The Apartment – SOUNDTRACK***

Main Title/Theme From The Apartment/Lonely Room/Where Are You Fran/Ring A Ding Ding/So Fouled Up/ Tavern In Town/Hong Kong Blues/Theme From The Apartment/Career March/Blue Christmas/Kicked In The Head/Little Brown Jug/Office Workers/This Night

The romantic comedy The Apartment starred Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray. The soundtrack was scored by Adolph Deutsch. A cover version of Theme From The Apartment by piano duo Ferrante & Teicher was a US top ten hit single. (US:18)

“Adolph Deutsch, an underrated and really terrific composer, wrote the wonderful and popular score. However, the score’s well-known main theme was, in fact, by Charles Williams, a British composer, and had been used years earlier in an English film. That theme, entitled Jealous Lover, was made so popular by the film that the publisher agreed to re-name it Theme From The Apartment. The music served the film perfectly, and the soundtrack album was hugely popular, as was the Ferrante and Teicher version of the theme. There is superb dramatic scoring as well as jazzier tracks, and the whole thing makes for a wonderful listening.”

“The film's use of music is a high point and feels perfectly hand picked for each of scenes.”

“The soundtrack presents a wonderful very well known musical theme, music to hum to in the form of Love Theme From The Apartment. It's played on the piano at a Chinese restaurant. Usually you remember the theme song long after you've forgotten the movie. But not with this movie. Maybe because it's so unique memory-wise.”