Everyone commenting on the tuba player, he is insanely fantastic. Don't forget the bass trombone is playing the same line all the way from beginning to end as well. Just as amazing!!!
Gad, I miss Henry Mancini. His music was like the background music to my life when I was a kid. Every time a new album would come out, I'd be first in line. Best music ever.
Mark Sides Mancini’s original arrangement featured a wild saxophone solo that might not be tolerated in Qatar. Nevertheless, a pleasing rendition by this orchestra all the same.
@@georgeian3243 I’m slowly working my way through stacks of wax with original cuts if I can find it I’ll put it up my Brothers partner had we think in the area of 25,000 albums from 78’s to house music from different countries and clubs. Even had some Edison Cylinders first thing did with those was donate them to a museum for preservation. Quite a lot is things that are now public domain so no one can complain. People think rap song lyrics are obscene today listen to some of the 1916-1930 lyric. Shave ‘em Dry comes to mind first. Even Cole Porters “Anything Goes” is true today just no f words. Proves everything old is new again.
60 years here-since five years old (1960), when my mother included a Henry Mancini to her collection of vinyl. Mom had great taste in music, and myself and siblings all had a large assortment of music, that influenced us, and made for us to have appreciation of many genres. Thanks mom. RIP
4 minutes of constant play is an endurance test for the drummer, tuba, and one of the trombones. However, there's another bit. They changed their volume so you could hear the soloist. Then ramped up again so you could still hear them when the full ensemble kicked in again. Great stuff. Always has been and always will be.
Lol, I was almost born at home because the the "Peter Gunn" show. It was my mother's favorite show and she was watching it when she went into labor with me. Thank God my father wasn't working that night, he had to force her to go to the hospital, a half hour away! I was born not too long after. Whenever I see or hear anything related to Peter Gunn I smile and get a little choked up, my mother has been dead 9 years now and I still miss her so much.
My mom went to school with Henry Mancini. In Pennsylvania, Aliquippa High School class of 42. He arranged for the school band and orchestra even before graduation.
Not only a great theme song, but '"ice cube cool" played by a horn ensemble like this! I fell in love with it as soon as I heard/saw this a few years ago!
gia valentini You just jogged my memory! I don't go out for live music all that much (ADHD; don't play well with cacophony 😊) BUT you made me remember that I'd seen Mancini (at Atlanta's Fabulous Fox theater iirc ) AND Carmine Coppola conducting, again iirc, the Atlanta Symphony. Both were absolutely magical evenings. Thanks!
Easily adapted and arranged for whatever band or ensemble is playing it. I'm old enough to remember the TV series, although I was just a small youngster. I - even at that young age - was always captivated by this theme song. Written by none other than one of the best in the business, the incomparable Henry Mancini. Although a flute and piano player, Mancini seemed to be enthralled with the sound of the trombone! This music will live on forever.
The trumpet player with the side valve trumpet looks like he could be the younger brother of the drummer. This is the best version of the Peter Gunn theme song I’ve ever heard.
Side valve is the hardest trumpet to play other than a pocket. I switched over straight. But the tuba player has got to have some serious time playing,
@@jean6872 Just that live in front of an audience with no chance for a retake is a whole lot of hours practice more than session musicians with a retake or two available î
@@keeptyrannyfromamerica8519 True. I notice with this performance that the tempo is much slower than the TV show when John Williams was on the piano. I account this on the cumbersome tuba.
This tune and Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs are two of the coolest tunes ever. And I agree with other comments here about the tuba player. He’s a beast. Can’t imagine how hard that was to do.
I'm 59 and I played trombone in a school band, (well more of a music class that gave concerts at my school), and I remember trying to play Love's Theme by The Love Unlimited Orchestra. The tuba had the same thing during the whole song over and over. He tried, the baritone player tried and I tried. We all go lost in the piece from doing the same notes. Needless to say we never went very far with that one.
"CLASSIC!" In 1959 when I was 3 years old, my mom and I would always watch Peter Gunn every week night on CBS. Since then that was always one of my many favorite themes by Henry Mancini. Actually my #1 favorite by him.
