Just like I was alluding to about the story behind the movie.... she herself was just so amazingly beautiful (I have always thought), that she also, would be equally as gorgeous in ANY era she may have lived in!! :)
Yeah, that was when stars were really stars. Did she have class or what? Had a very interesting early life during WWII. Can't be sure I'd get the details right but it is an interesting thing to google if anyone is interested.
I saw an interview Henry Mancini gave years ago. He said that when he was hired to compose the music for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" he was having trouble composing the song for Audrey Hepburn that became "Moon River". He went to a matinee of "Funny Face" knowing that Audrey Hepburn had done her own singing in that film. Having perfect pitch, he came home afterwards, sat down at the piano, and composed "Moon River" knowing her range from "Funny Face". He was very casual and free about the whole thing, not bragging, but it was quite a piece of genius I think.
Thanks for that tidbit of info , Mancini very under rated . I was only about 12 yrs old when I hear this song in some restaurant coming home from a vacation on the Jersey shore. This is the kind of music that has appeal to every demographic. With all the synthesizer arrangements today the younger generation doesn't get to hear what real instruments can create.
No offense intended, but you're leaving out some wonderful information. He didn't go home and just compose the song. After seeing Hepburn in "Funny Face" and determining her singing range," it was three months before her came up with the first three notes of the theme. Half an hour later, he had the song worked out. He didn't have any lyrics, though. That's where Johnny Mercer enters the picture.
I think you are quite right Alan. I spent a little time in NYC in 1965 and the movie (to me at least) captured the atmosphere. So many remakes are just terrible.
I want to go back to the 60s again. Much has changed but much as stayed the same. Gone is a hangout called The Dugout and The 9th Circle. So much energy thanks to the folkies.
+allysa therese Yes! Tis cryable music. Tears cleanse the eyes. This was the last movie I saw before I was drafted into the Army. The film had just come out. Ironically, I was stationed in New York City for a large portion of my tour of duty. My then loving girlfriend, now loving wife, came to New York to work whilst I was there. And yes, she looks a LOT like Audrey!
I'm 55 years old. A few years younger than when this movie was made. I hear this soundtrack, and I remember my Grandparents...they had this album and played it often. My Grandpap loved Henry Mancini. Brings back memories of when I was a child in the late 60 s. Wonderful?
One of the most beautiful movie soundtracks I have ever had the privilege of hearing. Henry Mancini was a master with his work in creating a beautiful and supportive mood for the cinematic presentation. You can hear the beauty and yet deep loneliness in the music. Lives that intersect, have commonalities but yet don't seem to quite fit together. You know something is askew but you love the feeling of what can be. Enough good cannot be said about Audrey Hepburn and her portrayal of Holly Golitely. Her elegance, charm, and even her singing (moon river) is beautiful. I really never thought that Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard could work so well together but after seeing it I do believe only they could have made it work so well. Pure awesomeness.
@@lemokolyon Hepburn sings this herself. You're thinking of My Fair Lady--Marni Nixon was the "stunt voice" for Hepburn in that film. Much to Hepburn's frustration.
The reason why we don't have the same talent of beautiful acting, singing and music masterpieces these days is: Because the succeeding generations after, (the greatest generation) have only done, "JUST ENOUGH TO GET BY". Rarely made efforts to improve , much less to try to invent. Most, could hardly wait to get off work and head off to their favorite bar, or SPORTS BAR, to spend, GET HIGH and COME LATE to work the following day, if they did at all. And of course, with no moral values either...
This suite got me into music as a child. It's the entire reason I began learning all kinds of different instruments. Primarily the end that seems to serenade so perfectly with the emotions the characters felt. Beginning from when Paul leaves the taxi and that point on, I cried like a baby having only been about eight at the time. It honestly felt like it was the music I'd been searching for the few years I had been alive at that point and it in a way set the tone for me as far as music goes. Absolutely flawless piece of work.
I became hooked on Henry Mancini with his Peter Gun Jazz compositions and when purchasing my first Hi-Fi Breakfast at Tiffany's was always playing. Thanks to Bluetooth and Beats headsets, today I can enjoy his music again. He was a legend in his time and left us too soon.RIP and thanks.
I'm very happy to have finally found the delightful music that accompanies the sequence (starting with the popping of the champagne cork in Holly's apartment) in which Paul and Holly decide to spend a day in NYC trying things they'd never done before ... it is the musical highlight of the movie, I feel!
