Baia
—  Commune  —
Ruins of the early 15th century Roman Catholic church
Country	Romania
County	Suceava County
Population (2002)[1]	6,793
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Baia (Hungarian: Moldvabánya; Latin: Civitas Moldaviae) is a commune in the Suceava County, Romania with a population of 6,793 (2002 census).^[2] It is composed of two villages, Baia and Bogata. Located on the Moldova River, it was one of the earliest urban settlements in Moldavia, originally inhabited by Germans. The Hungarian name literally means "The mine", but it's also possible that the Hungarian name was borowed from Romanian and not viceversa, since no mine was ever attested or discovered in the area. It is possible that it derives from the term "Bania" (from Ban, a political leader).^[3]

An earlier name of the settlement was Târgul Moldovei which literally means "Market of Moldavia", referring to the Moldova River. Its Hungarian name was Moldvabánya, "the Moldova mine". It also had a Latin name, Civitas Moldaviae which was found on an early seal of the city.

The earliest mention of the town was in Poland in 1335, when a certain merchant was mentioned by the name of "Alexa Moldaowicz" (i.e. Alexa from the Town of Moldavia) and the next was in 1345, when Baia is placed on a list of towns of the Franciscan missionaries.^[4]

The town was burnt by the Moldavian army in the prelude to the Battle of Baia on the night of 15 December 1467.

External links[link]

• (Hungarian) Varga Géza: A moldvabányai gótikus templom rovásfelirata (The runic inscriptions of the gothic church in Baia)

References[link]

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Edmundo William Ros OBE (7 December 1910 – 21 October 2011)^[1] was a Trinidadian musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin American orchestra, had an extensive recording career and owned one of London's leading nightclubs.

Life[link]

Ros was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. His mother was an Afro-Venezuelan and his father was of Scottish descent. He was the eldest of four children, having two sisters, Ruby and Eleanor, followed by a half-brother, Hugo. His parents separated after Hugo was born, and after various false steps Edmundo was enrolled in a military academy. There he became interested in music and learned to play the euphonium. From 1927-37 his family lived in Caracas, Venezuela. He played in the Venezuelan Military Academy Band as well as being a tympanist in the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra. Later he received a music scholarship from the government, and, from 1937–42, studied harmony, composition and orchestration at the Royal Academy of Music.^[2] At the same time he was the vocalist and percussionist in Don Marino Baretto's band at the Embassy Club, and also recorded several sides as a sideman to Fats Waller, who was visiting London in 1938.

In the 2000 New Year's Honours List, Ros (then aged 90), was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He turned 100 on 7 December 2010.^[3]

Affiliations[link]

Ros was a Freeman of the City of London, having been admitted to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Poulters on 5 January 1965 and subsequently clothed with the Livery of the Poulters' Company on 22 June 1965. He was a Mason, a member of Sprig of Acacia Lodge No 41, Javea, Spain.

Personal life[link]

Ros married twice: first to Britt Johansen in 1950. The first marriage produced two children, Douglas and Louisa. He designed and built a large house in Page Street, Mill Hill, London NW7, which he named Edritt House, after himself and his first wife. The house still stands, next to Copthall Girls' School. He remarried in 1971.

Orchestra[link]

In August 1940, Ros formed his own rumba band, performing as Edmundo Ros and His Rumba Band. In 1941 he cut his first tracks with Parlophone, the first number being "Los Hijos de Buda". The band played regularly at the Coconut Grove club in Regent Street, attracting members of high society.^[4] Ros's bands were always based in London nightclubs or restaurants. The first was the Cosmo Club in Wardour Street; then followed the St Regis Hotel, Cork Street, the Coconut Grove and the Bagatelle Restaurant. At the Bagatelle a visit from Princess Elizabeth and party made his name. The future queen danced in public for the first time to Edmundo's music. In later years his orchestra was often invited to play at Buckingham Palace.^[5]

By 1946 Ros owned a club, a dance school, a record company and an artistes' agency. His band grew to 16 musicians and was renamed Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra. His number "The Wedding Samba", 1949, sold three million 78s. His album Rhythms of The South (1958) was one of the first high-quality LP stereo records: it sold a million copies. He was with Decca Records from 1944 to 1974, and altogether he made more than 800 recordings.^[4]

