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Henry Mancini ( ; born Enrico Nicola Mancini, ; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four
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, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His works include the
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and soundtrack for the ''Peter Gunn'' television series as well as the music for ''
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'' film series ("
The Pink Panther Theme "The Pink Panther Theme" is an jazz composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film ''The Pink Panther'' and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards but lost to the She ...
") and " Moon River" from '' Breakfast at Tiffany's''. ''
The Music from Peter Gunn ''The Music from Peter Gunn'' is a soundtrack album to the TV series ''Peter Gunn'', composed and conducted by Henry Mancini, and released in 1959 on RCA Victor. It was the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959. ...
'' won the inaugural Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Mancini enjoyed a long collaboration in composing film scores for the film director
Blake Edwards Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio s ...
. Mancini also scored a No. 1 hit single during the
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era on the Hot 100: his arrangement and recording of the " Love Theme from ''Romeo and Juliet''" spent two weeks at the top, starting with the week ending June 28, 1969.


Early life

Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the
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neighborhood of
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and raised in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, near
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. Both his parents were Italian immigrants. Originally from
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, his father Quintiliano "Quinto" Mancini was a laborer at the
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and amateur musician who first came to the U.S. as a teenager around 1910. His mother Anna () came to the U.S. from
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as an infant. At age eight, Mancini began learning the
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. Mancini said that hearing Rudolph G. Kopp's score in the 1935
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film ''
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'' inspired him to pursue film music composition despite his father's wishes for him to become a teacher. He later studied piano and orchestral arrangement under Pittsburgh concert pianist and Stanley Theatre (now Benedum Center) conductor Max Adkins. Not only did Mancini produce arrangements for the Stanley Theatre bands, but he also wrote one for Benny Goodman, an up-and-coming bandleader introduced to him by Adkins. According to Mancini biographer John Caps, the young Mancini "preferred music arranging to any kind of musical performance, but taking apart a Chopin mazurka or
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sonata in order to play it helped him see...how the puzzle of form, meter, melody, harmony, and counterpoint had been solved by previous composers." After graduating from Aliquippa High School in 1942, Mancini first attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh. Later that year, Mancini transferred to the Juilliard School of Music in New York City following a successful audition in which he performed a
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sonata and improvisation on " Night and Day" by Cole Porter. Because he could only take orchestration and composition courses in his second year, Mancini studied only piano in his first year at Juilliard, in a condition Caps called "aimless and oppressed—a far cry from Adkins's enabling protective environment." After turning 18, Mancini enlisted in the
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in 1943. While in
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in
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, he met musicians being recruited by Glenn Miller. Owing to a recommendation by Miller, Mancini was first assigned to the 28th Air Force Band before being reassigned overseas to the 1306th Engineers Brigade in France. In 1945, he helped liberate the
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in Austria.


