theme from a summer place LP

-"Theme from a Summer Place" forms one of my early boyhood memories. Upon hearing it, I am transported back to my parents living room in the mid 60's, looking through to the front yard and I can even smell lunch in preparation. Macaroni and cheese! I have long coveted my parents original LP, but I have to share it with four brothers who feel the same way. What a delight to find it finally out on CD. (I have surfed in vain for years). Nothing was lost in the remake. My spirits soared with the opening bars. It's a treasure. The double compilation makes it doubly valuable. Get it.

I've always loved Billy Vaughn music. I have the Summer Place on vinyl that I bought when the album first came out. Now they have the CD which also includes another album in which the music is just brilliant. It just gets you into a summer mood. I highly recommend this CD to everyone who loves this type music.

I LOVE IT SO MUCHJON HARWOOD

Tremendous ! Love every song, real music!

Excellent music and quality. I love this CD now as much as I didin the 60's. Billy Vaughn will live on forever.

Fantastic!

I ordered these CDs because my dad had the LP "Theme from a Summer Place" and played it continually as I was growing up. Listening to the music is very nostalgic for me and I am reminded how much I love instrumental music like this.

These classic Dot bestsellers, ubiquitous in every upscale split-level in their day, were long overdue for release in this ideal coupling. The scrupulous remastering commissioned by Collectors Choice impressively replicates the vinyl originals' wide amplitude. Todd Everett's booklet notes are particularly informative regarding Justin Gordon's afterhours twin-sax overdubs, and we learn more privileged details about the studio operating procedures of the shy, reclusive Kentuckian Billy Vaughn.Unintentionally these paired titles powerfully evoke pre-Camelot MOR tastes of their era, specifically the hopeful election year 1960. The SUMMER PLACE album was laid down entirely in January of that year, the SUNDOWNERS sides in August and October, as the torrid original cover art dramatically insists. (Dot released apolitical Vaughn's classic BLUE HAWAII and BERLIN MELODY albums in '59 and '61 in timely accord with important political events, and in these interim releases you may detect the pervasively optimistic mood of a prosperous, dancing, stereophonic nation about to enter a very turbulent decade--and a momentous complete retooling of the recorded-music industry.)The programming choices are particularly apt. A SUMMER PLACE consists entirely of movie themes, but the title track alone mandates purchasing the disc; when Justin Gordon's postdubbed saxes enter on the second chorus, Percy Faith's paler monster-hit original is immediately marginalized and eclipsed. (With all due respect to the discreet Canadian, our Kentuckian conveys Max Steiner's popular sexy-teenybopper theme with fewer inhibitions.) The unfamiliar "Tracy's theme" is rather haunting and derives from a televised remake of PHILADELPHIA STORY.THE SUNDOWNERS is Vaughn's solidest single album, with an eclectic playlist and really inventive arrangements credited to George Greeley, Bill Fontaine and Ernie Hughes. These charts are especially suited to the Vaughn pickup band's strengths, including a very full string complement and vocalise chorus. There is nary a dud track here, with standout covers of "O sole mio," "Never on Sunday" and, especially, "Volare" which actually swings owing to Vaughn's unleashed drummer Dick Shanahan. I defy anyone not to want to dance to this music, just as our parents so often did. If you own only one Billy Vaughn replica twofer as a covert Guilty Pleasure, this is the one to own--although Sepia's coupling of WHEELS & ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL/BERLIN MELODY, with bonus cuts, is nearly as evocative of its vanished year (and Vaughn--at the split-level, true-stereo pinnacle of his career--further celebrated 1960 with another, quieter, keeper album LOOK FOR A STAR).