I FOUND THIS SCENE SCORES YEARS AGO AND LOVED THEM FOR THEY SHOWED EVERY PIECE OF MUSIC HENRY PLAYED FOR EACH SCENE. BUT AS FOR THIS SCORE, I MUST HAVE LISTENED TO IT 1000 TIMES ON EVERY FORMAT AVAILABLE SINCE 1961. NOT ONLY THIS BUT WATCHED THIS MOVIE AT LEAST 500 TIMES AS WELL!!
Im hearing this for years already. I take a pillow put it on the window,lay down on it and just enjoys being part of this beautiful life that was given to us( I expacially love the ending where the instruments get louder and louder. While listening to that part I just close my eyes and always have to smile). I really recommend you to do this as me. Hope you all have a wonderfull day.
The first song is just brilliant. When I first heard it I felt this feeling of wanting love, and you always get in the way of yourself. But eventually you learn to just open up and be your best you and everything will fall into place. Such a beautiful Melody. Literally brings tears to my eyes
The woman that sings is a professional radio ads singer, who is very good at making voices, taking various accents, imitations, etc. She is a regular radio and cartoon voice. I don't remember her name now, but she is the one you hear on every ''Marylin Monroe'' songs, and various other singing actrices. She even imitates people who can't sing and has no voice. ( Like Audrey Hepburn, Imo.)
Henry’s music is so amazing, beautiful, out of this world incredible. Audrey’s voice too. Rumor has it God has them performing this piece with the Heaven Symphony Orchestra daily.
I had the pleasure of seeing this film for the first time ever last night-on the big screen at a Goodrich Quality Theater in Peoria, IL. Genius... Thank you for sharing the love, Fred!
I must have listened to this album at least 100 times and it takes me back to when I first saw this picture when I was 11 yrs old ...never tire of this music of Hank's
Many of the first generation of movie music masters came from Europe and brought their more classical influences with them. As they passed, the next generation of composers, led by Henry Mancini, brought a much more American sound with them. A hit song was deemed necessary for a film then. Mancini could write those songs as well, and the immortal Johnny Mercer added the words. Audrey Hepburn was not a trained singer, but she delivers the lyric quite well. The sound combines the jazz, pop and big band sounds Mancini and Mercer grew up with, with a nod to the past. Pianist Johnny Williams also learned in that era and learned from this master. He would deliver "Star Wars" 16 years later, accepting the baton from Mancini as leader of the next generation of movie music.
Moon River is like a wonderful drug ...whenever I play it I feel waves of sweet sad joy thru my body,..it puts me in the present tense....... the only song that does this to me....
How old were you in the 60's? It might have been such a splendid time for one to be present. My grandmother lived in DC back in 50's, she always tells me positive things about America at these times.
Esta version es la mas sofisticada y elegante que haya escuchado de todas, es justamente la que se escucha en la pelicula mil gracias por compartir esta musica tan bella Felicidades Frederik Riesberg
Preciosa, eso si nos tenían instalados en un cuento de hadas ( a trozos...) cuando hoy conocemos lo que se cocía y cuece hoy en Hollywood... pedofilia, abusos y sobre todo control y manipulación mental a través de el... pero en fin buenos recuerdos y bellos de aquellos momentos
In Henry Mancini's autobio, he writes that some producer said that (not politely) that the scene where Audrey sings Moon River on the fire escape will have to be cut. Mancini said it you do that, then you can't use my music in the movie. THANKS for that montage music at about 8:26 when they are on a walk through Manhattan. 000000H!
+Hugh Jones Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer had impeccable track records. The former had been responsible for the Pink Panther theme, the latter had provided the words for Hooray for Hollywood, One for My Baby and a dozen others. Mancini and Mercer were eventually awarded four Oscars each, including one, in 1962, for best movie song with Moon River, from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's singing voice was threadlike, and extremely limited in range, though always in tune. But Mercer faced some obstacles in getting to a final concept of a song for her. He had grown up in Savannah, Georgia and, with memories of its waterways, started a song called Blue River, but discovered that the title was already in use. He tried using the opening words "I'm Holly" but discarded that as banal. Mancini took a month to compose exactly the right melody to suit the waif-like good-time girl. In the movie, Hepburn sang the song herself, sitting with a guitar on the fire escape of a New York apartment, and the result was charming. Mancini later reported that after the very first preview screening of the film, the president of Paramount Pictures puffed a cigar and announced that the song had to be removed. The normally gentle Hepburn told him firmly that it would be over her dead body. Later it was reported that Henry Mancini thought Hepburn's version of Moon River was the epitome of the song, and no other performer had captured it's true meaning, including legends like Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. IMHO I would agree with Mancini, it's a beautiful song by a beautiful singer. It made the movie for me and I'm sure many other people. The softness of her voice and the purity of the words she sings... for me, it's flawless!
