Audio CD review:
Henry Mancini - Greatest Hits

Henry Mancini - Greatest Hits

Band: Henry Mancini Title: Greatest Hits Rating: Release Date: 26 September, 2000 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Peter Gunn 2: A Profound Gass 3: Snowfall 4: Mr. Lucky 5: The Great Impostor: Theme 6: Moon River 7: Breakfast at Tiffany's 8: Experiment In Terror 9: Hatari: Theme 10: Baby Elephant Walk 11: Just For Tonight (Vocal) 12: Days Of Wine And Roses (Vocal) 13: Charade (Vocal) 14: The Pink Panther Theme 15: Dear Heart (Vocal) 16: How Soon (Vocal) 17: A Shot In The Dark 18: The Sweetheart Tree (Vocal) 19: Two For The Road (Vocal) 20: Love Theme From 'Romeo An Juliet' 21: Whistling Away The Dark 22: What's Happening!!

Customer Reviews 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 " 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. . You can see a complete list of all Henry Mancini discography, or go back to the Henry Mancini tabs