It's a 1970's Saturday afternoon - me and Ox are at our Grandma's. We've just finished watching the wrestling on World Of Sport (presented by Dickie Davies) so we turn the TV over double-quick to watch a Pink Panther cartoon - the series where in the opening credits the kid drives a massive car to the Chinese theatre and the Pink Panther gets out the back. I was always dead jealous of that kid - for driving the big car rather than being a snooty cartoon animal's skivvie. I particularly loved the Inspector Clouseau stories...
Henry Manicini - A Shot In The Dark
... which used the theme to A Shot In The Dark throughout.
I was reminded of this at JD rehearsal last night when I started playing the riff and found it totally impossible to stop - it's one of those great riffs that goes round and round in a loop and it's addictive and difficult to stop (apologies to the other band members).
Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn
Mancini wrote some fantastic stuff and listening to these tunes today I was struck by how amazing and wild they sound - there are sections of Peter Gunn where it sounds like something Charlie Mingus would have put on The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - the talking brass parts and organised chaos going on under the solos, in particular (back me up here, jazz-bo's...).
Like most cartoon characters, the Pink Panther was RUBBISH when he started talking...
Can anyone help me out with the other characters above? Vaguely remember the anteater...
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