How do you find out which musician played a particular instrument in a knockout theme like the original Mission Impossible? Or were they all studio artists and it’s impossible to know? -Playlists

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Whoever played the flute (?) in those opening bars of Lalo Schifrin’s soundtrack has occupied a space in my head for so long that I feel that I’m entitled to know who they are. The same goes for singers like the marvellous woo-woower in Star Trek. Who is that mystery, haunting presence?