Pink Panther & Henry Mancini Slideshow~ "Baby Elephant Walk"

[NipkowDisk]

Such a superb tune, thanks a million for posting it! Takes me WAY back to a much simpler era.

[brianjlg]

This is the best Ozzy Osbourne song out there. He's awesome on this one.

[cmulwee001]

If I remember correctly, the cover version by Lawrence Welk was an almost exact copy of Henry Mancini's, correct?

And believe or not,there are words to this song.

[Satchmoeddie]

@cmulwee001 I would imagine the words are like some other songs and added later by some other "lyricist". The them from Bonanza is really corny with words. I got kicked out of Guitar center today when I played this as fat people walked in. I suspect it was that and some other things that I played that were politically incorrect regarding other customers. The Japanese guy did nothing but laugh when I played the old WWII era movie staple pentatonic chord, or other old phrases indicating race.

[Shiyakugan1]

Is it just me or did the music continue after the video's over?

[dubhippy]

how can you listen to this song without a smile on your face?

how?

definitive version too.

[joebadams4]

i agree with u 100%

[suzythescreenwriter]

I love this song!

[ChipMaplewood]

Does anybody know, this is a soprano saxophone?

[Shiyakugan1]

It's Eb Clarinet.

[fishypaw]

I'm guessing clarinet at the start and holding the main melody with a bit of sax (tenor, perhaps) and trumpet thrown in.

[joebadams4]

lol i been trying to find this song xD and its been my favorate for years

[badbazsz]

wooo raving song!!!

[nigetherigel]

what a tune!

[OIMC]

Great job, and tribute to the grat Henry Mancini. Thank you. Greetings from Bogotá.

[200210335]

this should be a theme song to a cartoon!

[rifraf]

great song! we are playing this in band and the trumpets mysteriously get the mealody.! fantastic song

[jillian7646]

THIS VIDEO IS TOTALLY ROCKIN'!!! I LOVE ITS TUNE!!!!!! **two thumbs up**

[BilboMisty]

I plyed this song in Honor Orchestra a few years ago...I play violin.

[wenc1023]

LOL this is the tune that Joey from Friends was humming

[LOLOLOLSEAN]

this song right here is been ma favrit song fer years

[Prinz900]

this song is so great!!!

and it is not hard to play it on the clarinet

[tomtheft]

this song is the coolest. We played in my high school orchestra, and it was great fun.

[soisitok]

Hi Tom, You are so right.

[wasserdagger]

I love this arrangement, nameley the instruments playing the deep bass notes juxtaposed against the organ and piccolo playing the high treble notes.

[wasserdagger]

I love this arrangement, namely the extreme spread between the instruments playing the deep bass notes juxtaposed against the organ and piccolo playing the high treble notes.

[purplespark22]

this song is sooo cute!!! ♥

[tdude129]

great tune and animatinons can't get the tune out of my head

[Philmoscowitz]

what movie is this song from?

[wasserdagger]

This song's been used in recent years in a few TV shows, but I believe it originally appeared in a 1962 movie called "Hatari!" starring John Wayne.

[SubitC]

This is not a song tune from the film Hatari by john Wayne

[Lauren032303]

i no that song is completly different

[beccagirl45]

my mom said she used to love listening to this song when she was a little kid, and this is a great song!!!!!

[XiaoJjang]

Gotta love the question and answer during 1:12 to 1:20.

[Telospathic]

Ha ha he blinks... This song is even better in Simpsons, when the fat guy is jiggling to it.

[callthemall]

lol ! we're playing this song in band class at school!! and I accidentally came across this! awesome! :P

[BigFatSissy]

A thing of beauty. Thank you...

[RoninTXBR549]

Henry Mancini = musical genius! Thanks for posting a great slide show!!!

[sopwith74]

Reported to whom? United Artists? Paramount?

[Kellsifer1300]

i luv playing this song on my saxophone

[multipass777]

There's a lot of ok versions of their music,

but there's something about Mancini and his orchestra, it's the best.

[dan52426]

is that a dabble jazz flute at 1.45?

love the song and the slide show

[Nicewarmandcozee]

Lol. Sounds like a baby elephant. I'm such a geek, when I was in jr. high, I'd go to the library and check out Mancini's popular hits. It had Peter Gunn, the Pink Panther theme, Baby Elephant Walk, etc. We also played this in jr. high band. Lmao. This song is cute though. It's funny how instruments and music and make you feel things, remember things, see things.

[banalexistence]

funny

[PolishRoots]

Groovy..... :>)

[qusoccergrl]

this song sounds so innocent!

[muzvitten1234]

in my band were playing this on accordion and it sounds very good actually

[emilysayshi1234]

love playing it love listening to it

[Deltacraft]

this song is funny!!!!!!

[hubbytyler]

I like it very very much much. Bravo 5++

[markp64]

iconic of 60's cooool...

[Kdees]

Thweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeet , check the skatalites version

[Fersommling]

This song was written for a John Wayne safari movie, set in Africa, and came out around 1962I Forget the name of the film.

[JANXDPDX]

Hatari!

[RockinRobin411]

This is probably your best.

[Raddz]

Thank you... Katie Renton... I'm laughing...and loling oh yeh and I just pissed myself!

[Francologne]

Wonderful video! The guy is a f*$%ing MAESTRO. I love his melodies. Thank you very much for posting the song!