In 1951 Ros bought the Coconut Grove on Regent Street and in 1964 renamed it Edmundo Ros's Dinner and Supper Club. The club became popular for its atmosphere and music, but it closed in 1965, when legalised casino gambling had drawn away many of its best customers. During the 1950s and 1960s the Ros orchestra appeared frequently on BBC Radio, continuing into the early 1970s on Radio Two Ballroom.^[5]

In 1975, during Ros's seventh tour of Japan, his band's Musicians' Union shop steward tried to usurp Ros's authority by making arrangements with venues behind his back. Upon their return to the UK Ros organised a celebratory dinner after a BBC recording session and announced the disbanding of the orchestra. He destroyed almost all the charts (arrangement sheets), which conclusively ended the orchestra's existence.^[4]

Death[link]

Ros retired and moved to Jávea, Alicante, Spain. He gave his last public performance on 8 January 1994.

Discography[link]

Harlequin CDs[link]

This set of ten CDs includes all the known 78s recorded up to and including 1951; the source material was the 78rpm collection of Christian af Rosenborg; the notes were by Pepe Luhtala; the remastering by Charlie Crump. The series was never completed, but most of the later Ros material is available on LP or CD. Some of the Harlequin series is available on Naxos. Although the title of these CDs describes his group as "Rumba Band", in the post-war period it expanded to 16 members, and was known as "Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra".

• Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band 1939-41, Harlequin CD 15. Includes about 8 minutes of Edmundo Ros discussing the early days of his career.
• Tropical Magic: Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band, vol 2 1942–1944. Harlequin CD 50. Includes four sets of Edmundo Ros continuing his autobiographic reminiscences.
• Cuban Love Song: Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band, vol 3 1945. Harlequin CD 73.
• Chiquita Banana: Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band, vol 4 1946–1947. Harlequin CD 105.
• La Comparsa: Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band, vol 5 1948. Harlequin CD 129.
• Chocolate Whisky and Vanilla Gin: Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band, vol 6 1948–1949. Harlequin CD 147.
• Mambo Jambo: Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band, vols 7 & 8 1949–1950. Harlequin CD 164/165.
• Playtime in Brazil: Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra, vols 9 & 10 1951. Harlequin CD 180/181.

10" LPs[link]

Decca issued an initial series of 33rpm 10-inch LPs in the early 1950s, consisting of previously issued 78rpm sides. Labels were Decca (UK and Commonwealth), and London (a subsidiary) in the USA.

• Latin-American Rhythms, Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band, Decca LF 1002. Latin Rhythms, Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra, London 155, is identical in content.
• Mambo with Ros. Decca LF 1038, and London LPB 341.
• Samba with Ros. Decca LF, and London LB 367.
• Latin-American Rhythms with Ros. Decca LP 1051, and London LPB 368.
• Ros presents Calypsos. Decca LF 1067, and London LB 367.
• Dance the Samba. Decca LF, and London LB 742.

12" LPs[link]

Three labels, all owned by Decca: Decca in UK & Commonwealth; London in USA, and Richmond, a cut-price reissue label in USA.

• Latin-American Novelties. London LL 1090.
• Ros Mambos. London LL 1092. Decca 1956
• Latin Melodies. London LL 1093.
• Ros Album of Sambas. London LL 1117. Richmond B 20032 has same content, but only 10 numbers where Decca/London has 14.
• Ros Album of Calypsos. Decca LK 4102. 1956
• Ros Album of Baions. Decca LK 4111. One side baiãos; the other boleros.
• Latin Carnival. Richmond B 20023.

