Breakfast At Tiffany's | Soundtrack Suite (Henry Mancini) 

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.

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!

+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 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.

Jonathan Berman what??????

Touche

But if u love them then , really love them, you'll be happy for them

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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.

I'm 55, Clark. I remember that time. Very elegant. Dressed up all the time.

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.

YES the ending song is just ugh 🤭

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.

Holly!!

I agree 100%!

me 2! I want to go back there.

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!

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.

marilyn holmes I miss you, Yesteryear. Please come back! :(

+Sam West "I believe in yesterday."

God I feel this. 💕

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

Went to the peace corps the same year.

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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. 😊

Mine too.

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.

+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.

Audrey gran actriz de las mejores de esa época. .. y aún en esta!

Saludos desde Junín Mendoza Argentina. Henry Mancini vive en esta música

what's crazy is the majority of single women in 2022 are Holly Golightly. That 1961 film predicted what feminism would become. Less happy endings with kisses in the rain, unfortunately

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.)

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people dressed, especially women , pretty nicely in the 80's also, with women it was furs , heels nice dresses , men it was suits and nice sport coats