Name: The Pink Panther (Music from the Film Score)
Brand: Henry Mancini

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DOL996HG

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Gatefold Deluxe 180gm.

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Limited edition

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2014-04-19

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889397219963

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Henry Mancini

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Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, and arranger. He was born on April 16, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio and passed away on June 14, 1994 in Los Angeles, California. Mancini co-wrote many of his songs with Johnny Mercer. His remarkable talent earned him a total of 20 Grammy Awards throughout his career. In recognition of his contributions to the music industry, he received a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.

Known for his exceptional musical abilities, Henry Mancini's work has influenced and inspired numerous artists. Some similar artists who share his passion for creating captivating melodies include Lalo Schifrin, Al Hirt, Jackie Gleason, Bert Kaempfert, Nelson Riddle, Francis Lai, Ferrante & Teicher, Percy Faith, Hugo Montenegro,
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass,
Armando Trovajoli,
Ron Goodwin,
Mantovani,
Frank Chacksfield,
Les Baxter,
Roger Williams,
Percy Faith & His Orchestra,
Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra,
and Stelvio Cipriani.
Hugo Winterhalter

Discover the timeless compositions of Henry Mancini and experience the magic that made him one of the most celebrated musicians of all time.

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The Pink Panther Theme, written by Henry Mancini in 1964. Mancini had just garnered a bagful of Grammy and Oscar awards for his music for Breakfast at Tiffany's when The Pink Panther writer/director Blake Edwards approached him to join the project. The resulting Panther music was almost as successful: three Grammys, an Oscar nod (though not an Oscar win), and over a year and a half riding on the charts. By sheer repetition, perhaps, the Theme (which is heard in all but one of the Edwards/Sellers Clousseau sequels and also in the cartoons), with its unforgettable da-dum da-dum -- or as the old joke goes, "dead ant, dead ant" -- introductory rhythm and suave sax solo, is the part most remembered from Mancini's score. The other cues he provided, however, are hardly less wonderful, displaying Mancini's knack for veering with surprising alacrity between velvety 1960s lounge jazz, sleek European-style pop (pretty good for a guy born in Cleveland, OH, and raised in Pennsylvania), and occasionally, more traditional incidental music. After the famous theme, the score's most successful single is the song, "It Had Better Be Tonight". Recorded in several versions (the English lyrics are by Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River" collaborator Johnny Mercer), the song figures into the movie most memorably at one of Blake Edward's signature "high life" scenes; it would later reappear in the Edwards/Sellers comedy, The Party), where an entertainer sings it onscreen.

The Pink Panther (Music from the Film Score)

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