Henry Mancini Breakfast at Tiffany's lp

$23.00

lp
2012/1961
new
Doesn't get more iconic than the movie, and the soundtrack really made it believable. Baby elephant bass, cushy cushions of strings & classy brass are always Mancini's calling cards. An unstupid man, he retained rights to his music instead of giving it up to Paramount, & so his earlier soundtracks tend to be re-arrangements of themes from a movie specifically for the purpose of hearing them on an album. It also allowed him to get paid from his records at the time. That's why the versions of his collab with Johnny Mercer have huge 1950s choirs singing the lyrics instead of little Audrey Hepburn. Demure in spots, but Mancini really takes off with 'Mr Yunioshi', which has a damn saucy banjo line. Laurindo Almeida, Shelly Manne. Tracklisting: Moon River, Something for Cat, Sally's Tomato, Mr Yunioshi, The Big Blow Out, Hub Caps and Tail Lights, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Latin Golightly, Holly, Loose Caboose, The Big Heist, Moon River Cha Cha.
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    Happy listening & crank 'em up loud.