The drummer is amazing. I also think the lead trumpet player is incredible. But let's face it, the song wouldn't have been as outstanding without the whole group of these heavenly gifted artist-musicians. Just the BEST !!!
What I like about this video is that nine of the eleven musicians were late, so the drummer and tuba player started without them. Fortunately, they showed up just in time. Also, the drummer looks and acts like a character in a James Bond movie. I can't tell whether he's the hero or a villain, but then with spies, that's the way it's supposed to be.
Back during a Postal strike, my dad carried mail to (among other places) Henry Mancini's house in Northridge. Apparently the legendary Mancini answered his own door and was a really nice guy.
He lived in Northridge in the San Fernando Valley? I did not know he was so close! I lived in Reseda 1976-1994 and would have liked to have driven past his house.
Reminds me of when I met the actor who played “Peter Gunn” Craig Stevens, at the North Hollywood Employment Office. A very gracious and classy man. This was after he had just made his last movie (S. O. B.) and retired in 1981.
Wish we had a "FULL TIME" JAZZ radio station here in KC. Of all places you'd think it would be a given. THANK YOU Mr. Henry Mancini, Qatar Orchestra and TH-cam.
Henry Mancini wrote the original music for the Peter Gunn theme of the Peter Gun TV series. His style used one drummer and 10 horns. It succeeded in building feeling suspense and keeping it constant. A unique Henry Mancini sound. He also wrote the music for The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark,Love Story, Oklahoma Crude, Theme from Charlie's Angels, The Thornbirds Theme, movies, Days of Wine and Roses, Banzai Pipeline and at least 30 others.
Not to take away from the tuba player, and correct me if I am wrong, but it sure seems like the trombone player next to him is playing the same notes. They are right on time! The second trombone player is rather fine, too. This is some badass music!!
The clarinet soloing over the top of it all on the original is pretty wild. It's the musical equivalent of those Police Squad movies where there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on behind Lesley Neilsen's scene.
The theme song from Peter Gunn is better remembered than the actual show, which lasted only a little over 2 years. I remember this as the theme from "Spy Hunter," a Nintendo game.
This music is totally Top Gun!! I'm 55 years old, but i started listening and discovering the music of Henry Mancini about 40 years ago. Great orchestration from the Philarminic. Bravo! ❤ Thank you!
The actor that played Peter Gunn use to live here in Hemet Ca on a hill he called Gunn Mountain. There was a sign at bottom of hill with sign pointing up on 45 degree angle.
Had the good fortune to attend a John Williams concert, leading the Columbus, OH Symphony -- they played all his hits (and he certainly has a few). What an evening -- the audience didn't want to let him go. I'm not as familiar with Mancini as I am Williams, but I know a number of his works, and he certainly "makes the cut". Between the two of them, there's a mountain of incredible work.
Upon hearing this rendition by the Qatar Philharmonic brass section, I can only imagine that lovable private eye Peter Gunn swaggering into his favorite watering hole, shooting the breeze with the bartender, and watching his precious songbird Edie Hart warble out a few tunes. Henry Mancini would be proud.
Henry Mancini is here on You Tube! In music stores! In certain movies on DVD or BluRay! And live bands still play his music! You may not see him again in this life, but you can hear him again.
One cannot help to be, feel, become "CoooooooooooooL" when hearing or playing this Peter Gunn song. These musicians are the height of "CooL", and Henri Mancini is the Emperor. Edit: I have watched many musical renditions of this song. This is hands-down my personal FAVORITE!
Not being meen . For the thumbs down. Just that i worship Henry Mancini and his beautiful smoth Groove. It takes a special kind of finesse to truly do a cover of his art. 😎
SUPERB Men. Amazing Score. Brilliantly played by All. Mancini has always been a hero. His music was what made so many shows have edge. Pink Panther Columbo so many it is amazing. Love this one.
Something my dad and I had in common- we both really liked Henry Mancini's music. Great stuff. We went to see Mancini in concert in the late 60's at Cobo arena in downtown Detroit! Man, you ain't lived until you had live Henry Mancini jazz blasting through, in and around your body! Magnificent!
