Breakfast At Tiffany's: Music From The Motion Picture Score
When you think ofHenry  Mancini, you inevitably think of either "Peter Gunn" or "Moon River." (Well, maybe  "The Pink Panther"--but that became a cartoon show, so it doesn't count!)Breakfast at  Tiffany'sgave the world the latter tune, and that beautiful melody recurs throughout  this soundtrack LP, which remained No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts for 12 weeks in  1961. (Music for Peter Gunnin 1959 was Mancini's only other No. 1  album.) The soundtrack doesn't include Andy Williams's hit single of "Moon River," but  then neither did the film. It does, however, take you through the many moods of the film  (and the exploits of Miss Holly Golightly), with an emphasis on Latin influences in the  forms of "Latin Golightly" and "Moon River Cha Cha." Nevertheless, one common  complaint has been that RCA could've remastered the music and added additional tracks  to flesh out the CD. Maybe in the future...--Bill Holdship