal friends with Oscar Fraley and I had a chance to meet him on one occasion.
I loved everything about this show,The music , The narration, & the endless shootouts.even though I was only 8 when I first saw it in England.Its a classic.
Idioma español no
Just as I did ! Greetings from Brussels, Belgium.
This is almost musical perfection, The Untouchables theme music was my favourite piece of T V music, and it still is, 50 years later.R I P - N- R
This weekly televison show reveled an era for what it really was.
Grew up watching The Untouchables. H&I has an 8 hour marathon on Sundays.
Yeah- been watching the last few weeks, It's been great !
I was born in 1957. This is the oldest TV theme I remember. My father was a cop and he loved the series. We kids played Ness and Nitti.
Loved this show. It came out during my formative years. We had a lot of these Mafia types in the NY area where I grew up. Don't forget, Al Capone was a New Yorker.
" give 'em du woiks boss " 😟
I remember this from my childhood in Liverpool, England. My dad used to let me watch this when I w
as 8 years old. I fell in love with Robert Stack who will always be the best Eliot Ness in my eyes. The originals are always the best
Both of the Untouchables themes are music to my ears,together, the series and the nelson Riddle orchestra are just a match made in heaven. I first saw this as a young boy back in 1966, think it was a Sunday evening, Late on.
I remembered the re runs from my childhood and recalled the theme as the darkest, most foreboding thing I had ever heard ...playing it recently it was even darker than I remembered lol...incredibly OMINOUS...
Awonderful desilu show.
Watched it every day after star trek. I guess they were a package deal in syndication.
Elliott Ness IS this music and the show! i watched this show when I was a little kid!
Loved this show!
I don't recognize this longer version. It's really great. Not the normal show opener. I think? It's really great. Nelson Riddle, hell yes
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Takes me back to when I was a kid, and we had just got TV .
la mejor serie, yo nacido en 1967, no dejo de verla, y me admiro de la calidad de actores , argumentos y montajes para la realización de la misma. Saludos desde mi Guatemala, la tierra del Quetzal y de la eterna primavera
Me acuerdo que tenía 10 años y veía la serie con mi papá y él me contaba de las historias de Eliot Ness y los Intocables en tiempos de la Ley Seca y como destruyó el Imperio de Al Capone.Momentos únicos e irrepetibles
¡¡¡Excelente tema, series que viviran en el imaginario colectivo por siempre!!!!
AL OIR ESTE TEMA ME TRASLADA A AQUELLA EPOCA QUE SOLIA VER JUNTO A MI PADRE,ESA SERIE CON ROBERT STACK TITULADA "LOS INTOCABLES",DE VERDAD FUE UNICA EN SU GENERO.
QUEDAMOS POCOS DE AQUELLA EPOCA HERMOZA....LOS INTOCABLES.......PAGABAMOS DIEZ PESOS POR LA ENTRADA PARA VER A LOS INTOCABLES....DIA MARTES EN LA NOCHE EL UNICO TELEVISOR QUE HABIA EN LA POBLACION.....LLENA LA SEDE SOCIAL DEL CLUB DEPORTIVO ....QUE RECUERDOS MADRE MIA GRACIAS ......MI OTRO CHILE DECADA DEL 60.........OCTUBRE DEL 2020.......HAN PASADO 53 AÑOS YA.........QUIEN LO CRERIA.........😪👍👍
Masterpiece!
This TV show revealed an era for what is was.
I never missed this show. My dad was on the Detroit Organized Crime Strike Force, the next generation after Ness. The FBI, ATF etc shot a lot of the street punks, but my dad took out all the leaders of the two families, the Giacalones and the Genoveses for not paying their taxes, since he was the IRS guy. My whole family of 4 siblings were followed to their schools by the FBI. I liked the abridged theme song of the show better than this, although the extended version is more creative.
+notta lackey I like this version though because of the c
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Great life story did your father ever meet Mr Ness,?
Despite Hollywood portrayals of Ness as the ultimate shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later lawman, the real Ness displayed a lifelong aversion to firearms and considered the gangsters who used them to be cowards. Ness carried a gun only when absolutely necessary and was known to wear an empty shoulder holster on duty.He got Capone for “income tax evasion”!
Nelson riddle he did a lot of great musical things he also did a lot for Frank Sinatra 2 I love this Al Capone The Untouchables theme song just great
Bruce Gordon was the best Frank Nitti they could have found, perfect.
Great theme, full of darkness, threat and forbbonly.
I used to love the untouchables theme music, but I love this even better. this was not the one I was brought up on, I'm guessing this was the original, both are classic pieces,
Good memories hearing this theme song, of watching this with my Dad.
This has got to be the soundtrack to the Mueller enquiry...
No, that theme would be "A shot in the Dark"
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I was born in 53. This music has a POWERFUL emotional pull on me. And it was the perfect complement to Robert Stack's intensity. And....lol....it also contains DREAD for me -- because after the show was over, it was bed time...and after that, back to school (I think it may have been on a Sunday night).
I would sneak out and turn on the TV late at night, but had to keep the sound way down or Sylvia would come and turn it off when the Tommy gun fire came on.
A GREAT TV SERIE
EXCELENTE TEMA MUSICAL,. EL ELIOT NESS DE. ROBERT STACK INSUPERABLE, QUE GRAN ACTOR !!!! UN VERDADERO BOMBON.
Never heard this version !!!!
I remember the show.
Unforgettable musical theme by Nelson Riddle.
