The Rockford Files (theme) (#8). It was also a Top 20 Adult Contemporary hit in both nations. "The Rockford Files" won a 1975 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement. The B-side track (or "flip-side") entitled "Dixie Lullabye" was also composed by Post and Carpenter. The Rockford Files (theme) "The Rockford Files" is a 1975 instrumental by Mike Post and co-composer Pete Carpenter. The song is the theme from the TV series "The Rockford Files" starring James Garner. It appears at the opening and ending of each episode with different arrangements. Throughout the show's tenure, the theme song went through numerous evolutions, with later versions
Rockford Morning Star Building Express" and the "Rockford Star", both first published in 1840. Both papers lasted only a year. The "Winnebago Forum", renamed "The Republican" in 1845, was the first city paper to have a lengthy publishing period (1842-1862). The "Rockford Morning Star" first published in 1888. It merged with the "Rockford Daily Register-Gazette" in 1928. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms purchased the paper two years later, and again split the two papers, publishing the "Morning Star" as a morning daily. The paper was purchased by the Gannett Company in 1967, who merged the last two remaining Rockford papers in 1979 to create the