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. 😪🌻🎼🎹❤
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 !
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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.
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.🙏
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.
This music - and this movie - brings me to tears. The Summer of '42 was way before my time, but it reminds me of my father, who would have been a pre-teen during that time. Miss you, Daddy.
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.
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!!!🙏🏻
Such a shame this film is never shown on British television l often wonder why, it was without doubt the most beautifully produced coming of age film ever produced, l saw it when I was a teenager and it certainly resonated with me, and the music of course was the topping of something very special
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 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.
15 jaar was ik. 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 84 now, no longer a kid & it still cuts me up, every single time. So gorgeous & so haunting and so in love. ❤
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.
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!
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. 👍🏻👍🏻🌾🌾☘️☘️
Every so often artists get to collaborate on something great and magic is the result. The Movie, the Acting, the Story and The Song! The mystery of life, love and longing... it's all here! Much appreciation to Michel Legrand and to all involved!♥
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 met michel Legrand and told him he changed my life. He walked toward me, our eyes met and it was a beautiful moment. I shall treasure his talent forever.
Senior guy, grew up in the 50's and 60's...these boys were us growing up and experiencing wonderful summers. If EVER a song was written for a movie, this was it...priceless! Loved the theme from 'Rocky' but this one is something special. You can't quite describe it, but you can FEEL it, and that's what counts!
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. ❤️🇺🇸
Saw this when it first came out and as a teenager it opened my eyes and I remember it still to this day. The time when a boy crosses the threshold into manhood and a woman weeps for her lost lover. A lovely film. Simply a lovely film. The world weeps every single day, and sadly that is what existence is all about on this mudball we call Earth.
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.
I remembe watching the movie on TV in 1975 when I was in junior high, was a Sunday night movie. Remember talking with my classmates about this fantastic movie. Feels like it was just yesteryear.
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
Love this song, brings back memories of71 or 72,I I got a job selling magazine subscriptions,met a bunch of other young people, mark Stevens,Judy Lindsay,Michelle Keefe,many more,I fell for Judy,who was dating Mark,she was my first love,everytime I hear this song it brings back fond memories that summer,and yes judy
What an accomplished artist Michel Legrand is, composer, arranger, pianist supreme, and oh, the songs he plays -- perfect! When he combined with Alan and Marilyn Bergman with lyrics, some of the best music of all time went down for us to listen to and love forever! Thank you kindly, Mr. Legrand! (He is 86 now, and I don't know if he is still performing in public, but I bet he's still composing and writing and probably even playing for small private get-togethers. Such a giant of an artist, and so appreciated for what he gave us to remember him by, always.)
...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 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!
Beautiful and melancholy, yearning for my youth and these carefree summers. The score frames the sexual awakening of youth and fulfillment but then letting go and fondly remembering this moment as the music tugs at our heartstrings.
I love this film...it is one of my favorite. When I knew that Jennifer O'neil was born in Rio de Janeiro - Carioca - I loved even more. She is so beautifil. I never get tired of watching it. Old good times. Uma pena não voltar mais...lol..lol...
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.
Uma música, um filme dos bons tempos de outrora. Uma época em que o cinema e a música nós encantaram os olhos, a mente e o coração. Agora tudo se tornou medíocre. Os filmes ,as músicas, a vida em si. Uma lástima. O mundo está horrível!!! Obrigada Michel Legran!!! Por essa pérola!!!
Very tru there Norman, too bad it was underrated compared with other World War II themed movies made in the 1970’S, I was 18 when it came out in late 1971 and had registered for the draft. I went into the Navy in 1972, met my late wife of 31 years in the Philippines in 1975, I didn’t marry her till 1979 after I got stationed in Subic Bay, it was the very best tour of duty I ever had in theNavy, and my late wife & I had 3 children. She passed away on 3/6/2012, she was, is and will always be the love of my life.
This song is dedicated to my lovely wife of 49 years. Miss Carol i miss you so and look forward to joining you in Heaven. Love Dan your childhood sweetheart from the Summer of 1966...
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?
To all those of us who have loved and lost.
Summer of 42....the book is nice, the movie is brilliant...and the music is beautiful.
One of the main reasons I became a musician ...compositions like this one make life bearable and worth living.
“Without music life would be a mistake.” --- Friedrich Nietzsche
Amen friend.
@@christopherrobin7776 What could I say after Nietzche, simply it's true !
It's like nature: without music and nature it would be a poor live to life.
Monsieur Legrand, merci bien pour votre compositions formidable. ❤
a challenging observation.
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. 😪🌻🎼🎹❤
me too same story
And me...@@atwoodscamera
It played out in my youth as well,that is why when I saw this movie it hit me hard.
I share your same reaction!