HAH. I think the message from the producer was something like I don't want to hear that (nasty C word) sing. That's what I read. Mancini had a brutal growing up. You probably know that he performed with the Glen Miller band and arranged some of his music.
@@CBF5star me too. This makes me long for the days we dressed up to go shopping, and went to a fancy restaurant afterward...then took the train home. I'm from Pittsburgh. Sure miss those days.
Fred, you have done a great public service. By letting me audition this CD, I am hooked. Despite having the Tiffany's music many times over, this is wonderful. I don't recall the soundtrack being in stereo. Thankfully this is. I plan to purchase this CD. Thanks.
By 1961, most everything recorded was commercially available in stereo. The album of music by Mancini for "Tiffany's" was released by RCA in 1961; catalog LSP-2362. It has Audrey on the cover. I am guessing the LP is long out of print, and a CD might be available. A run to a used record store might be worth it.
Saludos amigos desde MEX QRO. 🇲🇽 Cómo siempre me gusta escuchar uno más de los éxitos del maestro Henry Mancini , fabulosa orquesta . Voy a recompilar toda su discografía en una. " USB " ya que amerita tenerlo en casa o en el automóvil o compartirlo con amigos . Ojalá hiciera musica para MEX. se lo agradeceríamos !!! 🖐🏼😊
Love singing Moon River to this Main Title version… Its not hard to see why it was a Academy Award - Best Original Score - Academy Award - Best Song… ☮🔥
It is my very first time to listen to the Breakfast at Tiffany’s soundtrack from the 1961 movie which features the hit song Moon River which has always been a favorite song since I was8 in 1961. Every time I listen to Moon River, I always think about the Susquehanna River from Towanda, Pennsylvania to Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.
Good as "Moon River" is, I still like the true "title tune" best -- "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (especially the version played while they're doing things for the first time at 8:04 -- I can practically hear Holly saying "Don't you just love it? Tiffany's!"). A real sparkler. The soundtrack album version ain't bad, either.
I always wanted to see what the big fuss was over this movie. Now I know! I think Audry does an amazing job at depicting a sad woman stuck in a world that she's terrified of.
Me trae tantos recuerdos de mi papá...es sublime. Que hermosa película! La alcanzamos a ver juntos....la escena del pequeño gatito oh Jesús grande apareció! Henry Mancini merece un gran homenaje!!! Oh qué gran obra!!!! Que música extraordinaria y excelente! Dios lo tenga en la gloria siempre!
A match made in heaven (Audrey and Mancini). 2 of the most down to earth people on earth. Just goes to show, the more talented they are,, the less pretensious they are. Hank was born to showcase Audrey's charm and her indelible elegance, which inspired him to compose such beautiful music. And Capote must have been drunk to want M. Monroe for the part. His book describes Holly as "Stylishly thin" which Monroe is very far from that.
That scene from "Field Of Dreams" when James Earl Jones character, Terence Mann, talks of people turning up at the ballpark, drawn inexplicably by some irresistible force and not batting an eyelid as they handed over their money, taking their seats on the bleachers and feeling as if they had been immersed in some Magic Waters - I imagine this as being one of the soundtracks to that feeling. It takes Us all back to better times, innocence and full of happiness. Why can't we have that now? For Our Parents ♥
I'm so glad they finally released this entire soundtrack. What was out was a very abbreviated thing that didn't even include Audrey singing Moon River.
There were reasons for that, largely that RCA wanted a pop/instrumental album of the soundtracks that Mancini wrote, without the dramatic music. So, Mancini wrote all new arrangements for the albums as released. And there may have been contractual issues to have Audrey Hepburn appear on the record (same reason Fran Jeffries didn't appear on the Pink Panther record, or Claudine Longet on The Party). The booklet notes for any of the Intrada series CDs (which are the actual music used in the films) are fascinating. It's cool to hear all those musical beds and cues on their own. Great discs to own if you can still find them. (Tiffany's had a reissue, but many others are now out of print.)
Poor Fred is a beautuful song, cant say in the 7 times ive seen the movie i paid it much attention, BUT i will now!! Holly always made me want to be there in the streets shopping too... Enjoy!!
