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Archives Contents 1 Love Story 1.1 Argument for inclusion 1.2 Response 1.3 Response, cont'd 2 Peanuts 3 Academy Award winner 4 Plagiarism? 5 typo 6 Beverly Hills/Los angeles, California

[edit] Love Story

[edit] Argument for inclusion

From: Tommy Parker393 <> Reply-To: Tommy Parker393 <> To: Nathan Larson <> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:40:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Mancini

hey, they forgot to put on there that he wrote the music for 'Love Story' - that's one of his most famous works, what's the deal with these wiki people- 'Mr. Lucky', who's ever seen that?

[edit] Response

For the record, none of these biographies/discographies/filmographies list Love Story:

• http://www.spaceagepop.com/mancini.htm
• http://members.home.nl/mancini/Movie1.html

Further, it would appear the composer was Francis Lai: http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film866133.html Nathanlarson32767 20:56, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Response, cont'd

Now it appears Mancini and his orchestra did PERFORM the Love Story theme, which was by Francis Lai.

See this Mancini discography: http://www.bjbear71.com/Hank/singles.html

Henry Mancini, "Love Story", RCA Victor [Brazil] EP #LCD-3172 (1971).[Extended Play record]

This Brazilian Extended Play record contains the following tracks performed by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra: 1. Theme from Love Story (Francis Lai) 2. Loss of Love - theme from Sunflower (Mancini-Merrill) 3. Theme from Borsalino (Claude Bolling) 4. Song from MASH (Johnny Mandel-Robert Altman) Nathanlarson32767 21:06, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have to chime in here that I find it absurd to include works Mancini did not compose in his list of songs. He is primarily known as a composer, and a list of "Songs" is naturally going to imply that he wrote the work. Sure, he may have conducted them, but does that mean we include the Beethoven symphonies in a list of Leonard Bernstein compositions? If the point is that his performance of the Love Story theme was particularly famous, then it should be under a separate list of "Performances," not in one that implies he composed the piece. Just my 2-cents worth. Rizzleboffin 19:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peanuts

I removed the Peanuts listing under selected works, because Guaraldi composed said, and this much is listed in the main body of the article. Wangoed 11:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Should the bit about Guaraldi be removed entirely? I mean -- who confuses Mancini with Guaraldi? I've never encountered that before. Is there some reference for it? --209.149.57.26 04:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, there is this reference at search.com but that seems to be an outdated copy of an earlier mistake here. And there are other sites that are definietly copying the error from here. And it appears that both "The Pink Panther" and "Linus and Lucy" appear together frequently on compilation albums, which may serve to compound the confusion. It appears that this may become a self-fulfilling prophecy over time, but I'm going to change the wording slightly, since the mistake doesn't appear "common" to me. --Geoff Capp 00:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Academy Award winner

Mancini won I believe 3 academy awards which hasn't been mentioned I don't think at all in the article, thus I'm just doing to include this info. --Apoc100 15:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Someone needs to add Lawrence of Arabia to attribute Mancini.

Why? Mancini didn't score "Lawrence of Arabia." Maurice Jarre did. Rich 06:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism?

I am not quite sure why, but I viscerally sense that a good chunk of this article was plagiarized.Davemarshall70 05:22, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, run the bits you find suspect through Google and see if you can find where they were copied from. Every man and his dog copies stuff out of Wiki these days, so don't be surprised if you find the article passed off as original content in other sites. Try and trace the suspect bits to something that looks reasonably original, as in an official Mancini site or whatever. Vince In Milan 10:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] typo

"Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in Cleveland|Little Italy]] neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio..."

I guess someone wanted to write "...in the 'Little Italy' neighbourhood of...", but did something wrong.

Since my technical skills are virtually non-existent, could someone please clean that up?

[edit] Beverly Hills/Los angeles, California

Seems to me that the words "Beverly Hills/Los angeles, California" has for some reason been merged into one single link. I find that rather messy. Why would anyone want to look up all these 3 places in the same article? Anyway, I am going to split the link into 3 different ones, pointing each of the names to their respective articles which already exist. Oh, and by the way, I'll correct the minor typo as I do so. --TrondBK (talk) 21:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)