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  • The Versatile Henry Mancini
  • Driftwood and Dreams
  • Touch of Evil [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • The Music from Peter Gunn [Original TV Soundtrack]
  • More Music from "Peter Gunn"
  • The Mancini Touch
  • Music from Mr. Lucky
  • Combo!
  • The Blues and the Beat
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's [Music from the Motion Picture Score]
  • Sousa's Greatest Marches
  • Hatari! [Music from the Motion Picture Score]
  • Hatari [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Experiment in Terror [Music from the Motion Picture]
  • Uniquely Mancini
  • Our Man in Hollywood
  • Mancini Marches
  • Charade [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • 3 Great Bands
  • The Pink Panther [Music From the Film Score]
  • The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini
  • The Great Race (Music from the Film Score)
  • Dear Heart and Other Songs about Love
  • Academy Award Songs, Vol. 2: 12 Great Oscar Songs
  • What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? [Original Soundtrack]
  • Music of Hawaii
  • A Merry Mancini Christmas
  • Arabesque [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • The Academy Award Songs
  • Mancini '67: The Big Band Sound of Henry Mancini
  • Two for the Road
  • Gunn...Number One!
  • Encore! More of the Concert Sound of Henry Mancini
  • The Party
  • The Party [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Big Latin Band of Henry Mancini
  • A Warm Shade of Ivory
  • Six Hours Past Sunset
  • The Molly Maguires [Paramount Original Soundtrack]
  • Me, Natalie
  • Gaily, Gaily [Original Soundtrack]
  • Debut! Henry Mancini Conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Pops
  • Sunflower [Original Soundtrack]
  • Mancini Plays the Theme from Love Story
  • Mancini Country
  • The Hawaiians
  • Darling Lili
  • Sometimes a Great Nation
  • Mancini Concert
  • Mancini Salutes Sousa
  • The Mancini Generation
  • Brass on Ivory
  • Big Screen - Little Screen: Concert of Film Music
  • Visions of Eight [Music from the Original Soundtrack]
  • The Thief Who Came to Dinner [Original Soundtrack]
  • Oklahoma Crude [Original Soundtrack]
  • Brass, Ivory & Strings
  • The Big Band Sound of Henry Mancini
  • Hangin' Out with Henry Mancini
  • Country Gentleman
  • Symphonic Soul
  • The Return of the Pink Panther
  • Great Waldo Pepper [Original Soundtrack]
  • W.C. Fields and Me [Original Soundtrack]
  • Silver Streak
  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again [Original Soundtrack]
  • Henry Mancini Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra In a Concert of Film Music
  • Cop Show Themes
  • Mancini's Angels
  • Just You and Me Together Love
  • Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? [Original Soundtrack]
  • Theme Scene
  • The Revenge of the Pink Panther [Original Soundtrack]
  • Blake Edwards' 10 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Victor/Victoria [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Victor Victoria
  • The Trail of the Pink Panther (& Other Pink Panther Films)
  • Henry Mancini Plays Those Evergreen Classics
  • The Thorn Birds [Original TV Soundtrack]
  • Mama: Popular Italian Songs Popular Italian Songs Arranged & Conducted by Henry Mancini
  • James Galway & Henry Mancini: In the Pink
  • James Galway & Henry Mancini: In the Pink
  • In the Pink
  • Die Dornen Vogel und Andere Welthits
  • Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Henry Mancini
  • Santa Claus, The Movie [Original Soundtrack]
  • Lifeforce [Original Score]
  • Volare: Popular Italian Songs Arranged & Conducted by Henry Mancini
  • The Glass Menagerie [Original Soundtrack]
  • Without a Clue [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Premier Pops
  • Mancini's Greatest Hits
  • Mancini Rocks the Pops
  • Mancini in Surround: Mostly Monsters, Murders & Mysteries
  • Fear [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Switch [Original Score]
  • Top Hat: Music from the Films of Astaire & Rogers
  • Tom and Jerry: The Movie [Original Soundtrack]
  • As Time Goes By and Other Classic Movie Love Songs
  • The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective [Original Soundtrack]
  • Moon River
  • Mancini in Hollywood: Mr. Lucky and Other Film & TV Greats
  • Son of the Pink Panther [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Christmas Memories [BMG]

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Presents the Academy Award Songs

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Ah, for the days when records like this were not only released but expected to sell respectably (even well), and were of such high quality that they did no harm to the artist's reputation. Henry Mancini is in top form with the 31 selections on this gatefold double-LP set, which includes not only his own most popular work in the realm of Academy Award-nominated music, but also the work of Dimitri Tiomkin ("High Noon"), Lerner & Loewe ("Gigi"), Irving Berlin ("White Christmas"), et al. One would think that opening with "Moon River" would set the bar pretty high for the rest of this set, but Mancini's renditions rise to the occasion, and in the realm of easy listening music, this set manages to be substantial listening overall yet light as a feather track by track.