Legacy Recordings,
the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is proud to announce the
release of Henry Mancini's The Classic Soundtrack Collection on Tuesday, November 18th. In a career that spanned nearly half a century,
Henry Mancini (1924-1994) became synonymous with catchy, jazzy, romantic music
for film and television soundtracks. The Classic Soundtrack Collection,
showcases all of Mancini's soundtrack albums for the RCA, Epic and Columbia
labels, including several of his most iconic and beloved scores.
The Classic
Soundtrack Collection features 18 original Mancini soundtrack albums on nine
discs plus rare bonus tracks, including a never-before-heard version of
"Nothing To Lose" from writer-director Blake Edwards' 1968 comedy The
Party performed by Julie Andrews. Taken together, the albums in this collection
underline the enduring popularity of Henry Mancini and his unique ability to
create movie music that pop audiences could also embrace.
The son of Italian
immigrants, Mancini studied at New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music
before joining the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1946 as a pianist/arranger. From
1952 to 1958, Mancini was contracted to create soundtracks for films for
Universal-International Studios, including the Oscar-nominated The Glenn Miller
Story and the brassy, suspenseful score to Orson Welles' Touch Of Evil. From
there, Mancini gained widespread acclaim as an independent composer and
arranger, winning four Oscars and 20 Grammy Awards during his career.
Mancini's greatest
collaboration may have been with Blake Edwards; they first worked together on
Edwards' 1959 television series Peter Gunn. The iconic jazz theme was an
international hit and winner of two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award. The duo
would collaborate on such films as Breakfast At Tiffany's (featuring the
immortal pop standard "Moon River," written by Mancini with lyricist
Johnny Mercer) and the Pink Panther series of comedies (the slinky,
saxophone-driven instrumental theme remains one of cinema's most recognizable
standards).
Elsewhere in
Hollywood, Mancini earned critical and commercial acclaim with scores to films
like Hatari! starring John Wayne and featuring the playful "Baby Elephant
Walk"; the Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn mystery Charade, and the comedy-drama
Two For The Road, Mancini's personal favorite of the many themes he composed.
ALBUMS INCLUDED IN
THE CLASSIC SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION:
High Time (1960)
Breakfast At
Tiffany's (1961)
Experiment In
Terror (1962)
Hatari! (1962)
Charade (1963)
The Pink Panther
(1964)
The Great Race
(1965)
Arabesque (1966)
What Did You Do In
The War, Daddy? (1966)
Two For The Road
(1967)
Gunn (1967)
The Party (1968)
Me, Natalie (1969)
Darling Lili (1970)
Visions Of Eight
(1973)
Oklahoma Crude
(1973)
The Return Of The
Pink Panther (1975)
Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe? (1978)
Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe? (1978)
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