# Please identify this tune **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778 "2008-02-22T22:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/1 "2008-02-22T22:09:28Z")
Should be easy for anybody who knows much about music… this is a very familiar tune, like a 60’s spyflick sort of thing, but I’ve never been able to identify it. And now, because of this risqué magic act, I’ll never be able to forget it. The tune starts immediately… broken link because it goes decidedly NSFW after about a minute. [http://www.youpo](http://www.youpo) [rn.com/watch/180](http://rn.com/watch/180) ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/2 "2008-02-22T22:24:29Z")
I think it is a movement in the theme music for the Pink Panther, written by Mancini. I recall hearing it, especially, in the animated version. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/3 "2008-02-22T22:42:23Z")
It is the Pink Panther Theme. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/4 "2008-02-22T22:46:59Z")
The performer is Ursula Martinez and she calls the piece “Hanky Panky”. 🙂 She does have a website. A comment on h ttp://music.videosift.com/video/A-Most-Wonderful-Magic-Trick-the-Hanky-Panky (link broken due to same NSFW video) says: > [@](#): > > Music BTW is “A Shot in the Dark” by Henry Mancini from the second Pink Panther movie of the same name. So it’s appropriate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/5 "2008-02-22T22:56:06Z")
You can listen to a sample of it at Amazon: [http://www.amazon.com/Mancini-Plays-Other-Composers/dp/B00003L9HZ/ref=sr\_1\_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203720847&sr=1-6](http://www.amazon.com/Mancini-Plays-Other-Composers/dp/B00003L9HZ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203720847&sr=1-6) ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/6 "2008-02-22T23:11:57Z")
Thanks much! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/7 "2008-02-23T00:12:42Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] It is the Pink Panther Theme. [/QUOTE] It was used in the animated show for the Inspector episodes, as opposed to the Pink Panther episodes which used the more familiar movie theme. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-tune/438778/8 "2008-02-23T00:52:10Z")
Moved to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator