May 8, 2024 • 20 mins
Today, Henry Mancini is recognized as one of Hollywood's greatest composers, creating the 'Pink Panther Theme' and 'Moon River' from Breakfast at Tiffany's among other pieces. Lesser known, however, is that Henry's life started in a steel town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here to tell his story, and the story of their life together, is Henry's wife, Virginia Mancini.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
And we returned to our American stories, and up next
a story from the late Virginia Mancini, the wife of
Henry Mancini, one of America's greatest film composers. If you
don't know his name, you certainly know his compositions, which
include the Pink Panther theme and Moon River from Breakfast
(00:31):
at Tiffany's. Here's our own Monte Montgomery. They get us
started with the story.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
American composer Henry Mancini was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on
April sixteenth, nineteen twenty four. But that's not where he
grew up. Here's his wife, Virginia Virginny with the rest
of the story.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Henry grew up in West all Equippa, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh,
in a steel town, and his father worked at Jones
and Laughlin's steel mill, and Henry had a very modest childhood.
West all equipp you have to understand, is on the
(01:21):
wrong side of the tracks, and many Europeans settled there,
especially Italians. They were a very poor Italian family, and
they were very close and it was a very small town.
So his life was fairly simple. And once his father
(01:42):
realized that he didn't want his son to go to
work in the steel mill. He turned him on to
the flute because his father played the flute, and when
his father came down with the months in his frustration,
he handed Henry the flute and taught him to play,
and they both played in the Sons of Italy band
(02:05):
in West Deliquippa. So that was Henry's introduction to music
and he loved it. And there's a part in his
history that talks about his father taking him into Pittsburgh
to see the movie and the stage show at the
I forget the name of the theater, but one of
(02:27):
the most popular theaters in Pittsburgh. The drama captured Henry
in ways that he never realized because he thought the
music was being played live behind the screen, and when
he found out that it was recorded, he was fascinated
with the whole way movies are put together and the
(02:47):
music is there to create the emotional reaction that you're
looking for, and that fascinated him to the point where
his instincts told him to just do what he felt
like doing. Eventually, you know, he followed his intuition and
(03:09):
it paid off because once he graduated from high school,
he had a chance to go to Juilliard and the music.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Business Mancini would also serve during World War Two, where
he'd make strong connections with fellow musicians, meeting members of
the Glenn Miller Band after the war, and when the
Glenn Miller Band reformed sans Glen Miller, he'd become their
piano player. But how did Ginny meet Henry? It starts
(03:41):
with American musician Mellotormee.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I worked with Mel Doormat for three and a half years,
some of the most fun times of my young life.
And when Mel was advised to go out on his
own as a solar performer, I didn't know where my
next Neil was going to come from. So I got
(04:06):
a call one day from a friend who said that
tex Benecke was out here with the Glenn Miller Orchestra
and was going to be at the Hollywood Palladium, and
the vocal group that had been with the band decided
to leave in Hollywood and they needed a new girl singer.
(04:29):
So I had nothing better to do, and I went
down to the Million Dollar Theater in downtown LA and
walked into Texas dressing room where the auditions were being
held and There was a tall, young Italian at the
piano named Henry Mancini who was playing for the auditions.
(04:49):
All the rest of the orchestra was out on the
golf course, so he was a little bit peeved that
he had to stay back to play for the auditions.
I don't remember what I sang for my audition, but
I did get hired, and never having been out of
California before, I left on a train with thirty six
(05:12):
strange musicians for a tour for two months, for a
tour across the country, starting with a week at the
Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco. On the way to
San Francisco, the young Italian piano player sat down on
(05:34):
the train beside me and said, you know, I do
some arranging for the band. Is there anything in particular
you would like to sing? And it was October of
nineteen forty six and Nat king Cole had just recorded
the Christmas song the one that is such a standard,
(05:58):
Today's Roasting on the open Fire that one. It was
about to be released and it was timely, so I
suggested that meanwhile, we're in San Francisco and now we're
on a tour for two months, across the country. When
we arrived in New York mid December, I was rather
(06:25):
stupid about weather. Arrived in a cloth coat mid December
in freezing New York City. At any rate, it was
there that I heard what Henry wrote on score paper
that got my attention. I knew I never wanted to
(06:45):
be married to a traveling musician because I saw how
hard it was on the orchestra wives. It was only
when I realized that he had potential that I really
sought his attention, and I on one side of the stage,
(07:08):
he at the piano on the other side of the stage.
