High Time [Soundtrack]

Henry Mancini | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 2, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: RCA Fs Imports
• ASIN: B000027VNN
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,532 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. High Time

2. Moon Talk

3. So Neat

4. The Old College Try Cha-Cha

5. The Nutty Professor

6. Frish Frosh

7. The Second Time Around

8. A Mild Blast

9. Harv's Blues

10. New Blood

11. The Dean Speaks

12. Tiger!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Rousing early Mancini score, September 19, 2007

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James M. Shertzer (Winston-Salem NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Time (Audio CD)

Though best known as the source of the Oscar-winning song "The Second Time Around," this Mancini score is light-hearted romp. The film, though now largely forgotten (and so far unreleased on VHS or DVD), was one of Blake Edwards and Mancini's first film projects after their hit "Peter Gunn" show on TV. Originally set to star Gary Cooper and stalled by Cooper's illness with cancer, the film was recast with Bing Crosby starring as a Howard Johnson-style restaurant zillionaire who quits the business world and enrolls as a college freshman (Tuesday Weld and Fabian are among his campus friends). Mancini's music includes a nod to the popular teen dances of the era, but also some loose musicals numbers in variety of moods, including a rousing college fight song heard under the film's credits. As with most Mancini scores, this recording is not a "soundtrack" but a studio recording of music from the film score.