Meglio Stasera

Meglio Stasera (known in English as It Had Better Be Tonight), is a 1964 song with music by Henry Mancini, Italian lyrics by Franco Modigliani (songwriter) and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was composed for the original installment of the film series The Pink Panther.

Related Topics:
1964 - Henry Mancini - Franco Modigliani (songwriter) - Johnny Mercer - The Pink Panther

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It showcases a young actress named Fran Jeffries, who sings the song while slowly dancing around a fireplace at a ski lodge where all the principal players of the film are gathered.

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The song appears on the soundtrack record album in two versions.

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• One is an instrumental that resembles the underscore of Fran's rendition.
• The other is a group vocal with only vaguely related English lyrics, a version not used in the film.
• The original Italian version does not appear on the album.

Here is the beginning of the song, in the original Italian followed by a literal translation, and a smidgen of the English version:

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:Meglio stasera, che domani o mai

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:Domani chi lo sa, quel che sera

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:Better tonight, than tomorrow or never

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:Tomorrow who knows, what will be

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:Meglio stasera, baby, go-go-go,

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