The band certainly knew that I had eyes for the
young Italian piano player. We began to date, go out
to dinner after the job and on our week off
at Christmas time. I didn't have it. I wasn't making
(07:29):
enough money to fly home to California. So he said,
I'm going to my home in Aliquippa, and you're welcome
to come with me. So I agreed to go, knowing
that would give me an opportunity to see what his
relationship was with his mother. My measure of a good
(07:52):
husband was a loving relationship with his mother, and I
had the opportunity to witness Henry's loving kindness with his mother,
and I was impressed with that.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And you've been listening to Virginia Mancini tell the story
of Henry Mancini, the world famous composer. And when she
met him, he was a keyboardist piano player for a
large traveling band, the old Glenn Miller Band. And in
the end they struck up a romance and she got
to take not only the musical measure of the man,
(08:32):
but the character of the man as well. As she said,
I had eyes for the young Italian piano player, but
by invitation to his home she was able to, as
she said, quote take my measure of a good husband, which,
as she said, was his relationship with his mother. When
we come back, more of the life story of Henry Mancini,
(08:54):
and in a way, the story of his bride, Virginia Mancini,
and the story of a time in America, a distinct
time in America, post War America. Here on our American stories,
(09:39):
and we're back with our American stories and the story
of Henry Mancini, the composer of such classics as Moon
River and the Pink Panther Theme among other compositions, and
it's being told by his bride, Virginia Mancini. We were
commenting during the break about the fact that Henry Mancini
came up and grew up in a steel town, and
(10:02):
what a thing about this country that you can grow
up in a working class town like that and imagine
yourself to become well, almost anything. When we last left off,
Virginia Mancini, his widow, was telling us about Henry's early
life in Pennsylvania and how they met after World War Two.
Let's continue with the story.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When we got married. I was making thirty six dollars
a year on the fifteen minute radio show. Henry was
making fifty two dollars unemployment insurance, and we didn't have
a care in the world. We managed to pay our bills,
pay our rent. I was still singing back up for people.
(10:48):
One of them was Betty Hutton, major major star at
Paramount Studios, and she asked me if I would accompany
her to London where she was playing a month at
the London Palladium. And she was opening on my first
wedding anniversary, and she was offering me some good money.
(11:12):
So I went home and I said Henry, I would
never do this except without your permission. But Betty Hutton
has asked me to go with her to the London
Palladium for a month. How do you feel about that?
And he said, well, why don't you do that? Said
it's okay with me. So on our opening night, my
(11:35):
first wedding anniversary, a big bouquet of flowers came into
my big tub of a dressing room of you know,
washing tub. While I'm at the London Palladium, he has
a gig at the Hollywood Palladium playing the Glockenspiel on
(11:55):
I'm looking over a four leaf clover, and he hates
he did singing it. He didn't mind playing the Glocktspiel,
but the whole band had a sing I'm looking over
a rough four leaf clover, and he would not sing.
He would play the Glockenspiel but not sing. And one
night the band leader saw him not singing fired him
(12:18):
off the bandstand right then and there. So when I
came home from the London Palladium, he picked me up
at the airport and I said, Henry, how did he
go with the Hollywood Palladium. He said, I got fired
because I wouldn't sing I'm looking over a four leaf
clover anyway. That was that chapter in Our Lives.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And in nineteen fifty two, Mancini would join the Universal
Music Department, where he'd gone to have a hand in
working with the scores of over one hundred different films.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
His time at Universal was like going to harm great
training experience for him to be on salary, and we
knew he could always depend on a check at the
end of the week, and that's where he got his training.
