Theme from A Summer Place - Roland Atelier AT-900P

Описание: This is a favorite of mine that I have wanted to do since I first acquired a Roland organ back in 2010, but it turned out to be a lot more complicated than I first thought to play all or most of the instrumental counter-melodies that are present in Percy Faith's original 1959 recording (which I have always admired, and which my arrangement is based on). The piece uses a variety of string voices for the primary melody and many different woodwind and French horn voices for the bridge and various counter-melodies throughout the piece. The rhythm style is "Romantic 6/8" throughout. Anyway, here is what I've come up with; I hope you enjoy it.
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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 by Hugo Winterhalter. 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 secondary love theme for the characters played by Dee and Donahue. The theme has become a canonical representation 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 is the instrumental version by Percy Faith and his Orchestra. It was released in September 1959 as a single on Columbia Records, credited to "Percy Faith and his Orchestra", prior to the November 1959 release of the film A Summer Place.

The single was not an immediate hit, but after it entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at No. 96 on January 11, 1960, it ascended to number one in just six more weeks, on February 22, 1960, going on to set an at-the-time record of nine consecutive weeks at number one, a record that would not be broken until 1977.

"Theme From A Summer Place" remains the longest-running number one instrumental in the history of the Hot 100. Billboard ranked Faith's version as the Number One song for 1960. Faith won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961 for his recording. This was the first movie theme and the first instrumental to win a Record of the Year Grammy. As reported in by Casey Kasem on an American Top 40 broadcast in 1976, "Theme from A Summer Place" is the biggest hit on the American charts by a Canadian artist. In 2008 Faith's original version was ranked at number 18 on Billboard's top 100 songs during the first 50 years of the Hot 100 chart. The Billboard Book of Number One Hits called it "the most successful instrumental single of the rock era." (from Wikipedia)