Theme from A Summer Place
Theme from A Summer Place is a song with lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, written for the 1959 movie A Summer Place, which starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue. The piece was recorded as an instrumental for the movie. However, Theme from A Summer Place is not the title theme of the movie, but a secondary love theme for the characters played by Dee and Donahue.
The piece has been recorded by many artists in both instrumental and vocal versions, and has also appeared in a number of movies and television programs. The best-known cover version is an instrumental version by Percy Faith and his orchestra that was a Number-One hit for nine weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1960.
Max Steiner (1888 - 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theater and movies. Ne composed over 300 movie scores and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three. He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Many of his movie scores are available as separate soundtrack recordings.
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