Terrific music from a terrific film, with "milestone performances" from both Shirley Maclaine and Jack Lemmon..... thanks for sharing this lush version of the theme......
On this day in 1960 {Aug 30th} Ferrante and Teicher performed "The Theme from 'The Apartment'" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was at #12 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, the following week it would peak at #10 {for 1 week} and it spent 20 weeks on the Top 100... Between 1960 and 1970 the duo had eleven records on the Top 100 chart; four made the Top 10 with their biggest hit being "Exodus", it peaked at #2* for one week on January 23rd, 1961... Besides "Exodus" and "The Apartment", their other two Top 10 records were "Tonight (from West Side Story)" {#8 in 1961}, and "Midnight Cowboy" {#10 in 1970}... Louis Teicher passed away at the age of 83 on August 3rd, 2008; and Arthur Ferrante died one year later on September 19th, 2009, he was 88 years old... May they both R.I.P. * The week "Exodus" was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Wonderland By Night" by Bert Kaempfert, plus the record at #3 was another instrumental, "Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra, thus the top three records on the Top 100 for that week were all instrumentals... .
Ah! Thankyou SO much for this. The Apartment is my favorite movie in the entire world, and I love all the music. I cannot thank you enough for uploading this!
+mackb909 Sorry........don't agree at all. The movie was perfect up until that line. He saved her life. He tells her "I love you Miss Kubilik." "I absolutely adore you" and that's her response? Lame.
Anyway, thank you for putting it here. This reminds me that good old time where we could hear all kinds of good music without changing station or channel. It was so good to have this song on the Hit Parade alongside with Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, and other big hits. Today, we almost never hear symphonic instrumentals such "Theme from The Apartment", "Walk Don't Run" and so on. I don't enjoy Hip Hop music, in short, I really don't appreciate nowadays music.
+bloke372 I agree. I love this music - had the sheet music for piano, and it was one of my favorites (never sounded quite like this, though!). Like "The Days of Wine and Roses," I thought it was exquisite music for a depressing movie.
I enjoyed this piece as an adolescent....it was one of the two first 45s I ever bought when i was 12 or 13. My tastes have changed....I'm not trying to trash anything or offend anyone by not liking the piece as much now as I did then.
A perfect movie with perfect casting and a fabulous film score by the great Adolph Deutsch. I consider it a Xmas film and, one of my faves. Though Ferrante & Teicher had a big hit with this theme song, as well as Exodus, for me, their arrangements always pushed the "maudlin" envelope. The version that always hits home with me is from the soundtrack, featured in the opening of this suite: ua-cam.com/video/waLsDyqljGg/v-deo.html
@Cinegrar No need for an apology, but thanks, but how is rsrs a smile?? I'm not familiar with it. I know the basics like lol, imho, lmao, and the like. I'm just really curious. I'm an editor so my professional life is based around words and how they're put together.
True, but substitute "gross" for "schmaltzy" and you have a description of much of today's music. If those are the only choice, I'll take the schmaltz.
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Theme from The Apartment makes me cry because it's such a beautiful piece
64 years later, it sounds as fresh and as good as it sounded so long ago. One of my favorites through the years, I still like it and very much.
Pure heaven to my ears for over 40 years. Had the privilege of hearing them in concert in 1974.
A tearjerker love melody...It always touches my emotions everytime I hear this...Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Cinegrar for sending me this timeless classic. One of my favorite oldies.
An old favourite,which brings back many happy memories
Terrific music from a terrific film, with "milestone performances" from both Shirley Maclaine and Jack Lemmon..... thanks for sharing this lush version of the theme......
It doesn't get much better than this...
On this day in 1960 {Aug 30th} Ferrante and Teicher performed "The Theme from 'The Apartment'" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
At the time the song was at #12 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, the following week it would peak at #10 {for 1 week} and it spent 20 weeks on the Top 100...
Between 1960 and 1970 the duo had eleven records on the Top 100 chart; four made the Top 10 with their biggest hit being "Exodus", it peaked at #2* for one week on January 23rd, 1961...
Besides "Exodus" and "The Apartment", their other two Top 10 records were "Tonight (from West Side Story)" {#8 in 1961}, and "Midnight Cowboy" {#10 in 1970}...
