Henry Mancini
Composer and Musician
For singer Linda Eder, motherhood comes first...runs through 2008's "The Other Side of Me," and "Soundtrack" features songs from popular films. Sources on this release range from Henry Mancini to the Counting Crows, with a little Dionne Warwick thrown in for good measure. "I get bored if... In this article: Linda Eder, Frank Wildhorn, Jekyll & Hyde, Accidentally in Love, Celine Dion, Henry Mancini, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, and Star Search |
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all about jazz | November 19, 2009
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: The Queen of Cabaret, Andrea Marcovici, Celebrates the Johnny Mercer Centennial at the Algonquin Hotel.
...intimate friends including Alan Bergman, the Oscar winning lyricist and Mercer protg; Ginny Mancini, the widow of Mercers Moon River collaborator Henry Mancini; and Gene Lees, one of Mercers major biographers. These unique perspectives along...
In this article: Andrea Marcovicci, Algonquin Hotel, Skylark, Cole Porter, Oscar, and Moon River
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National Public Radio | November 18, 2009
100 Years Of Johnny Mercer, Pop Poet Laureate
...Johnny Mercer found his kind of songwriting pushed aside with the rise of rock 'n' roll. Then in 1961, Henry Mancini called, asking him to write a song for the film Breakfast at Tiffany's. "And, at that moment, he writes 'Moon River,' and...
In this article: Judy Garland, Savannah, Moon River, Georgia State University, and The Harvey Girls
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National Public Radio | November 18, 2009
Celebrating The Johnny Mercer Centennial
...tune, "Moon River") and 19 nominations. Mercer's musical collaborators included titans like Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and Henry Mancini, and his range was prodigious: He turned out both light-footed comedy lyrics like the one for "Spring,...
In this article: Harold Arlen, RSS Feeds, Academy Awards, Moon River, Come Rain or Come Shine, Laura, I Remember You, and Hooray for Hollywood
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Fox News Entertainment | November 13, 2009
Hollywood Pays Tribute to Music Legend Johnny Mercer
...(1961) written for Breakfast at Tiffany's; Days of Wine and Roses (1962), both with haunting music composed by the illustrious Henry Mancini. Also: In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (1951), with music by Hoagy Carmichael; On the Atchison,...
In this article: Academy Awards, Hollywood, Judy Garland, David Rose, Hoagy Carmichael, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Moon River, and In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
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all about jazz | November 06, 2009
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Mega Concert The 3 Accordions - Richard Galliano - Frank Marocco - Coba
...Jitterbug Waltz" were pieces seemed to be made for the trio to play together. The Audience demanded encores." Meglio Stasera" by Henry Mancini and the Jazz standard A" Train got the audience swinging at the end of this fantastic concert. It...
In this article: Richard Galliano, Frank Marocco, Coba, Rock, Jazz-rock, Pop music, Meglio Stasera, and Duo
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Kansas City Star | November 04, 2009
Angela Hagenbach's new CD is making waves nationwide
...the release Friday with her band at Jardine’s. </p><p> The project, focusing on lesser-known songs by Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand, features Hagenbach’s voice in front of a top-flight West Coast rhythm...
In this article: Johnny Mandel, Sarah Vaughan, and Michel Legrand
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New York Daily News | November 04, 2009
Johnny Mercer biopic shows golden-age songwriter at his best
..."That Old Black Magic," "Blues in the Night" and hundreds more. He collaborated with writers from Hoagy Carmichael to Henry Mancini, for whom he wrote the lyrics to "Moon River." Mercer was a son of the South, a proud Georgian whose...
In this article: TCM, Hoagy Carmichael, One for My Baby, Dream, Baby It's Cold Outside, Moon River, Come Rain or Come Shine, Blues in the Night, and That Old Black Magic
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New York Post: Entertainment | November 03, 2009
'Moon River' man
...as "Hooray for Hollywood," "Jeepers Creepers," "That Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby" and his two haunting Oscar winners with Henry Mancini, "Moon River" and "The Days of Wine and Roses." Mercer receives a well-deserved 100th birthday...
In this article: Moon River, TCM, Oscar, One for My Baby, Jeepers Creepers, Hooray for Hollywood, That Old Black Magic, and Roman Polanski
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USATODAY.com | November 02, 2009
Mercer's lyrics went to extremes: Poetic and conversational, light and dark
At the Oscars, April 1962: Presenter Debbie Reynolds with Henry Mancini, left, and Johnny Mercer, best-song winners for Moon River. Ask those who knew Johnny Mercer and the artists who continue to cherish his songs how best to describe...
In this article: Michael Buble, Savannah, Ga, and Li'l Abner
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Yahoo! News | October 29, 2009
Broadway musical Victor/Victoria dances again in Asia (Reuters)
...Fygi in the role that actress Julie Andrews made famous. The musical comedy, written by Blake Edwards and set to the music of Henry Mancini, opens in Singapore on November 9 and is the latest in a handful of Broadway productions to be...
In this article: Asia, Victor Victoria, Singapore, Victor/Victoria, Victor/Victoria, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards, and Reuters
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Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme") and "Moon River".
- Name At Birth:
- Enrico Nicola Mancini
- Birth Date:
- April 16, 1924
- Spouse:
- Virginia O'Connor (13 September 1947 - 14 June 1994) (his death) 3 children
- Occupation:
- Composer, conductor
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