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No more dicking around.
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Folks, let's maybe wrap up this discussion and move on please?
Lukas
You sound like my mum. 
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Jan 20, 2021 - 8:53 AM
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Graham Watt
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Folks, let's maybe wrap up this discussion and move on please?
Lukas
Sorry Lukas, it's not my intention to be crude for the sake of it, but I would like to know if anyone else remembers the show. I'm 90% sure it's not a figment of my imagination. I vaguely recall some guests on a chat show (some of them reminded me of The Golden Girls), and they were talking about some of the parties they'd been to earlier in their careers, and the Mancini story was brought up by one of them, much to the amusement of the other guests and the audience.
Anyone have any memories at all of this?
(By the way, I've changed the title to something a bit less, or more,...something.)
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I remember a story (Earle Hagen? Lionel Newman? Somebody else?) doing what members referred to as a napkin penis trick, ever since I was a member. Maybe you've entangled that with Manini somehow. Just a notion.
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So, there I was having a good online chat with some of my film music pals here, and a photograph of a young Henry Mancini with his kids was produced. And suddenly my thoughts turned to his penis.
I would bet a half pint of PG Tips that there was an interview on TV - I can't place when it would have been, but I have the feeling that it was in the mid to late '80s - in which a group of Hollywood people were reminiscing about the good old days, and one lady guest (from the wardrobe department? An actress?) mentioned that she'd been at a party, and Henry Mancini had to go out to the conservatory to change his trousers, and they all had a good giggle when his "amazing swinging organ" (I thought it was Jimmy Smith who had that) was mentioned as having been seen.
Does anyone recall seeing a chat show with this content, or does it sound like I'm making stories up again?
Sounds totally made up and ridiculous.
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Sounds totally made up and ridiculous.
You haven't spent time with many artists and musicians, have you?
Only 60 years or so. If you want to sample some of my work, search me on youtube. Sheetmusicplus.com for print.
I am also the editor of Mancini's film scoring book on The Thorn Birds. Also arranged "Night train" for Count Basie which is published by ejazzlines.com. Not everything on this message board is true.
Yes, I known a few artists and musicians.
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I did a triple take on that thread title.
What is this, Filmtracks.com's message board??
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Jan 21, 2021 - 1:18 AM
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Graham Watt
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The more I try to remember where (if?) I saw this, the more I think it might have been a story told, in a kind of throwaway manner, by someone like Elaine Stritch. I can almost hear (something like) this in my head -
"So, tell us something about some of the other people you met in those days."
"Oh my God, there were so many. I'll tell ya something, one of you mentioned Cole Porter, so anyway there we all were at Cole Porter's house, and Stephen Sondheim came in with a grand piano on his shoulders, and he's going "I don't wanna play this" and the obvious choice was Cole Porter but he said he was sick of the whole goddam piano business, but do you know who was there? Well, it was Henry Mancini, and he says "I'll play it, but I can't play it wearing these trousers, I need my piano trousers to play this stuff", and so Allan J Lerner says "Look Hank, there's a little garden outhouse there out back, just go and change there, so Hank gets up and takes his piano trousers and goes to get changed, and then a few minutes later Shelley Winters says to me, "Hey, getta load of that", and she nods to the outhouse, and there, through the glass we see Henry Mancini getting into his piano trousers, and boy, I thought...well, I thought at first he was getting the garden hose ready to water the garden, and...."
(Audience laughter)
I totally made up the surreal background to that story, and I have no idea if the names I dropped (in) were even all alive at the same time, but that's possibly the sort of chat show scenario I'm half-remembering.
Anyone have any kind of recollection of this?
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You could try contacting his daughter Monica, and asking her if she recalls hearing the story? 
She has a contact page/ agent on her website page
http://www.monicamancini.com/
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Folks, let's maybe wrap up this discussion and move on please?
Want to try again Lucas?
The thread only appears to be ninety nine and forty four percent dead!
Regards
CC
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The thread only appears to be ninety nine and forty four percent dead!
Regards
CC
Surely that's 143%
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"So, tell us something about some of the other people you met in those days."
"Oh my God, there were so many. I'll tell ya something, one of you mentioned Cole Porter, so anyway there we all were at Cole Porter's house, and Stephen Sondheim came in with a grand piano on his shoulders, and he's going "I don't wanna play this" and the obvious choice was Cole Porter but he said he was sick of the whole goddam piano business, but do you know who was there? Well, it was Henry Mancini, and he says "I'll play it, but I can't play it wearing these trousers, I need my piano trousers to play this stuff", and so Allan J Lerner says "Look Hank, there's a little garden outhouse there out back, just go and change there, so Hank gets up and takes his piano trousers and goes to get changed, and then a few minutes later Shelley Winters says to me, "Hey, getta load of that", and she nods to the outhouse, and there, through the glass we see Henry Mancini getting into his piano trousers, and boy, I thought...well, I thought at first he was getting the garden hose ready to water the garden, and...."
(Audience laughter)
Wow! Sounds eerily authentic, the kind of inane anecdote Elaine Strich would actually tell, vivid, lurid details and all. Have you ever considered writing her "autobiography? I'd actually buy it, not for the Strich bio mind you, but for your uncanny ability to mimic the character so well. Impressive.
P.S. Please do more.
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