“Pink Panther” and its inexhaustible music/Destamrizad Mr. Composer! – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
Mehr News Agency – Art Group – Alireza Saidi: The function of the title is something similar to a book cover, whose designer tries to inform the audience of a work by selecting elements, forms and arrangements with the help of graphics and music. The conditions that he presents to the audience are sometimes very careful, thoughtful and calculated, and sometimes they are made so coldly and based on the fulfillment of a mandatory task that they take the viewer away from the basis of a visual effect.
What became an excuse to return to the keyword “credits” once again is a review of the most lasting and memorable music related to some programs and movies and television works, which for many audiences include bitter and sweet memories, and refer to them again for us every Circumstances can bring a world of memories. The memory game, which after its launch and publication in Nowruz, was welcomed by 1400 audiences, prompted us to entrust our souls and minds to it in the form of a weekly memory game on Fridays every week, and from its passage to the years when we are better than these troubled days. It was, let’s go.
“Memories with lasting titles” is the title of a series of archival reports with the same approach, which you can follow on a weekly basis in the art group of Mehr News Agency.
In the sixty-sixth issue of this media narrative, we went to the title music of the “Pink Panther” cartoon, which is undoubtedly one of the most unforgettable, memorable and audible title music that not only the sixties television audience, but also the current audience of cartoons and colorful animation programs Iranian television and the world have experienced a closeness and a different feeling with it, which definitely contains unforgettable memories in the memory box of their listening minds and they will keep it for themselves forever.
A melody full of fantasy and a good feeling that whether by watching that attractive pink panther or not, we can travel to the world of fantasy dreams and fantasy that we need a lot these days and we want to see and listen to such works from the inflammatory and sad times. Just be a little further away.
Extremely nostalgic music with old and old images that all generations of Iranian society play with, and even if they are seventy years old, they like to watch the pseudo-leopard stunt in which the ignorant but funny police officer still creates pure moments. And it’s funny what a magical melody with the soul and fantasies of a mind involved in any part of the world can’t do with them.
The music of “Pink Panther” is full of memories, dreams, and identification, which fulfills its task in the process of transferring thoughts to the audience in the best possible way, and it also contains so many techniques, creativity and tactics in the field of design and composition that not only It is still one of the most popular pieces of music for music education fields, but it is also the source of the production of all kinds of music that can be focused on with any instrument. The music, with its reliable content, can definitely be called one of the most history-making and effective animations in history and be considered as an important reference in this field.
“Pink Panther” is a cartoon character in the Pink Panther film series, whose popularity has spawned several series of short films and television cartoons. Although many believe that the popularity of this cartoon character, regardless of the content and the stories told to him, is mostly due to the music and song that Henry Manchanini made for this work. Of course, it is interesting to know that based on what is written about this character in the media and editorials, “The pink panther is actually a panther resulting from a very rare genetic mutation that gives a beautiful color to this animal, and this cartoon is actually for getting to know more about This is how it was.”
In the early 1960s, Freeze Furlong and David Pati founded a company called “Depatie-Furlong Enterprises”. It was at the same time that one day Blake Edwards (the director of the Pink Panther films) in the presence of a person named Peter Sellers suggested to Depatie to use the character of the Pink Panther in the title of one of the films in this series.
Depatie and his assistants tested nearly 100 designs of this character, and in the end, they settled on this skinny pink panther, whose main character design was a person named Holly Pratt. It was precisely in this area that this small piece was placed on one of the Pink Panther movies with the presence of this cartoon character and it was very popular with the viewers.
It was here that Freeze and Depatie decided to create a cartoon series of this character. Of course, Friez was unhappy in the beginning and when Depatie’s talks with Herald Mirish and United Artist’s satisfaction reached the desired result, he was also in the field. They decided to make 156 stories from this collection, and of course, they promised to return 25% of the sales to Depati and Freeze.
The first part of this series (the same part where the pink panther fights with another character over the color of the house) won the Oscar 1964 and the group, with a firmer determination, produced one part of this series every month, which received a stunning reception all over the world, especially in Europe.
But as explained earlier, one of the important and key factors in the remarkable and global success of the “Pink Panther” project was the incredibly attractive music of this animation, which was composed by Henry Manchanini for the series of films of this work and even received a nomination in 1994. The Oscar was the best soundtrack. Meanwhile, the American Film Foundation (AFI) announced the Pink Panther soundtrack as the 20th best soundtrack of the last hundred years.
Many believe that the popularity of this cartoon character, regardless of the content and stories told to him, is mostly due to the music and song that Henry Manchanini made for this work. Enrico Nicola Mancini, known as Henry Mancini, who died in 1994 at the age of 70, was an Italian American composer and conductor who won four Oscars, one Golden Globe and two Grammys during his career. .
Henry Mancini’s parents were Italian immigrants who came to America from the Abruzzo region of Italy. Henry’s father was a blacksmith and he made a piccolo flute for little Henry. He started learning the piano when he was 12 years old. After high school, he went to New York’s Juilliard School, but after one year, he joined the US Army. He entered the music profession in 1946 and worked as a musician and arranger of Glenn Miller’s orchestra. Of course, after Mancini shone in the music of the film “Abbott and Costello” in 1952, he became famous as a film composer. So that the Universal film company employed him full time for its programs.
Mancini wrote the score for Orson Welles’ film “Mark of Evil” in 1958, which he said was one of his best works of that period. Orson Welles asked him to create a realistic work, and in this film, Mancini created the realism in the best possible way, focusing on the core of the film and adapting the music to it, by employing several street musicians in the style of jazz music.
Now the whole world knew Henry Mancini as a famous musician and composer. Other works of his film music include “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “Victoria”, “Days of Wine and Rose”, “Hatari”, “Walking the Baby Elephant”, “Pink Panther”, “Mama”.
But everyone knows that one of his most famous works is the soundtrack of the cartoon series “Pink Panther”, which was chosen among the 20 best soundtracks of the last century. The soundtrack of the film and the theme of “Pink Panther” written in the style of Jaz. An interesting point is that Henry Mancini based some of the notes on the body movements of the “Pink Panther” cartoon.
Mancini started composing music in the first half of the 1950s, and over the course of forty years, he created some of the best works in the field of film music. Of course, although he created his works mainly in the style of jazz music, his music is not limited to a certain style, both pop and jazz works and classical works can be seen in his works. He has led orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Pop Boston and a number of other ensembles.
In any case, the music of the “Pink Panther” cartoon series is one of the most memorable and nostalgic title music, which has become the most popular and lasting melodies that people are familiar with, not only in Iran but also in all parts of the world. The music, which at least for the 60s has a double charm that can never be forgotten, and whenever we hear its fantasy melody, we say: “Long live Mr. Composer!”.