Midweek music spot 25th Feb 2026: Fran Jeffries performs "It had better be tonight" from The Pink Panther

An extra music spot this week, one of our contributors had posted this clip from the original Pink Panther film (1963) and more than sixty years later it is still both a total earworm and visually entrancing. Be warned that if you click on the video below and watch and listen to it, this tune may well be repeating yourself in your head for weeks.

Look carefully at the background and you will see the film's main protagonist played by David Niven enjoying the performance; a great actor but he probably didn't have to act very hard! Also a great comic performance by Peter Sellers as the bumbling French detective, Inspector Clouseau, initially one of the two people in the room who isn't paying attention to Fran Jeffries but he soon gets dragged into the act. The character was brought back for the subsequent Pink Panther films such as "A shot in the dark."




Fran Jeffries (May 18, 1937 – December 15, 2016) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and model. Her other film credits include "The Buccaneer" and "Sex and the single girl."

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