1. This movie
2. Rose Red
3. Animal House
An one question: I've found many version, who actually sing it? I Rose Red I believe they said Gren Miller
"A Summer Place" was prominently featured in Barry Levinson's "Diner".
shareI remember its use in Diner.
I love this song!
It's played in the background in the movie "The Terminal".
shareNot sure if I noticed that. The song is featured in an episode of "Roseanne" -- "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today" season 5, episode 20. It's playing during Dan and Roseanne's 20th anniversary celebration.
There's a local sports station here in Dallas ("The Ticket") and they play this song during their sappy stories . Lately when I go shopping at Kroger first thing in the morning, this song always plays at least once while I'm there.
I heard it today, as a matter of fact, on tv in a Toyota Avalon commercial. It ALWAYS makes me smile.
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I heard it just last night on a fast food commercial :'( The commercial showed, to Percy Faith's brilliantly harmonic arrangement, the dangers of constantly eating burgers and fries all throughout your summer. It showed a fat man breaking a diving board, a guy causing his gf to fall after bumping into her at a bon fire, a woman's bikini top snapping off because apparantly she wasn't sexy enough for that top, &c. The commercial itself was funny, but why choose "Theme from a Summer Place"?
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I've been meaning to post about the same thing . It's a Subway sandwich commercial. I think the commercial is referring to how people like to get fit for Summer wear, swimming, etc., so they chose "Theme from a Summer Place." And of course Subway has the low-fat theme...
shareIn the seventh and final season of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" the theme can be heard in the episode entitled "Him" about a guy who wears a varsity jacket that casts a spell on girls/women to fall in love with him.
shareAnyone knows if the music it's on public domain?? i want to use it in a short im making.
sharehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000070/#Soundtrack
If you scroll down to 'soundtrack' there are 116 listings (not all a summer place) But a lot of the listings are. Thanks for the post!
i've heard the song used in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. several times during the show they would have an "intermission" and the song would be playing in the background.
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I'm right now watching the movie " Susan Slade " from 1961 on the TCM Channel . About 32 mins. into this movie they played about 30 seconds of this song on a radio . Thanks popeyv for your subject post .
shareI heard it there as well, and in an episode of "The Wonder Years." I think the episode is the finale episode of season 2, when Kevin laments how bad his summer will be once his friends leave for the summer with their families. It's heard in the beginning during the home video.
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To answer part of the original question of "Who sang it?" The version used in the movie, and heard most often, is instrumental and performed, as mentioned by a couple of posters, by Percy Faith (I think it's actually credited to 'The Percy Faith Orchestra.') There was a version, with vocals, recorded by The Letterman and that version did get some airplay and still does occasionally but not as often as the instrumental version. I'm sure there are others.
shareAnyone remember Jasper singing the song in the "Simpsons"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9XAF9LkxY
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Thanks so much Cyrus420 for this funny YouTube clip .
I was wondering what the name of Grampa Simpson's friend was from the nursing home always seem to never catch it when I watched this show .
It's too funny he didn't even know the words to the song he just made up the one line and repeated it over and over as he went along .
Warner Brothers owned the rights to the music in their films and re-used themes all the time in those days. "As Times Goes By" appears uncredited in and episode of "77 Sunset Strip".
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Batman (1989) when the Joker tricked Vicky Vale in the museum restaurant with a makeshift date.
shareMaybe I'm mistaken, but I seem to remember Bill Murray singing it in one of his Nick the Lounge Singer routines on SNL, and it went something like this:
It's the theme... to a summer place... It's the theme... the theme... to a summer place... summer place.