Pretty much everyone over the age of, say, 50 knows who Perry Mason is and who played him on the popular TV series which ran from the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties (Raymond Burr). And pretty much everyone who knows that TV series also knows the title music pretty much by heart; music written by television and film composer Fred Steiner who died this past Thursday at age 88. But do they really know that music or merely its principal theme which was the title theme for the TV series? Our guess would be the latter. A shame, really. It's a damn good piece of music in its own right titled "Park Avenue Beat" and deserves a hearing in full.
But don't take our word for it. Judge for yourselves.

It's The Music, Stupid!
Peggy
