Henry Mancini Hatari! Hybrid Stereo SACD

Hybrid Stereo SACD!
Remastered By Ryan Smith At Sterling Sound From Original Analog Tapes!
Coming off a double Oscar win for his Breakfast at Tiffany's score, Henry Mancini produced this score for the Howard Hawks-directed, John Wayne-starring safari comedy Hatari!.
Henry Mancini was already one of the great Hollywood film composers due to his successful soundtracks to the crime series "Peter Gunn" and to "Breakfast At Tiffany's", for which he received two Oscars in 1962, when he was commissioned to compose the music for the safari comedy "Hatari!" with John Wayne in the lead role. Originally, Jerry Goldsmith was supposed to write the film's score, but director Howard Hawks fired him because he wanted to use strings in the adventure film and hired Mancini.
He furnished it with a collection of African musical instruments that Hawks had acquired during his stay in Tanzania. Equipped in this way, Mancini created an original and elegant blend of Western jazz and African exoticism, skilfully incorporating the Tanzanian instruments into the musical accompaniment of Hawk's film.
Thanks to Analogue Productions and remastered from the original analogue tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Mancini's extraordinary score for "Hatari!" with the crazy classic "Baby Elephant Walk" is now available on SACD.
"This is at first a fun blend of jazz and Afro-exotica, jungle drums mixed with a classic bop combo. Elsewhere, however, the soundtrack opts for some pleasant, but very Western jazz, only stopping for the African instrument-sampler "The Sounds of Hatari," which features some nice treated piano. The filmmakers were probably hoping that the Mercer and Carmichael song "Just for Tonight" would be as much a success as Tiffany's "Moon River," but if Hatari! is memorable for anything, it's for the incredibly goofy "Baby Elephant Walk," which has gone on to be infamous musical shorthand for kookiness of any stripe." - AllMusic.com.
Now Music from the Paramount Picture score Hatari! is back bigger and better than ever the deluxe Analogue Productions treatment remastered from the original analog tape by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound and now available as a Hybrid Stereo SACD. A great title, a brilliant reissue what could be better?
"All of this sounds amazing on one of Mancini's best Living Stereo recordings... [T]hese SACDS are sonic classics that probably come as close as possible to the sound of the original LPs." - Arthur Lintgen, The Absolute Sound, April 2017

Features:

• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound from original analog tape
  

Selections:

1. Theme from "Hatari!"
2. Baby Elephant Walk
3. Just For Tonight
4. Your Father's Feathers
5. Night Side
6. Big Band Bwana
7. The Sounds of Hatari
8. The Soft Touch
9. Crocodile, Go Home!