He was working constantly on every film you could think of.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And it was there that he meet Blake Edwards, an
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. If you don't know him,
he directed Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Just by accident, Blake Edwards and Henry were on the
Universal lot at the same time. Henry was there to
get a haircut and they were about to have lunch
and they met in the commissary. Blake happened to mention
to Henry that he was about to do a television
series called Peter Gunn would he be interested in doing
(13:49):
the music. Henry, of course, thinking it was a Western,
said sure, why not, I'd love to do it. He
said no, no, no, no, this is not a western
this is about a private detective named Peter gunn Well.
That was a turning point in our lives because it
became such a worldwide hit, and still today that album
(14:13):
cover is treasured worldwide. We had always tried to plan
to go to Europe at some point in our lives,
and we would say, one day we're going to go
to Europe. One day we're going to go to Europe.
And I said, Henry, I don't care when, but let's
(14:33):
book it. Let's book it now. So we booked a
trip from New York to Southampton on the SS France,
first class all the way for six weeks. We had
saved six thousand dollars. So when we sailed on the
SS France, it so happened that Blake Edwards and Maurice
(14:57):
Rischlin were writing a script on a story called The
Pink Panther, So they would be in their staterooms writing
all day long, and at dinner time we would all
converge at the dinner table for drinks and laughs and
the rest of the evening. We were on a six
(15:20):
week tour of every wonderful country Spain, France, the Netherlands
of Finland, Sweden. We did it all in six weeks
on six thousand dollars. Can you imagine. So while we
were there, it's when Peter Gunn hit and we knew
(15:41):
that when we came home we didn't have to worry.
The first royalty check from ASCAP for Peter Gunn was
thirty two thousand dollars. We couldn't imagine having that much
money in the bank. When Henry had an assignment, I
(16:04):
used to hear him composing a way upstairs in his
music room, and it always sounded so beautiful to me
just to hear the notes come out. Anyway, when he
was finished with a segment, he would call me on
the phone. He said, you want to come up and
hear something. And I was always the first one to
(16:26):
react to what he had written, and it was mostly
always always positive. I loved the experience of hearing what
he wrote for the first time of anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'll planet and one song that Henry composed and Jenny
managed to hear pretty early on was moon River from
Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's a song that sins been covered
by Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Chevy Chase, Frank Ocean and
Morrissey of all people. But the song almost didn't make
it onto the big screen.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You know. When Breakfast at Tiffany's was finished, Paramount decided
to take it to San Francisco to preview it, and
when it was over, we all met in Blake Edward's
suite in San Francisco to discuss, you know, what work
what didn't work, and it was obvious that things had
(17:24):
that was a little long, and there needed to be
cuts made here and there. One of the suggestions by
the head of the studio was that they cut the
song moon River. There was such silence in the room
that even Audrey took exception to that suggestion, after having
(17:49):
worked so hard to do it and learn it. And anyway,
it definitely stayed in the picture, as you know, and
thank got it did. He had a sense of melody
that very few good musicians have. And Moon River, I
(18:09):
do believe will live longer, longer, longer than any of us.
People will know that song forever. It has a lasting
quality about it that expresses everybody's feelings.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Henry Mansini would pass away on June fourteenth, nineteen ninety four,
at the age of seventy and Jenny adored every second
of their time together.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
My life with Henry was such a joy because his
temperament was so even. He would never get angry. He
would always he used to say, Jenny, when I has
to fly off the handle, he used to say, Ginny,
let four bars go by, meaning for bars of music,
(19:08):
before you say anything, before you react anyway. He taught
me a lot. He taught me a lot. My time
with Henry was over much too early. This year we
would have celebrated sixty nine years of marital bliss. Unfortunately
(19:28):
I was I was not able to keep him that long.