I hear you. My dad took us to The Hollywood Bowl each year for all the classical music and to the jazz shows they had in the summer. Being outdoors, on the sloping grass with my sisters and dad and feeling those notes pass right through me(but not before they impacted my life!) those are some of my fondest memories. We were originally from Minnesota and the first concert I went to was Louis Armstrong when I was three years old. I do remember parts of it, the lights turning down, feeling the anticipation, the swirling blue smoke that rose from the crowd into the high ceiling and looking at all the track lights....and the spot came on, lighting only Mr. Armstrong and that gleaming trumpet and bright white handkerchief. When he blew that first note, I was hooked.
I remember watching the show, this is without a doubt the best opening score ever, out of all the shows back in the 50's hands down.
What’s the show?
This theme song has made it through televison, garage bands, and orchestras. What a tribute to Henry Mancini, a true master of his craft.
...and one video game (Spy Hunter) back in the 80s.
And the Blues Brothers’ craziness!!
And I've heard that it was the first song Jimi Hendrix learned to play on guitar
@@baronvonsatan also another video game rock and roll racing
@@baronvonsatan I miss being able to throw oil slicks at people.
Man! This never gets old!!! What a tune!
Not done like this that's for sure!! So captivating... ND awfully sexy!!
Correct 💯
Exactly
I need I need I need this!!!
I keep coming back to listen to this version in particular.
Nobody even knows who Peter Gunn was anymore. The music outlived the character.
I remember because I am old. The musicians aced this 👍✔️🙂
If you know, you know!
Yes
Don't tell that to Peter Gunn! (ha)
Everyone commenting on the tuba player, he is insanely fantastic.
Don't forget the bass trombone is playing the same line all the way from beginning to end as well. Just as amazing!!!
Don't forget the drummer. The same measures over and over and over, with little variation.
Pimp status goes to the guy on first trombone though.
Yeah, the drummer works the entire musical piece, but he gets to be seated.
Well, not wishing to disparage anyone, but it seems to me that the bass 'bone has at least one long break
As a trombonist, I applaud the recognition
Amazing performance. The Drummer keeps everyone in time perfectly. My hat goes off to him.!
Mine goes especially to the Tuba player
Yes especially at the start with that trombone experiencing the delays of standing far away compounded by it's soft attack. Pretty far from the pocket
Your hi-hat?
He's no amateur.
Just so you know, that is the drummer's role...
This best pared down version I've heard, I play it over and over whenever I need a lift. simply delightful.
As I get older, I appreciate Henry Mancini a 1,000 times more.
How old are you kind sir
@@pepsicola6951 He's not saying exactly but I'll bet he's in the Pepsi Generation.
@@denniswhite166 lmfao
@@denniswhite166 oh my lolol
Once a classic, always a classic.
Gad, I miss Henry Mancini. His music was like the background music to my life when I was a kid. Every time a new album would come out, I'd be first in line. Best music ever.
No " Baby Elephant Walk" hear.!😎
@@peggyfranzen6159 But Hatari is still one of my favorites! Red Buttons with those cargo pants with the bulging pockets! The whole crew. 👍
Tower Records...on Central Avenue
@@dcinrb8538 Pat’s Record Center, Littlefield, TX.
His protege was John Williams.
Mancini is a totally awesome composer and conductor. His music is so easy to relax into.
A musical genius. A modern day Beethoven for the records.
Alan Silvestri
John Williams
Hans Zimmer
Mark Sides Mancini’s original arrangement featured a wild saxophone solo that might not be tolerated in Qatar. Nevertheless, a pleasing rendition by this orchestra all the same.
Rembember pink pantherk0
@@georgeian3243
I’m slowly working my way through stacks of wax with original cuts if I can find it I’ll put it up my Brothers partner had we think in the area of 25,000 albums from 78’s to house music from different countries and clubs. Even had some Edison Cylinders first thing did with those was donate them to a museum for preservation. Quite a lot is things that are now public domain so no one can complain. People think rap song lyrics are obscene today listen to some of the 1916-1930 lyric. Shave ‘em Dry comes to mind first. Even Cole Porters “Anything Goes” is true today just no f words. Proves everything old is new again.
Been a Henry Mancini fan for 50 years. Never gets old. I am but the music- never!
Just found my LP of Peter Gunn.
