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Dec 6, 2024 - 2:33 AM
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Amer Zahid
(Member)
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Quartet Announces: AT TIFANNY'S -Viny X2LP
QUARTET RECORDS CELEBRATES HENRY MANCINI AT 100!
Release 4/4
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (2XLP Deluxe Edition)
Composed and Conducted by Henry Mancini
Produced and Mastered by Chris Malone
Double LP pressed in 180 GM white vinyl includes a gatefold jacket and a separate booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Paramount Pictures, presents the premiere vinyl edition of the actual film tracks composed and conducted by Henry Mancini for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, the landmark, bittersweet romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards in 1961 and starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, José Luis de Vilallonga and Mickey Rooney.
What more can you say about BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S that hasn't already been said? It is one of the most iconic films in the history of cinema, and that's just from the first five minutes of the movie: Audrey Hepburn, Hubert de Givenchy's Little Black Dress, Tiffany's jewelry, and the longing strains of “Moon River.” Iconic images and iconic music.
The music is perhaps Henry Mancini's most famous score, awarded two Academy Awards (for Best Original Score and Best Original Song ["Moon River"]. It is the quintessence of his style, as well as the music and lifestyle of the sixties. The movie, its aesthetics and its music marked an era.
As was customary in the sixties and during his contract with RCA, Mancini recorded a legendary album with a selection of cues specially arranged for listening pleasure. This album has been available continuously for more than sixty years, and it is impossible to count the number of reissues around the world, as well as the countless covers that singers of all nationalities and styles have recorded of "Moon River."
But the original version, the one heard in the movie, the magnificent and clever underscore, or "Moon River" itself, performed by Audrey Hepburn, was not released until Intrada found the masters in the Paramount vaults and released the actual score on CD, for which we will never be able to thank Douglass Fake and his team enough.
The new vinyl boom has given us the irresistible opportunity to release the original score on a luxurious double LP, with all the music, the dramatic score and the source music—music to love, to cry, to dance and to be moved by.
Remastered and restored by Chris Malone from the bottom up from the original masters courtesy of Paramount, this white double vinyl includes a gatefold jacket and a separate booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond and stills from the movie.
Available for order at www.quartetrecords.com
Tracklist
SIDE A
Main Title (Moon River) 3:11
Something For Cat 4:51
Poor Fred 3:26
Moon River Cha Cha 2:37
Paul Meets Cat / After The Ball 2:36
Turkey Eggs 2:48
SIDE B
Moon River (Vocal: Audrey Hepburn) 2:08
Rats And Super Rats 2:29
Wait A Minute / An Exceptional Person 3:43
Sally’s Tomato 5:02
A Lovely Place 1:36
Moon River (Guitar And Piano) 1:41
SIDE C
Holly 2:00
Latin Golightly 3:09
Meet The Doc / Feathers 2:49
Loose Caboose – Part 1 (Àla Cha Cha) 3:28
Rusty Trawler / Bermuda Nights / The Hard Way / You’re So Skinny 2:29
Just Like Holly 1:44
Moon River (Guitar And Harmonica) 1:39
SIDE D
Moon River (Vocal: Audrey Hepburn) 1:43
Let’s Eat 1:42
The Big Blowout 1:05
Loose Caboose 2:15
The Big Heist / After The Heist 4:04
Hub Caps And Tail Lights 2:21
Where’s The Cat? / End Title (Moon River) 3:51
https://quartetrecords.com/product/breakfast-at-tiffanys-2xlp/
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Ground up restoration … only on LP. :-(
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Ground up restoration … only on LP. :-(
Just like Malone's ground-up restoration of the Rambo trilogy before. Hopefully some day they'll make it to CD.
Yavar
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Any chance a CD reissue might be coming as well?
In 2013 Intrada released an expanded disc. 29 tracks from the score and 9 extra tracks.
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Any chance a CD reissue might be coming as well?
In 2013 Intrada released an expanded disc. 29 tracks from the score and 9 extra tracks.
I'm pretty sure that there will be a CD re-issue as well. Question is if you have to wait for December 2025 - or if it will happen sooner.
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The original LP is easy to find cheaply. It was in print forever and sold millions of copies. Kinda like looking for the original TITANIC CD.
Yeah, it's out there - maybe even here in Oslo. I'll find it some day, to a good price.
I've got it, name your price!
The thing is that this is one of the few Mancini LPs that have been transferred to CD quite well. Some other titles - particularly the non-soundtrack albums - still only have had dreadful sounding re-issues on digital media. Sony really should have issued a second box set containing remastered versions of these albums on occasion of the centenary, but unfortunately nothing happened.
I KNEW that Quartet would be releasing at least one Mancini title before Christmas, but I never thought that we'd ever see a full release of "The Pink Panther."
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