So I keep him alive through listening to his music
all the time. He's always there. He's always there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And a great job on the production by Monty Montgomery
and a special thanks to Philip Graham for helping us
gather the audio for this story. And a special thanks
to Virginia Mancini for telling her story and the story
of her husband, composer Henry Mancini. And it turns out
that Universal Music Department gig was the life changing the
(20:10):
story of Henry Mancini. Here on our American Story
And we returned to our American stories, and up next
a story from the late Virginia Mancini, the wife of
Henry Mancini, one of America's greatest film composers. If you
don't know his name, you certainly know his compositions, which
include the Pink Panther theme and Moon River from Breakfast
(00:31):
at Tiffany's. Here's our own Monte Montgomery. They get us
started with the story.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
American composer Henry Mancini was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on
April sixteenth, nineteen twenty four. But that's not where he
grew up. Here's his wife, Virginia Virginny with the rest
of the story.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Henry grew up in West all Equippa, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh,
in a steel town, and his father worked at Jones
and Laughlin's steel mill, and Henry had a very modest childhood.
West all equipp you have to understand, is on the
(01:21):
wrong side of the tracks, and many Europeans settled there,
especially Italians. They were a very poor Italian family, and
they were very close and it was a very small town.
So his life was fairly simple. And once his father
(01:42):
realized that he didn't want his son to go to
work in the steel mill. He turned him on to
the flute because his father played the flute, and when
his father came down with the months in his frustration,
he handed Henry the flute and taught him to play,
and they both played in the Sons of Italy band
(02:05):
in West Deliquippa. So that was Henry's introduction to music
and he loved it. And there's a part in his
history that talks about his father taking him into Pittsburgh
to see the movie and the stage show at the
I forget the name of the theater, but one of
(02:27):
the most popular theaters in Pittsburgh. The drama captured Henry
in ways that he never realized because he thought the
music was being played live behind the screen, and when
he found out that it was recorded, he was fascinated
with the whole way movies are put together and the
(02:47):
music is there to create the emotional reaction that you're
looking for, and that fascinated him to the point where
his instincts told him to just do what he felt
like doing. Eventually, you know, he followed his intuition and
(03:09):
it paid off because once he graduated from high school,
he had a chance to go to Juilliard and the music.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Business Mancini would also serve during World War Two, where
he'd make strong connections with fellow musicians, meeting members of
the Glenn Miller Band after the war, and when the
Glenn Miller Band reformed sans Glen Miller, he'd become their
piano player. But how did Ginny meet Henry? It starts
(03:41):
with American musician Mellotormee.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I worked with Mel Doormat for three and a half years,
some of the most fun times of my young life.
And when Mel was advised to go out on his
own as a solar performer, I didn't know where my
next Neil was going to come from. So I got
(04:06):
a call one day from a friend who said that
tex Benecke was out here with the Glenn Miller Orchestra
and was going to be at the Hollywood Palladium, and
the vocal group that had been with the band decided
to leave in Hollywood and they needed a new girl singer.
(04:29):
So I had nothing better to do, and I went
down to the Million Dollar Theater in downtown LA and
walked into Texas dressing room where the auditions were being
held and There was a tall, young Italian at the
piano named Henry Mancini who was playing for the auditions.
(04:49):
All the rest of the orchestra was out on the
golf course, so he was a little bit peeved that
he had to stay back to play for the auditions.
I don't remember what I sang for my audition, but
I did get hired, and never having been out of
California before, I left on a train with thirty six
(05:12):
strange musicians for a tour for two months, for a
tour across the country, starting with a week at the
Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco. On the way to
San Francisco, the young Italian piano player sat down on
(05:34):
the train beside me and said, you know, I do
some arranging for the band. Is there anything in particular
you would like to sing? And it was October of
nineteen forty six and Nat king Cole had just recorded
the Christmas song the one that is such a standard,
(05:58):
Today's Roasting on the open Fire that one. It was
about to be released and it was timely, so I
suggested that meanwhile, we're in San Francisco and now we're
on a tour for two months, across the country. When
we arrived in New York mid December, I was rather
(06:25):
stupid about weather. Arrived in a cloth coat mid December
in freezing New York City. At any rate, it was
there that I heard what Henry wrote on score paper
that got my attention. I knew I never wanted to
(06:45):
be married to a traveling musician because I saw how
hard it was on the orchestra wives. It was only
when I realized that he had potential that I really
sought his attention, and I on one side of the stage,
(07:08):
he at the piano on the other side of the stage.