NOBODY could have written a theme that captured the mood of the program better
Very good show
I remember when we were kids my mom would watch this show. We'd be in bed and I'd listen to the background music while Walter Winchell narrated.
a spine- tingler
I was crushing on Robert Stack, as Elliot Ness sooooo hard.
this theme was written by nelson riddle
I like this one better than the 1993 version .
@@v.dargain1678 Me too , it has a smoky quality that captures the mood of the series perfectly
one of Dad favorites
I remember that on channel20 many years ago when I lived in md.
Excellent
I agree with you completely!
Simplemente,perfecto ,música que expresa las imágenes de las escenas sin hablar,....muy agradable al oído !!!!reparto artístico ,voz del narrador y escenografía.,que será muy difícil de igualar ,felicidades al productor,escritores ,extras,y a los de detrás de cámaras,.......y acción!!!!!
I still remember like it was yesterday. WMAL Channel 7 Washington, D.C. I don,t remember the time slot, but I still remember watching the show. Then a little while after the show went off you could watch rerun,s on Channel 20 WDCA, Washington, D.C. on Friday night,s at eleven PM and on Saturday evening,s at seven PM. Channel,s 20 and Channel 5 the old WTTG Metro Media used to be the best Channel,s in the City at one time. Now neither one are any good.
Parabéns uma obra prima
RERUNS! RERUNS! OF THESE OLD MOVIES SHOULD COME BACK TO FREE TV. KINDA SOUNDS LIKE SOME MUSIC FROM A JAMES BOND MOVIE.
oh gosh I do . Thanks
Sounded better on TV
Actually, if you listen carefully to both, Ennio Morricone's opening theme for De Palma's movie is KINDA the same melody of this theme--but with a piano and harmonica, and a more up-beat tempo.
nice al caiola dynamite guitarist
Bravo 👏👏👏👏
Que épocas...!
In the 70s I use to watch reruns this Song is really Gangster lol.
Yeah
The beginning is was great """
I can just hear Walter Witchell now!
I love this show but I was born in 1959 when the show came out and what is coincidental Robert stack was born January 13th I think 1913 but we have the same birth dates but not the year second I fell in love with him and still in love with him since
This is GREAT!
Depalma had a different view of Elliot Ness, a sort of stumbling kid that needed the help of an old Irish cop , the real hero of his movie. Everyone who hears this original score by Nelson Riddle remembers the facts and the hardcore expose by Desi Arnez of the mafia and their collaborators.Depalma tries to destroy the image that desilu studio's so honestly built up. Depalma's train station shot out with the baby carriage on the staircase is only one example of the fraud of Depalma's film.
Brian DePalma admitted he wasn't a fan of the Desilu version.My guess is that the bad guys were all of Italian descent like Mr.DePalma.Lest you forget Desi got in hot water over this & had to make changes on the way Italians were portrayed.That almost bought him a hit contract from Sam Giancana later cancelled.
The Real Elliot Ness lived at 46th and Calumet, Chicago, Il.01 apt #108 if I remember correctly from childhood.
The only TV show in which the guns sounded good.
This comment x100
We’re bongos really cheap to buy in the sixties? Seem to appear in a lot of famous themes!
i wish i knew when this was recorded.I think Nelson Riddle wrote that arrangement
You're welcome Sylvie
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Such a wonderful tune. Why was it not included in the soundtrack of De Palma's movie?
It sounds a bit like the James Bond theme. Sean Connery was also in this movie. I'm guessing that's why they decided to avoid using it.
my dad says he was scared of this Theme
IT IS a spine-tingler
Remember " One Step Beyond " ? Whoa talk about scary !
and that scratchy black n white one step video intro. me own the dvd collection. downright frightening stories. 😩
THIS IS SECOND TO THE THEME FROM THE OUTER LIMITS.
The outer limits theme was scary . The theme had me scared
before the show even started .
Na eópoca a censura era de 21 anos para esta série na televisão o primeiro patrocinador foi a Vulcan.........
...Rico! Hobson! Johnny!
I don't do ring tones ,but If I did, this theme tune would be my choice,
A grittier version (complete with a background sketch) can be found at the 1:03 version on the trfindlley posting on this site.
Music by Nelson Riddle.
Great opening music but they only used part of it in the series
"Federal Agents!" followed by gunfire.
The untouchables by zappa folks look it up
Al caiola ? How about Nelson Riddle .
Cheers
This is wonderful !! Who is this music by?
Nelson Riddle
Original Version by Nelson Riddle and this version is not that good compared to the original
Book em danno, danno? How did he get in the show
Anyone here from Steely Dan's outro music?
Could you confirm who's playing this version, and where it's found?
Okay, this is Al Caiola. But I can't find his original release, around 1959.
This was fantastic, but how do I know which version is the actual original theme?
Does it matter?
no deals
What orchestra is playing this song?
I'm not sure but I would guess nelson's own orchestra
I've been a fan of The Untouchables since I was little and I'm only 23 not a fan of the movie though
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Esse é o tema original, do Robert Stack. Tem de orquestras mas é de remake ruim. Os Intocaveis, só o original com Robert Stack.
Of course the series was top notch but this version of the soundtrack leaves me lacking, bongo and all. Not what I hoped for musically here
Too slow.
Bullshit that was true story of Elliot Ness
This is the worst theme of all , not the real McCoy
I remember this from my childhood in Liverpool, England. My dad used to let me watch this when I was 8 years old. I fell in love with Robert Stack who will always be the best Eliot Ness in my eyes. The originals are always the best