Quartet Records, in collaboration with Paramount Pictures, presents the premiere vinyl edition of the actual film tracks composed and conducted by Henry Mancini for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, the landmark, bittersweet romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards in 1961 and starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, José Luis de Vilallonga and Mickey Rooney.

What more can you say about BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S that hasn’t already been said? It is one of the most iconic films in the history of cinema, and that’s just from the first five minutes of the movie: Audrey Hepburn, Hubert de Givenchy’s Little Black Dress, Tiffany’s jewelry, and the longing strains of “Moon River.” Iconic images and iconic music.

The music is perhaps Henry Mancini’s most famous score, awarded two Academy Awards (for Best Original Score and Best Original Song [“Moon River”]. It is the quintessence of his style, as well as the music and lifestyle of the sixties. The movie, its aesthetics and its music marked an era.

As was customary in the sixties and during his contract with RCA, Mancini recorded a legendary album with a selection of cues specially arranged for listening pleasure. This album has been available continuously for more than sixty years, and it is impossible to count the number of reissues around the world, as well as the countless covers that singers of all nationalities and styles have recorded of “Moon River.”

But the original version, the one heard in the movie, the magnificent and clever underscore, or “Moon River” itself, performed by Audrey Hepburn, was not released until Intrada found the masters in the Paramount vaults and released the actual score on CD, for which we will never be able to thank Douglass Fake and his team enough.

The new vinyl boom has given us the irresistible opportunity to release the original score on a luxurious double LP, with all the music, the dramatic score and the source music—music to love, to cry, to dance and to be moved by.

Remastered and restored by Chris Malone from the bottom up from the original masters courtesy of Paramount, this white double vinyl includes a gatefold jacket and a separate booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond and stills from the movie.