What is the name of the song that Otter plays on the speakers when he sleeps with Mrs. Wormer at the toga party?
shareI haven't seen the movie in some time but I believe it is:
THEME FROM 'A SUMMER PLACE' by the Percy Faith Orchestra. The ultimate piece of "elevator music." I have it on my iPod.
Thanks for the response, but I'm pretty sure that's not it. Unfortunately there's no clip of that scene on YouTube for reference.
shareYou can hear it at the very end of this clip http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-n_RQ2JuJJhbJmm/animal_house_1978_making_out_at_party/
Theme from "A Summer Place" is what is playing for Pinto and his underage girlfriend for their innocent seduction scene in Hoover's Room. It is kind of sweet and syrupy with "Percy Faith"-style strings. It is the flip-side to what is going on in Otter's room between Otter and Dean Wormer's wife accompanied by sophisticated bossa-nova style music.
Sorry I'm not answering your question. I just wanted to underline that it was not "A Summer Place."
The music that Otter plays in his bedroom during the seduction sequence seems to be a deliberate send-up of latin-based popular music. The orchestration is suspiciously similar to the known soundtrack cues from this film, and is also similar to the also-uncredited music heard in the supermarket, where Otter first encounters Mrs. Wormer. I believe all this music was composed by Elmer Bernstein; it is also possible that some music created by the composer for films prior to 'Animal House' was used, and several have noted the composer's penchant for self-reference in this score (as his quoting of 'The Buccaneer' during Bluto's swashbuckling sequence at the film's end, as well as 'Walk On The Wild Side' during the Road Trip).
If the music IS simply lifted from other Bernstein scores, there may be too little original music to form a cohesive soundtrack collection... which would explain why none was, or has been, released.
That said, Max Steiner's 'Theme from A Summer Place' (performed by the Percy Faith Orchestra) plays throughout the early scenes of the toga party, including a front-door exchange between Otter and Mrs. Wormer.