• Rhythms Of the South (Decca 1958),
• Calypso Man (Decca 1958),
• Perfect for Dancing (Decca 1958),
• Ros on Broadway (Decca 1959),
• Hollywood Cha Cha Cha (Decca 1959),
• Bongos From the South (Decca 1961),
• Dance Again (Decca 1962),
• Sing and Dance with Edmundo Ros (Decca 1963),
• Heath versus Ros (Decca Phase 4 1964),
• Heath versus Ros, Round Two (Decca Phase 4 1967),
• This is My World (Decca 1972),
• Ros Remembers (Decca 1974),
• Edmundo Ros Today (Decca 1978),
• Show Boat/Porgy & Bess, LP
• Ros at the Opera
• Broadway goes Latin
• New Rhythms of the South
• Latin Boss...Señor Ros
• Arriba
• Latin Hits I Missed
• Hair Goes Latin
• Heading South of the Border
• The Latin King
• This is My World
• Caribbean Ros
• Sunshine and Olé!
• Give My Regards to Broadway
• That Latin Sound
• Latin Favourites (Gold Crown 1979),
• Latin Song and Dance Men (Pye 1980),
• Music For the Millions (Decca 1983),
• Strings Latino (London 1985),
• Latin Magic (London 1987),
• That Latin Sound (Pulse 1997)

• Doin' the Samba, CD
• Rhythms of the South/New Rhythms of the South, CD
• Good! Good! Good! CD
• Strings Latino/Latin Hits I Missed CD

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Robert Farnon Society webpage

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994)^[1] was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from Edwards' film Days of Wine and Roses. He also composed the score of famous films such as Charade, The Great Race, Wait Until Dark or Silver Streak.

Early life[link]

Mancini was born in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, and grew up near Pittsburgh, in the steel town of West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. His parents emigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy. Mancini's father, Quinto, (born March 13, 1893, Scanno, Italy) was a steelworker, who made his only child begin piccolo lessons at the age of eight.^[2] When Mancini was 12 years old, he began piano lessons. Quinto and Henry played flute together in the Aliquippa Italian immigrant band, "Sons of Italy". After graduating from Aliquippa High School in 1942, Mancini attended the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 1943, after roughly one year at Juilliard, his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Army. In 1945, he participated in the liberation of a concentration camp in southern Germany.

Career[link]

Newly discharged, Mancini entered the music industry. Entering 1946, he became a pianist and arranger for the newly re-formed Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by 'Everyman' Tex Beneke. After World War II, Mancini broadened his skills in composition, counterpoint, harmony and orchestration during studies opening with the composers Ernst Krenek and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.^[3]

In 1952, Mancini joined the Universal Pictures music department. During the next six years, he contributed music to over 100 movies, most notably The Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, This Island Earth, The Glenn Miller Story (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination), The Benny Goodman Story and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. During this time, he also wrote some popular songs. His first hit was a single by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians titled I Won't Let You Out of My Heart.

Mancini left Universal-International to work as an independent composer/arranger in 1958. Soon after, he scored the television series Peter Gunn^[2] for writer/producer Blake Edwards. This was the genesis of a relationship in which Edwards and Mancini collaborated on 30 films over 35 years. Along with Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Leith Stevens and Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini was a pioneer of the inclusion of jazz elements in the late romantic orchestral film and TV scoring prevalent at the time.

Mancini's scores for Blake Edwards included Breakfast at Tiffany's (with the standard "Moon River")^[2] and Days of Wine and Roses (with the title song, "Days of Wine and Roses"), as well as Experiment in Terror, The Pink Panther (and all of its sequels), The Great Race, The Party, and Victor Victoria. Another director with whom Mancini had a longstanding partnership was Stanley Donen (Charade, Arabesque, Two for the Road). Mancini also composed for Howard Hawks (Man's Favorite Sport?, Hatari! – which included the well-known "Baby Elephant Walk"), Martin Ritt (The Molly Maguires), Vittorio de Sica (Sunflower), Norman Jewison (Gaily, Gaily), Paul Newman (Sometimes a Great Notion, The Glass Menagerie), Stanley Kramer (Oklahoma Crude), George Roy Hill (The Great Waldo Pepper), Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak),^[4] Ted Kotcheff (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?), and others. Mancini's score for the Alfred Hitchcock film Frenzy (1972) in in Bachian organ andante, for organ and an orchestra of strings was rejected and replaced by Ron Goodwin's work.

Mancini scored many TV movies, including The Thorn Birds and The Shadow Box. He wrote many television themes, including Mr. Lucky (starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin), NBC Mystery Movie,^[5] What's Happening!!,^[6] Tic Tac Dough (1990 version)^{[citation needed]} and Once Is Not Enough. In the 1984–85 television season, four series featured original Mancini themes: Newhart, Hotel, Remington Steele, and Ripley's Believe It or Not. Mancini also composed the "Viewer Mail" theme for Late Night with David Letterman.^[5] Mancini composed the theme for NBC Nightly News used beginning in 1975, and a different theme by him, titled Salute to the President was used by NBC News for its election coverage (including primaries and conventions) from 1976 to 1992. Salute to the President was only published in a school-band arrangement, although Mancini performed it frequently with symphony orchestras on his concert tours.

