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If you start digging into how many artists owe their breakthrough hits to this man it is quite a journey. There are a few of those people who are mostly invisible in the music world but whose influence is massive.

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There's a 3 CD "greatest hits" box set that covers some interesting ground.

There's a playlist on Spotify that recreates most of it though it appears to be missing his theme for the film "The Blob"

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hHcMpLPZapS6EUBfNkwWu?si=...

His catchy theme from "The Blob", by "The Five Blobs" is here:

https://open.spotify.com/track/3UVxWDYfUSwtEfzN5QfE7Z?si=98-...

We used to listen to that 3 CD box set on family driving holidays when I was a child. We get the ferry from Dublin, drive through the UK, get the Eurotunnel to Calais and then head wherever, though usually, we end up in Italy. I remember in school, I was singing under my breath, "I just don't know what to do with myself", and a classmate demanded, "How do you know that song?". I just shrugged, and it was only a bit later that I became aware of The White Stripes cover of the Chuck Jackson original that had just come out.

Those songs, along with Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road and the few other albums that fit in our CD case are ingrained in my memories from that time. We'd rotate stuff in and out from year to year, but Bacharach and The Beatles always stayed in.

> There are a few of those people who are mostly invisible in the music world but whose influence is massive.

I guess that being creative and being a stage performer requires different personalities, with exceptions of course.

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