I personally was swept away by the beautiful "Poor Fred". I heard it in the movie and I was instantly in love. Also was pleasantly delighted to find that the female protagonist and I share the same name :)
Henry Mancini had the ability and knowledge for making ellegant musical accords, chorus, throw piano and strings, soft, smoothy armonies, delicate when it was necesary But also the era was ellegant, people walked down street with clothes, not shorts or jeans, no T shirts, people used to be ellegant all the time. Even the cars were made for glamourous people, all was made for a beautiful way of live. Today I think everything is so .... out of it self, there is not charm any place, maybe only into a party of rich people.
AAAAAHHH!!HMMMMMM!!!WELL!! ITS A FABULOUS SCORE!! INDEED!THEY DON'T MAKE SUCH MUSIC FOR FILMS NOW!!ITS ALL BORING TECH!!!!THANKS FOR THE POSTING.FROM(U.K.).
Audrey Hepburn has perfectly complemented this beautiful piece of music...What an elegant actress she was!!!
Just like I was alluding to about the story behind the movie.... she herself was just so amazingly beautiful (I have always thought), that she also, would be equally as gorgeous in ANY era she may have lived in!! :)
Yeah, that was when stars were really stars. Did she have class or what? Had a very interesting early life during WWII. Can't be sure I'd get the details right but it is an interesting thing to google if anyone is interested.
Couldn't agree more.
MOON RIVER is always going to be Audrey's song. And HOLLY is always going to be AUDREY for movie watchers for a century to come.
@@skreety0455 what's funny is Audrey Hepburn didn't actually sing, it was Marni Nixon. I was shocked too.
I saw an interview Henry Mancini gave years ago. He said that when he was hired to compose the music for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" he was having trouble composing the song for Audrey Hepburn that became "Moon River". He went to a matinee of "Funny Face" knowing that Audrey Hepburn had done her own singing in that film. Having perfect pitch, he came home afterwards, sat down at the piano, and composed "Moon River" knowing her range from "Funny Face". He was very casual and free about the whole thing, not bragging, but it was quite a piece of genius I think.
Thanks for that tidbit of info , Mancini very under rated . I was only about 12 yrs old when I hear this song in some restaurant coming home from a vacation on the Jersey shore. This is the kind of music that has appeal to every demographic.
With all the synthesizer arrangements today the younger generation doesn't get to hear what real instruments can create.
No offense intended, but you're leaving out some wonderful information. He didn't go home and just compose the song. After seeing Hepburn in "Funny Face" and determining her singing range," it was three months before her came up with the first three notes of the theme. Half an hour later, he had the song worked out. He didn't have any lyrics, though. That's where Johnny Mercer enters the picture.
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Anyway, that's Marny Nixon who sings.
@@lemokolyon You are incorrect. Marni Nixon dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing for My Fair Lady, not for any of her other movies where she sang!
This is another movie that couldn't be made again beautiful.
I think you are quite right Alan. I spent a little time in NYC in 1965 and the movie (to me at least) captured the atmosphere. So many remakes are just terrible.
I was in NYC in early 60s, a great time that will never be the same again. Folkies in the Central Village and WOR's Jean Shepherd on the radio.
alan evans There are too many remakes. There are simply certain films that should never be remade, this is one of them.
I want to go back to the 60s again. Much has changed but much as stayed the same. Gone is a hangout called The Dugout and The 9th Circle. So much energy thanks to the folkies.
Alas, you are right, Alan.
i'm crying this is so pretty
+allysa therese Yes! Tis cryable music. Tears cleanse the eyes. This was the last movie I saw before I was drafted into the Army. The film had just come out. Ironically, I was stationed in New York City for a large portion of my tour of duty. My then loving girlfriend, now loving wife, came to New York to work whilst I was there. And yes, she looks a LOT like Audrey!
+allysa therese Yes...... It can do that. Even men have a heart. Timeless just Beautiful.
M0000000000000000000n River, wider than a mile. I'm crossing you in style some day!!!
+allysa therese Yes, I know.........
+Roger Wilco Old dream maker, you heart breaker. Wherever you're going, I'm going your way~
I love Henry Mancini. From the days when relaxing entertainment was classy with classy music.
Nothing really can get better than Audrey... Henry Mancini always complemented her perfectly.
I'm 55 years old. A few years younger than when this movie was made. I hear this soundtrack, and I remember my Grandparents...they had this album and played it often. My Grandpap loved Henry Mancini. Brings back memories of when I was a child in the late 60 s. Wonderful?
Another song that has this profound ability to shatter my heart and then rebuild it in beauty...
Jonathan Berman what??????
