Filmmusik: The Pink Panther - O.S.T. (180g) (Limited Edition) LP

Label: Speakers Corner, 1963

Arguably the best supporting film to his crime comedy was created by director Blake Edwards himself, who commissioned a young studio crew to make an animated Pink Panther feature. For the creative minds gave the eponymous coldly shimmering diamond the guise of the cool magenta-colored feline, who leads his detective adversary around by the nose to the casually ambling sound of the panther theme

Mancini wouldn't be Mancini if the cool, warm setting of Cortina d' Ampezzo wasn't also immersed in a wide variety of musical colors and genres in the live-action film. His well-known affinity for the danceable lives on in samba ("It Had Better Be Tonight"), shuffle ("Champagne And Quail") and cha-cha ("Something For Sellers"). But even the ballad, sung by stuffed trumpet and saxophone ("Royal Blue") or simply woven from key and string ("Piano And Strings"), is embedded in the plot. The accordion, whose melodies create an atmosphere of bohemia, musette and Parisienne, has the highest memory and enjoyment value

This music is never gaudy, but always subtle and moves like the panther safely and on silent soles. If you've now worked up an appetite, you'll get an extra portion of Mancini with "Breakfast At Tiffany's"

Reviews

,,A beautiful, varied Album from the heyday of big bands." (Good Times, December 2011 / January 2012)

Tracklisting
1 The pink panther theme
2 It had better be tonight-instrumental
3 Royal blue
4 Champagne & quail
5 The village inn
6 The tiber twist
7 It had better be tonight-vocal
8 Cortina
9 The lonely princess
10 Something for sellers
11 Piano and strings
12 Shades of sennett