[Dixielandjazz] Henry Mancini to Get Licked

[Kurt]

Speaking of stamps, whatever happened to the efforts to get Bix on a US
Postage stamp?  The Bix Society even had t-shirts printed up back 1n 1996 to
help promote the effort.  Perhaps this is a worthy cause the members of DJML
can get behind.

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Vickers
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:17 AM
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Henry Mancini to Get Licked


Listmates--hope I'm not out of order in forwarding this information on a
commemorative stamp for Henry Mancini

Norman Vickers
Pensacola

Composer Henry Mancini to Be on New Stamp

.c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Henry Mancini, the composer of ``Moon River'' and music
for the ``Pink Panther'' movies, will be honored on a postage stamp next
year.

The design will show Mancini conducting while titles of his works appear to
scroll past on a screen behind him. It will be unveiled in Los Angeles on
Aug. 16.

``Henry Mancini's influence on the music industry has never been stronger,
and this stamp is a special way to pay tribute to his enduring genius,''
Postmaster General John Potter said Wednesday.

Mancini's work for the ``Peter Gunn'' series became the first jazz album to
sell more than a million copies. It won two Grammys.

 From the 1950s to the early 1990s, Mancini created scores for more than 70
films, including ``Moon River,'' the theme of ``Breakfast at Tiffany's'';
``The Pink Panther''; ``The Great Race''; and ``10.''

His television works included themes for ``Mr. Lucky,'' ``Newhart,''
``Remington Steele'' and ``Hotel.''

Mancini was born April 16, 1924, in Cleveland and was taught by his father
to play the piccolo. He attended New York's Juilliard School of Music on a
scholarship. At 18, Mancini was drafted into the Army Air Corps and
assigned to a military band.

After the war he became pianist for the reorganized Glenn Miller Orchestra
and later moved to California where he began composing for film and
television.

On the Net

U.S. Postal Service: http://www.usps.com



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