60 years here-since five years old (1960), when my mother included a Henry Mancini to her collection of vinyl. Mom had great taste in music, and myself and siblings all had a large assortment of music, that influenced us, and made for us to have appreciation of many genres. Thanks mom. RIP
I got out my Henry Mancini LP's. Over 30 of them. Bought a new record player to listen to them again.
REMMY MAFIA We’re the exact same age. In my house it was my dad with Bernstein, Brasil 66 and Brubeck. Nice work DAD!
4 minutes of constant play is an endurance test for the drummer, tuba, and one of the trombones. However, there's another bit. They changed their volume so you could hear the soloist. Then ramped up again so you could still hear them when the full ensemble kicked in again. Great stuff. Always has been and always will be.
No doubt about it
Well yeah, that's "dynamics" in action for you! That's how we play together and have fun, and make the piece sound good,
Lol, I was almost born at home because the the "Peter Gunn" show. It was my mother's favorite show and she was watching it when she went into labor with me. Thank God my father wasn't working that night, he had to force her to go to the hospital, a half hour away! I was born not too long after. Whenever I see or hear anything related to Peter Gunn I smile and get a little choked up, my mother has been dead 9 years now and I still miss her so much.
Such a sweet beautiful story
Peace be with you.
My mom went to school with Henry Mancini. In Pennsylvania, Aliquippa High School class of 42. He arranged for the school band and orchestra even before graduation.
Dave Kraft Hey, I graduated Aliquippa High School 1969. I remember they played our song for everything. Grew up in West Aliquippa. Go Aliquippa Quips!
Did not know he was from Aliquippa, keen Pittsburgh area has some outstanding musicians (e.g. Earl Wild). I'm from Butler.
I just love this.. I play this video at least 3 times a week. One of the greatest them songs of all time. At least to me..
Not only a great theme song, but '"ice cube cool" played by a horn ensemble like this! I fell in love with it as soon as I heard/saw this a few years ago!
Henry Mancini. Great music no matter what he does. 60 years of me enjoying his music.
Read Mancini's autobiography too. Fascinating insight into his life/career. He said he wasn't really a jazz guy but he sure did learn it well.
Ditto. Almost 60 years here, too.
@gia valentini I don't remember Katherine Ross. Was she in Midnight Cowboy?
gia valentini You just jogged my memory! I don't go out for live music all that much (ADHD; don't play well with cacophony 😊) BUT you made me remember that I'd seen Mancini (at Atlanta's Fabulous Fox theater iirc ) AND Carmine Coppola conducting, again iirc, the Atlanta Symphony. Both were absolutely magical evenings. Thanks!
On the original version for the TV show, Johnny Williams on the piano, his first professional gig.
One of the greatest TV themes ever written.
Easily adapted and arranged for whatever band or ensemble is playing it. I'm old enough to remember the TV series, although I was just a small youngster. I - even at that young age - was always captivated by this theme song. Written by none other than one of the best in the business, the incomparable Henry Mancini. Although a flute and piano player, Mancini seemed to be enthralled with the sound of the trombone! This music will live on forever.
Without a doubt!
Makes any man feel tougher.
Mancini said he based it on rock and roll - he was ahead of the curve!
Jonathan Lane except it was never intended as a 4-minute piece. Way to repetitive.
I like the staggered entry, however.
The guy on the tuba is THE constant -- everything else follows him -- he's like a metronome
hes my favorite part of the band....love it!
For me this track is just "cool". Henry Mancini! Thank You!
Epitome of cool.
WOW !!! That Tuba player keeping that up for so long, I am amazed. Brilliant job !!!
The trumpet player with the side valve trumpet looks like he could be the younger brother of the drummer. This is the best version of the Peter Gunn theme song I’ve ever heard.
Side valve is the hardest trumpet to play other than a pocket. I switched over straight. But the tuba player has got to have some serious time playing,
It is no better than what we heard on TV every week.
@@jean6872
Just that live in front of an audience with no chance for a retake is a whole lot of hours practice more than session musicians with a retake or two available î
@@keeptyrannyfromamerica8519 True. I notice with this performance that the tempo is much slower than the TV show when John Williams was on the piano. I account this on the cumbersome tuba.
would u give a list of the brass instrumets
The drummer has this confident, cool vibe about him. Awesome
Reminds me of a James Bond look.....if James was playing drums of course.
