Mansfield's other works include "The Young Scene" (the original 1968 theme to
The Big Match), "Light and Tuneful" (the opening theme for the BBC's coverage of the
Wimbledon Tennis Championships), "World Champion" (the closing theme for
NBC's coverage of the same tournament), and "World Series" (used for the BBC's athletics coverage). One of his
library music recordings, "Teenage Carnival", was used as the theme to the 1960s
ITV children's television series
Freewheelers. He has also composed film scores for British films such as
Loot (1970) and
Taste of Excitement (1970), and the western
Three Bullets for a Long Gun (1971). He also scored the start-up and shutdown themes for
Granada Television in 1978, which were used for ten years before it switched to 24-hour television. Mansfield is perhaps best known by American audiences as the composer of the tune "Funky Fanfare", used for underscoring in
NFL Films productions and the Astro Daters series of
snipes produced by the
National Screen Service in the late 1960s. That song is currently used during the opening credits of the show
Pit Boss on
Animal Planet, as well as backing music for the "Quick Hits" segment on the
Sklarbro Country podcast. Mansfield also composed the
brass tune "Superstar Fanfare", which was used (in several variations) by
Channel Television in the
Channel Islands,
RTL plus's news programme
7 vor 7,
Worldvision Enterprises, and by the
Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) as a
idents jingle for
British Forces TV in West Germany, Berlin, Cyprus, The Falkland Islands and Gibraltar in the 1980s and 1990s. The Astro Daters' "Our Next Attraction" was featured prominently in two films by
Quentin Tarantino,
Kill Bill and
Death Proof. A vocal version of Funky Fanfare entitled "House of Jack" was also recorded by
James Royal in 1969. Another Mansfield composition, "National Pride," was the opening theme to the 1980 film
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, which utilizes Mansfield's
library music score, and as the logo jingle for
CBS/Fox Video. A song remix was also used in the game,
Saints Row: The Third. In the 1960s and 1970s, Mansfield was a significant figure in the UK library music scene and recorded many materials for the production music company
KPM. His work has been sampled by
hip-hop producers such as
Danger Mouse ("Funky Fanfare" on the
Danger Doom track "Old School Rules", "Junior Jet Set" on "Run" by
Gnarls Barkley, and "Morning Broadway" on the Danger Doom track "Space Ho's"),
Madlib, as well as
Fatboy Slim ("Young Scene" on the track "Punk to Funk") and most recently, "Walkin" by
Denzel Curry, produced by Kal Banx. Mansfield was arranger and conductor for several tracks on
Dusty Springfield's 1968 UK album
Dusty... Definitely, and acted as orchestral arranger on some hits for
Love Affair ("
Everlasting Love") and
Marmalade ("
Reflections of My Life"), among others. Mansfield wrote material for and produced albums with trumpeter
Maynard Ferguson:
M.F. Horn,
Maynard Ferguson and
M.F. Horn Two. ==Success in Brazil==