Songs with music by Mancini were staples of the easy-listening genre from the 60s to the 80s. Some of the artists who have recorded Mancini songs include Andy Williams, Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Anita Bryant, Jack Jones, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Connie Francis, Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence, Trini Lopez, George Maharis, Johnny Mathis, Jerry Vale, Ray Conniff, The Lennon Sisters, The Lettermen, Herb Alpert, Eddie Cano, Frank Chacksfield, Warren Covington, Percy Faith, Ferrante & Teicher, Horst Jankowski, Andre Kostelanetz, Peter Nero, Liberace, Mantovani, Tony Bennett, Julie London, Wayne Newton, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Peggy Lee, Al Martino, Jim Nabors, and Matt Monro. Lawrence Welk held Mancini in very high regard, and frequently featured Mancini's music on The Lawrence Welk Show (Mancini made at least one guest appearance on the show).

Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from big band to light classical to pop. Eight of these albums were certified gold by The Recording Industry Association of America. He had a 20 year contract with RCA Records, resulting in 60 commercial record albums that made him a household name artists of easy-listening music. Mancini's earliest recordings in the 1950s and early 1960s were of the jazz idiom; with the success of Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, and Breakfast at Tiffany's, Mancini shifted to primarily recording his own music in record albums and film soundtracks. (Relatively little of his music was written for recordings compared to the amount that was written for film and television.) Beginning with his 1969 hit A Time for Us (Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet) and its accompanying album A Warm Shade of Ivory, Mancini began to function more as a piano soloist and easy-listening artist primarily recording music written by other people. In this period, for two of his best-selling albums he was joined by trumpet virtuoso and Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen.

Among Mancini's orchestral scores are (Lifeforce, The Great Mouse Detective, Sunflower, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Molly Maguires, The Hawaiians), and darker themes (Experiment in Terror, The White Dawn, Wait Until Dark, The Night Visitor).

Mancini was also a concert performer, conducting over fifty engagements per year, resulting in over 600 symphony performances during his lifetime. He conducted nearly all of the leading symphonies of the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. One of his favorites was the Minnesota Orchestra, where he debuted the Thorn Birds Suite in June 1983. He appeared in 1966, 1980 and 1984 in command performances for the British Royal Family. He also toured several times with Johnny Mathis and also with Andy Williams, who had each sung many of Mancini's songs; Mathis and Mancini collaborated on the 1986 album The Hollywood Musicals.

Cameos[link]

Mancini occasionally acted in cameo and voice roles.

Shortly before his death in 1994, he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series Frasier, as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?"^[7] Moments after Mancini's cameo ends, Frasier's radio broadcast plays "Moon River" to underscore a particularly heartfelt apology.

Mancini also had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 movie Gunn, the movie version of the series Peter Gunn, the score of which was originally composed by Mancini himself.

In the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon Pink, Plunk, Plink, the panther commandeered an orchestra and proceeded to conduct Mancini's theme for the series. At the end, the shot switched to rare live action, and Mancini was seen alone applauding in the audience.

Death and legacy[link]

Mancini died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles on June 14, 1994. He was working at the time on the Broadway stage version of Victor/Victoria, which he never saw on stage. Mancini was survived by his wife of 43 years, singer Virginia "Ginny" O'Connor, with whom he had three children. They had met while both were members of the Tex Beneke orchestra, just after World War II. In 1948, Ginny was one of the founders of the Society of Singers, a non-profit organization which benefits the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide. Additionally the Society awards scholarships to students pursuing an education in the vocal arts. One of Mancini's twin daughters, Monica Mancini, is a professional singer; her sister Felice runs The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation (MHOF). His son Christopher is a music publisher and promoter in Los Angeles.

