Mike's Mancini Miscellany
SOME COVERS OF INTEREST:
The Wild Side of Henry Mancini
This is the follow-up to Touch of Evil on the Challenge label. From what I can gather, this is a very rare item, only 1,000 copies were allegedly made. (I know of three, and they are all radio station promo copies, including my own.) There is a supplementary "main title" track on this LP consisting primarily of bongo drums which does not appear on any of the LP or CD reissues.
This version of Peter Gunn (RCA LPM-1956) uses a stock cover (the back cover is identical to the original issue). When signing his way through a pile of his albums several years ago (including this one), Mancini told me that RCA substituted this cover temporarily when Peter Gunn proved to be a runaway success and they ran out of the regular covers.
Bottom half of the Crown LP devoted to Peter Gunn music, arranged by sax/flute player Ted Nash, who appeared on the original RCA Peter Gunn sessions. This cover LP and some others from the era have been reissued on CD, click here to see the contents, booklet front cover, booklet back cover and CD back cover.
A 5-LP set issued by RCA, containing five of Mancini's recordings: The Music from "Peter Gunn," The Mancini Touch, Mr. Lucky Goes Latin, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Charade.
Laurindo Almeida - Contemporary Creations for Spanish Guitar
Album of compositions commissioned by sometime Mancini guitarist Almeida which contains a selection by Mancini, plus several others by Hollywood composers. Here is the back cover.
A Shot in the Dark (45 RPM)
VIEWS OF THE NEW TOUCH OF EVIL CD:
Front cover
Back cover
Booklet back cover
CD art
May 1968 photo of Mancini, showing him with Bernard T. Ness, the Managing Director of RCA in Great Britain, and Terry Oates.
Unidentified photo of Mancini with some orchestra.
SOME PIANO FOLIOS OF MANCINI MUSIC:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (selections)
Charade (complete score)
Days of Wine and Roses (arrangement not by H.M.)
Experiment in Terror (main theme)
The Great Race (selections)
Mr. Lucky (selections)
Peter Gunn (selections)
Peter Gunn, Volume 2 (selections)
The Pink Panther (selections)
Songs and Themes by Mancini
SOME OTHER MANCINI SITES:
Nipper's Place (Our Man in Hollywood -- Mancini Discussion Forum)
B.J. Major's Mancini discography is totally awesome!
A biography at Space Age Pop Music
Sean Baker's two "jingle tributes" to Mancini.
A blatant plug for my own music, much of which was inspired by "The Man."