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^ " Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 9299." RPM.^ " Jan Hammer – Miami Vice Theme" (in Dutch).^ " Jan Hammer – Miami Vice Theme" (in German)."On YouTube, Video Makes the Radio Star". 1 song of the 1980s ranked from worst to best". List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1985.List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985.The synth-guitar lead was missing in the aired version of the pilot and the first batch of episodes, and this unfinished version of the theme has remained attached to those episodes, even on the DVD video box set released in 2005.

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When the series got picked up, Hammer created the 60-second version of the theme.

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Miami Vice 's pilot episode, made as a two-hour TV movie, did not originally have a theme, but the musical sounds and notation that would become the theme were present as background score. US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales

Remix and 12" edit done by Louis Silas, Jr.ħ" Mastered by Greg Fulginiti Chart performance.

"Miami Vice Theme" (Extended Remix) – 6:54.

Track listing 7" MCA / MCAP1000 (UK picture disc) The video also shows shots of Fairlight CMI screens including the page R (sequencer) page and the waveform page. In the end of the video, he boards a helicopter and escapes from Crockett's sight. Throughout the majority of the video, Hammer performs the theme in front of a projector screen playing footage from the TV series – including scenes of the Vice duo chasing him. The music video of the theme is a mini-episode of the TV series with Hammer as a fugitive on the run from James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs.

An extended dance remix, released in 1985 as a 12" single containing two different length versions (in addition to the original version of the theme).

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The 2:26 full radio airplay version, the final 55 seconds of which are very similar to the 1:00 TV version.It was first introduced at the end of the first regular episode, Heart of Darkness, over the closing credits, albeit with the guitar hook slightly more muted than in future episodes. The 1:00 synth guitar hook version that aired with all later episodes.It was essentially a shortened version of the pilot, although it already featured the same melody progression and conclusion at its end as in all the later episodes.Īccording to Jan Hammer's manager Elliot Sears, the missing guitar lead hook was the result of the sound elements not being mixed together as Hammer intended. The 0:57 version in the following 3 regular episodes, which only contains the percussion and keyboards, without the synth guitar hook.The famous synthesized guitar lead hook is absent from it, and it features distinct synth guitar notes in its midsection. The 1:55-minute version that aired with the pilot.This song, along with Glenn Frey's number two hit " You Belong to the City", put the Miami Vice soundtrack on the top of the US album chart for 11 weeks in 1985, making it the most successful TV soundtrack of all time until 2006, when Disney Channel's High School Musical beat its record. In 1986, it won Grammy Awards for " Best Instrumental Composition" and " Best Pop Instrumental Performance". " Miami Vice Theme" also peaked at number five in the UK and number four in Canada. It was the last instrumental to top the Hot 100 until 2013, when " Harlem Shake" by Baauer reached number one. It was first presented as part of the television broadcast of the show in September 1984, was released as a single in 1985, and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. " Miami Vice Theme" is a musical piece composed and performed by Jan Hammer as the theme to the television series Miami Vice.