Days Of Wine And Roses
Henry Mancini
His Orchestra and Chorus
Collector's Limited Edition
Specially produced for The B.F. Goodrich Co.
RCA Victor PRM-151
1964
From the back cover: Can a boy from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, find fame, fortune and three Academy Awards in Hollywood? The answer is yes and Henry Mancini's the boy. As Time magazine noted in a recent summing up of Hollywood's music men, Mancini is the "King of the Trade."
The one-time flutist first set cinema city on its collective ear with an Oscar nomination for scoring the 1951 film hit "The Glenn Miller Story." For an encore Mancini followed with "The Benny Goodman Story" musical background. Thus it was that, while barely thirty, he became on of the "most wanted" men on the Hollywood soundtrack scene.
Curiously, the boost that really sent Mancini's rocket into orbit came not from the movies but from TV. The vehicle was "Peter Gunn," and its heaviest ammunition proved to be Mancini's timely and exciting background jazz. Almost overnight his "private eye" theme became thoroughly public, winning top awards from such disparate sources as Down Beat magazine and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
The writing for "Peter Gunn" this sound has pervaded the popular music scene as well. It was fully unfurled in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," where Mancini won two separate Oscars - one for the score, another for his writing of the song "Moon River," and again for his creation of the title song to "Days Of Wine And Roses" – both with lyrics by the master, Johnny Mercer.
Moon River
Secret Love
On The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
You'll Never Know
Gigi
Que Sera Sera
Days Of Wine And Roses
All The Way
The Continental
Mona Lisa
When You Wish Upon A Star
Zip A Dee Doo Dah
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