Jazz Photo Archives | The Jazz Library on Instagram: "🎥 Henry Mancini performing 'The Pink Panther Theme' with Tubby Hayes on saxophone on Best Of Both Worlds on October 4th 1964. "The Pink Panther Theme" is a jazz composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards but lost to the Sherman Brothers for Mary Poppins. The eponymous cartoon character created for the

Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther (Music From The Film Score)

Explaining on Instagram: "Released on December 18, 1964, The Pink Phink marked the official theatrical debut of the Pink Panther as a standalone animated star. The character had first appeared a year earlier in the iconic opening credits of the live-action film The Pink Panther, where he was used as a creative personification of a stolen diamond. Audiences reacted so positively to the stylish, silent feline that United Artists commissioned a series of shorts from DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, giv