Touche
"You mustn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get until they can fly into the trees and then higher into the sky."
But if u love them then , really love them, you'll be happy for them
Another great film from 1961 that could have won Best picture of the year!!!!!
what brings us back to our old memories thanks to youtube and the people collecting these immortal pieces of music
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Nine years old at the time. A beautiful time of life. Generates tears now what with my folks gone, me at 65.
I'm 55, Clark. I remember that time. Very elegant. Dressed up all the time.
Just love where it starts at 8:05
It still takes my breath away 40 something years after first hearing it!
It takes me to a different realm.❤️
"Holly" name of the song. In the description. Love it. Beautiful early 60s
Me too, just love it and always have.
It seems to capture the 1960s heyday of NYC. I say this but of course I wasn't there.
Timeless classic
One of the most beautiful movie soundtracks I have ever had the privilege of hearing. Henry Mancini was a master with his work in creating a beautiful and supportive mood for the cinematic presentation. You can hear the beauty and yet deep loneliness in the music. Lives that intersect, have commonalities but yet don't seem to quite fit together. You know something is askew but you love the feeling of what can be. Enough good cannot be said about Audrey Hepburn and her portrayal of Holly Golitely. Her elegance, charm, and even her singing (moon river) is beautiful. I really never thought that Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard could work so well together but after seeing it I do believe only they could have made it work so well. Pure awesomeness.
Beautifully put about the music being lovely, yet lonely!! And Audrey's charm is unequal!!! More than likely due to her having english blood!!
Marny Nixon is singing, not A. Hepburn.
@@lemokolyon Hepburn sings this herself.
You're thinking of My Fair Lady--Marni Nixon was the "stunt voice" for Hepburn in that film. Much to Hepburn's frustration.
It is so romantic. It brings back the memory of happy days with my hubby, as well as the
gathering of church workers in my home. Thank you so much
Such a great film, beautiful acting and a stunning masterpiece by Mancini.. shame we don't have the same talent these days!
The reason why we don't have the same talent of beautiful acting, singing and music masterpieces these days is: Because the succeeding generations after, (the greatest generation) have only done, "JUST ENOUGH TO GET BY". Rarely made efforts to improve , much less to try to invent. Most, could hardly wait to get off work and head off to their favorite bar, or SPORTS BAR, to spend, GET HIGH and COME LATE to work the following day, if they did at all. And of course, with no moral values either...
@@hectorpena7068 Cannot agree more. Right on target!
This suite got me into music as a child. It's the entire reason I began learning all kinds of different instruments. Primarily the end that seems to serenade so perfectly with the emotions the characters felt. Beginning from when Paul leaves the taxi and that point on, I cried like a baby having only been about eight at the time. It honestly felt like it was the music I'd been searching for the few years I had been alive at that point and it in a way set the tone for me as far as music goes. Absolutely flawless piece of work.
YES the ending song is just ugh 🤭
Moon river my lullaby, Audrey & Henry God bless you!!!
I became hooked on Henry Mancini with his Peter Gun Jazz compositions and when purchasing my first Hi-Fi Breakfast at Tiffany's was always playing. Thanks to Bluetooth and Beats headsets, today I can enjoy his music again. He was a legend in his time and left us too soon.RIP and thanks.
8:45 Sublime! So elegant, you feel like you're back in the 60s, maybe 50s. :)
The intro card music is a genius
Thanks Mancini and Audrey ❤️
I'm very happy to have finally found the delightful music that accompanies the sequence (starting with the popping of the champagne cork in Holly's apartment) in which Paul and Holly decide to spend a day in NYC trying things they'd never done before ... it is the musical highlight of the movie, I feel!
Holly!!
I agree 100%!
The theme to Breakfast At Tiffany always make me cry.So beautiful and touching.
me 2! I want to go back there.
I FOUND THIS SCENE SCORES YEARS AGO AND LOVED THEM FOR THEY SHOWED EVERY PIECE OF MUSIC HENRY PLAYED FOR EACH SCENE. BUT AS FOR THIS SCORE, I MUST HAVE LISTENED TO IT 1000 TIMES ON EVERY FORMAT AVAILABLE SINCE 1961. NOT ONLY THIS BUT WATCHED THIS MOVIE AT LEAST 500 TIMES AS WELL!!
Im hearing this for years already. I take a pillow put it on the window,lay down on it and just enjoys being part of this beautiful life that was given to us( I expacially love the ending where the instruments get louder and louder. While listening to that part I just close my eyes and always have to smile). I really recommend you to do this as me. Hope you all have a wonderfull day.
The first song is just brilliant. When I first heard it I felt this feeling of wanting love, and you always get in the way of yourself. But eventually you learn to just open up and be your best you and everything will fall into place. Such a beautiful Melody. Literally brings tears to my eyes
Such a beauuuuutiful soundtrack. Thanks Fred!!
Went to the peace corps the same year.
@@jpin5911 COOL!😎👏👏👏
Timelessly enchanting and yet, of a time. Wonderful!
Audrey Hepburn and Henry Mancini's music are the brilliant highlights of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. When I think of the movie, I think of them.
If this isn't heaven to the ears than I don't know what is! 💙💚💛💜
Certainly one of the best melody ever composed and the remembrance of wonderful Audrey.
Thanks a lot.
Audrey is singing like the Angel she is now-
The woman that sings is a professional radio ads singer, who is very good at making voices, taking various accents, imitations, etc.
She is a regular radio and cartoon voice.
I don't remember her name now, but she is the one you hear on every ''Marylin Monroe'' songs, and various other singing actrices.
She even imitates people who can't sing and has no voice. ( Like Audrey Hepburn, Imo.)
Marny Nixon is the singing voice of A. Hepburn, M.Monroe a.o.
Henry’s music is so amazing, beautiful, out of this world incredible. Audrey’s voice too. Rumor has it God has them performing this piece with the Heaven Symphony Orchestra daily.
I had the pleasure of seeing this film for the first time ever last night-on the big screen at a Goodrich Quality Theater in Peoria, IL. Genius... Thank you for sharing the love, Fred!
I must have listened to this album at least 100 times and it takes me back to when I first saw this picture when I was 11 yrs old ...never tire of this music of Hank's
One of my favorite movies ever.
Mine too.
Many of the first generation of movie music masters came from Europe and brought their more classical influences with them. As they passed, the next generation of composers, led by Henry Mancini, brought a much more American sound with them. A hit song was deemed necessary for a film then. Mancini could write those songs as well, and the immortal Johnny Mercer added the words. Audrey Hepburn was not a trained singer, but she delivers the lyric quite well. The sound combines the jazz, pop and big band sounds Mancini and Mercer grew up with, with a nod to the past. Pianist Johnny Williams also learned in that era and learned from this master. He would deliver "Star Wars" 16 years later, accepting the baton from Mancini as leader of the next generation of movie music.
I miss and love you, Mom and Dad!
marilyn holmes I miss you, Yesteryear. Please come back! :(
+Sam West "I believe in yesterday."
God I feel this. 💕
Moon River is like a wonderful drug ...whenever I play it I feel waves of sweet sad joy thru my body,..it puts me in the present tense....... the only song that does this to me....
Back to a simpler and better time, and it WAS a better time, I was there!
How old were you in the 60's?
It might have been such a splendid time for one to be present. My grandmother lived in DC back in 50's, she always tells me positive things about America at these times.
I wasn't but I believe you. 😊
another great classic from mancini class and elegance throughout the whole album! rob
Esta version es la mas sofisticada y elegante que haya escuchado de todas, es justamente la que se escucha en la pelicula mil gracias por compartir esta musica tan bella Felicidades Frederik Riesberg
de acuerdo
Preciosa, eso si nos tenían instalados en un cuento de hadas ( a trozos...) cuando hoy conocemos lo que se cocía y cuece hoy en Hollywood... pedofilia, abusos y sobre todo control y manipulación mental a través de el... pero en fin buenos recuerdos y bellos de aquellos momentos
In Henry Mancini's autobio, he writes that some producer said that (not politely) that the scene where Audrey sings Moon River on the fire escape will have to be cut. Mancini said it you do that, then you can't use my music in the movie.
THANKS for that montage music at about 8:26 when they are on a walk through Manhattan. 000000H!
+Hugh Jones
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer had impeccable track records. The former had been responsible for the Pink Panther theme, the latter had provided the words for Hooray for Hollywood, One for My Baby and a dozen others.
Mancini and Mercer were eventually awarded four Oscars each, including one, in 1962, for best movie song with Moon River, from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's singing voice was threadlike, and extremely limited in range, though always in tune. But Mercer faced some obstacles in getting to a final concept of a song for her.
He had grown up in Savannah, Georgia and, with memories of its waterways, started a song called Blue River, but discovered that the title was already in use. He tried using the opening words "I'm Holly" but discarded that as banal. Mancini took a month to compose exactly the right melody to suit the waif-like good-time girl. In the movie, Hepburn sang the song herself, sitting with a guitar on the fire escape of a New York apartment, and the result was charming. Mancini later reported that after the very first preview screening of the film, the president of Paramount Pictures puffed a cigar and announced that the song had to be removed. The normally gentle Hepburn told him firmly that it would be over her dead body. Later it was reported that Henry Mancini thought Hepburn's version of Moon River was the epitome of the song, and no other performer had captured it's true meaning, including legends like Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
IMHO I would agree with Mancini, it's a beautiful song by a beautiful singer. It made the movie for me and I'm sure many other people. The softness of her voice and the purity of the words she sings... for me, it's flawless!
I bet that put an abrupt end to that conversation. I don't think this movie goes anywhere without Mancini's music.
Very good for Mistro Mancini neither would I !
Any movie would be enhanced by: The Mancini Touch of 'Le Elegance' !
HAH. I think the message from the producer was something like I don't want to hear that (nasty C word) sing. That's what I read. Mancini had a brutal growing up. You probably know that he performed with the Glen Miller band and arranged some of his music.
Hearing it 24/7
I Love that
it's the most wonderful music I've ever heard in my WHOLE entire life it's a beautiful peice
Holly: Don't you just love it?
Paul: Love what?
Holly: Tiffany's !! 8:44
It's nice knowing that there's someone out there that loves this theme as much as I do.
@@CBF5star me too. This makes me long for the days we dressed up to go shopping, and went to a fancy restaurant afterward...then took the train home. I'm from Pittsburgh. Sure miss those days.
Wunderschöne Leistung dieser unvergesslichen Melodien! Die seidigen Töne aller Violinen sind echt schön.
Fred, you have done a great public service. By letting me audition this CD, I am hooked. Despite having the Tiffany's music many times over, this is wonderful. I don't recall the soundtrack being in stereo. Thankfully this is. I plan to purchase this CD. Thanks.
By 1961, most everything recorded was commercially available in stereo. The album of music by Mancini for "Tiffany's" was released by RCA in 1961; catalog LSP-2362. It has Audrey on the cover. I am guessing the LP is long out of print, and a CD might be available. A run to a used record store might be worth it.
What a SUPERB upload friend. A million thanks for this. I've proudly added this to my "Mancini" playlist. MANCINI IS FOREVER.
Fantastic! To have Mancini do the honors of scoring this love/comedy movie was a great choice.
Saludos amigos desde MEX QRO. 🇲🇽 Cómo siempre me gusta escuchar uno más de los éxitos del maestro Henry Mancini , fabulosa orquesta . Voy a recompilar toda su discografía en una. " USB " ya que amerita tenerlo en casa o en el automóvil o compartirlo con amigos . Ojalá hiciera musica para MEX. se lo agradeceríamos !!! 🖐🏼😊
A fine post Fred... Thank you kindly.
his music is amazing. is amazing. beautiful !!!
So sad song and same time so beautiful 🥺. You want to cry....you feel nostalgia... uuuuffff....how the world became so bad at our days Guys??
OMG I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE U FOR SHARING THIS! THANK U
Always has been a favorite of mine since it's first showing. Dreaming with white puffy clouds while listening to this sweet music.
RELIVING THE MOVIE IN MY MIND THROUGH THE SOUNDTRACK.
Thank you for sharing !!
Mancini's genius is a gift to the world
timeless beauty
For me the most important actress of all time. No one before or after her has brought this magic to the screen.
Ruhe in Frieden Herr Heinrich, mein musikalisches, künstlerisches Licht am Ende des Tunnels meiner Jugend.
Mögen Sie Ruhen in Frieden !
Love singing Moon River to this Main Title version… Its not hard to see why it was a Academy Award - Best Original Score - Academy Award - Best Song… ☮🔥
last song is so soulful and good
My time for all time a true classic.
Unforgettable and forever golden one!
It is my very first time to listen to the Breakfast at Tiffany’s soundtrack from the 1961 movie which features the hit song Moon River which has always been a favorite song since I was8 in 1961. Every time I listen to Moon River, I always think about the Susquehanna River from Towanda, Pennsylvania to Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.
Fineza , elegancia , sofisticación y glamour , era la constante de todas las composiciones orquestales de los años 60.
Gracias.
This is so beautiful , why I was not born in 1961!!!!
Everytime I heard this song.... nostalgic
I wish I could have met this great man who made these musics!
Good as "Moon River" is, I still like the true "title tune" best -- "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (especially the version played while they're doing things for the first time at 8:04 -- I can practically hear Holly saying "Don't you just love it? Tiffany's!"). A real sparkler. The soundtrack album version ain't bad, either.
I always wanted to see what the big fuss was over this movie. Now I know! I think Audry does an amazing job at depicting a sad woman stuck in a world that she's terrified of.
superbe !....ça n'a pas pris une ride ...! c'est ça la qualité !.....
Me trae tantos recuerdos de mi papá...es sublime. Que hermosa película! La alcanzamos a ver juntos....la escena del pequeño gatito oh Jesús grande apareció! Henry Mancini merece un gran homenaje!!! Oh qué gran obra!!!! Que música extraordinaria y excelente! Dios lo tenga en la gloria siempre!
Audrey gran actriz de las mejores de esa época. .. y aún en esta!
Saludos desde Junín Mendoza Argentina. Henry Mancini vive en esta música
Perfect ending for a perfect movie
A match made in heaven (Audrey and Mancini).
2 of the most down to earth people on earth. Just goes to show, the more talented they are,, the less pretensious they are. Hank was born to showcase Audrey's charm and her indelible elegance, which inspired him to compose such beautiful music.
And Capote must have been drunk to want M. Monroe for the part. His book describes Holly as
"Stylishly thin" which Monroe is very far from that.
That scene from "Field Of Dreams" when James Earl Jones character, Terence Mann, talks of people turning up at the ballpark, drawn inexplicably by some irresistible force and not batting an eyelid as they handed over their money, taking their seats on the bleachers and feeling as if they had been immersed in some Magic Waters - I imagine this as being one of the soundtracks to that feeling.
It takes Us all back to better times, innocence and full of happiness. Why can't we have that now?
For Our Parents ♥
I have this on LP, I love playing it when we have friends over for dinner, or had, when it was possible. Very relaxing and a lovely sound.
And those unforgettable lyrics by Johnny Mercer 😉👍🎈
Nostalgia!!!
So beautiful melody.. overwhelming..
I'm so glad they finally released this entire soundtrack. What was out was a very abbreviated thing that didn't even include Audrey singing Moon River.
There were reasons for that, largely that RCA wanted a pop/instrumental album of the soundtracks that Mancini wrote, without the dramatic music. So, Mancini wrote all new arrangements for the albums as released. And there may have been contractual issues to have Audrey Hepburn appear on the record (same reason Fran Jeffries didn't appear on the Pink Panther record, or Claudine Longet on The Party). The booklet notes for any of the Intrada series CDs (which are the actual music used in the films) are fascinating. It's cool to hear all those musical beds and cues on their own. Great discs to own if you can still find them. (Tiffany's had a reissue, but many others are now out of print.)
Audrey will always be Holly and the music will underscore a brilliant performance that is eternal.
Poor Fred is a beautuful song, cant say in the 7 times ive seen the movie i paid it much attention, BUT i will now!! Holly always made me want to be there in the streets shopping too... Enjoy!!
I personally was swept away by the beautiful "Poor Fred". I heard it in the movie and I was instantly in love. Also was pleasantly delighted to find that the female protagonist and I share the same name :)
Iconic piece of music
This channel is treasure of UA-cam. Thanks a lot!
Henry Mancini had the ability and knowledge for making ellegant musical accords, chorus, throw piano and strings, soft, smoothy armonies, delicate when it was necesary
But also the era was ellegant, people walked down street with clothes, not shorts or jeans, no T shirts, people used to be ellegant all the time. Even the cars were made for glamourous people, all was made for a beautiful way of live. Today I think everything is so .... out of it self, there is not charm any place, maybe only into a party of rich people.
All time Favorite soundtrack ever!!!!
Unforgetable Audrey Hepoburn in every performaance. Unforgetable Henry Mancini.
sehr sehr romantik & schön ! :-)
MANCINI EN ESTADO PURO. GENIAL. INSUPERABLES MELODIAS Y ORQUESTACION. BRAVO. MUY BUENA.
This will forever be legend great soundtrack and movie it’s deep
What a nice music!!!
The great Bob Bain playing guitar while Audrey Hepburn sings, what a time!
Simply Irresistible and Amazing :)
Perfect
AAAAAHHH!!HMMMMMM!!!WELL!! ITS A FABULOUS SCORE!! INDEED!THEY DON'T MAKE SUCH MUSIC FOR FILMS NOW!!ITS ALL BORING TECH!!!!THANKS FOR THE POSTING.FROM(U.K.).