My favorite random musical film interlude of the 1960s: Fran Jeffries performing “Meglio Stasera” in The Pink Panther (dir. Blake Edwards).
According to Wikipedia, the song — composed by Henry Mancini — “is a candombe, a genre of popular dance music from Montevideo, Uruguay.” The candombe’s requisite drummers — the cuerda — can be seen in the background, along with Peter Sellers, David Niven, and the rest of the film’s cast.
Now a standard, the song has been performed in English (“It Had Better Be Tonight”, lyric by Johnny Mercer) by everyone from Lena Horne and Michael Bublé to John Barrowman(!) of Torchwood. And then there’s this rarity from Donna Summer…delish.
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POSTED Saturday June 27th
