Librarian Chris Mangione brings almost 25 years of film-score obssessiveness to 2 Pop Music. Growing up in Buffalo, NY, he saw “The Untouchables” in a theater and was completely blown away by the music. “The main title grabbed me like no other piece of music has in my life, before or since!” Immediately going out and buying the soundtrack the next day, Chris began compiling a spiral notebook with every composer’s credits hand written on each page. “Pre-internet! I was doing it all by hand, using film history books and going to the college library to look at microfilm archives of the Los Angeles and New York Times entertainment sections, all the while buying up more and more soundtrack albums through the 1990’s.”   Chris is constantly looking ahead while embracing the past. “A good librarian isn’t just well-versed in film scores. It’s actually too narrow of a focus in this day and age. Filmmakers are constantly looking for unconventional and nontraditional methods to find the musical identity of their films, and we hope to be able to help them achieve their vision.”