"Henry Mancini PURE GOLD" CD from 1987. 24 minutes of heaven?

Have patience, give it a couple months, and the price will come back down when this temporary wave of buyers recedes.

 

His first album for RCA was the first Peter Gunn album. In those days, 50,000 was a good volume to sell of a jazz title (for someone like Shorty Rogers, who was actually the one RCA approached to record the Gunn music, not an unknown like Mancini at the time). Instead, the album took RCA by surprise, and they sold over one million. Early on, in fact, they ran out of LP jackets and shipped out Peter Gunn in generic LP sleeves.

Some of his albums did make the Top 40 on the Billboard album charts throughout the 60s, but back then, instrumental and jazz music still had a chance to co-exist with pop/rock of the day. He's sold a lot more than a lot of people think, but definitely his time was the 50s and 60s, and to a lesser extent the 70s. In this modern day, I hate to say that his music would sell mainly to music aficionados with broad tastes (like some of us here), or "old fogies" who owned couple of his albums way back when. For most of the market in this century, a single-disc compilation with the familiar tracks is more than enough. His albums do get reissued occasionally in Europe and Japan, but I suspect they don't sell in huge numbers. I'd still pay for a really good transfer of Mr. Lucky Goes Latin (which is a great sounding LiViNg StErEo LP) on CD, but I doubt I'll ever see it. The one copy I heard was quite flawed with bad editing.

 

I got mine today but without the case as stated. I will listen tonight.

Is 3667-2-R the right matrix #?

 

I listened to Steve and was able to pick one up before the Deluge price increase.

lees- That is the correct matrix

 

Cool. Thanks jojo!

 

So Steve... is my Henry Mancini - All Time Greatest Hits Volume 1 (RCA 8321-2-R) guilty of the wonk? It's a black-back RCA midline (c) 1988 with credits to Don Wardell, Chick Crumpacker (is that a real name?), and Dick Baxter. It's got plenty of hiss but, come to think of it, the depth leaves something to be desired - not a lot of low-end. 15 tracks in all - no dialogue on "Baby Elephant Walk".

 

Mr. Lucky Goes Latin

I seen two or three CD versions of Mr. Lucky Goes Latin, an earlier single-album version and a French two-fer with it combined with Mr. Lucky. Which one is the flawed one that you heard?

Thanks

 

Is this the Mr. Lucky you're talking about. It's ADD.

 

Who among you love the sound of Henry Mancini 3-CD Box Set called "The Days Of Wine and Roses" - RCA 7863-66603-2 ?

Audio Restoration: Bill Lacey
Digital Transfers: Mike Hartry

 

I found this on Ebay. It also has a Time Life CD which is very good also. Great price for both.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-2-Henry-Man...goryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

I have been hanging out in Squaresville for a long time ... I own (in Mono and Living Stereo) ... and listen to ... all of Mancini's early RCA LPs ... they're ... way out ...

 

Thanks for the information! I just bid on it.

 

Just got to hear the 'greatest hits' in quad. It has Peter Gunn, Fallout, Mr Lucky, Lujon and March of the Cue Balls. Oh man! Get it if you can!

 

I have a Mr. Lucky CD

 

Just received a used copy with matrix 3667-2-R

Even on the laptop through headphones I can tell this is going to be a cool listen

JohnnyH

 

I never realized there was this much interest in Henry Mancini. I have been a Mancini fan for many years, but always associated Mancini fans being much older than me, and I am in my late 50s.

 

My favorite band, Jellyfish, cites him as one of their major influences along with The Beatles, Pet Sounds and Queen. You can hear it in their melodies.

 

just got mine £3!!

 

Got 2 Mancini CD's, including "Gold" on ebay yesterday....total for both..$11 Looking forward to what all the hype is about...

 

The only thing I miss on Pure Gold is "A Shot In The Dark", an essential cut, imho. Any ideas on the best-mastered version available on CD?

Thanks in advance!

 

It's on that Time Life comp mastered by Dennis Drake...I think

 

Get the Darcy M. Proper mastered Ultimate Pink Panther. It's inexpensive and sounds great.

 

The price has come down somewhat on Amazon. As of right now, there are 11 used copies, all available between $30-36.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000002W4X/ref=dp_olp_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1215291333&sr=1-1

 

Yes, "A Shot In The Dark" is on the Drake comp:

1. Peter Gunn Theme
2. Mr. Lucky
3. Blue Satin
4. Moon River
5. Rhapsody In Blue
6. Dream of You
7. Experiment In Terror
8. Theme From "Hatari!"
9. Charade
10. Moonlight Serenade
11. Dream a Little Dream of Me
12. Lonesome
13. The Pink Panther Theme
14. Days of Wine and Roses
15. Softly As I Leave You
16. The Shadow of Your Smile
17. Moonlight Sonata
18. The Windmills of Your Mind
19. A Shot In the Dark
20. Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet
21. A Day In the Life of a Fool
22. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
23. Theme From Love Story
24. Two For the Road

http://cgi.ebay.com/HENRY-MANCINI-I...VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247