Career

Newly discharged, Mancini entered the music industry. In 1946, he became a pianist and arranger for the newly re-formed Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by 'Everyman'
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. After World War II, Mancini broadened his skills in composition, counterpoint, harmony and orchestration during studies opening with the composers
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and
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In ...
. In 1952, Mancini joined the
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's music department. During the next six years, he contributed music to over 100 movies, most notably ''
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'' (for which he received his first
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nomination), ''The Benny Goodman Story'' and
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''. During this time, he also wrote some popular songs. His first hit was a single by
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and His Royal Canadians titled ''I Won't Let You Out of My Heart''. Mancini left Universal-International to work as an independent composer/arranger in 1958. Soon afterward, he scored the television series ''
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'' for writer/producer
Blake Edwards Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio s ...
. This was the genesis of a relationship in which Edwards and Mancini collaborated on 30 films over 35 years. Along with
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, Elmer Bernstein,
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Johnny Mandel John Alfred Mandel (November 23, 1925June 29, 2020) was an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. The musicians he worked with include Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, Tony Benn ...
, Henry Mancini was a pioneer of the inclusion of jazz elements in the late romantic orchestral film and TV scoring prevalent at the time. Mancini's scores for Blake Edwards included '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (with the standard " Moon River") and '' Days of Wine and Roses'' (with the title song, " Days of Wine and Roses"), as well as ''
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'' (and all of its sequels), ''
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'', '' The Party'', '' 10'' (including "It's Easy to Say") and ''
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''. Another director with whom Mancini had a longstanding partnership was
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'', '' Two for the Road''). Mancini also composed for Howard Hawks (''
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'' – which included the "
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"),
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('' Sunflower''),
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''), Arthur Hiller ('' Silver Streak''),
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''), and others. Mancini's score for the
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'' (1972) in Bachian organ andante, for organ and an orchestra of strings was rejected and replaced by
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's work. Mancini scored many TV movies, including ''
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''. He wrote many television themes, including '' Mr. Lucky'' (starring John Vivyan and
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'' (1990 version), '' Once Is Not Enough'', and ''
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'' In the 1984–85 television season, four series featured original Mancini themes: ''
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''. Mancini also composed the "Viewer Mail" theme for '' Late Night with David Letterman''. Mancini composed the theme for ''NBC Nightly News'' used beginning in 1975, and a different theme by him, titled ''Salute to the President'' was used by NBC News for its election coverage (including primaries and conventions) from 1976 to 1992. ''Salute to the President'' was published only in a school-band arrangement, although Mancini performed it frequently with symphony orchestras on his concert tours. Songs with music by Mancini were staples of the
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radio format from the 1960s to the 1980s. To advertisers, Mancini's style symbolized the bright, confident, hospitable voice of bourgeois, inspired by the idealistic Kennedy-era of the 1960s. Some of the artists who have recorded Mancini songs include Andy Williams,
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, Ray Conniff,
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Eddie Cano Edward Cano (June 6, 1927 – January 30, 1988) was an Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin jazz pianist and composer. Early life Cano was born in Los Angeles on June 6, 1927. His mother was Mexican-American, and his father, a bass guitarist, was Mexican. Can ...
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Frank Chacksfield Francis Charles Chacksfield (9 May 1914 – 9 June 1995) was an English pianist, organist, composer, arranger, and conductor of popular light orchestral easy listening music, who had great success in Britain and internationally in the 1950s and e ...
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, Sarah Vaughan,
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, James Moody,
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Andre Kostelanetz Andre Kostelanetz (russian: Абрам Наумович Костелянец; December 22, 1901 – January 13, 1980) was a Russian-born American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orch ...
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Peter Nero Peter Nero (born Bernard Nierow, May 22, 1934) is an American pianist and pops conductor. He directed the Philly Pops from 1979 to 2013, and has earned two Grammy Awards. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, as Bernard Nierow, he started ...
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, Julie London,
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,
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, Secret Agent and the
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, Peggy Lee, and
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. The Anita Kerr Quartet won a Grammy award (1965) for their album ''We Dig Mancini'', a cover of his songs.
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held Mancini in very high regard, and frequently featured Mancini's music on ''
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'' (Mancini made at least two guest appearances on the show). Mancini briefly hosted his own musical variety TV show in a similar format to Welk's, ''The Mancini Generation'', which aired in syndication during the 1972–73 season. Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from
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to light classical to pop. Eight of these albums were certified gold by the
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. He had a 20-year contract with RCA Victor, resulting in 60 commercial record albums that made him a household name among artists of easy-listening music. Mancini's earliest recordings in the 1950s and early 1960s were of the jazz idiom; with the success of ''Peter Gunn'', ''Mr. Lucky'', and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', Mancini shifted to recording primarily his own music in record albums and film soundtracks. (Relatively little of his music was written for recordings compared to the amount that was written for film and television.) Beginning with his 1969 hit arrangement of Nino Rota's ''A Time for Us'' (as his only ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 10 entry, the No. 1 hit "Love Theme from ''Romeo and Juliet''") and its accompanying album ''A Warm Shade of Ivory'', Mancini began to function more as a piano soloist and easy-listening artist recording music primarily written by other people. In this period, for two of his best-selling albums he was joined by trumpet virtuoso and ''
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'' bandleader Doc Severinsen. Among Mancini's orchestral scores are (''Lifeforce'', ''
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'', ''Sunflower'', ''Tom and Jerry: The Movie'', ''Molly Maguires'', ''
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''), and darker themes (''Experiment in Terror'', ''The White Dawn'', ''Wait Until Dark'', ''The Night Visitor''). Mancini was also a concert performer, conducting over fifty engagements per year, resulting in over 600 symphony performances during his lifetime. He conducted nearly all of the leading symphony orchestras of the world, including the
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, the
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, the
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, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. One of his favorites was the
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, where he debuted the ''Thorn Birds Suite'' in June 1983. He appeared in 1966, 1980 and 1984 in command performances for the British Royal Family. He also toured several times with Johnny Mathis and also with Andy Williams, who had both sung many of Mancini's songs; Mathis and Mancini collaborated on the 1986 album ''The Hollywood Musicals''. In 1987 he conducted an impromptu charity concert in London in aid of Children In Need. The concert included
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's '' 1812 Overture'' with firework accompaniment over the
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.


