Here again- 51 years after this came out and I saw it in the theatre on its first run. It was only 29 years after the Summer of '42 then, and the film and the music were young and fresh, and began to define a lot of my own dreams. Only Hollywood could do this- put out something so important and so meaningful to life itself. In fact it was sort of bigger than life itself, which was possibly going to call me to fight against my will in a war I did not believe in. This was THE WAY as far as my 17 year old life found one. Later, I studied film and video, I went to Hollywood, I knocked on doors. I wrote. In the myriad of life and events it never happened for me. I found myself on the warm beach a few times, even there through the night when it wasn't so warm. Yet somehow this song was a backdrop to my life then, alone and far from where I grew up. There's a part in this song that captures the warmth of the sun on a calm summer day, and yet still surrounded by a turbulent world where young men are called off to war and their lovers and loved ones watch them leave for the last time sometimes. 51 years later now- I'm 68 and still doing what I can to make life more sane somehow. Many of the people who did this great work- the film and the music have passed, the rest are surely older than I and their best days are past. Sad to think about, but what a wonderful legacy they left us with. Peace.
@@ninovasev Yes my relatives worked in the business then...it was wonderful...now we do not have the quality of films or scores...I hardly go to movies anymore...my relatives said it was going to hell in the mid 70's when the corporate people took over...sad.
@@davidburris6873 The introspection is gone. The purpose- now it's usually just what's louder, faster and more flashy. It's product now, and product must always be replaced, until it all flashes past with no impact then. It's more rare for a film now to actually say something meaningful, the same entertainment candy is much safer and doesn't step on toes or ruffle feathers. Some moments in time and some messages just eclipse others. A moving story about innocence and WWII in the early '70's during the Vietnam War had more meaning than most films could ever. Shalom.
It is the most beautiful piano solo instrumental and I love HERMIE alive 95 and I am sad Michael Legrand has passed away. I just want a CD of the movie.
I saw this movie as a kid & it was this music that got to me. I'd hide my face while big fat hot tears would roll down. I'm 57 now, no longer a kid & it still cuts me up.......every single time. So gorgeous & so haunting. 😪🌻🎼🎹❤
Just a magical movie, first time I saw this movie I realised that it was a classic. Beautiful musical score, Jennifer O'Neill was not only stunning but a fine actress. A movie that takes me back to a time when we were young and happy. Where have all the years gone ???? Without doubt, one of the greatest feel good movies ever made.
Are you okay,? The woman was a pedophile who took advantage of a young boy because she was lonely. If it didn't seem very wrong to you I don't know what to say.
@@resa.walters just a reply to your ridiculous comment that Jennifer O'Neil's character was a Pedophile. It's movie sweetheart !!! Get a life !!! Luckily we didn't have all you woke/gender obsessed lunatics in the 1970s. We had real Dames then, women who were attractive, loved life, enjoyed being wooed, spoiled and dated. For your information, my wife and I were married when we were both Fifteen years of age in the Blue Grass Mountains and have just celebrated our Fifty Five years together !!!! You need to get a boyfriend, a life and start to leave all that Woke bullshit behind you. Adiós muchacha !!!!
@@resa.waltersdeve ser mulher , e por isso que mulher não está no poder no mundo , o mundo delas e competitivo , o poder e macho , branco e rico , aliás eu sou afrodescendente .
Since the last comment on this video was 10 months ago, I doubt if anyone will read this one, so this is for Joanne Morgan, a girl I fell head-over-heals in love with in 1971 that I was trying desparately to get next to. She was playing hard to get. The Summer of '42 was our first date and, to this day, whenever I hear it, I think of her. We dated for several years, then she moved somewhere far away in 1979 and I haven't seen or heard from her since.
John Everson The music just captures sooo many emotions - love and awakening and joy and longing and loss and nostalgia and wistfulness and moodiness and a touch of sadness - it captures every nuance.
J'ai vu ce film alors que j'avais tout juste 14 ans... Un très grand moment d'émotion(s). Cette musique est une merveille, elle enchante et à la fois rend triste, car c'est cela que la musique provoque. Merci Monsieur Legrand.
My summer of 42 was the summer of 82. I was 19 and meet my first boyfriend. He changed my life and I will always have that special place in my heart for him and the summer of 82. So many years ago.
Para mí es la banda sonora de mi vida, la escuché al ver la película, en mi primera y única cita de mi vida, me casé con el q es mi esposo, diez años mayor que yo, yo entonces tenía 15 años en el 74 y ahora a mis 65 años la escucho cada día sobre todo en la noche me da paz. Gracias por tan bella melodía.
I am 77 years old and and remember when this movie came out and immediately was taken back to my youth in the 1950’s growing up in Coney Island in Brooklyn and walking along the beach on a quiet Sunday morning alone.
I'm 74 and lived on Ocean Ave between R & S . Enjoyed Coney Island too. Moved to Far Rockaway when I was 11. Love movie themes...my favorite A Summer Place !
