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Contact us ˈriːko niˈkɔːla manˈtʃiːni]; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994)[1] was an American composer,
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Early life [ edit ]

Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland and raised in West Aliquippa,
43 more
Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.[4][5] Both his parents were Italian immigrants. Originally from Scanno, Abruzzo, his father Quintiliano
Edit links "Quinto" Mancini was a laborer at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company and amateur musician who first came to the U.S. as a
teenager around 1910.[6][7] His mother Anna (née Pece) came to the U.S. from Forlì del Sannio as an infant.[6]

At age eight, Mancini began learning the piccolo.[8][9] Mancini said that hearing Rudolph G. Kopp's score in the 1935 Cecil B. DeMille
film The Crusades inspired him to pursue film music composition despite his father's wishes for him to become a teacher.[10][11]

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.[5][12] 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 Schumann 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."[13]

After graduating from Aliquippa High School in 1942, Mancini first attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie
Mellon University) in Pittsburgh.[14][15] Later that year, Mancini transferred to the Juilliard School of Music in New York City following a
successful audition in which he performed a Beethoven sonata and improvisation on "Night and Day" by Cole Porter.[16][5] 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."[17]

After turning 18, Mancini enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1943. While in basic training in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 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 Mauthausen-
Gusen concentration camp in Austria.[16]

Career [ edit ]

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' Tex Beneke. After World War II, Mancini broadened his skills in composition, counterpoint,
harmony and orchestration during studies opening with the composers Ernst Krenek and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.[18]

In 1952, Mancini joined the Universal-International's music department. During the next six years, he contributed music to over 100
movies, most notably Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Creature Walks Among Us, It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, This
Island Earth, The Glenn Miller Story (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination), The Benny Goodman Story and
Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. During this time, he also wrote some popular songs. His first hit was a single by Guy Lombardo 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 Peter Gunn[9] for writer/producer Blake Edwards. This was the genesis of a relationship in which Edwards and Mancini
collaborated on 30 films over 35 years. Along with Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Leith Stevens and Johnny Mandel, 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")[9] and Days of Wine and Roses (with the
title song, "Days of Wine and Roses"), as well as Experiment in Terror, The Pink Panther (and all of its sequels), The Great Race, The
Party, 10 (including "It's Easy to Say") and Victor Victoria. Another director with whom Mancini had a longstanding partnership was
Stanley Donen (Charade, Arabesque, Two for the Road). Mancini also composed for Howard Hawks (Man's Favorite Sport?, Hatari! –
which included the "Baby Elephant Walk"), Martin Ritt (The Molly Maguires), Vittorio de Sica (Sunflower), Norman Jewison (Gaily,
Gaily), Paul Newman (Sometimes a Great Notion, The Glass Menagerie), Stanley Kramer (Oklahoma Crude), George Roy Hill (The
Great Waldo Pepper), Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak),[19] Ted Kotcheff (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?), and others. Mancini's
score for the Alfred Hitchcock film Frenzy (1972) in Bachian organ andante, for organ and an orchestra of strings was rejected and
replaced by Ron Goodwin's work.

Mancini scored many TV movies, including The Moneychangers, The Thorn Birds and The Shadow Box. He wrote many television
themes, including Mr. Lucky (starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin),[20] NBC Mystery Movie,[21] Tic Tac Dough (1990 version),[22]
Once Is Not Enough, and What's Happening!! In the 1984–85 television season, four series featured original Mancini themes:
Newhart, Hotel, Remington Steele, and Ripley's Believe It or Not. Mancini also composed the "Viewer Mail" theme for Late Night with
David Letterman.[21] 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 easy listening genre from the 1960s to the 1980s. Mancini's style symbolized the
bright, confident, hospitable voice of bourgeois, inspired by the idealistic Kennedy-era of the 1960s.[23] Some of the artists who have
recorded Mancini songs include Andy Williams, Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Anita Bryant, Jack Jones, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Connie
Francis, Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence, Trini Lopez, George Maharis, Johnny Mathis, Jerry Vale, Ray Conniff, Quincy Jones, The
Lennon Sisters, The Lettermen, Herb Alpert, Eddie Cano, Frank Chacksfield, Warren Covington, Sarah Vaughan, Shelly Manne,
James Moody, Percy Faith, Ferrante & Teicher, Horst Jankowski, Andre Kostelanetz, Peter Nero, Liberace, Mantovani, Tony Bennett,
Julie London, Wayne Newton, Arthur Fiedler, Secret Agent and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Peggy Lee, and Matt Monro. The Anita
Kerr Quartet won a Grammy award (1965) for their album We Dig Mancini, a cover of his songs. Lawrence Welk held Mancini in very
high regard, and frequently featured Mancini's music on The Lawrence Welk Show (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.[24]

Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from big band to light classical to pop. Eight of these albums were certified gold
by the Recording Industry Association of America. 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 The Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen.