Some awe, for you huh!
It's required to play this song correctly. You have to be cool.
I think the drummer looks like he could give a shit
'Cause he's playing with Vic Firth's. Vic Firth sticks make anyone cool...tis why I switched from Promark :)
This tune and Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs are two of the coolest tunes ever.
And I agree with other comments here about the tuba player. He’s a beast. Can’t imagine how hard that was to do.
Choco Latte my two favorites also
same here !!! but I also like time is tight a lot
Don't forget the theme from "Route 66".....
Donna Q ... 👍👍👍👍
Frank Giaquinto .... 👍👍👍👍
That takes me back a ways, Peter Gunn, I must have been 9-10 yrs, this theme has stuck in my head since.
Two teams, the drummer and the tuba and then everybody else. Absolutely perfect!
I really appreciate that Tuba wow he carried the whole Theme, go man go. Thank you.
Great performance. Kudos to them all and especially to the tuba player. That drum kit sounds fantastic.
Nothing harder than repeating a bar for an entire song.
Susie Que 0+
Clifford 0~
The last bar sounded just like the first one. The mark of a professional
that's why guitar players hate this song, and sax players love it!
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1960 & still fresh today.A gem.
A bit too straight. Musicians are superb. But jazz needs to lay back... Then boom
the Tuba and drummer players never stop playing till the end of the songs
totally incredible.... rythm section-the highest class, and tuba instead of bass... just no words...
I love it too.
I love trombone, especially slide trombone.This was good.Lotta fun.
@@josephdrach2276 Anyone notice that crazy trumpet with the valves on the side, like a French horn?
I remember the original TV show, in black and white from my kid years. I always loved that theme, and these guys knocked it out of the park!
Who downvotes this? Jealousy is a serious sickness.
I did, I almost fell in sleep listening! ; )
The Madrummer yes
Someone who was really bad at Spy Hunter
This is like an endurance test for the tuba player.
And one of the trombonists
Excelente me encantó está versión
Duane Eddy found a much less exhausting way.
I'm 59 and I played trombone in a school band, (well more of a music class that gave concerts at my school), and I remember trying to play Love's Theme by The Love Unlimited Orchestra.
The tuba had the same thing during the whole song over and over. He tried, the baritone player tried and I tried. We all go lost in the piece from doing the same notes. Needless to say we never went very far with that one.
@@smfvmdGuitar riffs are not based on breath, for sure. His version is great - more bass and guitar - great horns too.
"There's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Hit it."
hit it
Like, I'm hip to your rap. Watch out for the femme fatale hitchiker.
I need some dark sunglasses.
Hit it!
I've always loved Henry Mancini's music ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, my parents had, in fact, a cassette of the Best of Mancini.
Buy that tuba player a steak. He earned it.
Amen.
Ted Stevens tube steak perhaps
Tuba players are really long winded rock stars!!! ROCK ON !!!
Yes I agree, I am a tubaplayer my self and the windorcestra I play in are practis that Peter Gunn now,
But what if he's a vegetarian?!?
"CLASSIC!" In 1959 when I was 3 years old, my mom and I would always watch Peter Gunn every week night on CBS. Since then that was always one of my many favorite themes by Henry Mancini. Actually my #1 favorite by him.
That tuba player was in his bag!! Awesome performance kicking things off!!
Everyone is really cool in this video, but the drummer has a certain swagger about him.
I love everyone's love for the drummer. He does seem like a pretty cool cat.
When you're a drummer, swagger is required!
I also like that they all appear to have a five o'clock shadow -- presumably on purpose, for effect.
Drummers always do. That's why they're drummers.😎
I've finally figured out why I love this so much. Everyone is REALLY good, but the drummer is absolutely perfect. Really makes it all come together.
The drummer is amazing. I also think the lead trumpet player is incredible. But let's face it, the song wouldn't have been as outstanding without the whole group of these heavenly gifted artist-musicians. Just the BEST !!!
