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ALBUMThe Henry Mancini 100th Sessions: Henry Has CompanyHenry Mancini
Albums by Henry Mancini
ALBUMThe Henry Mancini 100th Sessions: Henry Has CompanyHenry Mancini
ALBUMMoment to Moment (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Henry Mancini
ALBUMFrenzy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Ron Goodwin & Henry Mancini
ALBUMCondorman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Henry Mancini
ALBUMPink Panther LoungeChris Mancini & Henry Mancini
ALBUMBig Screen, Little ScreenHenry Mancini
ALBUMMidas Run / The House / The Night Visitor (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)Elmer Bernstein & Henry Mancini
ALBUMAs Time Goes By (And Other Classic Movie Love Songs)Henry Mancini and The Mancini Pops Orchestra
ALBUMThe Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Henry Mancini
ALBUMSwitch (Music from the Film Score)Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini's Popular Music Videos
Moon River (Original Demo) [feat. Johnny Mercer] [Official Audio]
Henry Mancini
Peter Gunn Theme (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 26, 1969)
Henry Mancini
Artist Playlists
Henry Mancini Essentials
The genius behind film's most magical musical moments.
Henry Mancini: The Songwriters
A film composer whose songs transcended the cinema.
Inspired by Henry Mancini
His luscious, jazzy film music left a legacy of velvety sounds.
Henry Mancini: Sampled
Film and TV's finest theme writer gets quoted, flipped, and reversed.
Artist Biography
What makes Henry Mancini’s film music immediately recognizable and evergreen is his infusion of a truly American sound into a European style of film scoring. Born in Cleveland in 1924 and raised in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, Mancini was a supreme craftsman, giving us unforgettable songs like the nostalgic, Oscar-winning “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and “Days of Wine and Roses” from the movie of the same name. Showcasing a different side of his diverse sound palette, the themes for The Pink Panther and for the TV show Peter Gunn have a cool, jazzy presence, echoing the influential Glenn Miller Orchestra, in which Mancini worked as a pianist and arranger after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. The Mancini sound we know today can be traced back to 1952, when he joined Universal Pictures, working on more than 100 movies in just six years; The Glenn Miller Story (1954) landed him his first Academy Award nomination. In a career that spanned another 40 years, Mancini became both a Hollywood icon and a songwriter of beloved pop standards before passing away in 1994.
Hometown
Cleveland, OH, United States
Genre
Soundtrack