Among Mancini's orchestral scores are (Lifeforce, The Great Mouse Detective, Sunflower, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Molly Maguires,
The Hawaiians), 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 London Symphony
Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. One of his
favorites was the Minnesota Orchestra, 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 Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
with firework accompaniment over the River Thames.

Cameos [ edit ]
Shortly before his death in 1994, he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series Frasier, 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?"[25] 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 Gunn, 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 Son of the Pink Panther, allowing the panther to conduct Bobby
McFerrin in performing the film's theme tune.

Death and legacy [ edit ]

Mancini died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles on June 14, 1994.[11] He was working at the time on the Broadway stage version of
Victor/Victoria, 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.[26]

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 Society of Singers, a non-profit organization which benefits the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide.

One of Mancini's twin daughters, Monica Mancini, is a professional singer; her sister Felice runs The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
(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.[citation needed]

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.[27] 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 The Pink Panther No. 20 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961), Charade (1963), Hatari! (1962), Touch of Evil (1958) and Wait Until Dark (1967) were also nominated for the list.

Awards [ edit ]

Mancini was nominated for 72 Grammy Awards and won 20.[28] He was nominated for 18 Academy Awards and won four.[29] 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 Best Original Song 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 Victor/Victoria.[9]

In 1989, Mancini received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[30][31]

In 1997, Mancini was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music.[32]

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.[33]

Discography [ edit ]

Hit singles [ edit ]

List of singles, with selected chart positions

Peak chart positions
Title Year US
US CB AUS[34] UK[1][35]
AC

"Mr. Lucky" 21 20 — — —
1960
"High Time" — — — — —

"Theme from The Great Imposter" 90 87 — — —

1961
"Moon River" 11 5 1[36] — 44

"Experiment In Terror" — — — — —
1962
"Theme from Hatari!" 95 89 — — —

"Days of Wine and Roses" 33 29 10 — —

"Banzai Pipeline" 1963 93 98 — — —

"Charade" 36 43 15 — —

"The Pink Panther Theme" 31 54 10 — —

"A Shot in the Dark" 97 — — — —

1964
"Dear Heart" 77 39 14 — —

"How Soon" — — — — 10

"The Sweetheart Tree" — 89 23 — —

"La Raspa" 1965 — — — — —

"Moment to Moment" — — 27 — —

"Hawaii (Main Theme)" 1966 — — 6 — —

"Two For the Road" — — 17 — —

1967
"Wait Until Dark" — — 4 — —

"Norma La De Guadalajara" — — 21 — —
1968
"A Man, a Horse and a Gun" — — 36 — —

"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" 1[37] 1[38] 1 10 —

"Moonlight Sonata" 1969 87 96 15 — —

"There Isn't Enough to Go Around" — — 39 — —

"Theme from Z (Life Goes On)" — — 17 — —

"Theme from The Molly Maguires" 1970 — — — — —

"Darling Lili" — — 26 — —

"Love Story" 1971 13 11 2 21 —

"Theme from Cade's County" — — 14 — 42

"Theme from Nicholas and Alexandra" — — — — —

"Theme from the Mancini Generation" 1972 — — 38 — —

"All His Children"

92 95 — — —
(with Charley Pride)

"Oklahoma Crude" 1973 — — 38 — —

"Hangin' Out"
1974 — — 21 — —
(with the Mouldy Seven)

"Once Is Not Enough" 1975 — — 45 — —

"African Symphony" — — 40 — —
1976
"Slow Hot Wind" — — 38 — —

"Theme from Charlie's Angels" 1977 45 73 22 — —

"Ravel's Bolero" 1980 — 59 — 76 —

"The Thornbirds Theme" 1984 — — — — 23

"—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory.

