Original released on LP RCA Victor LSP 2442 (stereo)
(US, 1962)
Henry Mancini's
adventurous score for the 1962 thriller "Experiment in Terror" is one of the
composer's many classic collaborations with director Blake Edwards. Released a
year after "Breakfast at Tiffany"'s and a year before "The Pink Panther", it's a
must for any level of Mancini collector, not because it's so representative of
his work at the time but because it's extra quirky and diverse -- with jazzy
lounge pieces, melancholy piano, and eerie suspense passages, as well as guitar
rock ("Golden Gate Twist") and even a nod to the flapper era with the Charleston-like "The Good Old Days." The score was
recorded earlier that year at RCA Victor's 
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