Cameos

Shortly before his death in 1994, he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series ''
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'', as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?" Moments after Mancini's cameo ends, Frasier's radio broadcast plays "Moon River". Mancini also had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 movie ''
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'', the movie version of the series ''Peter Gunn'', the score of which he had composed. In the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon '' Pink, Plunk, Plink'', the panther commandeered an orchestra and proceeded to conduct Mancini's theme for the series. At the end, the shot switched to rare live action, and Mancini was seen alone applauding in the audience. Mancini also made a brief appearance in the title sequence of 1993's ''
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'', allowing the panther to conduct
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in performing the film's theme tune.


Death and legacy

Mancini died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles on June 14, 1994. He was working at the time on the Broadway stage version of ''
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'', which he never saw on stage. Mancini was survived by his wife of 43 years, singer Virginia "Ginny" O'Connor, with whom he had three children. She died on October 25, 2021, at age 97. They had met while both were members of the Tex Beneke orchestra, just after World War II. In 1948, Mrs. Mancini was one of the founders of the
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, a non-profit organization which benefits the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide. One of Mancini's twin daughters,
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, is a professional singer; her sister Felice runs
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(MHOF). His son Christopher is a music publisher and promoter in Los Angeles. Henry Mancini created a scholarship at UCLA and some of his library and works are archived in the music library at UCLA, with additional materials preserved at the Library of Congress. In 1996, the Henry Mancini Institute, an academy for young music professionals, was founded by Jack Elliott in Mancini's honor, and was later under the direction of composer-conductor Patrick Williams. By the mid-2000s, however, the institute could not sustain itself and closed its doors on December 30, 2006. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation "Henry Mancini Music Scholarship" has been awarded annually since 2001. In 2005, the Henry Mancini Arts Academy was opened as a division of the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. The center is located in Midland, Pennsylvania, minutes away from Mancini's hometown of Aliquippa. The Henry Mancini Arts Academy is an evening-and-weekend performing arts program for children from pre-K to grade 12, with some classes also available for adults. The program includes dance, voice, musical theater, and instrumental lessons. The American Film Institute ranked Mancini's songs " Moon River" No. 4 and " Days of Wine and Roses" No. 39 on their list of the greatest songs and his score for ''
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'' No. 20 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961), ''
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'' (1963), ''
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'' (1962), ''
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'' (1958) and ''
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'' (1967) were also nominated for the list.


Awards

Mancini was nominated for 72 Grammy Awards and won 20. He was nominated for 18 Academy Awards and won four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 1961, Mancini won two Academy Awards, one for "Moon River" for
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and one for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for the movie ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. In 1962, he won Best Original Song again, this time for "Days of Wine and Roses". He won Best Original Score again in 1982 for the movie ''
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''. In 1989, Mancini received the Golden Plate Award of the
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. In 1997, Mancini was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate of music from
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. On April 13, 2004, the United States Postal Service honored Mancini with a thirty-seven cent commemorative stamp. The stamp was painted by artist Victor Stabin and shows Mancini conducting in front of a list of some of his movie and TV themes.


