'TWO FOR THE ROAD'

1967 movie starring AUDREY HEPBURN and ALBERT FINNEY

COMPOSED BY 'HENRY MANCINI'

'SOLD OUT' MOVIE SOUNDTRACK CD

KRITZERLAND RECORDS 

2017 LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 [NOW SOLD OUT]

At the time of Two for the Road, Mancini was one of the most in demand film composers working. In addition to the Audrey movies listed above, he’d also written classic scores for The Great Imposter, Experiment in Terror, Hatari, Days of Wine and Roses, Soldier in the Rain, The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, Dear Heart, The Great Race, Arabesque and others. And, of course, subsequent to Two for the Road, he continued to write one great score after another.

In Two for the Road, Mancini came up with one of his most heartfelt and beautiful main themes, which perfectly captures everything about the marital journey in the film, from its joys to its sorrows, to its recriminations, betrayals, and rebounds. Nobody wrote this kind of score better than Mancini. It is suffused with warmth, sadness, fun, and joy. Leslie Bricusse wrote a lyric to the main theme and that song has had a long life in recordings and cabaret acts.

At the time of the film’s release, there was the usual Mancini re-recorded album, really meant for a pop market. This is the first release of the actual soundtrack of the film, taken from the elements in the Fox vaults – a mono back-up copy, thankfully saved. It’s classic Mancini and the kind of score no one really would be allowed to write today.

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