Originally Posted by todhunter

Frank Sinatra didn't play an instrument or write music and he was OK. (Then again, he was meticulous in giving credit to songwriters, which makes me laugh when people refer to "Frank Sinatra's 'I've Got You Under My Skin.'")

Quincy Jones has got to be the most overrated no-talent hack in the music industry. I still remember the rancid solo album where he turned Joe Zawinul's "Birdland" into a march and I think the epitome of his career has to be the foul "Soul Bossa Nova" which is neither. I used to listen to it to remind me of just how bad he was -- I called it "the tweet-tweet song" -- and then Mike Myers appropriated it for Austin Powers and it looks like only Myers and myself are in on that particular joke.

In all fairness, Jones' film scores don't suck as bad as the rest of his stuff. His "In Cold Blood" score is particularly good -- although that sting sound over the first shot sounds an awful lot like Johnny Mandel's opening note from "Harper" the year before.

--t