@@frankieaddams3937 That lead trumpet - oh yeah! ... amazing young man. SWOON at 2:59. 😉😊👏
I love Henry Mancini in any form, anywhere, anytime! This is great!
What I like about this video is that nine of the eleven musicians were late, so the drummer and tuba player started without them. Fortunately, they showed up just in time. Also, the drummer looks and acts like a character in a James Bond movie. I can't tell whether he's the hero or a villain, but then with spies, that's the way it's supposed to be.
ahhh yeah it was on purpose dude
@@plance1
From the context of the original poster's comment, it should be very obvious that what he said was in jest.
@@frankkolton1780 ah no, but im glad you are so enlightened, obviously!
🤣 ROFLMAO! YOU'VE NAILED IT ,!
Drummers are always the coolest
Back during a Postal strike, my dad carried mail to (among other places) Henry Mancini's house in Northridge.
Apparently the legendary Mancini answered his own door and was a really nice guy.
The old guys & gals always had class.
He lived in Northridge in the San Fernando Valley? I did not know he was so close! I lived in Reseda 1976-1994 and would have liked to have driven past his house.
@@brendapayne6603 I hear the postman's house was worth a short drive.
Hey that was a cool snippet. Thanks for sharing.📬
@@brendapayne6603 I heard somewhere "It was a looong day, livin in Reseda"
Got to be the most pure rendition of this timeless classic ! I can listen over & over !
Reminds me of when I met the actor who played “Peter Gunn” Craig Stevens, at the North Hollywood Employment Office. A very gracious and classy man. This was after he had just made his last movie (S. O. B.) and retired in 1981.
SOB was hilarious! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Anyone else remember playing the "Spy Hunter" video game? I loved it, mainly for this theme song!
My all time favourite arcade game as a teen in the 80's.
Was looking for this comment.
Wish we had a "FULL TIME" JAZZ radio station here in KC. Of all places you'd think it would be a given. THANK YOU Mr. Henry Mancini, Qatar Orchestra and TH-cam.
To be old enough to remember the series 😯
I AM old enough to remember the series! I used to sit on the couch next to my Dad and watch it when I was 5-6!
Race you around the block!
I'm not, but I've seen some old episodes online. It's a damn good detective series!
@@Calriec It was that...I have to say my favourite as a kid was Have Gun Will Travel.. 😯
Home and Away With Johnny I've watched that on DVD. Paladin is a great character.
Heaves to Murgatroid ! Amazing and Awesome version of the Mancini classic ! THANKS so much for sharing !
Henry Mancini wrote the original music for the Peter Gunn theme of the Peter Gun TV series. His style used one drummer and 10 horns. It succeeded in building feeling suspense and keeping it constant. A unique Henry Mancini sound. He also wrote the music for The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark,Love Story, Oklahoma Crude, Theme from Charlie's Angels, The Thornbirds Theme, movies, Days of Wine and Roses, Banzai Pipeline and at least 30 others.
Powerful & punchy. The tuba player completes a great challenge with this number, delivering a consistent deep pulse of bass notes.
It's amazing the Tuba player has any lips left after this song.
Maybe he has false lips!!!😂👍
Tuba player right after this piece: "I blan't peak, my blipths r blumb."
LMAO!!! Well done.
Cynthia Cantrell Brilliant I like it!😁😁👍
Hilarious! Well played.
That just cracked me up, nice one.
LOLOLOL
I keep coming back to this video.....it really was the sound of cool before cool existed.
Cool always existed, otherwise life would be too mundane.
77 Sunset Strip. Kookie, Kookie, lend my your comb. Cool!!!
Laeadern ditto
Fabulous performance, excellent harmonies and arrangement 😎 🎵 🎵 🎵 👌👏👏👏🎼👍
Not to take away from the tuba player, and correct me if I am wrong, but it sure seems like the trombone player next to him is playing the same notes. They are right on time! The second trombone player is rather fine, too. This is some badass music!!
"Peter Gunn" was a terrific show. He was a private detective whose office was in a nightclub and he dated the singer, Edie.
He dressed well, too.
Great hair cut he set style European razor cut 62
coby smuthers plays a private eye working out of a bar Hmmmmmmmmm?
I wish people dressed well today.