The band certainly knew that I had eyes for the
young Italian piano player. We began to date, go out
to dinner after the job and on our week off
at Christmas time. I didn't have it. I wasn't making
(07:29):
enough money to fly home to California. So he said,
I'm going to my home in Aliquippa, and you're welcome
to come with me. So I agreed to go, knowing
that would give me an opportunity to see what his
relationship was with his mother. My measure of a good
(07:52):
husband was a loving relationship with his mother, and I
had the opportunity to witness Henry's loving kindness with his mother,
and I was impressed with that.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And you've been listening to Virginia Mancini tell the story
of Henry Mancini, the world famous composer. And when she
met him, he was a keyboardist piano player for a
large traveling band, the old Glenn Miller Band. And in
the end they struck up a romance and she got
to take not only the musical measure of the man,
(08:32):
but the character of the man as well. As she said,
I had eyes for the young Italian piano player, but
by invitation to his home she was able to, as
she said, quote take my measure of a good husband, which,
as she said, was his relationship with his mother. When
we come back, more of the life story of Henry Mancini,
(08:54):
and in a way, the story of his bride, Virginia Mancini,
and the story of a time in America, a distinct
time in America, post War America. Here on our American stories,
(09:39):
and we're back with our American stories and the story
of Henry Mancini, the composer of such classics as Moon
River and the Pink Panther Theme among other compositions, and
it's being told by his bride, Virginia Mancini. We were
commenting during the break about the fact that Henry Mancini
came up and grew up in a steel town, and
(10:02):
what a thing about this country that you can grow
up in a working class town like that and imagine
yourself to become well, almost anything. When we last left off,
Virginia Mancini, his widow, was telling us about Henry's early
life in Pennsylvania and how they met after World War Two.
Let's continue with the story.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When we got married. I was making thirty six dollars
a year on the fifteen minute radio show. Henry was
making fifty two dollars unemployment insurance, and we didn't have
a care in the world. We managed to pay our bills,
pay our rent. I was still singing back up for people.
(10:48):
One of them was Betty Hutton, major major star at
Paramount Studios, and she asked me if I would accompany
her to London where she was playing a month at
the London Palladium. And she was opening on my first
wedding anniversary, and she was offering me some good money.
(11:12):
So I went home and I said Henry, I would
never do this except without your permission. But Betty Hutton
has asked me to go with her to the London
Palladium for a month. How do you feel about that?
And he said, well, why don't you do that? Said
it's okay with me. So on our opening night, my
(11:35):
first wedding anniversary, a big bouquet of flowers came into
my big tub of a dressing room of you know,
washing tub. While I'm at the London Palladium, he has
a gig at the Hollywood Palladium playing the Glockenspiel on
(11:55):
I'm looking over a four leaf clover, and he hates
he did singing it. He didn't mind playing the Glocktspiel,
but the whole band had a sing I'm looking over
a rough four leaf clover, and he would not sing.
He would play the Glockenspiel but not sing. And one
night the band leader saw him not singing fired him
(12:18):
off the bandstand right then and there. So when I
came home from the London Palladium, he picked me up
at the airport and I said, Henry, how did he
go with the Hollywood Palladium. He said, I got fired
because I wouldn't sing I'm looking over a four leaf
clover anyway. That was that chapter in Our Lives.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And in nineteen fifty two, Mancini would join the Universal
Music Department, where he'd gone to have a hand in
working with the scores of over one hundred different films.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
His time at Universal was like going to harm great
training experience for him to be on salary, and we
knew he could always depend on a check at the
end of the week, and that's where he got his training.