Discography


Hit singles


Albums

* ''The Versatile Henry Mancini'' (
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LST-7121, 1957) * ''Sousa in Stereo'' (
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BS-1209, 1958) * ''March Step in Hi-Fi'' (Warner Bros. BS-1312, 1959) * ''
The Music from Peter Gunn ''The Music from Peter Gunn'' is a soundtrack album to the TV series ''Peter Gunn'', composed and conducted by Henry Mancini, and released in 1959 on RCA Victor. It was the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959. ...
'' ( RCA Victor LSP-1956, 1959) * ''
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'' (RCA Victor LSP-2040, 1959) * '' The Mancini Touch'' (RCA Victor LSP-2101, 1959) * ''
The Blues and the Beat ''The Blues and the Beat'' is an album by Henry Mancini that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance in 1961. Track listing Personnel * Dick Nash, Jimmy Priddy, John Halliburton, Karl De Karske – trombone * Conrad Gozzo ...
'' (RCA Victor LSP-2147, 1960) * ''Music from Mr. Lucky'', (RCA Victor LSP-2198, 1960) * ''Combo!'' (RCA Victor LSP-2258, 1960) * ''Mr. Lucky Goes Latin'' (RCA Victor LSP-2360, 1961) * '' Our Man In Hollywood'' (RCA Victor LSP-2604, 1963) * ''Uniquely Mancini'' (RCA Victor LSP-2692, 1963) * ''The Best of Mancini'' ompilation(RCA Victor LSP-2693, 1964) * ''Mancini Plays Mancini'' (
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CAS-2158) * ''Everybody's Favorite'' (RCA Camden CXS-9034) * ''The Concert Sound of Henry Mancini'' (RCA Victor LSP-2897, 1964) * ''Dear Heart (And Other Songs About Love)'' (RCA Victor LSP-2990, 1965) * ''The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini'' (RCA Victor LSP-3356, 1965) * ''The Academy Award Songs'' (RCA Victor LSP-6013, 1966) * '' A Merry Mancini Christmas'' (RCA Victor LSP-3612, 1966) * ''Mancini '67: The Big Band Sound of Henry Mancini'' (RCA Victor LSP-3694, 1967) * ''Music of Hawaii'' (RCA Victor LSP-3713, 1967) * ''Encore! More of the Concert Sound of Henry Mancini'' (RCA Victor LSP-3887, 1967) * ''The Mancini Sound'' (RCA Victor LSP-3943, 1968) * ''The Big Latin Band of Henry Mancini'' (RCA Victor LSP-4049, 1968) * ''Debut! Henry Mancini Conducting the First Recording of the Philadelphia Orchestra Pops'' (
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(RCA Red Seal RCD1-5315, 1984) * ''The Hollywood Musicals'' with Johnny Mathis ( Columbia CK-40372, 1986) * ''As Time Goes By and Other Classic Movie Love Songs'' (RCA Victor 09026-60974-2, 1992)