Oh my God !!! I have so many memories with this wonderful melody!!! I forgot and I go back to that yesterday!! My eyes fill with tears!! Thank you very much!!!🙏🏻
Great music for an incredible novel and amazing film adaption of that novel. I re-read this story every few years then watch the movie, it keeps me young and reinvigorates my belief that life is a gift.
One of the most BEAUTIFUL SCORES ever written. Hauntingly captivating. If love has ever touched your heart, you will understand. Passion filled , the longing for someone else. The sadness of letting go. It's all there. It totally expresses my life. We met 12/31/77 and were together until they passed away 8/4/17. 40 years of loving and being loved. I was such a lucky guy.
Even though I was only 3 years old when this movie and soundtrack were released, I remember watching it in the late 1970s on TV. The story of a young man who becomes a handyman one Summer and has an affair with an older married woman, whose husband dies during WWII. The song was so beautiful and haunting!!🎵 It left an indelible impression on me as a young child! I'll be 54 years old next week, but even as a 3-year-old, I never forget this song! Michael Legrand's musical score is definitely a timeless classic!!
@@cpman1987 Guys can you please not give away too much of the movie for those of us who have not yet seen it. At least place the words "spoiler alert" at the beginning of your comment. Thank you.
Escribo esto en agosto del 2020, sin duda una obra de arte. Me duele pensar que una película así si se filmara en la actualidad , sería imposible , las críticas la destruirían.
How Hermie was there for a grieving widow. He was young, inexperienced. He felt her pain and stepped in to offer comfort. The lessons we all, as teenagers, learned in our own Summers. My eyes cried now hearing that piano. So haunting. The melody itself is crying. So beautiful.
So beautifully said. There are summers of our youth that made a difference in who and what we are today. I’m 71 and those special few summers are with me always just like you.🙏
"UMA CANÇÃO QUE PODERIA ESTAR TOCANDO AGORA NO PARAÍSO! GRANDE SENTIMENTO DE LIBERDADE, PAIXÃO E ROMANTISMO. QUANTA DRAMATICIDADE, PODER E FORÇA. MICHEL LEGRAND ESTAVA NUM ESTADO DE COMPLETA GRAÇA." - M.S.C.
Summer of "42" a magnificent love story, the music especially the piano gives it such emotion and passion to hear it. I truly enjoy this piece of music, it is so dramatic, absolutely wonderful powerful music.I never tire of it, I must have heard it thousand times. Thankyou
Forty-eight years on, I am still reduced to tears by this story ("And I never saw her again") captured deeply by this magnificent music by the late Michel Legrand.
I had seen this movie in my teens, it's impact on my mind is everlasting this song and music gives me feeling which I am not able to explain marvellous
Amazing music. It takes people to the past, joys, happiness and sadness. It reminds us the time and opportunities we spend as if they will never end. Thanks. 👍🏻👍🏻🌾🌾☘️☘️
When I needed love in my life you were there. We watched this movie together in 1973. I was 18. You were 23. Now I'm 65 and you are 70. Do you remember? Do you still think of me?
Es uno de esos THEMAS MUSICALES que ROMPE EL CORAZON y el ALMA..! La Película es MUY BUENA pero el TEMA MUSICA SE LLEVA LOS LAURES..! Honor y Gloria para ese gran compositor: MICHEL LEGRAND...! Cualquiera de nosotros experimentó en su vida cuando era joven, ese desgarramiento de estar enamorado y no llegar a la PERSONA QUE UNO QUERÍA..!!
I was stationed at Great Lakes, Illinois the summer of '71. I would go to Chicago to visit my eldest sister regularly. She and I went to see this movie at the United Artists downtown, and, after a walk and talk on Lakeshore Drive, we had dinner at a great resturant. Before she passed away last February, I reminded her of what a great day that was for me, and how much I appreciated her input in my education. Every time I hear this theme, I will always go back to that day. Thank You Maureen.
It touched my heart very much, you sister & my late wife of 31 years who was from the Philippines I met over 45 years ago this past January, we didn’t get married till after I got stationed at SRF Subic Bay in late November, 1978, we got married on April 5,1979 we had3 children and she passed away in Tucson on March 6,2010 a month before we would had been married 31 years.
MICHELLE LEGRAND: OMG!!! THIS IS A HAUNTINGLY PRECIOUS MELODY ON A HIGH SCALE!!! ABSOLUTELY ENCHANTING!!! SUMMER OF 42, LOVELY MOVIE, TQ FOR SHARING THIS MUSIC THAT TOUCHES THE HEART STRINGS!!! ❤️❤️❤️
this song reminds me of an older woman that i met,expecting it to be a casual short attraction. we went together for 4 yrs, and was married for 43 yrs.. she was the love of my life and always will be.
My first wife and i were together for 37 years before she went to be with the Lord ... I was truly blessed ... we saw this movie together when we were still dating
I Love this song, i chose it for my funeral, i only have a few days left. I thank my kids and my loving husbond for the great years. My time has come to say sleep tight, God bless you.
