Meglio stasera Meglio stasera "Meglio stasera" (known in English as "It Had Better Be Tonight") is a 1963 song in samba rhythm with music by Henry Mancini, Italian lyrics by Franco Migliacci and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was composed for the 1963 film "The Pink Panther" where it was performed by Fran Jeffries. In addition to the vocal performance, instrumental portions of the song appear in the film's underscore, sometimes as an introduction to the main "Pink Panther Theme". The beginning of the song, in the original Italian, is here followed by a literal translation and the first two lines
John Williams and Henry Mancini. Williams recorded with Henry Mancini the film scores of 1959's "Peter Gunn", 1962's "Days of Wine and Roses", and 1963's "Charade". (Williams actually played the well-recognized opening riff to Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme.) Williams (sometimes credited as "Johnny Williams", because of the already established actor of the same name) composed music for various television programs in the 1960s: the pilot episode of "Gilligan's Island", "Bachelor Father" (1959–1960), the "Kraft Suspense Theatre", "Lost in Space" (1965–68), "The Time Tunnel" (1966–67), and "Land of the Giants" (the last three created by the prolific TV producer, Irwin Allen). Williams's first