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Extrait de la B.O.
du film THE PINK PANTHER (1979) avec Henry Mancini
(direction), et ... ???
Album note (par Peter Sellers,
alias Inspecteur Clouseau):
" I've never written record notes before
and I'm sure I will never be asked again. The poor fools,
they don't know what they are missing. "
Biographie:
" b. Enrico Mancini, 16 April 1924,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA, d. 14 June 1994, Los Angeles, California,
USA. Prompted by his father, a steelworker who loved music,
Mancini learned to play several musical instruments while
still a small child. As a teenager he developed an interest
in jazz and especially music of the big bands. He wrote
some arrangements and sent them to Benny Goodman, from whom
he received some encouragement. In 1942, he became a student
at the Juilliard School of Music, but his career was interrupted
by military service during World War II. Immediately following
the war he was hired as pianist and arranger by Tex Beneke,
who was then leading the Glenn Miller orchestra. Later in
the 40s Mancini began writing arrangements for studios,
prompted initially by a contract to score for a recording
date secured by his wife, singer Ginny O'Connor (of the
Mel-Tones ). He was also hired to work on films (the first
of which was the Abbott and Costello comedy Lost In Alaska
), and it was here that his interest in big band music paid
off. He wrote the scores for two major Hollywood bio-pics,
The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and The Benny Goodman Story
(1956), as well as Orson Welles' Touch Of Evil classic (1958).
Mancini also contributed jazz-influenced scores for television,
including those for the innovative Peter Gunn series and
Mr Lucky. His film work continued with scores and songs
for such films as Breakfast At Tiffany 's (1961), from which
came 'Moon River' (the Oscar winner that year), and the
title songs for Days Of Wine And Roses (1962), which again
won an Oscar, and Charade (1963). His other film compositions
included 'Baby Elephant Walk' from Hatari! (1962), the theme
from The Pink Panther (1964), 'Sweetheart Tree' from The
Great Race (1965), and scores for Man's Favourite Sport?,
Dear Heart, Wait Until Dark, Darling Lili, Mommie Dearest,
Victor/Victoria (1982), for which he won an Oscar for 'Original
Song Score' with Leslie Bricusse, That's Dancing, Without
A Clue, Physical Evidence , Blind Date , That's Life , The
Glass Menagerie , Sunset, Fear , Switch, and Tom And Jerry:
The Movie, on which he again teamed with Leslie Bricusse
. One of the most respected film and television composers
- and the winner of 20 Grammy Awards - Mancini acknowledged
his greatest legacy to be '. . . my use of jazz - incorporating
various popular idioms into the mainstream of film scoring.
If that's a contribution, then that's mine'. In addition
he also regularly conducted orchestras in the USA and UK
in concerts of his music, most of which stood comfortably
on its own merits outside the context for which it was originally
conceived. In the months prior to his death from cancer,
Mancini was working with Leslie Bricusse on the score for
the stage adaption of Victor/Victoria. "
(source http://music.yahoo.com/)
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