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For me it was actually his Twilight Zone theme. As a teenager, Williams, Goldsmith, Barry and Horner were demigods...but I cared little for those "golden age" guys who (from my youthful perspective) all sounded the same and didn't write anything after 1960 anyway.
I knew the name Bernard Herrmann, but I assumed his music was like all other golden age composers...until I started watching Twilight Zone reruns.
Herrmann's Twilight Zone theme was so captivating, mysterious, simple-yet-complex and perfectly evoked (and even helped set) the tone of the series (replacing it with silly library music by Marius Constant is one of the great blunders in the history of film & TV music, but I digress).
Oddly enough, soon after I got hooked on the Twilight Zone, a whole bunch of Herrmann LPs showed-up at the local used record store -- Obsession, Sisters, Psycho and The Devil & Daniel Webster/Welles Raises Kane. Alas, a friend of mine snatched them up before me...but he was good enough to make me cassette dubs. Besides, I was able to grab 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann before him!
In short, after hearing all those scores I was completely sold on Herrmann.
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