The Pink Panther Theme The Pink Panther Theme "The Pink Panther Theme" is an instrumental composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film "The Pink Panther" and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards but lost to the Sherman Brothers for "Mary Poppins". The eponymous cartoon character created for the film's opening credits by David DePatie and Friz Freleng was animated in time to the tune. The tenor saxophone solo was played by Plas Johnson. The song was included on the film's soundtrack album and issued as a single (in the United
The X-Files (composition) 1998 from the soundtrack album "" for "The X-Files" movie. The maxi-CD includes four remixes of Mark Snow's theme to the television series, "The X-Files". Notably "Tubular X" is part Snow's theme and consists of parts of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". Another track from Oldfield also appears, "The Source of Secrets", the opening piece from his "Tubular Bells III" album, which also based upon the same theme from the original "Tubular Bells". The X-Files (composition) "The X-Files" is a 1996 instrumental recorded by American film and television composer Mark Snow. It is a remixed version of the original theme Snow