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
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (instrumental) theme song to the video game International Karate, written by Rob Hubbard. Japanese post-hardcore band Fact recorded a track by the title "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" on their self-titled album. Tokyo Brass Style, a Japanese Big Band recorded a cover of the title theme for their fifth album, 'Brass Style Xmas'. Sherwood & Pinch released a version of the song on their 2017 LP "Man vs Sofa". Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (instrumental) "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" is a 1983 instrumental by Japanese electronic composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The song was originally made for the film of the same name. In recent