Louis Teicher passed away at the age of 83 on August 3rd, 2008; and Arthur Ferrante died one year later on September 19th, 2009, he was 88 years old...
May they both R.I.P.
* The week "Exodus" was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Wonderland By Night" by Bert Kaempfert, plus the record at #3 was another instrumental, "Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra, thus the top three records on the Top 100 for that week were all instrumentals... .
Thank you so much for sharing this information! Their music touch my soul and I always end in tears. I’m an irremediable romántic!
Ah! Thankyou SO much for this. The Apartment is my favorite movie in the entire world, and I love all the music. I cannot thank you enough for uploading this!
what a lovely theme! great music!
Metal head that I was many years ago, this and Exodus were the 1st 45s I bought. Figure that one out!
Me hace recordar mi infancia, es la música con la que crecí.
Gracias a mis padres por ser tan selectivos en lo que escuchaban
No one did it better and only a few were as good . RIP guys !
Academy award music - great achievement with excellent clips and effort in uploading. 5***** stars.
Terrific Music from a Terrific Move. If you haven't seen the movie,Watch it,you won't be disappointed.
Thanks for the memories
Loved it-first movie I saw at a drive-in.
@@debbieallen269 Wonderful Debbie Allen. I Brazilian loved this song in my Childress.
AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC .-------------IT JUST DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER THAN THOSE 2 AT THE PIANO.
la disfruto enormemente,me llena de alegria y nostalgia
me encanta la musica de ferrante y teacher desde que era joven
"Shut up and deal." Greatest last line in a movie, ever.
+mackb909 Sorry........don't agree at all. The movie was perfect up until that line. He saved her life. He tells her "I love you Miss Kubilik." "I absolutely adore you" and that's her response? Lame.
that my favorite line from the movie
Merry Christmas, just watched d movie on TCM, great movie.
It was indeed a great movie, things were going on back then -- we just didn't know about them as much! Ha.
Hey, thanks for the clarification!! I love learning stuff like that!!
Anyway, thank you for putting it here. This reminds me that good old time where we could hear all kinds of good music without changing station or channel. It was so good to have this song on the Hit Parade alongside with Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, and other big hits.
Today, we almost never hear symphonic instrumentals such "Theme from The Apartment", "Walk Don't Run" and so on. I don't enjoy Hip Hop music, in short, I really don't appreciate nowadays music.
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
best movie ever!
+Veda Starr I do agree with the best movie soundtrack
+bloke372 I agree. I love this music - had the sheet music for piano, and it was one of my favorites (never sounded quite like this, though!). Like "The Days of Wine and Roses," I thought it was exquisite music for a depressing movie.
I enjoyed this piece as an adolescent....it was one of the two first 45s I ever bought when i was 12 or 13. My tastes have changed....I'm not trying to trash anything or offend anyone by not liking the piece as much now as I did then.
A perfect movie with perfect casting and a fabulous film score by the great Adolph Deutsch. I consider it a Xmas film and, one of my faves. Though Ferrante & Teicher had a big hit with this theme song, as well as Exodus, for me, their arrangements always pushed the "maudlin" envelope. The version that always hits home with me is from the soundtrack, featured in the opening of this suite: ua-cam.com/video/waLsDyqljGg/v-deo.html
I didn't realize it was so overdone, schmaltzy, and bombastic. I loved it as a kid; not so much now.
... wait to you become an old geezer and return to this! With tears in your eyes! damn you young people!!!
Quando o tema supera o filme...
This is real music. Not noise.
@Cinegrar I'm not familiar with rsrs...but I imagine it's a tad like gr-rr- but softer? :) So to each his/her own, eh? and as always, c'est la vie.
@Cinegrar ok, gracias.
It's because 'Cinegrar' is Brazilian, and they use 'rsrs' (from 'risos,' 'laughs').
@Cinegrar No need for an apology, but thanks, but how is rsrs a smile?? I'm not familiar with it. I know the basics like lol, imho, lmao, and the like. I'm just really curious. I'm an editor so my professional life is based around words and how they're put together.
True, but substitute "gross" for "schmaltzy" and you have a description of much of today's music. If those are the only choice, I'll take the schmaltz.