[artbycheri]

hey ya'all our baby elephant is doing fine here in the Portland Oregon Zoo.......from an animal enthusiastic...I thought of this song today when the news showed us annother update on the "little" cutie peace people

[SHRINA17]

This song always made me laugh! I love it so much...it just cracks me up in the best way!

[ellada4eva]

This song rocks

It reminds me of Drama class

We had to act with this song

SO COOL!!!!

[cifey]

fun to play along with on guitar.

I am playing it over an F Bflat C chords, guess it's some kind of pentatnonic scale.

[robertafaieta]

il video mi fa ricordare tnt cose... dopo tt lo ha suonato un ragazzo...muy particular...skz!!!

bacibaci ..

"rorita"

[emilysayshi1234]

this song sounds really good with strings,sax,cello,bass and drums but i have to say this sounds better

[aimless0sax]

ah this is a nice song..

i can play it on the saxophone, and i love it!

[emilysayshi1234]

THIS SONG ROCKS!!!

[anglchoo]

It is a lovely piece. I recalled how I joined in group dancing following the baby elephant steps. It was the old good time which I shared with my old buddies.

[JuliaRox82]

:) :o :d :> :D its awesome!!!

[edwardscissorhands7]

lol i love it past death and beyond.....

i love the bum bum in the background.......

like tuba or whatever that would be.....

yeah anywho i love it....

lol right???

[emilysayshi1234]

im gonna play this song for my orchestra

[fusigidana]

Thank you for posting this song. It brings back my childhood memories....

[webkinzgallygal70]

i luv dis song odlies gotta lov em

[o0o0o0AH0o0o0o]

OMFG! I miss this!

[nilknarfnwob18]

i love this song!! :D it's amazing!! XD

[tyxxie]

this is the song that joey (FRIENDS) "sings" in his head in season 3 ...jiji

[drocashakli]

i love this song:D

[waheiki]

Wow, this is well cool.

[Juliaflo]

This has a beat you can line dance to.

[InuyashasMaDawg]

Lol xD

[peainsoup]

Pink Panther is the best!!!

better without him talking though

still love him

[Lisakathy]

Jiieeeeey ^^

[arriviste1887]

einfach göttlich^^

[brcbrtn]

Wasn't this composed for the baby elephant scene in the John Wayne film "Hatari!" ?

[Bret360]

it sure was

[Stevano1516]

our school reese high played Mancini Magic on Tuesday!!! Clarinets rock they have the best part for Baby Elephant Walk!

[iheartmsn]

I danced to this in a dance thing. My teacher from school teaches choir, Does Road Crew (Special chorus), and taught the dance. Her name is Julie HUdson and her husband owns HUdson's Hamburgers. NOT KIDDING

[redknight802]

i wish i could play this as my walking music.

[dale1966gto]

I think this is the original Mancini arrangement. I mourned his death for over a week as most musicians did. A dark day for musicians everywhere. The term "muscial genius" is used far too often for muscians like for instance Ray Charles. OK, kudos for being a blind piano player - with a great ear for rhytmn and style, but muscical GENIUS? Doubtful.

Mancini was a genius in that not only was he an accomplished musician, he COMPOSED hundreds of songs. 40 Grammys and 4 Oscars!

[aquaticanteater]

i really love henry mancini!

[mazoo16]

I just played this song in a school thing. On monday.

[alexwallygymnast]

i love this song and the ppl

[miratua]

I playing also this song in a fanfare

[michael3005]

i play this song in the union musicale de st leonard and it's brilliant we played this in a concert the other week

[Thebazila1]

Im playin this song in band right now

[Nalaqueen4566]

me too! it is so fun!

[andrewburbidge]

A wonderful piece of music and a great compilation of slides. The music is a bit like the them of The Munsters.

[trisiti]

It really is like the Munsters theme. :-/

*Goes off to watch My Cousin Vinnie*

[jijiji91]

Lool

[applekillerguy]

and if anyone really doesnt know he wrote the theme of the pink panther

[pedrofezz217189]

i am in band for my high school, and i play this music. its a very good piece of music. it won us our trophy. it rocks!!!!!(though, it sounds better this way if you have the essential instruments)^.^

[ACDCTOBBBY]

Henry Mancini wrote the song...

[hihi2040]

thanx

[hihi2040]

please don't give me a thumbs down for this but who is Henry Mancini??

I'm playing this song in band right now

[sgvsocal]

he was a vryy great composer,who wrote music for motion picture,for decades. I guess you could say that he was the Danny Elfman of his day.

[sgvsocal]

he was a comoser for movies,just like Danny Elfman is today.

[hihi2040]

I'm playing this in band too

[THaulk]

This kind o music is a treasure, and I agree, we need a LOT more of this!!

[PkRaGedPk]

lol this song is funny :D :P

[USACutieUSA]

My band is playin this it awesome

[bmxroxs]

im playing this is orchestra

[micblikechick]

i'm playin this in band! :D

[BipedalMammal]

I'm playing this in my head!

[councillor1968]

A very very thin Panther (UNDERNOURISH). We had two Panthers in our local Zoo where I live. It manage to free it self and escape because it was not being fed for days. Thats not all, the Peacocks in my zoo has no FEATHERS !!

[LoveyDovey586]

im playing this 4 band!!!

[LoveyDovey586]

this is one of my band songs!

[NormanLFraser]

Great stuff, need more music like this !!!

[NormanLFraser]

Great stuff, need more music like this !!!

[urvadder]

great video!

[LUCfromargentina]

I love the pink panther GREAT!"

[unknown2021]

yay for pink panther