"Hercule you've broken my pointing stick, I've nothing to point with now!" This song and film are baked into my neurons. My Dad and I always loved watching Peter Sellars - do anything. Hearing this song now, it's exquisite. Wow.

Fran delighted millions with her voice and beauty, sadly underrated. RIP SWEETHEART 💔😪😪

“This is my pistol pen 🖊 get your own pistol pen”

A shot in the dark . I love this . An outstanding masterpiece

Well I don't know who sang this. But I fell in love with this at the beginning of A Shot in the dark. It sets the tone for the movie.

Henry Mancici or who ever put this song at the beginning of ,"A Shot In The Dark" is a genius. It sets the tone and segues perfectly with ,,

That cruel, seductive last 'Goodbye' though! Like a brilliantly applied but unforeseen checkmate.

Whenever I try to sing my grand babies to sleep, this is the the most soothing melody that comes to mind. Heard it about 50 yrs ago and searched for it recently when the haunting melody just sprung back into my mind. I'm so glad I found it. Music is truly a language that speaks to every culture...I'm posting as a 65 yr old Caribbean woman from Antigua 🇦🇬

When you hear this song ring out of your surround speakers when watching ASOTD, you know you're in for one hell of a cinematic treat.

Many thanks for this post. I love this film and have watched it several times. Whenever I watch it I am captivated by the intro song The Shadows of Paris. I wish I knew for certain who sang the song but sadly the 3 singers who appear to be candidates ( Gina Carroll, Elsie Bianchi, and Fran Jeffries ) are all deceased. According to the imdb website the singer is Gina Carroll.

A SHOT in the Dark is the BEST Pink Panther Film with Peter Sellers and Elke Sommers teamed up... it's a CLASSIC and if you don't laugh yourself sick over this movie - then you're dead! Blake Edwards was a genius film maker.

no matter who the artist is.....its a beautiful song and a lovely voice

Im from #iraq___🇮🇶 i very love and like any Song classic or music ... good for this art music

A shot in the dark is My favorite movie in the pink panther series of movies.

Un genio Henry Mancini.Charada,Muñequita de lujo y Los girasoles de Rusia.Musica bellísima ❤

1) A Shot in the Dark is the best Pink Panther film, no competition. 2) This opening song is one of the best songs made for film, period. It not only sets up this film really well, but it stands alone on its own right. It somehow works both in the setting of this comedy, but also as a mournful, melancholy piece by itself.

sniff .... beautiful

So touching. I can feel my heart ache.

why must we meet in the shadows of paris where hardly a star seems to shine why can't we meet in the sunlight of paris where paris can see you're mine. have you come to me from another whose lips you have tried do you still belong to another is that why we hide why am i cold in the sunlight of paris whre laughter and songs fill the skies why am i warm in the shadows of paris when i know that dawn means goodbye

Underrated gem of a song (although you can expect no less from Henry Mancini). The other gem from this score is the main theme--which fared a little better since it was used for the DePatie/Freleng "Inspector" cartoons.

DREYFUS: Francois FRANCOIS: Yes commissioner? DREYFUS: I just cut off my thumb! (eye twitches)

Great film . Took the invention of the Internet for me to find this superb track . 30 yrs of head scratching. Why is it not in the credits ??

first of all - a wonderful tune and lyric and haunting rendition, whoever's doing the singing. It's a pity the instrumentalists rarely get individual credit - here they are superb I really enjoyed the movie and its predecessor. I've just listened to some Elsie Bianchi Trio recordings (on here) and am now listening to Fran Jeffries singing Meglio stasera. I would say it's Fran singing Shadows of Paris.

Song "Shadows of Paris" Music: Henry Mancini Lyrics: Robert Wells Movie: A Shot in the Dark (1965)

Thank you for omitting the gunshot at the end- it always takes me out of the beautiful song that precedes it.

I watched the film for about the unpteenth time on Film4 yesterday. I never tire of it. I've always liked this particular version of the song but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available anywhere from what I can see. Thanks for sharing with us.

why must we meet in the shadows of paris where hardly a star seems to shine why can't we meet in the sunlight of paris where paris can see you're mine. have you come to me from another whose lips you have tried do you still belong to another is that why we hide why am i cold in the sunlight of paris whre laughter and songs fill the skies why am i warm in the shadows of paris when i know that dawn means goodbye have you come to me from another whose lips you have tried do you still belong to another is that why we hide why am i cold in the sunlight of paris where laughter and songs fill the skies why am i warm in the shadows of paris when i know that dawn means goodbye.

Thank you for this video !! :)

This is the person who sang it at the beginning of the movie!! Exactly! Different vibrato and inflections in the voices--Fran's is lovely but each voice is different. And talking about giving credit, Mancini used a wonderful violin soloist who was also never given credit (in this song and all throughout "Two For The Road"!

Spirit of Paris. Lovely

A shot in the dark!! classic clouseau!! 😄

Have seen "A shot in the dark", many times, but never from the beginning. Just started watching again on Film4 and had to come here to find the singer. Thanks for the up load.

Such poetry, I have only just discovered! Thank you for posting!

One of the best film I ever seen fantastic music I always watch it 👍 Alan Hurst-thomlinson

From a shot In the dark💝 so beautiful and very nice😣

Me encanta esta canción.-

absolutely beautiful music and lyrics ahhh thanks for uploading! :)

Perfect!!!!!! 10.

W Excelente versión de Elsie...impecable!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎖

Bianchi sang this in the movie intro, and Jeffries sang lead vocal in "It had Better Be Tonight" from The Pink Panther. Believe this, or go into a rit of fealous jage...

Goodbye * 4 gun shots *

I agree it sounds like Fran and she appeared in The Pink Panther, so quite probable, too. Is this not just the most perfect music? Fantastic!

