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Henry Mancini - Greatest Hits Audio CD

A fair review of the Henry Mancini "Greatest Hits" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Henry Mancini reviews here, or go back to the Henry Mancini tabs.

Henry Mancini Band: Henry Mancini
Title: Greatest Hits
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Release Date: 2000-09-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Peter Gunn 2: Profound Gass 3: Snowfall 4: Mr. Lucky 5: Theme from "The Great Impostor'' 6: Moon River 7: Breakfast at Tiffany's 8: Experiment in Terror 9: Theme from "Hatari!" 10: Baby Elephant Walk 11: Just for Tonight 12: Days of Wine and Roses 13: Charade 14: Pink Panther Theme 15: Dear Heart 16: How Soon 17: Shot in the Dark 18: Sweetheart Tree 19: Two for the Road 20: Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" 21: Whistling Away the Dark 22: Theme from "What's Happening!!"

More easily available
More good Mancini, long available on LP and other disks, now in a nice collection.


Buy this CD!
This CD not only has some of the best of Mancini but the arrangements are easy to listen to while in traffic, at home or anywhere! Buy it!.


Typical Mancini
(US music schools tend to be a little snobby and don't give a number of truly great American composers their due. First, I really like Mancini's music generally and I am really concerned that he may be one of the greats of American music who will soon be forgotten if he hasn't been already. ) However, the mix of this particular CD is simply too average. Many good songs are not on it and some weak ones are. I would not recommend this CD except to ManciniPhiles like me.


It's Hard to Believe He's Gone
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His work became synonymous with much-despised "elevator music" in the later 1960s. Henry Mancini gave us so much of our consciousness of the 1960s and 1970s, and yet was "out" almost as soon as he was "in. This stereotype (or monotype, for his earliest works) can mislead.

For example, "Lujon" [not in this collection] was used in a movie just last year to exemplify mystery and an exotic atmosphere.

Mancini dies way too young. While some would argue that he'd become a self-parody, his innate gifts compromised by relentless commercialization, you cannot take away his lasting gift to our culture. He was an original, and he captured an essence of our collective experience.

He's here in this collection, waiting round the bend, my Huckleberry friend.


Nostalgic
The selections sound just like I remember them from the movies and the radio. A great trip down memory lane. Enjoy.


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