Albums [ edit ]
The Versatile Henry Mancini (Liberty LRP 3121, 1957)
Sousa in Stereo (Warner Bros. BS 1209, 1958)
The Music from Peter Gunn, (RCA Victor LSP-1956, 1959)
More Music from Peter Gunn, (RCA Victor LSP-2040, 1959)
The Mancini Touch (RCA Victor LSP 2101, 1959)
The Blues and the Beat (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)
Uniquely Mancini (RCA Victor LSP-2692)
The Best of Mancini (RCA Victor LSP-2693)
Mancini Plays Mancini (RCA Camden CAS-2158)
Everybody's Favorite (RCA Camden CXS-9034)
Concert Sound of Henry Mancini (RCA Victor LSP-2897)
Dear Heart (And Other Songs About Love) (RCA Victor LSP-2990)
Theme Scene (RCA Victor LSP-3052)
Debut Conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra (RCA Victor LSP-3106)
The Best of Vol. 3 (RCA Victor LSP-3347)
The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini (RCA Victor LSP-3356)
A Merry Mancini Christmas (RCA Victor LSP-3612)
Mancini Country (RCA Victor LSP-3668)
Mancini '67 (RCA Victor LSP-3694)
Music of Hawaii (RCA Victor LSP-3713)
Brass on Ivory with Doc Severinsen (RCA Victor LSP-3756)
A Warm Shade of Ivory (RCA Victor LSP-4140)
The Big Latin Band of Henry Mancini (RCA Victor LSP-4049, 1968)
Six Hours Past Sunset (RCA Victor LSP-4239)
Theme Music from Z & Other Film Music (RCA Victor LSP-4350)
Big Screen-Little Screen (RCA Victor LSP-4630)
This Is Henry Mancini (RCA Victor VPS6029)
Music from the TV Series "The Mancini Generation" (RCA Victor LSP-4689)
The Academy Award Songs (RCA Victor LSP-6013)
Brass Ivory & Strings with Doc Severinsen (RCA APL1-0098)
Pure Gold (RCA ANL1-0980)
The Theme Scene (RCA APL1-3052)
Country Gentleman (RCA APL1-0270)
Hangin' Out (RCA CPL1-0672)
Symphonic Soul (RCA APL1-1025
Mancini's Angels (RCA CPL1-2290)
The Hollywood Musicals with Johnny Mathis (Columbia/CBS CK 40372)
As time goes by and other classic movie love songs (RCA Victor 09026-60974-2)

Ballets [ edit ]
Coffee House (1959), written for the Gene Kelly Show

Soundtracks [ edit ]
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.

Arabesque, 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
Charade, RCA Victor LSP-2755
Darling Lili, RCA LSPX-1000
Experiment in Terror, RCA Victor LSP-2442
Gaily, Gaily, United Artists UAS-5202
The Glass Menagerie, MCA MCAD-6222
The Great Mouse Detective, Varèse Sarabande/MCA VSD-5359
The Great Race, RCA Victor LSP-3402
The Great Waldo Pepper, MCA MCA-2085
Gunn, RCA Victor LSP-3840
Harry & Son, Quartet Records QRSCE023
Hatari!, RCA Victor LSP-2559
The Hawaiians, United Artists UAS-5210
High Time, RCA Victor LSP-2314
Lifeforce, Varèse Sarabande STV-81249
Me, Natalie, Columbia OS-03350
The Molly Maguires, Paramount PAS-6000
Mommie Dearest, Real Gone Music RGM-0640
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Intrada special collection vol. 11
Nightwing, Varèse Sarabande VCL-0309-1091
Oklahoma Crude, RCA Victor APL1-0271
The Party, RCA Victor LSP-3997
The Pink Panther, RCA Victor LSP-2795
The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 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
Sometimes a Great Notion, Decca DL-79185
Son of the Pink Panther, Milan/BMG 74321-16461-2
Sunflower, Avco Embassy AVE-0-11001
Sunset, Quartet Records QRSCE
The Thief Who Came to Dinner, Warner Bros. BS 2700
The Thorn Birds, Varèse Sarabande/Universal 066 564-2
Tom and Jerry – The Movie, MCA MCAD-10721
Touch of Evil, Challenge CHL-602
Two for the Road, RCA Victor LSP-3802
Victor Victoria, GNP Crescendo GNPD-8038
Visions of Eight, RCA Victor ABL1-0231
W.C. Fields and Me, MCA MCA-2092
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, RCA Victor LSP-3648
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, Epic SE-35692
Without a Clue, BSX BSXCD-8832