He was working constantly on every film you could think of.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And it was there that he meet Blake Edwards, an
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. If you don't know him,
he directed Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Just by accident, Blake Edwards and Henry were on the
Universal lot at the same time. Henry was there to
get a haircut and they were about to have lunch
and they met in the commissary. Blake happened to mention
to Henry that he was about to do a television
series called Peter Gunn would he be interested in doing
(13:49):
the music. Henry, of course, thinking it was a Western,
said sure, why not, I'd love to do it. He
said no, no, no, no, this is not a western
this is about a private detective named Peter gunn Well.
That was a turning point in our lives because it
became such a worldwide hit, and still today that album
(14:13):
cover is treasured worldwide. We had always tried to plan
to go to Europe at some point in our lives,
and we would say, one day we're going to go
to Europe. One day we're going to go to Europe.
And I said, Henry, I don't care when, but let's
(14:33):
book it. Let's book it now. So we booked a
trip from New York to Southampton on the SS France,
first class all the way for six weeks. We had
saved six thousand dollars. So when we sailed on the
SS France, it so happened that Blake Edwards and Maurice
(14:57):
Rischlin were writing a script on a story called The
Pink Panther, So they would be in their staterooms writing
all day long, and at dinner time we would all
converge at the dinner table for drinks and laughs and
the rest of the evening. We were on a six
(15:20):
week tour of every wonderful country Spain, France, the Netherlands
of Finland, Sweden. We did it all in six weeks
on six thousand dollars. Can you imagine. So while we
were there, it's when Peter Gunn hit and we knew
(15:41):
that when we came home we didn't have to worry.
The first royalty check from ASCAP for Peter Gunn was
thirty two thousand dollars. We couldn't imagine having that much
money in the bank. When Henry had an assignment, I
(16:04):
used to hear him composing a way upstairs in his
music room, and it always sounded so beautiful to me
just to hear the notes come out. Anyway, when he
was finished with a segment, he would call me on
the phone. He said, you want to come up and
hear something. And I was always the first one to
(16:26):
react to what he had written, and it was mostly
always always positive. I loved the experience of hearing what
he wrote for the first time of anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'll planet and one song that Henry composed and Jenny
managed to hear pretty early on was moon River from
Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's a song that sins been covered
by Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Chevy Chase, Frank Ocean and
Morrissey of all people. But the song almost didn't make
it onto the big screen.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You know. When Breakfast at Tiffany's was finished, Paramount decided
to take it to San Francisco to preview it, and
when it was over, we all met in Blake Edward's
suite in San Francisco to discuss, you know, what work
what didn't work, and it was obvious that things had
(17:24):
that was a little long, and there needed to be
cuts made here and there. One of the suggestions by
the head of the studio was that they cut the
song moon River. There was such silence in the room
that even Audrey took exception to that suggestion, after having
(17:49):
worked so hard to do it and learn it. And anyway,
it definitely stayed in the picture, as you know, and
thank got it did. He had a sense of melody
that very few good musicians have. And Moon River, I
(18:09):
do believe will live longer, longer, longer than any of us.
People will know that song forever. It has a lasting
quality about it that expresses everybody's feelings.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Henry Mansini would pass away on June fourteenth, nineteen ninety four,
at the age of seventy and Jenny adored every second
of their time together.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
My life with Henry was such a joy because his
temperament was so even. He would never get angry. He
would always he used to say, Jenny, when I has
to fly off the handle, he used to say, Ginny,
let four bars go by, meaning for bars of music,
(19:08):
before you say anything, before you react anyway. He taught
me a lot. He taught me a lot. My time
with Henry was over much too early. This year we
would have celebrated sixty nine years of marital bliss. Unfortunately
(19:28):
I was I was not able to keep him that long.
So I keep him alive through listening to his music
all the time. He's always there. He's always there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And a great job on the production by Monty Montgomery
and a special thanks to Philip Graham for helping us
gather the audio for this story. And a special thanks
to Virginia Mancini for telling her story and the story
of her husband, composer Henry Mancini. And it turns out
that Universal Music Department gig was the life changing the
(20:10):
story of Henry Mancini. Here on our American Story
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