Henry Mancini 30 films over 35 years. Along with Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Leith Stevens and Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini was a pioneer of the inclusion of jazz elements in the late romantic orchestral film and TV scoring prevalent at the time. Mancini's scores for Blake Edwards included "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (with the standard "Moon River") and "Days of Wine and Roses" (with the title song, "Days of Wine and Roses"), as well as "Experiment in Terror", "The Pink Panther" (and all of its sequels), "The Great Race", "The Party", "10" (including "It's Easy to Say") and "Victor Victoria". Another director with
The War Lord (instrumental) The War Lord (instrumental) "The War Lord" is an instrumental tune written by Jerome Moross. It was the theme from Franklin J. Schaffner's 1965 film "The War Lord", starring Charlton Heston and Richard Boone. The tune was recorded by the British group The Shadows and released as a single on 19 November 1965, with "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Arthur" (John Rostill) as the B-side. It spent 9 weeks in the UK Top 40 pop chart reaching #18 and holding that position for two weeks over the 1965/66 Christmas/New Year period. It also appeared as B-side Track