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  General Discussion: 1959 Mancini/Peter Gunn article   Last Post 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 1:28 PM   
 By:   Jeff Eldridge   (Member)

The Media History Digital Library has recently made available a number of issues of old entertainment industry publications:

http://mediahistoryproject.org/collections/

Among them is TV Radio Mirror, which published a five-page article about Henry Mancini and Peter Gunn in the March 1959 issue:
 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 3:19 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I got excited for a second when I saw that his son wanted to be a composer (Christopher Mancini), 'cause by now he'd have been old enough and done some work had he continued, but alas, IMDb only shows a song for a film his father scored.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541450/

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 5:41 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

I love pictures of happy 50s families at home.

Why on earth were they playing his godawful album of Sousa marches, when they could have been spinning his exotica classic "Driftwood and Dreams?"

 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 7:03 PM   
 By:   Jeff Eldridge   (Member)

I love pictures of happy 50s families at home.

Why on earth were they playing his godawful album of Sousa marches, when they could have been spinning his exotica classic "Driftwood and Dreams?"

The article was written in 1959. Mancini recorded his Sousa album in 1972. (Or maybe you were joking, rather than misreading the article.)

EDIT: My bad, I see what you meant now, and I got one of his earlier albums confused with the 1972 reissue.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 7:43 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)



The article was written in 1959. Mancini recorded his Sousa album in 1972. (Or maybe you were joking, rather than misreading the article.)

He did two albums for Liberty prior to Peter Gunn. One was Driftwood and Dreams, the other was the Sousa album. You can see it on the wall in one pic; Ginny is holding it in the other.

EDIT: The album pictured is a 1958 Sousa album he did for WB. Here is the sleeve. You can see it in two of the pictures in the article:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t11UzgtZPj4/maxresdefault.jpg

Why they would listen to that over "Driftwood and Dreams" is mind-boggling.

 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 8:59 PM   
 By:   mistermike   (Member)

Is this Sousa in Stereo LP the same as the one issued by Warner Brothers in 1962 (number 1465) entitled Sousa's Greatest Marches?

Contents are here:


Cover is here:



The contents listing shows another Mancini-conducted non-Sousa Warner Brothers album with an earlier number than 1465 (1312).

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 9:06 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

Same album, reissue with a different cover.

 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 10:03 PM   
 By:   Jeff Eldridge   (Member)

Why they would listen to that over "Driftwood and Dreams" is mind-boggling.

Kind of looks like a staged publicity shot, so it's possible they weren't really sitting down to listen to an album.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 26, 2014 - 10:41 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)


Kind of looks like a staged publicity shot, so it's possible they weren't really sitting down to listen to an album.

Oh, agree, very much staged. It's just an odd choice when Driftwood contains Manning arrangements, as opposed to album of him conducting Sousa.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 27, 2014 - 2:13 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Fascinating, and a rare glimpse into a composer's everyday life (even though it was clearly staged). Thanks for sharing.

Here's what son Chris Mancini looks like today, btw. Without the beard, there's a definite resemblance there:
 
 
 Posted:   Aug 27, 2014 - 6:04 AM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

It makes you realize how briefly his star shone. Before 1958 or '59, no one knew who he was.

A year or two later, he's writing standards and scoring films for Audrey Hepburn.

And by the mid-1970s, he was already a relic from another era, scoring miniseries and writing the themes to goofy sitcoms.

Sad, but he had a strong run for a while.

Thanks for posting the article.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 31, 2014 - 4:09 AM   
 By:   James MacMillan   (Member)

Very nice article, an enjoyable read. Mancini had crew-cut hair?? Nice find, thanks for posting.

 
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