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Composed and Conducted by Henry Mancini (from the sound track of the NBC-TV series

"Peter Gunn”)

SIDE 1 Peter Gunn • Sorta Blue • The Brothers Go to Mother’s Dreamsville • Session at Pete’s Pad • Soft Sounds

In an industry often referred to as “cannibalistic,” swept as it is by constant change and unpredictable developments, we at Spartan Productions were faced with the compelling need for something genuinely new in dramatic television. When the idea for Peter Gunn was still incubating, the vital question was: How do we set the Peter Gunn show apart from other mystery-adventure series?

We already had many exciting components, but what was missing was some distinctive element to invest this series with something extra, something super¬ lative. It hit me then—jazz. If we could use the music as an integral part of the dramatic action, fusing story-line and score, we should have something very worthwhile.

By sustaining the jazz background and source music throughout the show’s 39-week run, I strongly feel we have given the program a positive identification, not to speak of attracting the viewers into an awareness of this vital musical form.

As creator of the show, I naturally insisted on using live music throughout. In this case esthetic necessity was implemented by the fact that many of the nation’s greatest jazz musicians are in the Hollywood area—an ideal opportunity to handpick the most creative jazzmen. To give us the musical background re¬ quired, we also needed a composer with roots in the jazz idiom, one who could interpret dramatic action in the language of modern jazz. Henry Mancini is that composer.

“Hank” Mancini, only thirty-four, had already written for such films as “The Benny Goodman Story,” Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil” and “The Glenn Miller

SIDE 2 Fallout! • The Floats - Slow and Easy A Profound Gass • Brief and Breezy • Not from Dixie

Story.” For his contribution to the latter he was nominated, at twenty-eight, for an Academy Award.

Currently the music director of Spartan Productions, Mancini can now claim the distinction of being the first musican to compose modern jazz for the sound track of a filmed television series.

The music in this album offers an excellent sampling of the sounds you’re likely to hear any Monday eve when Peter Gunn swings into action on NBC-TV. The musicians are the same jazzmen who are heard to outstanding advantage in all the programs: Here are some of them:

Drummer Jack Sperling and bassist Roily Bundock state the show’s forceful opening motif, Fallout! The raw-sounding trumpet belongs to Pete Candoli, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands. Dreamsville, which might be subtitled “a love refrain for hipsters,” features a moving alto sax solo by Ted Nash; his brother Dick can be heard dueting with fellow trombonist Milt Bernhart on Session at Pete’s Pad. Saxist Ronnie Lang, who, in common with most of the musicians here, is a graduate of the Les Brown band, wields a bulging baritone on Sorta Blue. Other soloists at Mother’s, the nitery where Peter Gunn hangs his Brooks Brothers jacket, are vibist Larry Bunker and pianist Johnny T. Williams.

This music is Peter Gunn’s kind of jazz. I think you’ll find that it’s your kind, too.

Blake Edwards

© by Radio Corporation of America, 1959

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THE MUSIC

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Recorded in Hollywood, August 26 and 31, and September 4 and 29, 1958. Composed and conducted by Henry Mancini. Album produced by Simon Rady.

IMPORTANT NOTICE—This is a TRUE STEREOPHONIC RECORD specifically designed to be played only on phonographs equipped for stereophonic reproduction. This record will also give outstanding monaural performance on many conventional high fidelity phonographs by a replacement of the cartridge. See your local dealer or serviceman.

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WHAT IS STEREOPHONIC SOUND? Stereophonic sound on records is finally here. It will be widely discussed, widely writ¬ ten about, and, perhaps, widely misunderstood. It cannot help but be; it is a complex

achievement as well as an extraordinary one. We offer the following primer on the

subject with the hope that it will both help you in understanding how and why stereo works and enhance the hours of listening pleasure stereo will offer you in your home.

Before stereo recording techniques were developed, the impulses of music were picked up by only one microphone. These impulses were then fed to one tape and from

there to the conventional, monaural record, which you heard in your living-room through one loudspeaker. The conventional record offered brilliant sound and exciting

sound, but, of necessity, it also offered only one-dimensional sound.

Microphone

Now, the simple and obvious fact remains that we all have two ears, and we are used

to hearing things dimensionally. Generally speaking, your left ear has a tendency to hear what goes on in the left side of a room, your right ear, what goes on in the right

side of a room. Your brain then does two jobs. It combines both the impression received by the left ear and that received by the right ear into one total impression which we

call music. At the same time, it retains the spatial or dimensional impression, music

to the left and music to the right.

Let’s compare hearing to seeing for a moment. You see images on your left with your

left eye, images on the right with your right eye. Yet, because your brain can do two

jobs at once, you get a total unified picture in its true perspective.

Stereo sound is simply the attempt to give you music as it is heard by both ears.

Essentially, what happens is that two microphones, left and right, pick up what goes on in the orchestra at the recording session. These two microphones feed the musical impulses to two soundtracks on tape. The two soundtracks are then pressed into the

grooves on a stereo record.

The sound from a record partly depends upon how the needle moves or vibrates. For

example, when Edison designed his phonograph to play cylindrical records, he made

the needle vibrate up and down. This is called the “hill and dale” system, or vertical

cutting.

On a conventional, monaural record, however, the needle moves from side to side, or

laterally. The lateral movement has been used ever since the flat record replaced

Edison’s cylinder.

What about the stereo record? Each groove on the stereo record has two sound tracks containing both lateral and vertical modulation. In order to pick up the two sound tracks, a stereophonic cartridge equipped with a small diameter stylus has been developed to move both laterally and vertically simultaneously. This stylus reproduces

the lateral and vertical modulations contained in each groove wall and channels the information to the proper amplifier and speaker. The information contained on the

inner groove wall is fed to the right hand speaker whereas the information on the

outer groove wall is fed to the left hand speaker.

The net of it is an overlapping and blend¬ ing which gives music a more natural, more dimensional sound. For the first time, your ears will be able to distinguish where each instrument and voice comes from—left, right or center. In short, en¬

veloped in solid sound, you will hear

music in truer perspective.

Stereophonic sound is the latest step in an improvement process that began about

80 years ago. In listening to it, you will enjoy the highest achievement yet in the

art of recording.

When you “go Stereo”—either by acquiring a new stereo phonograph, or by converting your present set— your library of “monaural” record¬ ings does not become obsolete. Quite the contrary — stereo reproducing equipment brings out the best in any recording, monaural or stereo.

RCA Victor now offers an already large —and rapidly growing—selec¬ tion of the music you want, per¬ formed by the world’s greatest art¬ ists, on LIVING STEREO long play records.

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