Lola Albright
@@duane356
Very pretty girl! Things were complicated I suppose, but he didn't treat her quite right! He was lucky to have her!
Henry Mancini grew up in our town of West Aliquippa. This was our high school theme song for the Aliquippa Quips.
The Taliban, did some hating on their day off.
Ohio? He was from Ohio wasn't he?
Good ole west Aliquippa. one way in one way out
paul williams Still is. Do not live there anymore but still have family there.
Great rendition and awesome musicians!
Got to like it. Starts off so clean and simple. Then building to a wall of sound. Truly awesome group of musicans.
The clarinet soloing over the top of it all on the original is pretty wild. It's the musical equivalent of those Police Squad movies where there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on behind Lesley Neilsen's scene.
The theme song from Peter Gunn is better remembered than the actual show, which lasted only a little over 2 years. I remember this as the theme from "Spy Hunter," a Nintendo game.
Actually, it ran from 1958 to 1960 on NBC, and then 1960-1961 on ABC.
spy hunter
@@ClaxmanG It's being rerun on FETV now .
Oh, does that explain why mobsters start chasing me when ever I play this song in my car?
dugroz art of noise is where I remember it from
What an amazing, fabulous song! A classic! American theme TV at it's best!
I can't believe how good this was and this was my parent's generation
Agree. Mom had this on constantly. Lol
Our music was oooh so much better 😊😊
Why not? Music was better then.
Great music never dies!😎
@@phillipclark5798 Yeah, the Green Hornet is comin' for ya next! Behave!
Love this rendition - fabulous. Great tuba player!
Wow. That was the shortest four minutes of my life. So I played it over and over and went back in time. Better than drugs.
Anyone remember the arcade game Spy Hunter?
Yes my favorite game of all time.
It was awesome. Played it on my Commodore 64
Very Challenging & Addictive Game--Lost half of my teen age quarters on that game
@@michaelsams7703 Paul, the world record holder, showed me some tips at caextreme a few years ago...
There was an arcade inside of a "Putt Putt golf and games" when I was a kid, didn't care about the golf and other games, just Spy Hunter.
This falls under the category of a great theme song for a show I have never seen a single episode of.
😂
This music is totally Top Gun!! I'm 55 years old, but i started listening and discovering the music of Henry Mancini about 40 years ago. Great orchestration from the Philarminic. Bravo! ❤ Thank you!
Props to the Tuba guy... I'd pass out long before they half way mark.
I can't remember the last time *I* saw anyone playing a rotary valve trumpet and there are three of them here.
Captain Jack sounds great dont they
I had never seen one til now
I love them. Would swap my cornet for one any day
Much more common in Europe
Didn't even know they existed until this video. I had to look them up. Very intriguing.
Absolutely wonderful performance !
tuba dude is the engine in this tune :)
One of, if not the, best bass riffs ever.
Don't forget the drummer.
@Doug Ordunio Namely?
@Doug Ordunio Intervallic??? please explain.
Agreed, lets give a shout to the drummer too, that right foot never misses a beat.
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This is just insanely good
BEAUTIFUL!!! A gift to the ears 💝
Henry Mancini - a great composer of popular music. What an outstanding performance!
The actor that played Peter Gunn use to live here in Hemet Ca on a hill he called Gunn Mountain. There was a sign at bottom of hill with sign pointing up on 45 degree angle.
I feel very privileged to been exposed to composers like John Williams and Henry Mancini in my life.
I was born 1953 and child of "turbulent sixties".... All the music was great!
I heard a story claiming that John Williams actually composed this theme while working for Mancini.
AGREED!
Had the good fortune to attend a John Williams concert, leading the Columbus, OH Symphony -- they played all his hits (and he certainly has a few). What an evening -- the audience didn't want to let him go. I'm not as familiar with Mancini as I am Williams, but I know a number of his works, and he certainly "makes the cut". Between the two of them, there's a mountain of incredible work.
Amazing performance 👏👏👏 Fantastic tuba player too. Keeps the best going so steadily. Great stamina👍👍👍
Best version I've heard. OUTSTANDING!!!!
