Henry Mancini - Dreamsville

[oldthudman]

Great music!.....One of my all time favorites!!!

[barnettdg]

Check out the Sue Rainey vocal! Fantastic!

[phoenixxryzin]

Beautiful. I just shared this with an angel named Grace, who comes to me, and I to her, in Dreamsville. Thank you for posting this!

[timfuneral2031]

the greatest american jazz artist of the 20th century-Henry Mancini

[domees]

beautiful

[GONBEIFUKUDA]

This is one of the best musics that I love.

It is is so elegant and sweet .

[Mastophales]

I must add to globehunter2 comment, an era & time, that unfortunately is gone, never to return ~~~~~~

[globehunter2]

A easy voyage down memory lane, with images of wet rainny streets and flickering car lights. Excellent

[TheDiscoDays]

Dreamsville !!!!! You got that right, Mr. Mancini....Wonderful...

[rodrigozuniga45]

THis is, hands down, my favorite song from Henry's amazing repertoire. I recorded it on trumpet.

[TheDiscoDays]

Four dislikes ??? Must be Bieber fans...........LOL

[macree01]

Dick Nash on lead trombone ?

[GONBEIFUKUDA]

Its so beautiful and so romantic I really think there is no record compare with this

album . No doubt This album is the best album for Henry Mancini in my mind.

Thank you so much for posting.

[hootinouts]

One night back in 1978 I was painting a scene on canvas of fishing boats docked along a creek under a full moon. It is very dreamy scene indeed. When I painted I always listened to my favorite radio station in Philadelphia which was WDVR out of Wilmington DE. While I was working on this painting "Dreamsville" was playing and even to this day every time I look at my painting "Dreamsville" pops into my head.

[GregoryBrownOnICE]

Is it possible Koji Kondo took some of the elements of this to write Zelda's Lullaby?! Because it really sounds like it to me! This piece is beautiful!

[ZeroRebirthFC187]

@GregoryBrownOnICE I hardly played Zeda games but i gonna say i like that music and it does has some of Mancini's sound to it. :)

[amilisom]

@GregoryBrownOnICE The first two chord changes of this are Cmaj7 to Gm7/C. Zelda's Lullaby starts out going from Cmaj7 to F#dim7/C. I suppose they're kind of similar, but otherwise I wouldn't say so.

[gmonet46]

Who was Jimmy Rowles? One of Mancini's most beloved keyboard players. He is the only one actually mentioned in two Mancini recordings with his chorus. I did not know about John Williams, though it must be in my liners...thanks jaybee3. BTW you do know that Mother's vocalist married the piano player ( on the PG TV show) for real! Lola made that guy very happy I am sure. Check it out.

[bermudaguy1]

No words required...the instruments are talking to me!

[bermudaguy1]

Oh man....this is what it's all about! I'm a little older now and can really appreciate it.

[CONCHYA]

Me too!

and in Seattle! No Jazz like Mancini1

[wntoply6]

my brother bought this album when we were kids. he was more musically hep than me, so i listened intently. it was my first introduction to that form of modern jazz, & of course henry mancini...i was immediately mesmerized!

from that point on, i was hooked on jazz. to this day, no other form of music has taken it's place.

even when rock came along at about the same time, & everyone flipped out over it, i didn't. jazz is my love with all it's colors, moods senses & vibes, it's my pure heaven!

[wllpapr]

This is so soothing and relaxing.....dreaming in Dreamsville! Missing the likes of Henry Mancini....

[LIN11831]

Very nice, and so relaxing and great to slow dance to.

[rosetone50]

~delightful

makes me feel light and all around me, smooth

[TheSassieSusie]

Awwww, this is truly a dreamy piece of music.

Henry Mancini was the greatest, I don't think there will ever be another one like him. I am so glad to have all his records.

[BrentAW100]

No, they don't make songs like this, anymore. When we lost Hank in '94 we lost a national treasure. Thankfully, his music will live on forever!!

[nctvman]

I perfer both versions of dreamsville myself. they don't make great music anymore. i like when linda rondstat said. '' it makes movies in your mind'' riddle,mancinni,oh man that is music

[karmices]

Nice, but I prefer the vocal version he released from "Our Man In Hollywood" in 1963.

[kevoy1112]

How about a redhead, born right on time?! I'm in faux fur, btw!

[adkfisher]

sorry, the show was Peter Gun

[adkfisher]

i'm 73 now, and i used to watch this show.\ (Mr Lucky) and was so glad when this album came out...still have it and play it

[GutpileCharlie]

I bought the vinyl back in the 50's. Damn! It doesn't get any better than this!

Thank you Henry!

[musicalmente66]

No words can do justices to this music.

[frankieheartsful]

What has happened to us? cRAP and HIP-HOP dominate the musical scene and it's not even music!

I think it's aliens.

[hearttoheart4me]

Love it

[gmonet46]

Names like Dick Nash, the Condoli brothers, Plas Johnson, and the vibist Victor Feldman whose endings made the whole song echoe, come alive in Dreamsville. Jimmy Rowles played piano with Hank a lot, but am not sure he was on this cut. To this day, next to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, I'd believe this is the most famous " jazz" lp of the 60's still selling today. Mancini never was accepted as a jazz writer/artist and he truely was!

[skipfrancis]

Wow!

[frankstelt]

Forty year since I first heard this tune. Still as amazing now as then. -Frank

[BINKIE2000]

Waltzing in a motel..

[45onelove45]

This is so Beautiful.... Can anybody point me to some other lovely Jazz Ballads? Im a young Jazz cat at the age of 19. Just cant get enough of em.