In 1996, the Henry Mancini Institute, an academy for young music professionals, was founded by Jack Elliott in Mancini's honor, and was later under the direction of composer-conductor Patrick Williams. By the mid 2000s, however, the institute could not sustain itself and closed its doors on December 30, 2006.^{[citation needed]} However, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation "Henry Mancini Music Scholarship" has been awarded annually since 2001. While still alive, Henry created a scholarship at UCLA and the bulk of his library and works are archived in the music library at UCLA.

In 2005, the Henry Mancini Arts Academy was opened as a division of the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. The Center is located in Midland, Pennsylvania, minutes away from Mancini's hometown of Aliquippa. The Henry Mancini Arts Academy is an evening-and-weekend performing arts program for children from pre-K to grade 12, with some classes also available for adults. The program includes dance, voice, musical theater, and instrumental lessons.

The American Film Institute ranked Mancini's songs Moon River in the No. 4 and Days of wine and roses in No. 39 on their list of the greatest songs and his score forThe Pink Panther No. 20 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• Charade (1963)
• Hatari! (1962)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Wait Until Dark (1967)

Awards[link]

Mancini was nominated for an unprecedented 72 Grammys, winning 20.^[8] Additionally he was nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four.^[9] He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmys.

Mancini won a total of four Oscars for his music in the course of his career. He was first nominated for an Academy Award in 1955 for his original score of The Glenn Miller Story, on which he collaborated with Joseph Gershenson. He lost out to Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. In 1962, he was nominated in the Best Music, Original Song category for "Bachelor in Paradise" from the film of the same name, in collaboration with lyricist Mack David. That song did not win. However, Mancini did receive two Oscars that year: one in the same category, for the song "Moon River" (shared with lyricist Johnny Mercer), and one for "Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for Breakfast at Tiffany's. The following year, he and Mercer took another Best Original Song award for "Days of Wine and Roses",^[2] another eponymous theme song. His next eleven nominations went for naught, but he finally garnered one last statuette working with lyricist Leslie Bricusse on the score for Victor Victoria, which won the Academy Award for "Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score". All three of the films for which he won were directed by Blake Edwards. His score for Victor/Victoria was adapted for the 1995 Broadway musical of the same name.

On April 13, 2004, the United States Postal Service honored Mancini with a 37 cent commemorative stamp. The stamp shows Mancini conducting with a list of some of his most famous movies and TV show themes in the background and was painted by artist Victor Stabin.^[10] The stamp is Scott catalog number 3839.

Discography[link]

Hit singles[link]

Albums[link]

• The Versatile Henry Mancini, Liberty LRP 3121
• The Mancini Touch, RCA Victor LSP 2101
• The Blues & the Beat, RCA Victor LSP-2147
• Mr. Lucky Goes Latin, RCA Victor LSP-2360
• Our Man in Hollywood, RCA Victor LSP-2604
• Uniquely Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-2692
• The Best of Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-2693
• Mancini Plays Mancini, RCA Camden CAS-2158
• Everybody's Favorite, RCA Camden CXS-9034
• Concert Sound of Henry Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-2897
• Dear Heart and Other Songs, RCA Victor LSP-2990
• Theme Scene, RCA Victor LSP-3052
• Debut Conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, RCA Victor LSP-3106
• The Best of Vol. 3, RCA Victor LSP-3347
• The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-3356
• A Merry Mancini Christmas, RCA Victor LSP-3612
• Pure Gold, RCA Victor LSP-3667
• Mancini Country, RCA Victor LSP-3668
• Mancini '67, RCA Victor LSP-3694
• Music of Hawaii, RCA Victor LSP-3713
• Brass on Ivory, RCA Victor LSP-3756
• A Warm Shade of Ivory, RCA Victor LSP-3757
• Big Latin Band, RCA Victor LSP-4049
• Six Hours Past Sunset, RCA Victor LSP-4239
• Theme music from Z & Other Film Music, RCA Victor LSP-4350
• Big Screen-Little Screen, RCA Victor LSP-4630
• This Is Henry Mancini, RCA Victor VPS6029
• Music from the TV Series "The Mancini Generation", RCA Victor LSP-4689
• The Academy Award Songs, RCA Victor LSP-6013
• Brass, Ivory & Strings (with Doc Severinsen), RCA APL1-0098
• The Theme Scene, RCA AQLI-3052
• Country Gentleman, RCA APD1-0270 (Quadraphonic)
• Hangin' Out, RCA CPL1-0672
• Symphonic Soul, RCA APD1-1025 (Quadraphonic)
• Mancini's Angels, RCA CPL1-2290
• (with Johnny Mathis), The Hollywood Musicals, Columbia FC 40372
• The Pink Panther Meets Speedy Gonzales, Koch Schwann CD
• The Legendary Henry Mancini, BMG Australia 3 CD set