I love this arrangement with just brass and a French horn solo. They all solo great! Thanks.
you know people will remember this for many years versus the latest rap star...and this has class
That tuba player has to be exhausted
That’s why he gets to sit with the drummer...
Nick he's just got phenomenal breathing. Bet he could play a didgeridoo without any problem, that requires cyclic breathing as well.
Circular breathing...he's a master and shows it in this performance.
@@terryshoemaker5393 The drum groove is way easier than the tuba part in this song.
Ha! They do this stuff while marching patterns across the football field while carrying a 50 pound horn. And sometimes swaying the bell back and forth
Upon hearing this rendition by the Qatar Philharmonic brass section, I can only imagine that lovable private eye Peter Gunn swaggering into his favorite watering hole, shooting the breeze with the bartender, and watching his precious songbird Edie Hart warble out a few tunes. Henry Mancini would be proud.
I really miss Henry Mancini!!!
By your photo, I guess I may see him before you ... I'll give him your regards. In the meantime, keep scratching.
Is it true that Henry Mancini died by drowning in Moon River?
Henry Mancini is here on You Tube! In music stores! In certain movies on DVD or BluRay! And live bands still play his music! You may not see him again in this life, but you can hear him again.
JUST AMAZING !! Just transport me back in time.
💜So grateful for this rendition! Pure musician artistry!!! Thank you to the entire creative production!!!
THIS is music. THIS is talent!
drummer holds it all together- like always
We're all held together by our skin - I guess there's something to that. Then again, maybe not - but yeah, the drummer was boss.
Drum Machine...see ya later Sucker
These guys should all sport cool, dark sunglasses.
I thought they were with dark sunglasses
And fedoras.
a police car, a tank full of gas and half a pack of cigarettes too!
Most of them need shaves -- I thought that was part of the "look"
One cannot help to be, feel, become "CoooooooooooooL" when hearing or playing this Peter Gunn song. These musicians are the height of "CooL", and Henri Mancini is the Emperor.
Edit: I have watched many musical renditions of this song. This is hands-down my personal FAVORITE!
My wife and I used this as our Wedding March entering the reception. Sunglasses and all.
Not being meen . For the thumbs down. Just that i worship Henry Mancini and his beautiful smoth Groove. It takes a special kind of finesse to truly do a cover of his art. 😎
@@JohnJ469
DUDE! I was Just Now thinking how cool this would be as the reception entrance music! Respect to you and your spouse!
I agree.
SUPERB Men. Amazing Score. Brilliantly played by All. Mancini has always been a hero. His music was what made so many shows have edge.
Pink Panther
Columbo
so many it is amazing. Love this one.
Wow, excellent! flashback to my childhood living room...only way better.
Something my dad and I had in common- we both really liked Henry Mancini's music. Great stuff. We went to see Mancini in concert in the late 60's at Cobo arena in downtown Detroit! Man, you ain't lived until you had live Henry Mancini jazz blasting through, in and around your body! Magnificent!
I hear you. My dad took us to The Hollywood Bowl each year for all the classical music and to the jazz shows they had in the summer. Being outdoors, on the sloping grass with my sisters and dad and feeling those notes pass right through me(but not before they impacted my life!) those are some of my fondest memories.
We were originally from Minnesota and the first concert I went to was Louis Armstrong when I was three years old. I do remember parts of it, the lights turning down, feeling the anticipation, the swirling blue smoke that rose from the crowd into the high ceiling and looking at all the track lights....and the spot came on, lighting only Mr. Armstrong and that gleaming trumpet and bright white handkerchief. When he blew that first note, I was hooked.
@@GCAT-zv9in That's a great memory.
One of my favorite tunes, great performance too!
We played this in the junior high school band. It was our favorite.
Any moment now Carrie Fisher is going to roll up in a late model Pontiac sedan and point a rocket launcher at the Blues Brothers.
KAAAAABLAM!!!!
Or Kate Pierson's going to join in on vocals.
She was a lousy shot and or God was looking out for the Blues Brothers.
She was in love and God too. Great movie.
you get my cheez whiz, boy?
The beggining Do you love me by KISS
That was fantastic! Thank you! Every note was perfect. Mike
What an AWESOME arrangement to this classic. The performers were absolutely top notch. 100 thumbs up !!!