Filmography [ edit ]
The Raiders (1952) Oklahoma Crude (1973)
The Glenn Miller Story (1953) That's Entertainment! (1974)
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) The White Dawn (1974)
Law and Order (1953) The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
City Beneath the Sea (1953) 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
Destry (1954) The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Private War of Major Benson (1955) Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975)
The Benny Goodman Story (1956) W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) Silver Streak (1976)
Rock, Pretty Baby (1956) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Summer Love (1957) Angela (1977)
Damn Citizen (1958) House Calls (1978)
Touch of Evil (1958) Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
The Big Beat (1958) Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Operation Petticoat (1959) The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
High Time (1960) Nightwing (1979)
The Great Impostor (1960) 10 (1979)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Little Miss Marker (1980)
Bachelor in Paradise (1961) A Change of Seasons (1980)
Experiment in Terror (1962) Back Roads (1981)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) S.O.B. (1981)
Hatari! (1962) Condorman (1981)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) Mommie Dearest (1981)
Soldier in the Rain (1963) Victor Victoria (1982)
Charade (1963) Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
The Pink Panther (1963) Better Late Than Never (1983)
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) Second Thoughts (1983)
A Shot in the Dark (1964) Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Dear Heart (1964) The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
The Great Race (1965) Harry & Son (1984)
Moment to Moment (1966) That's Dancing (1985)
Arabesque (1966) Lifeforce (1985)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
Two for the Road (1967) The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Gunn (1967) A Fine Mess (1986)
Wait Until Dark (1967) That's Life! (1986)
The Party (1968) Blind Date (1987)
Me, Natalie (1969) The Glass Menagerie (1987)
Gaily, Gaily (1969) Sunset (1988)
The Molly Maguires (1970) Without a Clue (1988)
Sunflower (1970) Physical Evidence (1989)
The Hawaiians (1970) Welcome Home (1989)
Darling Lili (1970) Ghost Dad (1990)
The Night Visitor (1971) Fear (1990)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) Switch (1991)
Frenzy (Rejected Score) (1972) Married to It (1991)
The Thief Who Came To Dinner (1973) Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
Visions of Eight (1973) Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

TV Themes [ edit ]
Peter Gunn (1958) The All-New Pink Panther Show (1978)
Mr. Lucky (1959) NBC Nightly News (1978)
Man of the World (1962) Newhart (1982, one of the few shows to credit Mancini in the
The Richard Boone Show (1963) opening credits)
Blaulicht (1968) Remington Steele (1982)
The Pink Panther Show (1969) Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982)
Cade's County (1971) Hotel (1983)
The NBC Mystery Movie (1971) Pink Panther and Sons (1984)
The Blue Knight (1975) What's Happening Now!! (1985)
What's Happening!! (1976) Julie (1992)
Kingston: Confidential (1977) Pink Panther and Pals (2010)
Sanford Arms (1977)

Bibliography [ edit ]

Mancini, Henry. Sounds and Scores: A Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration (1962)
Mancini, Henry & Lees, Gene (2001) [1989]. Did They Mention The Music? The Autobiography of Henry Mancini (Updated ed.).
New York City: Cooper Square Books. ISBN 1461732115.

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Sources [ edit ]

Caps, John (2012), Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music , Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-
0252093845
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 [ edit ]

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)

External links [ edit ]

Official website Archives at

"Henry Mancini" . Oxford Music Online. Location Music Division, Library of Congress
Henry Mancini at IMDb Source Henry Mancini papers, 1930s-2000s

Henry Mancini at the Internet Broadway Database How to use archival material

Henry Mancini at Find a Grave

Henry Mancini at AllMusic
Manning, Joe (2007). "Mancini's Peter Gunn Score Launched Dozens of Careers" . Mornings on Maple Street.
"Henry Mancini interview" . The Pop Chronicles.
"Obituaries: Henry Mancini" . The New York Times. June 15, 1994.

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