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Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir
Paperback
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: May 10 2024
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Henry Mancini (1924-1994) is renowned as the Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer of such timeless standards as Moon River and Days of Wine and Roses, as well as such memorable instrumental themes as The Pink Panther and Baby Elephant Walk. But preceding all of them was the wildly popular theme from Peter Gunn, a television series whose soundtrack won the very first Grammy ever awarded for Album of the Year.
Award-winning author and journalist Jon Burlingame chronicles the backstory of Peter Gunn and how its music propelled Mancini to fame and fortune, launching a decades-long collaboration with filmmaker Blake Edwards that encompassed nearly 30 movies, from Breakfast at Tiffany's to Victor / Victoria and beyond.
Burlingame (author of six books including The Music of James Bond and Music for Prime Time) relates the untold story of Peter Gunn and its companion series Mr. Lucky; examines the music Mancini wrote for both series and their chart-topping success as modern jazz albums; and tells how this 1958-61 period in TV history set the stage for one of the most remarkable careers of any American composer in the Twentieth Century.
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