Ballets

* ''Coffee House'' (1959), written for the Gene Kelly Show


Soundtracks

Note: Most of Mancini's scores were not released on LP soundtrack albums. His TV movie music albums were not soundtrack albums but are titled "Music from ..." or "Music from the Motion Picture ..." He routinely retained the rights to his music. Mancini's contracts allowed him to release his own albums for which he rearranged the score music into arrangements more appropriate for listening outside of the context of the film/theater. Actual film scores using players from Hollywood unions recording under major motion picture studio contracts were expensive to release on LP (ex: the soundtrack for ''Our Man Flint'' (not a Mancini score) cost $1 more than other LP albums of the day). Many soundtrack albums used to claim "Original Soundtrack" or words to that effect, but were not necessarily the actual soundtrack recordings. These albums were usually recorded with a smaller orchestra than that used for the actual scoring (ex: Dimitri Tiomkin's score to ''The Alamo''). However, many Hollywood musicians were featured on Mancini's albums recorded in RCA's Hollywood recording studios and faux "Original Soundtrack" albums. Eventually some of his scores and faux "Original Soundtrack" scores by numerous composers were released in limited edition CDs. *''
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'', RCA Victor LSP-3623 *'' Bachelor in Paradise'', Film Score Monthly FSMCD vol. 7 nr. 18 *'' Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture'', RCA Victor LSP-2362 *''
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'', RCA Victor LSP-2755 *''
Darling Lili ''Darling Lili'' is a 1970 American romantic-musical spy film, written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, the latter also directing the film. It stars Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp, with music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by ...
'', RCA LSPX-1000 *''
Experiment in Terror ''Experiment in Terror'' is a 1962 American neo-noir thriller film released by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Blake Edwards and written by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon based on their 1961 novel ''Operation Terror''. The film stars Gle ...
'', RCA Victor LSP-2442 *''
Gaily, Gaily ''Gaily, Gaily'' (released in the United Kingdom as ''Chicago, Chicago'') is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is a fictionalized adaptation of a 1963 memoir of the same name by Ben Hecht and stars Beau Bridges, Brian ...
'', United Artists UAS-5202 *''
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'', MCA MCAD-6222 *''
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'', Varèse Sarabande/MCA VSD-5359 *''
The Great Race ''The Great Race'' is a 1965 American Technicolor slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Arthur A. Ross (from a story by Edwards and Ross), and with music by Henry Manci ...
'', RCA Victor LSP-3402 *''
The Great Waldo Pepper ''The Great Waldo Pepper'' is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. Set during 1926–1931, the film stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly ...
'', MCA MCA-2085 *''
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...Number One!'', RCA Victor LSP-3840 *'' Harry & Son'', Quartet Records QRSCE-023 *''
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'', RCA Victor LSP-2559 *''
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'', United Artists UAS-5210 *'' High Time'', RCA Victor LSP-2314 *'' Lifeforce'', Varèse Sarabande STV-81249 *''
Me, Natalie ''Me, Natalie'' is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe about a homely young woman from Brooklyn who moves to Greenwich Village and finds romance with an aspiring painter. The screenplay by A. Martin Zweiback is based on an orig ...
'', Columbia OS-03350 *'' The Molly Maguires'', Paramount PAS-6000 *''
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'', Real Gone Music RGM-0640 *''
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation ''Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation'' is a 1962 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara. The film is based on the novel ''Mr. Hobbs' Vacation'', by Edward Streeter and features a popular singer of the ...
'', Intrada special collection vol. 11 *'' Nightwing'', Varèse Sarabande VCL-0309-1091 *'' Oklahoma Crude'', RCA Victor APL1-0271 *'' The Party'', RCA Victor LSP-3997 *''
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'', RCA Victor LSP-2795 *''
The Pink Panther Strikes Again ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'' is a 1976 comedy film. The fifth film in ''The Pink Panther'' series, its plot picks up three years after '' The Return of the Pink Panther'', with former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) about t ...
'', United Artists UA-LA694 *'' The Return of the Pink Panther'', RCA Victor ABL1-0968 *'' Revenge of the Pink Panther'', United Artists UA-LA913-H *'' Santa Claus: The Movie'', EMI America SJ-17177 *'' Silver Streak'', Intrada special collection vol. 5 *''
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'', Decca DL-79185 *''
Son of the Pink Panther ''Son of the Pink Panther'' is a 1993 comedy film. It is the ninth and final installment of the original '' The Pink Panther'' film series starting from the 1963 film. Directed by Blake Edwards, it stars Roberto Benigni as Inspector Clouseau's ...
'', Milan/BMG 74321-16461-2 *'' Sunflower'', Avco Embassy AVE-0-11001 *'' Sunset'', Quartet Records QRSCE-045 *''
The Thief Who Came to Dinner ''The Thief Who Came to Dinner'' is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin. Based on the novel by Terrence Lore Smith, the film stars Ryan O'Neal and Jacqueline Bisset, with Charles Cioffi, Warren Oates, and in an early appearance, ...
'', Warner Bros. BS-2700 *''
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'', Varèse Sarabande/Universal 302 066 564-2 *'' Tom and Jerry – The Movie'', MCA MCAD-10721 *''
Touch of Evil ''Touch of Evil'' is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel ''Badge of Evil'' (1956). The cast included Charlton Hes ...
'', Challenge CHL-602 *'' Two for the Road'', RCA Victor LSP-3802 *''
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'', GNP Crescendo GNPD-8038 *''
Visions of Eight ''Visions of Eight'' is a 1973 American documentary film offering a stylized look at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Produced by Stan Margulies and executive produced by David L. Wolper, it was directed by eight directors. It was screened out-of-compet ...
'', RCA Victor ABL1-0231 *'' W.C. Fields and Me'', MCA MCA-2092 *'' What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?'', RCA Victor LSP-3648 *''
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'', Epic SE-35692 *''
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'', BSX BSXCD-8832


