Henry Mancini first season of the sitcom series "Frasier", as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?" Moments after Mancini's cameo ends, Frasier's radio broadcast plays "Moon River". Mancini also had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 movie "Gunn", the movie version of the series "Peter Gunn", the score of which was composed by Mancini. In the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon "Pink, Plunk, Plink", the panther commandeered an orchestra and
Holiday for Strings (song) album "Red Hot and Blue". Holiday for Strings (song) "Holiday for Strings", written by David Rose, is an instrumental composition best known for its use as the theme song for "The Red Skelton Show" for over 20 years. Written in 1942, this piece is still recognized today as a classic American composition. The pizzicato strings and soaring melodies give this composition its distinctive sound. Spike Jones did a version using humorous instruments including a male impersonating a clucking chicken. Allan Sherman did a version entitled "Holiday for States" mentioning all of the 50 states in the union. George Wright covered