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7 unusual facts about Henry Mancini


Al Petteway

In 2005, Al Petteway won a Grammy award in the "Best Pop Instrumental Album" category for his rendition of "The Thornbirds" that appeared on a compilation of solo guitar renditions of Henry Mancini compositions titled Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar.

Alf Bigden

Amongst other credits, Bigden played the drums on many of the James Bond scores, with Henry Mancini for the Pink Panther movies, as well as Oliver!, The Dam Busters and The Dirty Dozen.

Charley Wilkinson

He has also worked with several internationally famous composers and performers, such as Leonard Bernstein, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and William Shatner.

Graham Lear

He has also worked with T.V./ Film composers Henry Mancini, Domenic Troiano, Jimmy Dale (Pianist/arranger Boss Brass), David Foster, Mexican jazz/fusion group Sacbe, and recorded jingles for Nike, Molson and Avia.

Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring

The other nominees were Cy Coleman for Theme from The Garden of the Finzi Continis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer for Pictures at an Exhibition, Quincy Jones for Money Runner, Henry Mancini & Doc Severinsen for Brass on Ivory, and Santana for Caravanserai.

WGPA

The FM station's daytime programming was beautiful music featuring the likes of Mantovani, Ferrante and Teicher, Ray Conniff and Henry Mancini.

WMXD

Detroit’s 92.3 FM begins with a construction permit with the call letters WIPE, held by jazz disc jockey Sleepy Stein and Henry Mancini.


Al Schmitt

While at RCA he engineered albums for Henry Mancini, Cal Tjader, Al Hirt, Rosemary Clooney, Liverpool Five, The Astronauts, Sam Cooke ("Bring It on Home to Me," "Cupid," "Another Saturday Night") in 1961.

Austria in the Eurovision Dance Contest

Their routine was a fusion of Foxtrot, Jive and Hip Hop, and was performed to a medley of "The Third Man/Harry Lime theme by Anton Karas, "Der Kommissar" by After The Fire/Falco, "The Pink Panther Theme" by Henry Mancini and "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, all of which were performed by the Dance For Europe Orchestra.

Chris Gradwell

Over the years he has had a diverse range of engagements, with many Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room recitals, recording with many of the well known film composers such as Henry Mancini and Gerry Goldsmith, records with Kiri Te Kanawa, John Williams, Joan Sutherland, Pink Floyd and Genesis for Dee Palmer.

John Graas

The 1960s began with equal intensity, including recordings with Henry Mancini, Bobby Darin, Heinie Beau, and others, until his career was cut short by his death of a heart attack, at age 45, in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles.

Karel Gott

In the same year, he released his first solo single, a Czech recording of Henry Mancini's Moon River, as well as his song Oči sněhem zaváté (Eyes Covered by Snow), which became the year's best-selling record.

Meglio Stasera

Meglio Stasera (known in English as It Had Better Be Tonight) is a 1963 song with music by Henry Mancini, Italian lyrics by Franco Migliacci and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Sandy Thorburn

He is also one of a very few Canadian academics who have studied with notable film composers Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Bruce Broughton, Henry Mancini and Buddy Baker at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in composition for motion pictures and television.

The Music from Peter Gunn

The Music from Peter Gunn is a 1959 album by Henry Mancini (RCA LPM/LSP-1956), the soundtrack of the TV series Peter Gunn.

The Pink Panther Show

Henry Mancini composed "The Pink Panther Theme" for the live action films, which would be used prominently in the cartoon series as well.

The Runestone

In March, 2010, Perseverance Records released the soundtrack album with music by David Newman which its score was a reminiscent of the 50s B-movie scores composed by Henry Mancini such as The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Tarantula.

This Was

The coda of "My Sunday Feeling" incorporates quotes from two well-known jazz tunes, Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme" (specifically the song's bass line, played as a short solo by Glenn Cornick) and Nat Adderley's and Oscar Brown, Jr.'s "Work Song".

Walter Greene

Greene's memorable scores were built around "The Pink Panther Theme" composed by Henry Mancini, creating different variations of the famous theme.


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