Buddha
1959
The Music From Peter Gunn
About This Album
This is not only a great CD but a key piece of jazz and pop music history. Back in 1958, Peter Gunn was one of the unexpected hits of the new television season, capturing the imagination of millions of viewers by mixing private eye action with a jazz setting. Essential to the character of private investigator Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) was that his base of operations was a jazz roadhouse called Mother's, and the jazz music background figured prominently in the scoring. Composer Henry Mancini, a classically trained pianist/arranger/composer with a big-band background, who'd spent much of the previous decade working in near anonymity at Universal Pictures, was chosen by director/producer Blake Edwards to write the score for Peter Gunn. Although he later became associated with a string of hit movie soundtracks in a pop vein ("Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's, etc.) and easy listening albums, Mancini was more than fluent in jazz, and his music nailed down the popularity of the series. With the main title theme, a driving, ominous, exciting piece of music to lead off the album, the Peter Gunn soundtrack became a huge hit, charting extraordinarily high for a television soundtrack and doing so well that RCA-Victor came back asking for a second LP of music from the series the next year.
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