Alessandro Alessandroni has been played on NTS over 130 times, featured on 117 episodes and was first played on 3 December 2012.

Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician. He played multiple instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion, and piano, and has composed over 40 film scores and countless library music.

Being an accomplished whistler, Alessandroni collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments and voices. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad…