The Music from Peter Gunn

by Henry Mancini

The Music from Peter Gunn cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1959
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:58
  • Community rating: 4.35/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Music from Peter Gunn' is Henry Mancini's soundtrack to Blake Edwards's television detective series, recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood with producer Simon Rady and a piano part on the title theme played by the young John Williams. It became the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The album was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and selected for the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.

Genres

Descriptors: crime, lounge, sophisticated, soundtrack, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Peter Gunn (2:07)
  2. Sorta Blue (2:56)
  3. The Brothers Go to Mother's (2:55)
  4. Dreamsville (3:52)
  5. Session at Pete's Pad (3:57)
  6. Soft Sounds (3:33)
  7. Fallout! (3:13)
  8. The Floater (3:16)
  9. Slow and Easy (3:05)
  10. A Profound Gass (3:18)
  11. Brief and Breezy (3:32)
  12. Not from Dixie (4:09)

Credits

  • Blake Edwards - liner notes
  • Simon Rady - producer
  • Jason Kirby - design/illustration

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