I’ve tried re-watching Cool Hand Luke a couple of times, but when that ABC 7 Eyewitness News music plays on the soundtrack, I just can’t do it — my suspension of disbelief goes right out the window. Obviously Lalo Schifrin’s original score was Luke’s alone for a certain period of time. But once Eyewitness News adopted it and played it for New York viewers every damn weeknight for years on end (when did that start, sometime in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s?) the spell was broken forever.

November 2, 2019by Jeffrey Wells16 Comments