Theme from A Summer Place

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"Theme from A Summer Place" is a song with lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, written for the 1959 film A Summer Place, which starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue. It was recorded for the film as an instrumental theme by Steiner. Originally known as the "Molly and Johnny Theme", this lush extended cue, as orchestrated by Murray Cutter, is not the main title theme of the film, but an oft-heard love leitmotif for the characters played by Dee and Donahue. A subsequent recording by Hugo Winterhalter was the first to use the title "Theme from A Summer Place". The theme has become a canonical representative of the easy listening genre, and is considered by some to be the definitive easy listening track of all time. Following its introduction in the film by the Warner Bros. studio orchestra, the theme was recorded by many artists in both instrumental and vocal versions, and has also appeared in a number of subsequent films and television programs. The best-known version of the theme...

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