This movie and Supertramp's Crime of the Century

I've been a fan of Silver Streak since seeing it on TV during its initial run in the late 1970s. In spite of its flaws, it's become one of my all-time favorites as it truly captures and epitomizes its era. I've watched it countless times since then in a variety of contexts, to the point where I can recite from memory large chunks of the script.

Sometime in the late 1980s, I remember watching this movie on a rainy night, and then going upstairs to listen to the 1974 concept album by Supertramp, Crime of the Century. I don't know how it happened, but there was something so intrinsically complimentary about the movie and the album (even though they technically have nothing to do with each other), that to this day I can't think of one without also thinking of the other. Is this serendipity or simply an accident of fortunate context?

I've devoted much thought as to why I've made this association, and I can only come up with the following: 1) Crime of the Century opens with a very prominent harmonica, which also features very heavily in Henry Mancini's soundtrack, 2) five of the eight songs on Crime of the Century feature string arrangements by Richard Hewson which sound very similar to Mancini's soundtrack strings, (at this point I should say that I am NOT implying that Mancini had heard the album and was plagiarizing its sound and/or atmospheres) and 3) the song "Rudy" is about a character riding on a train with appropriate sound effects appearing throughout the song.

While this is not an attempt to recreate what happened with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, I would like to know if any other Silver Streak viewer is familiar with Crime of the Century?