Filmography

*'' The Raiders'' (1952) *''
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'' (1953) *''
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'' (1953) *''
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'' (1953) *'' City Beneath the Sea'' (1953) *'' Destry'' (1954) *''
Creature from the Black Lagoon ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' is a 1954 American black-and-white 3D monster horror film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold, from a screenplay by Harry Essex and Arthur Ross and a story by Maurice Zimm. It stars ...
'' (1954) *''
The Private War of Major Benson ''The Private War of Major Benson'' is 1955 comedy film starring Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, Sal Mineo and Tim Hovey, about a tough-talking U.S. Army officer who must shape up the JROTC program at Sheridan Academy, a Catholic boys' military a ...
'' (1955) *''
The Benny Goodman Story Dick Winslow ''The Benny Goodman Story'' is a biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, directed by Valentine Davies, and released by Universal-International in 1956. The film was intended as a follow-up to Universal's 1954 hit '' Th ...
'' (1956) *''
The Creature Walks Among Us ''The Creature Walks Among Us'' is a 1956 American monster horror film and the third and final installment of the ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' series from Universal Pictures, following the previous year's ''Revenge of the Creature''. The f ...
'' (1956) *''
Rock, Pretty Baby ''Rock, Pretty Baby'' is a 1956 American comedy musical film directed by Richard Bartlett and starring Sal Mineo, John Saxon and Luana Patten. Plot Young musician Jimmy Daley (Saxon) needs to come up with $300 to purchase the electric guitar he ...
'' (1956) *'' Summer Love'' (1957) *''
Damn Citizen ''Damn Citizen'' is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Gordon and starring Keith Andes, Margaret Hayes and Gene Evans. Plot A former WWII hero is appointed head of the state police by the governor of Louisiana to eliminate ...
'' (1958) *''
Touch of Evil ''Touch of Evil'' is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel ''Badge of Evil'' (1956). The cast included Charlton Hes ...
'' (1958) *'' The Big Beat'' (1958) *''
Operation Petticoat ''Operation Petticoat'' is a 1959 American World War II submarine comedy film in Eastmancolor from Universal-International, produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Blake Edwards, that stars Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. The film tells in fla ...
'' (1959) *'' High Time'' (1960) *'' The Great Impostor'' (1960) *'' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961) *'' Bachelor in Paradise'' (1961) *''
Experiment in Terror ''Experiment in Terror'' is a 1962 American neo-noir thriller film released by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Blake Edwards and written by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon based on their 1961 novel ''Operation Terror''. The film stars Gle ...
'' (1962) *''
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation ''Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation'' is a 1962 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara. The film is based on the novel ''Mr. Hobbs' Vacation'', by Edward Streeter and features a popular singer of the ...
'' (1962) *''
Hatari! ''Hatari!'' (, Swahili for "Danger!") is a 1962 American adventure romantic comedy film starring John Wayne as the leader of a group of professional game catchers in Africa.McCarthy, Todd. ''Howard Hawks: the grey fox of Hollywood'', New York, G ...
'' (1962) *'' Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962) *''
Soldier in the Rain ''Soldier in the Rain'' is a 1963 American comedy buddy film directed by Ralph Nelson and starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen. Tuesday Weld portrays Gleason's character's romantic partner. Produced by Martin Jurow and co-written by Mauric ...
'' (1963) *''
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'' (1963) *''
The Pink Panther ''The Pink Panther'' is an American media franchise primarily focusing on a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The franchise began with the release of the classic film '' The Pi ...
'' (1963) *''
Man's Favorite Sport? ''Man's Favorite Sport?'' is a 1964 American comedy film starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss and directed and produced by Howard Hawks. Hawks intended the film to be an homage to his own 1938 screwball classic ''Bringing Up Baby'' with Kat ...
'' (1964) *'' A Shot in the Dark'' (1964) *''
Dear Heart ''Dear Heart'' is a 1964 American romantic-comedy film starring Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page as lonely middle-aged people who fall in love at a hotel convention. It was directed by Delbert Mann, from a screenplay by Tad Mosel. Its theme song " ...
'' (1964) *''
The Great Race ''The Great Race'' is a 1965 American Technicolor slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Arthur A. Ross (from a story by Edwards and Ross), and with music by Henry Manci ...
'' (1965) *'' Moment to Moment'' (1966) *''
Arabesque The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Another definition is "Foli ...
'' (1966) *'' What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?'' (1966) *'' Two for the Road'' (1967) *''
Gunn Gunn may refer to: Places * Gunn City, Missouri, a village * Gunn, Northern Territory, outer suburb of Darwin * Gunn, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet * Gunn Valley, a mountain valley in British Columbia, Canada * Gun Lake (British Columbia), a Canad ...
...Number One!'' (1967) *''
Wait Until Dark ''Wait Until Dark'' is a play by Frederick Knott, first performed on Broadway in 1966 and often revived since then. A Wait Until Dark (film), film version was released in 1967, and the play was published in the same year. Synopsis Susy Hendrix ...
'' (1967) *'' The Party'' (1968) *''
Me, Natalie ''Me, Natalie'' is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe about a homely young woman from Brooklyn who moves to Greenwich Village and finds romance with an aspiring painter. The screenplay by A. Martin Zweiback is based on an orig ...
'' (1969) *''
