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Something for Audrey (And Patty): Cherry Red Reissues Mancini's "Two for the Road" and "Me, Natalie"

June 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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In the canon of all-time great film composers, the name of Henry Mancini still looms large.  Cherry Red's El imprint has brought two of his classic 1960s scores together on one CD: the original RCA Victor soundtrack album of Two for the Road (1967) and the Columbia Records release of Me, Natalie (1969) - the latter of which has only been previously available on CD as part of a large Mancini box set.

Mancini scored four films for Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, Wait Until Dark and Two for the Road - and in doing so, created scores as spellbinding as the star herself.  Directed by Stanley Donen with a cast also including Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron and William Daniels, Two for the Road was described by The New York Times as a "bitter account of domestic discord amid surroundings that should inspire nothing but delight."  The paper praised the film's beautiful color cinematography and noted the director's impressionistic and "fractured cinematic style" to chronicle the story of Finney and Hepburn's marriage.  Mancini captured the darkness and the light of the central characters' relationships in his striking theme (set to memorable lyrics by Leslie Bricusse) and the film's varied cues.

While the original recordings as heard in the film were issued for the very first time this year by the Kritzerland label, El's presentation reprises that of the original RCA album as re-recorded by Mancini (with many of the original musicians) for the record-buying market.  (Re-recording was a common practice not just for Mancini, but for many film composers of the era.)  This album was previously issued on CD from RCA Spain, making its reappearance here particularly welcome.

The 12-track Two for the Road album is joined by the soundtrack to Me, Natalie.  Director Fred Coe's film starred Patty Duke in her Golden Globe-winning turn in the title role, as well as James Farentino, Elsa Lanchster, Martin Balsam, and Nancy Marchand.  Young Al Pacino had a small, early role in the film.  Me, Natalie revolved around teenaged Natalie Miller's quest to accept herself and find romance; Roger Ebert wrote that while the film was "conventional corny...Patty Duke, as Natalie, supplies a wonderful performance."  Mancini turned to his friend, poet-songwriter Rod McKuen, to pen the lyrics as well as sing "We" and the theme "Natalie."  The result was one of Mancini's most underrated scores, and it quickly disappeared from view.  The soundtrack, with 12 tracks including the two songs and a dialogue sequence spoken by Patty Duke, only received its first reissue on CD in 2014 as part of The Classic Soundtrack Collection box set.

El's two-for-one release, produced in conjunction with Sony (parent of RCA and Columbia), features a 12-page booklet with liner notes and photographs from the films.  There are no remastering credits. This collection of two soundtracks from the late, great Henry Mancini is available now at the links below!

Henry Mancini, Two For the Road/Me, Natalie (el/Cherry Red Records, 2017) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

  1. Two For the Road (Vocal)
  2. Something for Audrey
  3. The Lovely Life
  4. The Chaser
  5. Something Loose
  6. Happy Barefoot Boy
  7. Two For the Road (Main Title - Instrumental)
  8. Congarocka
  9. French Provincial
  10. The Donk
  11. Domain St. Juste (Din-Din Music)
  12. Two For the Road (Instrumental)
  13. Natalie (Vocal - Rod McKuen)
  14. Free!
  15. Sequence for Uncle Harold
  16. A Groovy Mood
  17. Off-Ramp to Nowhere (The Die-Hard Trippers)
  18. Theme for Losers
  19. We (Vocal - Rod McKuen)
  20. W.A. Mozart, I Love You
  21. In and Out of Love Montage
  22. Bench Warmer
  23. Dear David (Dialogue by Patty Duke)
  24. Natalie

Tracks 1-12 from Two For the Road, RCA Victor LP LSP-3802, 1967
Tracks 13-24 from Me, Natalie, Columbia LP OS 3350, 1969

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Henry Mancini, Rod McKuen

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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