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rightguy41
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I've heard great things... I saw a concert last week that the Mancini institute and it really got me excited for all teh things that are going on in honor of Henry this year...anyone of this Ultimate Mancini album? tell me about it. I'm gona get it.
posted 04-21-2004 12:40 PM PT (US) PeterK
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The Ultimate Mancini album is more for those who loved his songs. Daughter Monica sings a handful, as well as special guests like Stevie Wonder/Take 6, Tom Scott, etc. The instrumentals are all new renditions/arrangements. If you like the Mancini songs and are open to various versions, a cool CD. Monica Mancini's performances are much better than her earlier efforts.If you are into Mancini's original recordings of his themes and songs, I would recommend the RCA CD called "Midnight Moonlight and Magic" or if all you want is a bunch of Pink Panther music, "Ultimate Pink Panther." The RCA discs are the original recordings, all remastered. They sound great. Both very entertaining, with high quality liner notes.
posted 04-21-2004 01:27 PM PT (US) Justin
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Who did the score to The Great Mouse Detective? Wasn't that a Mancini?!? Loved that score
posted 04-21-2004 02:33 PM PT (US) Jeron
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quote:
Originally posted by Justin:
Wasn't that a Mancini?!?Yep, that was Mancini. Fun, adventurous theme... good disc from Varese.
Jeron
posted 04-21-2004 02:51 PM PT (US) rightguy41
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... yeah, that was one of the classics. If anyone wants to hear some of the stuff from Ultimate Mancini, i found this link... http://www2.fanscape.com/ultimatemancini/player/
posted 04-21-2004 05:28 PM PT (US) lancer
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one of his less heard of, but very good scores is lifeforce released by varese. Its definitely not very long just under 30 minutes, but every second of it is good.
posted 04-21-2004 07:18 PM PT (US) jonathan_little
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I only have the Lifeforce album in my collection when it comes to Mancini. I'll have to check out that new "Ultimate Pink Panther" album.[Message edited by jonathan_little on 04-21-2004]
posted 04-21-2004 07:34 PM PT (US) MWRuger
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Henry Mancini was a composer with a gift for melody and song that made him the logical successor for Victor Young, another gifted composer who could write popular songs.His actually underscores are very nice, but largely unrepresented on CD with very few being available.
Mancini himself said that he wished that he had concentrated a little more on that then song albums. Most of his albums were skewed towards the songtrack style and any underscore presented is a re-recording.
That said:
Lifeforce
The Molly Maguires
Pink Panther
Mr. Hobb’s Vacation
Touch of Evil
Experiment in Terror
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Silver Streak
Great Mouse DetectiveAre available on CD and give you a taste of what made Mancini a great composer.
He is mainly remembered as a master lyricist and songwriter and rightly so. Sadly, his composing is often overlooked and this trend will probably continue.
posted 04-22-2004 08:51 AM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Sure, I think anyone who loves movie music just HAS to have an opinion on Henry Mancini. I'd go as far as to say he was a true genius. As MWRuger implies, he may be kind of pigeon-holed in our collective memories as a composer of light, melodic fare (at which he excelled), but his dark underscores were often superb, right back from when he was working uncredited on the 50s Universal horror/SF movies, right up to LIFEFORCE. Great unreleased music from lots of 60s stuff too like CHARADE and ARABESQUE (it's true, the albums went for the tunes).And such a charming, witty man. I remember him guesting on a chat show round about when LIFEFORCE was being made, and he was asked if he could play a piece from his new score on the piano. He just thumped his elbows down on the keyboard. I also remember, after his death, some people reminiscing about him on another show. Some actress said that she caught him changing his clothes for a party once, and he was hung like a horse! Big nob, great composer, warm human being, surely some kind of a hero!
posted 04-24-2004 02:20 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB