Editing Mike Post (section)

{{Short description|American composer and record producer}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Mike Post
| image               = Mike Post (born 1944) in a 2024 interview for Popdust.png
| image_size          = 
| caption             = In a 2024 interview
| background          = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name          = Leland Michael Postil
| alias               = 
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1944|09|29}}
| birth_place         = [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], California, U.S.
| origin              = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| genre               = {{nobr|{{hlist|[[Rock music|Rock]]|[[Pop music|pop]]|[[Soul music|soul]]|[[theme music]]}}}}
| instrument          = {{hlist|[[Singing|Vocals]]|[[guitar]]|[[bass guitar]]|[[keyboard instrument|keyboards]]|[[piano]]}}
| occupation          = {{hlist|Producer|[[songwriter]]|musician|composer|arranger}}
| years_active        = 1964–present
| label               = 
| website             = {{URL|https://mike-post.com/}}
}}
'''Mike Post''' (born '''Leland Michael Postil'''; September 29, 1944) is an American [[composer]], best known for his television [[theme music]] for various shows, including ''[[The White Shadow (TV series)|The White Shadow]]''; ''[[Law & Order]]''; ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''; ''[[The A-Team]]''; ''[[The Byrds of Paradise]]''; ''[[NYPD Blue]]''; ''[[Renegade (TV series)|Renegade]];'' ''[[The Rockford Files]]''; ''[[L.A. Law]]''; ''[[Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)|Quantum Leap]]''; ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''; ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'', and [[Mammoth (TV series)|''Mammoth'']].<ref name=tvacademy>{{cite interview |url=https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/mike-post |title=Mike Post |interviewer=Stephen J. Abramson |date=25 May 2005 |work=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|Television Academy]] |location=Burbank, CA}}</ref><ref name=freshair>{{cite interview |url=https://www.npr.org/1994/04/20/1107619/musician-and-television-composer-mike-post |title=Musician and Television Composer Mike Post |interviewer=Terry Gross |date=20 April 1994 |work=[[Fresh Air]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/law-and-order-composer-mike-post-new-bluegrass-and-blues-album-1235950558/ |title='Law & Order' Composer Mike Post Creates New Bluegrass and Blues Album |last=Burlingame |first=Jon |date=29 March 2024 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> He was also the producer of the ''[[Van Halen III]]'' album by the band [[Van Halen]].