According to the IMDB the woman who and the title song (Shadows of Paris) was Gina Carroll.

what a brilliant mystery.. what an ear riddle.. I met two wonderful singers today with the help of it. listened whole other songs. my vote: put Elsie in the studio , and been told that please sing it accentless . I can hear a little effort to hide :)

Sweet Elke...beautiful lady !

Beautiful

AWESOME SONG !

GREAT.

"Then I submit monsieur Ballon, that you killed him in a fit of Felous Jage!"

"Would you kill for Maria?" 'OF COURSE!!!" Uhhh, not!"

my opion is its fran jefferies but who cares, an everlasting mancini masterpiece :)

Well, the singer is neither Fran Jeffries nor Elsie Bianchi. It is in fact somebody called Gina Carroll. According to IMDB: Soundtrack Credits Shadows of Paris Music by Henry Mancini Lyrics by Robert Wells The singer is Gina Carroll [uncredited].

Gina Carroll is the singer. If you have any doubt, listen to her voice on this song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y5eKn5Vym96dqJc.html&feature=emb_logo Imdb now has her correctly listed as the singer.

Gina Carroll definitely sings here !! So, on the Henry Mancini Songbook CD I have the sung version of Elsie Bianchi. This recording from 1965 differs not only from the jazz arrangement (piano and drums), but also from the singing. Elsie can't make the high notes and her voice sounds smokier. It is deviant to hear the better and more beautiful voice of Gina Carroll in the film! Here is the proof: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y5eKn5Vym96dqJc.html + kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7Fzhax_krDRdHU.html In addition, her voice sounds a lot stronger than Elsie's and reminds of Shirley Bassey! Unfortunately this recording is not yet available on any sound carrier! There are always only the versions sung by Henry Mancini's choir and the versions sung by Elsie. I have been waiting for the original film version, sung by Gina Carroll and finely orchestrated by Henry Mancini, for ages !! Gina Carroll on CD, that would finally be a revelation !!

GINA CARROLL SANG IT? In 2012 nobody knew who sang the song? Wikipedia thinks it knows: "The title song 'The Shadows of Paris' was written by Henry Mancini. The singer is not credited but contemporary trade reports confirm it was Decca Records recording artist Gina Carroll." But no citation is given in support of this claim.

A Shot In The Dark brings me here

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Does anyone know if there's a recording available of the jazz band version of the Shot in the Dark theme as played by the (nude) Jazz Band at Camp Sunshine? I love that part.

TEMASO

I researched this up, down, left and right. Fran did perform "Meglio Stasera" in The Pink Panther, but this is most assuredly Elsie Bianchi. You can verify her recording here at Discogs.com

I agree about this song and song placement and the movie... it's great. But talking about good songs by great composers but the people are known and the Movie is not considered good; John Barry composed a song, Colleen Camp sang it called "Will this be the song I'll be singing tomorrow". Most will not be able to name the Movie.

On allmusic.com you van look up both women. Look at songs under their name. Elsie is credited with the song, but Fran is not. I think the confusion comes in because Fran appeared in the film, and Elsie did not.

I believe Fran Jeffries sang in the movie "The Pink Panther" but is not this one. This is from "A Shot in the Dark." Somewhere I read a vocalist named Gina Carrolll sang this but can't locate the source now.

really? because i looked it up and there were only two singers (Fran Jeffries, and Elsie Bianchi) that really conflicted since no one really knows who sang this song, but i was pretty sure it was her....

IMHO it is Fran Jeffries singing...she has a way of enunciating each word very clearly.

This is not Fran Jeffries. I am not familiar enough with Elsie Bianchi, but this is definitely not Fran Jeffries.

selon imdb-movies c'est Gina Carroll qui chante

Elsie Bianchi did record a version of this song, but there's absolutely no way the song on the film was sung by her, and you don't need to be Clouseau to work that out, you just need to compare the two side by side. If it's a choice between her and Fran Jeffries, the latter is by far the most likely. Why doesn't someone just ask them?

I wickied it and they mention that Fran Jeffries sang it, so I am 99 per cent certain it is Fran Jeffries singing this. they probably remained vague for economic reasons--to allow european artists to get a share of the economic fallout

alright alright I'll change it, hold on a sec

It's certainly not Elsie Bianchi so it must be Fran or someone off the street.

I don't believe this singer is either Bianchi or Jeffries. I wish there were a way to ask Fran, since she's the only one still alive.

LOL what is that at 3:45 like "Ahia!"

3:44 Man sneezed

I guess I will have to do the latter, because Elsie Bianchi definitely did not sing the movie version. This is Fran Jeffries. Elsie Bianchi had a totally different voice and a thick Swiss accent.

Once again, as a musician. singer, music- and voice-teacher, I can assure you that this is NOT Fran Jeffries' voice! I heard her sing "The Anniversary Song" this past week (revisiting it because Lauren Bacall is featured in the scene), and her voice, while wonderful, is NOT THIS VOICE!

Vientos

Gina Carroll

That sounds like Fran, I have all her albums, Elsie has a reallllly thick accent on the clips I could find of her.

This sure isn't Elsie Bianchi. Bianchi ahs an excellent version of this tune which is done to a slow waltz beat with a bluesy piano played by Bianchi. Bianchi's voice is very different than the one here. I believe this to be Fran Jeffries. Both versions are excellent. This version is prettier. Bianchi's version is a bit more hip or cool.

IT S SHIRLEY BASSEY!!!!!

This is NOT Elsie Bianchi! Possibly Fran Jeffries, but not Elsie. Elsie does a great version of this in a jazz waltz tempo. She also plays piano in her version.

Better sallser the best

this is much slower than the one in the soundtrack

Revolting long whine.