Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther Theme (Official Audio)

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Audio track of The Pink Panther Theme, a classic 1960s jazz-inflected big band number. Slow-paced and slinky, mostly soft-pedaled with dramatic punches. If you were going to try to portray in music what it's like to sneak like a glamorous diamond thief through a heavily-guarded mansion, this is exactly what it would sound like.
#RIP Plas Johnson, who created the tenor sax solo for The Pink Panther Theme.

He broke color lines in Hollywood in the 1950s, being one of the first Black musicians to work in studio orchestras.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Nice live performance in a TV studio with Johnson on sax and Mancini on piano (the youtuber disabled embedding): https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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