Thursday music corner: Italian film score composer Piero Umiliani (1926-2001) created music for many Italian films in a wide range of genres, peaking in productivity from 1965 to 1974. He released four film soundtracks in 1969, one of which was for Siro Marcellini's film La legge dei Gangsters (Gangster's Law), starring Klaus Kinski. Lui e Lei (Him and Her) was an album track from that soundtrack. (The full soundtrack can be heard on Youtube). It was also re-used by Dominik Galizia in the soundtrack to his 2017 German film Figaros Wolves.
Umiliani is perhaps best known outside Italy for his 1968 single, Mah Nà Mah Nà, which appeared in the Italian film Sweden: Heaven & Hell but achieved much greater fame after its adoption by The Muppets, and, to a lesser extent, the Benny Hill Show.
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