Soundtracks[link]

Many of Mancini's "soundtracks" are actually "Music from ...", which allowed him to arrange the music to be more accessible and to release records without the expense of paying studio orchestra fees._{<citation needed>}

• The Music from Peter Gunn, RCA Victor LSP-1956
• More Music from Peter Gunn, RCA Victor LSP-2040
• Music from Mr. Lucky, RCA Victor LSP-2198
• Bachelor in Paradise, Film Score Monthly FSMCD vol. 7 Nr. 18
• High Time, RCA Victor LSP-2314
• Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture, RCA Victor LSP-2362
• A Change of Seasons
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Intrada special collection vol. 11
• Experiment in Terror, RCA Victor LSP-2442
• Hatari!, RCA Victor LSP-2559
• Charade, RCA Victor LSP-2755
• The Pink Panther, RCA Victor LSP 2795
• The Great Race, RCA Victor LSP-3402
• Arabesque, RCA Victor LSP-3623
• What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, RCA Victor LSP-3648
• Two for the Road, RCA Victor LSP-3802
• Gunn, RCA Victor LSP-3840
• The Party, RCA Victor LSP-3997
• Me, Natalie, Columbia OS 3350
• Darling Lili, RCA LSPX-1000
• Visions of Eight, RCA Victor ABL1-0231
• The Great Waldo Pepper, MCA 2085
• Gaily, Gaily, UAS 5202
• The Glass Menagerie, MCA MCAD 6222
• The Great Mouse Detective, Varèse Sarabande VSD 5359
• The Hawaiians, UAS 5210
• Lifeforce, BSXCD 8844
• The Molly Maguires, Bay Cities BCD 3029
• Nightwing
• Oklahoma Crude, RCA APL1 0271
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again, UA-LA 694
• Revenge of the Pink Panther, EMI 791113-2
• Santa Claus: The Movie, EMI SJ 17177
• Silver Streak, Intrada special collection vol. 5
• Sometimes a Great Notion, Decca DL 79185
• Son of the Pink Panther, Milan 21-16461-2
• Sunflower, SLC SLCS 7035
• The Thief Who Came to Dinner, WB BS 2700
• The Thorn Birds, Varèse Sarabande 30206 65642 8
• Tom and Jerry – The Movie, MCA MCD 10721
• Touch of Evil, Movie Sound MSCD 401
• Victor Victoria, GNP Crescendo GNPD 8038
• W.C. Fields and Me, MCA 2092
• Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, Epic SE 35692
• Without a Clue

Filmography[link]

(not completed)

• The Glenn Miller Story - 1953
• Abbott and Costello Go to Mars - 1953
• Law and Order (1953 film) - 1953
• City Beneath the Sea (1953 film) - 1953
• Destry (film) - 1954
• The Private War of Major Benson - 1955
• Tarantula (film) - 1955
• This Island Earth - 1955
• Mister Cory - 1957
• Touch of Evil - 1958
• High Time (film) - 1960
• Bachelor in Paradise - 1961
• The Great Impostor - 1961
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961
• Days of Wine and Roses - 1962
• Hatari! - 1962
• Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation - 1962
• Experiment in Terror - 1962
• The Pink Panther - 1963
• Charade Universal Studios - 1963
• A Shot in the Dark - 1964
• A Shot in the Dark - 1964
• Man's Favorite Sport? - 1964
• The Great Race - 1965
• Moment to Moment - 1965
• Arabesque - 1966
• What Did you Do in the War, Daddy? - 1966
• Two for the Road (1967 film) 1967
• Wait Until Dark (film) - 1967
• The Party - 1968
• Gaily, Gaily - 1969
• Sometimes a Great Notion - 1970
• The Hawaiians - 1970
• The Molly Maguires - 1970
• Frenzy (Rejected Score) - 1972
• the thief who came to dinner - 1973
• The White Dawn- 1974
• The Return of the Pink Panther - 1975
• The Great Waldo Pepper - 1975
• Silver Streak (film) - 1976
• W.C. Fields and Me - 1976
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again - 1976
• Revenge of the Pink Panther - 1978
• 10 (film) - 1979
• Mommie Dearest- 1981
• Victor Victoria - 1982
• Trail of the Pink Panther - 1982
• Curse of the Pink Panther - 1983
• The Great Mouse Detective – Walt Disney Pictures 1986
• That's Life! - 1986
• Blind Date (1987 film) - 1987
• Without a Clue - 1988
• Physical Evidence - 1989
• Ghost Dad – Universal Studios 1990
• Fear - 1990
• Switch - 1991
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie – Turner Pictures - 1992
• Son of the Pink Panther - 1993

Bibliography[link]

• Mancini, Henry: Sounds And Scores: a practical guide to professional orchestration (Book on orchestration of popular music, 1962)
• Mancini, Henry: Did they mention the music? (Autobiography, with Gene Lees, 1989)
• Thomas, Tony: Music For The Movies (1973)
• Thomas, Tony: Film Score (1979)
• Larson, Randall: 'Henry Mancini: On Scoring Lifeforce and Santa Claus' (interview)(in: CinemaScore, No. 15, 1987)
• Büdinger, Matthias: 'An interview with Henry Mancini' (in: Soundtrack, vol. 7, No. 26, 1988)
• Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini' (in: Soundtrack, vol. 13, No. 50, 1994)
• Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini remembered' (in: Soundtrack, vol. 13, No. 51)
• Büdinger, Matthias: 'Whistling Away The Dark' In: Film Score Monthly, # 45, p. 7
• Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini 1924–1994' In: Film Score Monthly, # 46/47, p. 5
• Büdinger, Matthias: 'Feeling Fancy Free' (in: Film Score Monthly, vol. 10, No. 2)
• Brown, Royal S.: Overtones and undertones – reading film music (1994)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Henry Mancini at the Internet Movie Database
• Henry Mancini at the Internet Broadway Database
• Henry Mancini at Allmusic
• Henry Mancini, Space Age Pop
• A Henry Mancini discography
• Joe Reisman scores, 1945–1986 Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
• Henry Mancini, Soundtrackinfo
• A Mancini anthology
• Memories of Henry Mancini
• The story behind the making of the music from Peter Gunn, including interviews with the musicians and sound engineers
• Henry Mancini interview recorded 5.9.1968 on the Pop Chronicles

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Ray Conniff
Conniff in 1979
Background information
Birth name	Joseph Raymond Conniff
Also known as	Jay Raye
Born	(1916-11-06)November 6, 1916
Died	October 12, 2002(2002-10-12) (aged 85)
Occupations	composer
Instruments	trombone, vocals
Website	http://www.rayconniff.info/

Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.

Biography[link]

Conniff was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book.^[1] After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II (where he worked under Walter Schumann), he joined the Artie Shaw big band and wrote many arrangements for him. After his stint with Shaw he was then hired by Mitch Miller, then head of A&R at Columbia Records, as their home arranger, working with several artists including Rosemary Clooney, Marty Robbins, Frankie Laine, Johnny Mathis, Guy Mitchell and Johnnie Ray. He wrote a top 10 arrangement for Don Cherry's "Band of Gold" in 1955, a single that sold more than a million copies.

Among the hit singles he backed with his orchestra (and eventually with a male chorus) were "Yes Tonight Josephine" and "Just Walkin' in the Rain" by Johnnie Ray; "Chances Are" and "It's Not for Me to Say" by Johnny Mathis; "A White Sport Coat" and "The Hanging Tree" by Marty Robbins; "Moonlight Gambler" by Frankie Laine; "Up Above My Head," a duet by Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray; and "Pet Me, Poppa" by Rosemary Clooney. He also backed up the albums Tony by Tony Bennett, Blue Swing by Eileen Rodgers, Swingin' for Two by Don Cherry, and half the tracks of The Big Beat by Johnnie Ray.

In these early years he also produced similar-sounding records for Columbia's Epic label under the name of Jay Raye (which stands for "Joseph Raymond") amongst them a backing album and singles with Somethin' Smith and the Redheads, an American male vocal group.

