re: #3 Varek Raith
I heard this theme earlier today during Local on the 8s on the Weather Channel. I said, awesome out loud. “)
My parents own multiple CDs of concerts he has conducted. One of them featured the background music from the Mos Eisley Cantina in Episode 4. I realized how well suited such s tune would have been to a Chicago speakeasy in the 1920’s, which was perhaps the intention of Williams and Lucas.