Track Listing 1. Moon River 2. Something for Cat 3. Sally's Tomato 4. Mr. Yunioshi 5. The Big Blow Out 6. Hub Caps and Tail Lights 7. Breakfast at Tiffany's 8. Latin Golightly 9. Holly 10. Loose Caboose 11. The Big Heist 12. Moon River
Details
Playing Time:
34 min.
Producer:
Akira Taguchi, Dick Pierce
Distributor:
BMG
Recording Type:
Studio
Recording Mode:
Stereo
SPAR Code:
n/a
Album Notes Original
score composed and conducted by Henry Mancini.Recorded on December 8,
1960 and April 27, 1961. Originally released on RCA (2362).Composer:
Henry Mancini.Personnel: Henry Mancini (piano); Tom Kenny, Gilda Maiken,
John Drake, Sue Allen, Bernie Parke (vocals); Bob Bain (guitar,
mandola); Alton Hendrickson, Laurindo Almeida (guitar); Sam Freed,
Nathan Kaproff, Herman Clebanoff, Marvin Limonick, Erno Neufeld, Benny
Gill, Ambrose Russo, Samuel Cytron, Lou Klass, Irma Neumann, Joe
Stepansky, Mort Herbert, William Miller, Nathan Ross, Eudice Shapiro
(violin); Victor Gottlieb, Alexander Neiman, Robert Ostrowsky, Milton
Thomas (viola); Armand Karpoff, Raphael Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten
(cello); Ethmer Roten (flute, bass flute); George Fields (harmonica);
Carl Fortina (accordion); Arnold Koblentz (oboe); Ronald Langinger,
Wilbur Schwartz (reeds, saxophone); Justin Gordon (saxophone); Frank
Beach, Jack Sheldon, Ray Triscari (trumpet); Vincent DeRosa (French
horn); Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash , George Roberts , Karl de Karske
(trombone); James Rowles, Pearl Kaufman (piano); Larry Bunker
(vibraphone, drums); Milt Holland, Shelly Manne, Ralph Collier (drums);
Louis Singer (percussion).Liner Note Authors: Patrick Snyder; Leonard
Feather.Recording information: Hollywood, CA (1961); RCA Victor's Music
Center Of the World, Hollywood, CA (1961).Arranger: Henry Mancini.By
1961, film composer Henry Mancini was already well known in Hollywood
for his jazzy, brassy scores to Touch of Evil and Peter Gunn. But it was
this effervescent soundtrack for Blake Edwards' adaption of Truman
Capote's wistful novella that propelled Mancini into the major league of
Hollywood composers. Though there were other jazz-oriented arrangers
working in Hollywood at the time, none possessed Mancini's imagination
and skill in orchestration. (He was a veritable Berlioz in the way he
cast instruments as characters in the story.) Only John Barry could ever
match his gift for melody.The Oscar-winning "Moon River" is a case in
point. Toots Thielemans' tremulous, lonely harmonica introduces the
simple, near-folk tune, neatly evoking protagonist Holly Golighty's
"secret" country roots. Later on, Mancini vividly illustrates urban
living itself with the lively mambo "Something For Cat" and a big-band
blues, "The Big Blow Out," as well as sleek New York panoramas "Holly"
and "Breakfast At Tiffany's" itself, delicious concoctions of voices and
strings, trombone and vibes. Culture shock was never so appealing.