I was a girl and this movie did something to me.I guess the scene where he went to the summer house and she was gone...this is how it feels when summer has ended and fall comes.ahh such memories..
Good memories yes, but looking at it from a man's perspective, it was Hermie stepping into manhood, and leaving his childhood behind. He was far more mature then his two close friends, and Dorothy saw that as well. I always thought when he took that last quick look at the empty house, he did so as a kid, but when he walked back toward his friends, he aged a wee bit more then they.
Good memories of what is now statutory rape. I am willing to bet $100 the “grieving widow “ used his GI insurance to snag some officer of higher rank or more money. I am very cynical 🤨 about these things. If the genders had been reversed it would have been considered a horrible crime by most people.
My mom graduated HS that year. She met a guy 5 years older than her and really liked him. That was my Dad. And they enjoyed 51 wonderful years together.
Love to watch this video & hear this music ever so often! Always fan of you Jennifer & this movie! Your cover girl commercials I always loved to watch! Your face was always refreshing & beautiful to watch! ♥️🌟👋
Love is the universal driving force that makes us passionate, caring, that makes us human. It's the essence in us that is very special. Whoever experienced true undying love in their life is truly blessed! What would the world be like if there was no love between people?
I've never heard of this before until my close friend that passed away ( who was a musician and singer) came to me in my dreams one night since he passed and sang the words to this theme and this melody was in the background. And when I asked him in my dreams the name if it he told me Sunmer of 42 . So out of curiosity I decided to see if there was such a song and also if there was if ut was the same as he sang also melody and when I did EVERYTHING was exactly in my dream. Like I said I NEVER knew this existed before that dream. I'll always remember it thats for sure ❤️😇
Un film che credo di non aver .mai visto ma che immagino dalla musica dolce e rievocativa che sia il racconto di un'iniziazione alla vita e all'amore di un ragazzo,Bella musica
Every now a movie comes around with a great story and writing, and actors that put life in to characters that we can relate to as real human beings. And to top it off this brilliant music!
This is one of my favorite songs. What I love about this music is its whispery soft sadness. I interpret the music as a lost love. We’ve all had a least one of those. And I loved the movie/. I was born in the summer, July, of 1942.
De fato esta canção trás uma calmaria interior. É como se, ao assistir ao filme, pudesse passar do tempo presente para o verão de 42. Embora so tenha nascido 20 anos depois sinto algo muito diferente ao ouvir esta musica...
...chorei ao tomar conhecimento da morte do mestre Legrand....sou apaixonado por sua coletânea, especialmente por esta poesia-canção, foi amor à primeira vista, tanto pela música, quanto pelo filme, inesquecíveis, apaixonante!...esta música HOLD TIGHT está em minha alma, sinto o cheiro dos personagens, Dorothy (a inesquecível e maravilhosa JENNIFER O'NEILL), sinto saudades!....e Michel descanse em paz! Maureen, magnifico trabalho!..
I remember this being played on the radio, introducing a film of Summer of 42, but was too young to go and see it. I have never forgotten the music and it takes me back to an era which was innocent here in the UK.
Most beautiful music ever. Back in the 1970s, I bought the sheet music for this and it became my specialty. I started playing piano again a couple of years ago, I found the sheet music, almost falling apart, but was astonished at how difficult and beautiful it was to play. You search for the sheet music online now, and it's all the same arrangement: just a lot of easy arpeggios. This arrangement had multiple five-finger chords, constant changes of key, and incidentals in almost every note. But so subtle were some of these notes. A treasure.
Sounds like useless fluff... it's a nice melody, but better more "naked". Indeed I was disappointed by this version- I was hoping for something more restrained, less sappy.
I imagine there are many of us who have loved and lost, especially with the raging hormones of youth, but new loves come to take their place and can be richer and longer, truer and mean even more, are deeper. Even if they do not last a lifetime because one of you dies or it just ends. Not very many love equally, but the memories are certainly lasting. We lost Michel Legrand a while back, he was 86, and the music that is his legacy will never leave us!
As pessoas mais idosas ao ouvir com o coração sensibilizado esta música sublime, não se entristessem e nem se derrotam, pois suas mentes e seus corações rejuvenessem como num passe de mágica, ao sentir as delicadas melodias harmoniosas de SUMMER OF 42'. Walter Barcelos - Brasil
This is one of my favorite songs. I didn’t know it had lyrics. So, thank you for that. What I love about this music is its whispery soft sadness. I interpret the music as a lost love. We’ve all had a least one of those.
Its those first few bars that seem to capture the mystery and ponder of young person staring into adulthood and childhood disappearing forever. The rest of the music could be the journey with highs, lows and reflections. Perfect music for a perfect film.
I’m more than 30 years in this beautiful country. Many victories, some disappointments I found on my journey but this song reminds me the feeling of being home, that after all the struggles and sacrifices, I got home. The dream has become true and it still getting better. Even in the middle of this covid19 horrific pandemic, it is one more chapter in my book. ❤️🇺🇸