[BINKIE2000]

Superb wonderful

[JAZZOLOGIST1]

Whenever I flew to Hong Kong, I always had cassettes of Mancini. The magic of late nights was enhanced by the wonderful, satisfying chords from that genius.

[AnishProductions]

French horns are good. But I would prefer more of a flugelhorn sound in this piece. But it is amazing! :D

[BrigadierJamesWolfe]

you can actually feel a ream...thats so magic about mancini...you dont listen to his music, you feel his music

[mnirbl]

My favorite jazz ballad

[frankstelt]

Brilliant use of brass in this tune. Especially French horns.

[ZachGretzinger]

This was in Nip/Tuck :)

[mrdennycrane]

Thanks to Nip / Tuck I've discovered some awesome music that I would never have known about. The way that this tune links all of the the stories in this particular season 5 episode, incredible.

[WarrioroftheNight919]

@mrdennycrane Yeah, buddy, Nip/Tuck is simply awesome, just like its soundtrack.

[CB48197]

On cold winters night landing at La Guardia airport broke through the clouds as I could see Manhatten,as this tune played on my walkman,it was perfect !

[artiefun]

Purely Magnificent

[jaybee3]

Here's trivia: the pianist for this tune and the whole Peter Gunn album was...John Williams. Yes, THAT John Williams (very early in his Hollywood career!)

[frankstelt]

jaybee, yes. I'm a longtime fan. Knew that. Great trivia these newbies should know.

[frankstelt]

@jaybee3 , yes knew that about John Williams. He is Mancinis's greatest protege.

[hotvision]

@jaybee3 very awesome. thanks for the factoid!

[suir52]

@jaybee3 Thanks for that very interesting piece of information, John Williams went to compose another great TV detective series theme, Checkmate.

[michaelwgillespie]

@jaybee3 You are kidding!? I heard this tune on Pandora today and was immediately taken back to that PG album that I listened to over and over in high school. Mancini was great!

[edcasanova2003]

Two fingers of Jack, Two cubes of ice in tumbler, a penthouse view of Manhattan, a blonde bombshell of a wife in a fur, and little else... i was born 20 years too late.

[sandiegotrojandawg]

You hit the nail on the head, except I was born at the right time and thankful for it!!

[boorelius]

@edcasanova2003

Me 20...

[hearttoheart4me]

@edcasanova2003 I agree with you and I am in my 50's right now

[MsTexas73]

@edcasanova2003 OR...a glass of my favorite reisling, sitting out on the back patio overlooking a gorgeous ocean view as the sun sets...hand in hand...with my strikingly gorgeous hunk of a man...just me and him and the music.

[ZeroRebirthFC187]

@edcasanova2003 Make it 50 years this time. :(

[ardagii]

@edcasanova2003 It's never to late for jazz. I would take this tune, a jack or wine, a hot blonde and the penthouse view of Manhattan even 100 years from now

[vlstpt]

Beautiful Beautiful Tune. The best players in the west coast!! I just love it!!

[artiefun]

I think this is one of Henry Mancini's most hunting and beautifully done agreement, besides many others

[jfktwo]

Sighs upon sighs, who could have named this song "Dreamsville" so perfectly except Mancini and crew. Can't hear it without being in total "Dreamsville."

[frazler]

this track can now be downloaded DRM free at Amazon.  love this tune

[mortygwhiz]

Yes, this was ground breaking music on television. All of the music Mr. Mancini wrote for Peter Gunn was contemporary Jazz for the period. Peter Gunn was the epitome of "Cool". The music had to match and it definitely did.

[sp2834aa]

Great stuff.check out spaced out on his visions of eight sound track lp.

[nicoshuffle]

awesome just AWESOME!!^^

[HSKnico666]

This music take me back to the retro 50's!

[Crescendolls187]

It sure is!XD

[nationhaziq]

You got it!

[gtpsy2]

when i first heared it in Nip Tuck season 5 , episode 18 i was shocked and i got the song... anyways thx dude for this great piece of art.. Piano Jazz all the way

[rf94]

Me too, thanks to nip tuck i would not have heard this song.

[diatre31192]

SAME! the music was so poignant and so recurring i had to find out what it was

[bent7054]

This reminds me of my youth. In the late 50s early 60s AFN was the music station. There was a programme called Night Train The intro music was by Glen Grey and to end the !st half was Henry Mancini's Dreamsville. A summary of news was followed by part 2 this always began with Erroll Garner and his composition Dreamy. As you can guess this was a late night music programme. All were records. Here in England there was really no such programmes.

[Foofnagel]

This was Peter Gunn's "hookup" music with Lola Albright. Simple black cocktail dress, shoes off on the couch, martinis. Ain't life sweet.

[vynilistic]

There's a vocal version on Mancini's 1963 album, "Our Man In Hollywood."

[msaya]

They just used this as background music to an episode of "Nip/Tuck" last nite. It made some of the interplay between the characters more poignant.

[boomerblonde]

You are right. People have been going crazy on the fx website, trying to find out what the music was! Including me!

[dudahead]

Henry Mancini was so talented. Everything he wrote stood on its own with only a minimum of echo from any of his other works.

[amtrakatsfnyc]

Nice memory from the past for it reminds me of the first time that I heard this when I purchased the LP Music From Peter Gunn sometime in the late 60s. Thank you for posting this beautiful composition.

[frankiehearts]

This number puts me into "Dreamsville!"

[HenriMesquida]

In the album"The music from Peter Gun",the19th record must sell in the 50th.

[islanddaddy1987]

very relaxing and mellow.This music puts me in a good place!!!