Gaily, Gaily ''Gaily, Gaily'' (released in the United Kingdom as ''Chicago, Chicago'') is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is a fictionalized adaptation of a 1963 memoir of the same name by Ben Hecht and stars Beau Bridges, Brian ...
'' (1969) *'' The Molly Maguires'' (1970) *'' Sunflower'' (1970) *''
The Hawaiians Hawaiians are the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiians or The Hawaiians may also refer to: * The Hawaiians (WFL), a football team in the World Football League from 1974 to 1975 * The Hawaiians (film), ''The Hawaiians'' (film), a 1 ...
'' (1970) *''
Darling Lili ''Darling Lili'' is a 1970 American romantic-musical spy film, written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, the latter also directing the film. It stars Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp, with music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by ...
'' (1970) *''
The Night Visitor ''The Night Visitor'' (Swedish title: ''Papegojan'') is a 1971 Swedish psychological thriller film in English, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies and Andrew Keir, and directed by Laslo Benedek. Plot ...
'' (1971) *''
Sometimes a Great Notion ''Sometimes a Great Notion'' is the second novel by American author Ken Kesey, published in 1964. While ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1962) is more famous, many critics consider ''Sometimes a Great Notion'' Kesey's magnum opus. The story i ...
'' (1971) *''
Frenzy ''Frenzy'' is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the 1966 novel ''Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Squa ...
'' (Rejected Score) (1972) *''
The Thief Who Came To Dinner ''The Thief Who Came to Dinner'' is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin. Based on the novel by Terrence Lore Smith, the film stars Ryan O'Neal and Jacqueline Bisset, with Charles Cioffi, Warren Oates, and in an early appearance, ...
'' (1973) *''
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'' (1973) *'' Oklahoma Crude'' (1973) *''
That's Entertainment! ''That's Entertainment!'' is a 1974 American compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate the studio's 50th anniversary. The success of the retrospective prompted a 1976 sequel, the related 1985 film ''That's Dancing!'', and a ...
'' (1974) *''
The White Dawn ''The White Dawn'' is a 1974 Canadian-American drama film directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, and Louis Gossett Jr. It portrays the conflict between aboriginal peoples' traditional way of life and Europeans' e ...
'' (1974) *''
The Girl from Petrovka ''The Girl from Petrovka'' is a 1974 American comedy-drama film starring Goldie Hawn and Hal Holbrook, based on the novel by George Feifer. It is about an American journalist, Joe (Holbrook) who goes to the Soviet Union and meets Oktyabrina (Haw ...
'' (1974) *''
99 and 44/100% Dead ''99 and 44/100% Dead!'' is a 1974 American action comedy film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Richard Harris. The title is a play on an advertising slogan for Ivory soap. Plot Harry Crown, a stylish professional hit man with a pai ...
'' (1974) *''
The Great Waldo Pepper ''The Great Waldo Pepper'' is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. Set during 1926–1931, the film stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly ...
'' (1975) *'' The Return of the Pink Panther'' (1975) *''
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'' (1975) *'' W.C. Fields and Me'' (1976) *'' Silver Streak'' (1976) *''
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'' (1976) *'' Angela'' (1977) *''
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'' (1978) *'' Revenge of the Pink Panther'' (1978) *''
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'' (1978) *''
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'' (1979) *'' Nightwing'' (1979) *'' 10'' (1979) *'' Little Miss Marker'' (1980) *''
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'' (1980) *'' Back Roads'' (1981) *'' S.O.B.'' (1981) *''
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'' (1981) *''
Mommie Dearest ''Mommie Dearest'' is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. Published in 1978, it attracted much controversy for its portrayal of Joan Crawford as a cruel, unbalanced, and alcoholic m ...
'' (1981) *''
Victor Victoria ''Victor/Victoria'' is a 1982 Musical film, musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston (actor), Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. The fi ...
'' (1982) *''
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'' (1982) *'' Better Late Than Never'' (1983) *'' Second Thoughts'' (1983) *''
Curse of the Pink Panther ''Curse of the Pink Panther'' is a 1983 comedy film and a continuation of ''The Pink Panther'' series of films created by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. The film was one of two produced concurrently following the death of the series' star Pet ...
'' (1983) *''
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'' (1983) *'' Harry & Son'' (1984) *'' That's Dancing'' (1985) *'' Lifeforce'' (1985) *'' Santa Claus: The Movie'' (1985) *''
The Great Mouse Detective ''The Great Mouse Detective'' (also known as ''The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective'' for its 1992 theatrical re-release and ''Basil the Great Mouse Detective'' in some countries) is a 1986 American animated mystery adventure film produc ...
'' (1986) *''A Fine Mess (film), A Fine Mess'' (1986) *''That's Life! (film), That's Life!'' (1986) *''Blind Date (1987 film), Blind Date'' (1987) *''
The Glass Menagerie ''The Glass Menagerie'' is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his Histrionic persona ...
'' (1987) *'' Sunset'' (1988) *''
Without a Clue ''Without a Clue'' is a 1988 British comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley. It is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories but, in this version, the roles are ...
'' (1988) *''Physical Evidence'' (1989) *''Welcome Home (1989 film), Welcome Home'' (1989) *''Ghost Dad'' (1990) *''Fear (1990 film), Fear'' (1990) *''Switch (1991 film), Switch'' (1991) *''Married to It'' (1991) *''Tom and Jerry: The Movie'' (1992) *''
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'' (1993)


