The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O TV Show Theme Song Sheet Music RARE

This listing is for The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O TV Show Theme Song Sheet Music. 

Title: Hawaii Five-O Theme

Artist: The Ventures

Writer: Mort Stevens

Format: Sheet Music

Pages: 2

Arrangement: Piano

Publication date: 1969 

Publisher: April Music Inc

Genre: Pop/TV

Instruments: Piano/Keyboard

"Hawaii Five-O Theme" is an instrumental composed by Morton Stevens as the theme music for the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O, which aired from 1968 to 1980. It is considered by many to be one of the best television themes of all time. The cover version by The Ventures was one of the band's biggest hits. An early copy of the pilot of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot series in 2010 initially used a synthesizer and guitar-based version of the theme, but it was later replaced by a shortened copy of the original theme. In 2015, Stevens' children filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against CBS over its use of the theme in the rebooted series. 

The Ventures' cover of the song spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, peaking at no. 4 on May 10, 1969, and 11 weeks on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, rising to no. 8 on May 17. It was also the title track of their 1969 album Hawaii Five-O. In Canada, it peaked at no. 5 in the May 12, 1969, issue of RPM magazine. Despite the fact that the hit performance is credited to the Ventures, it is unclear if any of the band members played on the single, as AFM union contracts have surfaced that give much, if not all, of the instrumentation credits to members of The Wrecking Crew, a group of prominent session musicians in Los Angeles. In their book, Driving Guitars: The Music of the Ventures in the Sixties, Malcolm Campbell and Dave Burke attempted to resolve the inconsistencies with instrumental credits; in their words, "the issue of personnel has given rise to much speculation over the years, with very different views fielded: that The Ventures with Nokie Edwards on lead guitar were involved but not to any great degree, or that they were not involved at all, or that" Wrecking Crew members recorded the basic track before the Ventures themselves were overdubbed at a later date. According to Campbell and Burke, another source "considers that The Ventures’ role was 'very limited', observing that Mel Taylor, when playing the number live, never replicated the bass drum pattern and drum fills heard on the record. If Josie Wilson’s recollection reported by Del Halterman is accurate, then Nokie was responsible for the lead (with Tommy Tedesco doing further, unspecified work in a session four months further on)."

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