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I hope this hasn't been posted before...
According to the Second disc website;
1.Henry Mancini and His Orchestra, The Pink Panther LP (RCA/Legacy Recordings)
On April 16, 2014, the great composer/conductor Henry Mancini would have turned 90. To mark the occasion, the all-new HenryMancini.com was launched, and Legacy announced plans for a yearlong celebration of the maestro’s enduring, engaging ouevre. The label has major plans including an 11-CD box set of Mancini’s soundtracks as well as a newly-curated retrospective, but the festivities kick off on Saturday with the release on eye-catching pink vinyl of Mancini’s original album of music from Blake Edwards’ all-time classic comedy caper The Pink Panther.
This soundtrack album (slated for expansion later this year for the movie’s 50th anniversary) was, as per Mancini’s custom, a re-recording of the film’s major themes for the record-buying audience. In addition to the now-famous, sly ‘n’ slinky title theme with saxophone by Plas Johnson (which went Top 40 as a single; the soundtrack itself went Top 10), other highlights of the score include “It Had Better Be Tonight,” an Italian-style love song recently covered by Michael Bublé and performed in the film by Fran Jeffries (and on disc by Mancini’s chorus), and “Something for Sellers,” a great example of Mancini’s feel for what we today think of as lounge music. Mancini’s “The Pink Panther” is currently the single most-streamed song in the entire Sony Music catalogue – a testament to the ongoing power of the gifted composer Henry Mancini.
There is an set on the Real Gone Jazz label of 8 RCA albums on 4 CDs. You can get a new copy on amazon for $6.97. The best compilation I have is the 3 disc "The Days Of Wine And Roses" from RCA.
It will be interesting to see what the new set contains.
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Enough talk about this boring, overpriced CD box set:
Did anyone score that pink LP yesterday?
I did. 
And, slightly off topic, I got the emerald green vinyl Wizard of Oz which is significantly different then all previous soundtracks of this film and produced by Marilee Bradford, as well as the 10", glow-in-the-dark Ghostbusters by Ray Parker, Jr.
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The Pink Panther is a heavy, solid pink, vinyl record with the old black label, the one with Nipper looking at the grammaphone at the top of the label.
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Oh, no. I'll play it- just haven't had a chance with the holiday yesterday. Tonight, maybe. But to be honest, I want to listen to Il Profumo Della Signora in Nero by Maestro Nicola Piovani and The Degradation of Emmanuelle by Nico Fidenco and In The Wall by Clint Mansell, all of them Death Waltz records, first.
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Stupid DP.
But I love Record Store Day- and Amoeba makes the whole waiting thing pretty pleasant for the thousands of acolytes on line.
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Are you sure? I'm curious 
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