Between 1957 and 1968, Conniff had 28 albums in the American Top 40, the most famous one being Somewhere My Love (1966). He topped the album list in Britain in 1969 with His Orchestra, His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound, an album which was originally published to promote his European tour (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) in 1969. He also was the first American popular artist to record in Russia—in 1974 he recorded Ray Conniff in Moscow with the help of a local choir. His later albums like Exclusivamente Latino, Amor Amor and Latinisimo made him very popular in Latin-American countries, even more so after performing in the Viña del Mar International Song Festival. In Brazil and Chile he was treated like a young pop superstar in the 1980s and 1990s when he was in his 70s and 80s. He even played live with his orchestra and eight-person chorus in large football stadiums as well as in Viña del Mar.

Conniff commented, "One time I was recording an album with Mitch Miller - we had a big band and a small choir. I decided to have the choir sing along with the big band using wordless lyrics. The women were doubled with the trumpets and the men were doubled with the trombones. In the booth Mitch was totally surprised and excited at how well it worked." Because of the success of his backings Mitch Miller and the new sound Conniff created Miller allowed him to make his own record, and this became the successful 'S Wonderful, a collection of standards that were recorded with an orchestra and a wordless singing chorus (four men, four women). He released many more albums in the same vein, including Dance The Bop (1957) (a story follows about that album), S Marvelous (1957, gold album), S Awful Nice (1958), Concert in Rhythm (1958, gold album), Hollywood in Rhythm (1958), Broadway in Rhythm (1959), and Concert in Rhythm, Volume II (1959, gold album). The 1957 album Dance the Bop was an experiment by one of the brass at Columbia to cash in on a conceived dance step creation, but Ray didn't like it from the outset, and when it sold poorly, Ray had it pulled off the market.

The Ray Conniff Singers[link]

In 1959 he started The Ray Conniff Singers (12 women and 13 men) and released the album It's the Talk of the Town. This group brought him the biggest hit he ever had in his career: Somewhere My Love (1966). The title track of the album was written to the music of "Lara's Theme" from the film Doctor Zhivago, and was a top 10 single in the US. The album also reached the US top 20 and went platinum, and Conniff won a Grammy. The single and album reached high positions in the international charts (a.o. Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan) as well. Also extraordinarily successful was the first of four Christmas albums by the Singers, Christmas with Conniff (1959). Nearly 50 years after its release, in 2004, Conniff was posthumously awarded with a platinum album/CD. Other well-known releases by the Singers included Ray Conniff's Hawaiian album (1967), featuring the hit song "Pearly Shells"; and Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970), which included Coniff's original composition "Someone", and remakes of such hits as "All I Have to do is Dream", "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", and "Something".

Musically different highlights in Conniff's career are two albums he produced in cooperation with Billy Butterfield, an old friend from earlier swing days. Conniff Meets Butterfield (1959) featured Butterfield's solo trumpet and a small rhythm group; Just Kiddin' Around (after a Conniff original composition from the 1940s), released 1963, featured additional trombone solos by Ray himself. Both albums are pure light jazz and did not feature any vocals.

Later years[link]

Conniff recorded in New York from 1955 through 1961 and mainly in Los Angeles from 1962 through 2000. Later in the 1960s he produced an average of two instrumental and one vocal album a year.

Conniff was a quiet, modest sympathetic artist. He sold about 70 million albums worldwide, and continued recording and performing until his death in 2002.

He died in Escondido, California, and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. His grave marker bears a musical score with the first four notes of "Somewhere My Love." Conniff was survived by his wife, Vera; a daughter, Tamara Conniff; son, Jimmy Conniff; and three grandchildren.

Legacy[link]

In 2004, a memorial two-CD compilation set, The Essential Ray Conniff, was released, featuring many rare and previously unreleased tracks. The Singles Collection, Vol. 1 was released on the Collectables label in 2005 and The Singles Collection, Vol. 2 was released in 2007. These collections also feature rare singles and previously unissued tracks.

His music is also featured prominently in the movie There's Something About Mary.

Ray Conniff Singers[link]

From 1962 through 1971, membership in the Ray Conniff Singers included:^[2]