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which is why I thought I would post this thread, allowing others to discuss the topic, etc. based on the subject matter, not to mention my relationship with them. I don't want to contact the percussionists in question as I believe it may begin to cause some friction.

and about twenty (who obviously got there answers via Google) suggested that Jack Costanzo was the bongo player. There were seven Cafe members who gave his name as the percussionist. Just today I was informed by one of our Cafe members about ]this site which lists Adolfo Valdes as the bongo player in the liner notes for a Mission: Impossible recording dated October 4, 1967.ĭespite this new information, I still contend that Emil Richards is the correct answer to the trivia question. I feel confident that Emil Richards did in fact play the bongos on the ORIGINAL recording of Mission: Impossible from the early TV series. Upon writing Jack Costanzo, here's his response (in part): which is a claim I had never heard of before.īeing the pedantic percussionist that I am, and at this point a little frustrated that I now have to PROVE who the real bongo player was, I decided back in April to contact Emil Richards AND Jack Costanzo. Many sources on the Internet suggest that ]Jack Costanzo played bongos on the original recording. The Internet is not always your friend, nor does it always have the correct/accurate information. The Percussive Arts Society also recognizes Emil Richards for this same credit, as well as having played on the original TV theme song for The Flintstones. so I thought I would supply the following factual evidence from which I used to determine the answer.įirst, I learned of Emil Richards, legendary LA studio percussionist, playing the bongo part on the original recording of Mission: Impossible (as used on the TV show), from an interview I read in the March-May 1985 issue of the now deceased, quarterly periodical, Modern Percussionist.

A number of people have argued/suggested that ]Emil Richards is not the original percussionist who played on the original recording of Mission: Impossible TV theme song.