TV Themes

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Peter Gunn ''Peter Gunn'' is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend, Edie Hart. The series aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960–1961. The seri ...
'' (1958) *'' Mr. Lucky'' (1959) *''Man of the World (TV series), Man of the World'' (1962) *''The Richard Boone Show'' (1963) *''Blaulicht'' (1968) *''The Pink Panther Show'' (1969) *''Cade's County'' (1971) *''The NBC Mystery Movie'' (1971) *''The Blue Knight (TV series), The Blue Knight'' (1975) *''
What's Happening!! ''What's Happening!!'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976, until April 28, 1979, premiering as a summer series. Due to other shows being cancelled across the network, and good ratings and reviews from ...
'' (1976) *''Kingston: Confidential'' (1977) *''Sanford Arms'' (1977) *''The All-New Pink Panther Show'' (1978) *''NBC Nightly News'' (1978) *''
Newhart ''Newhart'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from October 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990, with a total of 184 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons. The series stars Bob Newhart and Mary Frann as an author and his wife, ...
'' (1982, one of the few shows to credit Mancini in the opening credits) *''
Remington Steele ''Remington Steele'' is an American television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from O ...
'' (1982) *''Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982 TV series), Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982) *''Hotel (American TV series), Hotel'' (1983) *''Pink Panther and Sons'' (1984) *''What's Happening Now!!'' (1985) *''
Tic Tac Dough ''Tic-Tac-Dough'' is an American television game show based on the paper-and-pencil game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, ''X'' or ''O'', on the board. Three versions were produc ...
'' (1990) *''Julie (TV series), Julie'' (1992) *''Pink Panther and Pals'' (2010)


Bibliography

* Mancini, Henry. ''Sounds and Scores: A Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration'' (1962) *


References


Sources

* * Henry Mancini: Sounds and Scores, Northridge Music, Inc. 1973, 1986 * Liner notes to RCA Victor LPM/LSP-1956 * Liner notes to RCA Victor LPM/LSP-3840


Further reading

* Brown, Royal S. ''Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music'' (1994) * Büdinger, Matthias. "An Interview with Henry Mancini" (''Soundtrack'', vol. 7, No. 26, 1988) * Büdinger, Matthias. "Feeling Fancy Free" (''Film Score Monthly'', vol. 10, No. 2) * Büdinger, Matthias. "Henry Mancini 1924–1994" (''Film Score Monthly'', No. 46/47, p. 5 * Büdinger, Matthias. "Henry Mancini Remembered' (''Soundtrack'', vol. 13, No. 51) * Büdinger, Matthias. "Henry Mancini" (''Soundtrack'', vol. 13, No. 50, 1994) * Büdinger, Matthias. "Whistling Away the Dark" (''Film Score Monthly'', No. 45, p. 7 * Larson, Randall. "Henry Mancini: On Scoring 'Lifeforce' and 'Santa Claus'" (interview) (''CinemaScore'', No. 15, 1987) * Thomas, Tony. ''Music for the Movies'' (1973) * Thomas, Tony. ''Film Score'' (1979)


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