Pink Panther Walter Greene Extended Theme.wmv
Louisedilworth93
2016-04-13
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This to me is the WHOLE Pink Panther theme. In late 66, when Walter Greene took over as the background score musician for Depatie-Freleng Enterprises, he produced all new score for the first seven films credited to him. The first, Pink Plunk Plink, was about a symphony orchestra trying to play Beethoven (but Pink Panther kept breaking out his own theme), so did not have much new score. Next was one last film scored by the former musician, Bill Lava; Smile Pretty Say Pink. Next, Greene took over for good, with Pink-A-Boo, Genie With the Light Pink Fur, Super Pink, Rocky Bye Pinky, Pinknic and Pink Panic. After that, (beginning with Pink Posies) they began reusing the score from these six films. \r
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It was the Rocky Bye Pinky score that would be used on the majority of the films produced from 1967-1974 (the next two years after that, they used the other ones more, and even threw in some Lava pieces at times, and after that, you had the 1978 made for TV series that replaced it all with all new score by Steve Depatie). \r
And it had the nicest flow to it, sounding truly like an extension of Mancinis theme!\r
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So to me, this again was the wholePink Panther theme. It starts with the familiar Pink Panther signature (with the low pitched sax), and then the next statement with the higher pitched horn section. (which you dont hear as often). In the original Henry Mancini theme, this would be followed by a horn blast, and then a jazzy instrumental section. Greenes score adds two whole new statements, which do not include the Pink Panther signature, but still fit right in with it. The first (2:52) is what I guess is supposed to be a 60s Go-Go sounding piece, which was Greenes familiar style. It is marked by a low pitched electric guitar groove at eighths notes (the one-and-two-and-three-and-four sound) behind the horn section. \r
Then, you have a sort of verse two of the Pink Panther signature with the guitar while the horn section covers the background harmony and then the second statement again. This is now followed by the horn blast, as in the original Mancini composition (4:20), and then the other new statement (4:23), which is a flute tune with the horns playing something similar to the second statement in the background. Then you have an alternation of the two statements, followed by the guitar version of the signature leading to the conclusion by the horns.\r
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When I would listen to the original Mancini track, I would wonder where were the other two statements. I didnt realize they were added by Greene, to fill the 7 minute episodes. Yet they to me are just as much apart of the Pink Panther theme as the signature and other statement.\r
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Here, since the first verse of Greenes theme had the signature and second statement done in flute instead of the sax/horns, that to me sounded more like a logical second verse instead, and the similar Pinknic version was done with the sax, so I spliced that in (taken from Pinkcome Tax) as well, towards the beginning as the new first verse. (The Rocky Bye Pinky version begins with the piano chord like the original theme, which is what I have used here, while Pinknic is the one that begins with the vibraphone eighths notes).
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It was the Rocky Bye Pinky score that would be used on the majority of the films produced from 1967-1974 (the next two years after that, they used the other ones more, and even threw in some Lava pieces at times, and after that, you had the 1978 made for TV series that replaced it all with all new score by Steve Depatie). \r
And it had the nicest flow to it, sounding truly like an extension of Mancinis theme!\r
\r
So to me, this again was the wholePink Panther theme. It starts with the familiar Pink Panther signature (with the low pitched sax), and then the next statement with the higher pitched horn section. (which you dont hear as often). In the original Henry Mancini theme, this would be followed by a horn blast, and then a jazzy instrumental section. Greenes score adds two whole new statements, which do not include the Pink Panther signature, but still fit right in with it. The first (2:52) is what I guess is supposed to be a 60s Go-Go sounding piece, which was Greenes familiar style. It is marked by a low pitched electric guitar groove at eighths notes (the one-and-two-and-three-and-four sound) behind the horn section. \r
Then, you have a sort of verse two of the Pink Panther signature with the guitar while the horn section covers the background harmony and then the second statement again. This is now followed by the horn blast, as in the original Mancini composition (4:20), and then the other new statement (4:23), which is a flute tune with the horns playing something similar to the second statement in the background. Then you have an alternation of the two statements, followed by the guitar version of the signature leading to the conclusion by the horns.\r
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When I would listen to the original Mancini track, I would wonder where were the other two statements. I didnt realize they were added by Greene, to fill the 7 minute episodes. Yet they to me are just as much apart of the Pink Panther theme as the signature and other statement.\r
\r
Here, since the first verse of Greenes theme had the signature and second statement done in flute instead of the sax/horns, that to me sounded more like a logical second verse instead, and the similar Pinknic version was done with the sax, so I spliced that in (taken from Pinkcome Tax) as well, towards the beginning as the new first verse. (The Rocky Bye Pinky version begins with the piano chord like the original theme, which is what I have used here, while Pinknic is the one that begins with the vibraphone eighths notes).
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