Dear Heat
5
By SolomonMorris7
Dear Heart is my favorite tune from this soundtrack and you truly have to watch the movie to see and feel the sentiment behind the song and once you do it will become one of your favorites .Geraldine page & Glen Ford are great in this movie along with a cast of many .
My Man Mancini
5
By DiddyWahDiddy
It is difficult to overstate the significance of Henry Mancini's work. I was a teenager in the late '50s/early '60s, weaning myself from Elvis to jazz. Mancini was my introduction to jazz. Granted, he was not a mainstream bebop artist, and not a "serious" jazz man to the expert jazz pundits-- his was popular music. But what music it is! I would not be surprised to hear that other people of my age had a similar experience with Mancini's music. One thing is certain -- the music for Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky has stayed fresh while the TV shows he wrote the music for have not aged well. As television, Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky are on the trash heap of dead TV shows, but Mancini's themes are still fresh and contemporary. Although I moved on to Bird and Coletrane, Monk and Silver, Mancini was my first date with Lady Jazz. The music is still great.
Very, Very Good
4
By Heinz91
I think illconditionedmatrix was a little harsh. There are 22 tracks here and just because the Romeo and Juliet theme IS over-romantic (and just too muddled really as a whole) does not give reason to disregard the other songs in such a manner. (sorry to sound all riled up, I just really like the other songs)
Experiment in Terror,
Snowfall,
The Days of Wine and Roses, and
Baby Elephant Walk are my personal favorites of the list.
This is iTunes; if you don't like one song, Dont give the rest of the album a bad name. Just buy the ones you do like.
too much
2
By illconditionedmatrix
Arranging romantic melodies is always a perilous endeavor, because it's too easy to turn a sweet melody into a saccharine one. Unfortunately that is what has happened here. The theme from Romeo & Juliet - originally composed by Nino Rota - worked well in the film due to the tasteful arrangement, where the romanticism was held in check by some measure of restraint and by Shakespeare's masterful words. But Mancini's arrangement is excessively sentimental, lacking both restraint and focus. How can you use a string section, percussion, piano, and chorus in a 2 1/2 minute piece? The Breakfast at Tiffany's arrangement has the same problem: the romanticism is too forced and the scale is too large for the underlying melody.
