skippy the bush kangaroo: skippy's tuesday nite music club

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

skippy's tuesday nite music club

art of noise - peter gunn - live!

art of noise...you either love 'em or hate 'em...but give 'em credit for bringing back the old tv detective themes!

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posted by skippy at 11:59 PM |

5 Comments:

Such high notes! Great vid!

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Ole Blue The Heretic, 7:01 PM PST

tres COOL

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini had been kicking around Universal for six years. Most of his years there were a study in obscurity, the one exception being his scoring of "Touch of Evil" for Orson Welles. So the studio gave him his two week walking papers. Mancini, being Mancini, decided on one of his last days there to get a free haircut at the studio barber shop. He and the guy next to him got to chatting and hit it off. They had a lot in common. So that newly promoted director, Blake Edwards, says to Mancini, "Hey, how would you like to do this television show for me? It's called "Peter Gunn."

commented by

Anonymous, 7:20 PM PST

and to follow up on anonymous:

All of Mancini's output was recorded by my friend Al Schmitt.

And the guitar part was supposedly played by Bob Bain, later to be in the Johnny Carson Tonight Show band.

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SteveAudio, 12:35 AM PST

when i played with harry "the hipster" gibson one of the things you always had to be alert for was that, in any song, at any moment, harry would yell "GUNN!" and the band would launch into 8 bars of Peter Gunn in Bb, then back to what ever song we were playing.

it was cool.

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The Minstrel Boy, 9:22 AM PST

Re-works of Art of Noise was the one cassette I kept after changing over to CDs - I still have it.

I love it, and my husband can't stand it.

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slim, 9:37 AM PST

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