I just saw “Ghost” on AMC. I really liked the theme music…somebody told me it was composed for a movie from the 1950’s…anybody know what that movie was?
Maurice Jarre composed the score for **Ghost ** in 1990. The featured song in Ghost is Unchained Melody, recorded by the Righteous Brothers and was a big hit in 1965.
Sorry - hit return too soon.
*Unchained Melody * was originally used in the film Unchained in 1955.
True story (from the files of my wife, Pepper Mill):
Not that long after Ghost came out, a little girl came into the dentist’s where she was working. Pepper said something about the soing on the radio, which was Unchained Melody.
Little Girl: That’s not “Unchained Melody”. That’s the music from Ghost!
(Spoilers)
Little Girl: It was sad when Sam died. It was sad when he died again.
I suppose we had to wait several posts before mentioning the name of the brilliant composer who wrote the damn thing:
**Alex North** (composer of A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, Viva Zapata!, Dragonslayer, Bite the Bullet, Cleopatra, The Rainmaker, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Under the Volcano and many more).
Also, “Unchained Melody” was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, but lost to “Love Is a Many-Splendoured Thing.”