I share your same reaction!
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 !
Fantastic movie and beautiful music.
Amazing song, amazing movie🇧🇷❤️
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.
This a beautiful breathing song. I was a young teen in 1974 and had not met my love yet.
This is one of those songs that brings back memories, no matter how old you are. So beautiful. How can it not touch your heart?
Yes it touches my mind and touches my heart. An important memory in my life. It will live forever in my soul.
@@mikeaddington6648 Beautiful response, Mike.
@mikeaddington
The right words and true feeling...
Good comment Mike !
Un été 42. .... superbe 🎥 toute une poésie délicate kiss Michel.....❤🎉
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 !!!!
One of the greatest movies ever
Classic
@@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 .
She was very sad and weak, she lost her husband in the war, and the boy was seeking only sex, so the problematic here who took advantage of who ?
I think this is one of the most beautiful melodies I've ever heard. Takes you to another place and time.
Totally agree with you
It is I wish I had this on cd for my car.
Exactly
Of course, they do not play this beautiful music on the radio anymore, what beautiful memories
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 loved this movie. Reminds me of my weeks on Cape Cod in the summer.
The days when we had these magnificent movie songs!!!!
and GREAT MOVIES TOO...
100% Now it's mostly juvenile superhero Tripe for the low intelligent.! @@thegreenbird795
Those days are gone.
How right you are.!@@tomking1890
Como nao amar e se emocionar ouvindo este classico...nunca canso de ouvir por repetidas vezes
Simplesmente esplêndido. 🥰
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!!
My sincere condolences
You were indeed lucky to have lived a loving beautiful life.
Beautiful memories and so poetic. Life is extraordinary. Zaida Puerto Rico
tears rolling down my cheeks...literally
@@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.
This melody touches deepest strings of the soul
Yes🎉
This and Tara’s Theme from Gone With The Wind
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!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Couldn't have put it better myself
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.
The best film music of all time. Michel legrand died last year. But what a legacy!!!
Oui il nous manque beaucoup en France...
Oh, No I had no idea he is gone! Sigh
Karl Michael Legrand passed away in 2019
He wrote Nadia's Theme as well.
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.
HERMIE WAS BAD BOY TOUCHING THAT GIRL IN THE MOVIE GIVE HIM JAIL TIME NOW A DAYS
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.🙏
@@jamesnerlino2357
How bout she was a bad girl touching him, eh?
Herbie was more than happy to comfort her in her grief being a hormonal teenage boy !…lol😂
Hermie was there because he had a hard-on a cat couldn't scratch; a beautiful young woman there for the taking!
More than 40 years and the longing still goes on
Michel Legrand was an awesome composer, he gave us so much beauty.
This is one of the rare movie soudtrack that is unforgettable
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.
Peace, love..
@@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.
Wonderful comment Nancy.
What a powerful post
Hauntingly beautiful love song. The movie is one of my favorites, so sensitive and a bit sad.
This music - and this movie - brings me to tears. The Summer of '42 was way before my time, but it reminds me of my father, who would have been a pre-teen during that time. Miss you, Daddy.
SUMMER OF 42 !!! BEAUTIFUL MUSIC🎶🎶🎶🎶AND MOVIE. 😊👏💖👋🙏
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.
iusedtano to have such a beautiful memory. So blessed
Bless you..
I am younger than you but God how I love those times, music and so on. Bless you and sister
Always with you friend
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.
Such beautiful melody. Unforgettable. Thanks Michel!
There was a person in my life. A person I think of with fond memories whenever I hear this piece of music.
Everyman has a summer of 42 in his life, a love like that unforgettable
Yes. Every man.
Not to mention every woman.
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It's not just men, women have a first love they never forget, especially when they lose it.
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!!!🙏🏻
no soundtrack was ever so perfect for a movie.... my eternal song
Goosebumps and tears. Sigh. Anyone else?
I was 19 when this came out. Came back to me today out of nowhere. Goosebumps, tears, and a long sigh.
@Henry Horner Completely. Sigh.
🤮
Sigh central
Such a shame this film is never shown on British television l often wonder why, it was without doubt the most beautifully produced coming of age film ever produced, l saw it when I was a teenager and it certainly resonated with me, and the music of course was the topping of something very special
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.
Michel Legrand wrote some of the most beautiful music, and teamed with Alan and Marilyn Bergman for many memorable lyrics for his songs.
Yes,certainly.
Beautiful music ! Touching movie. Both stay in your heart forever❤️
@Ashura Then we differ on what fiction is and where it comes from. Your response is a head response, not a heart response.
@@MJLeger-yj1ww well the Bergman’s was with Barbra Streisand also. Maybe that explains words THE SUMMER KNOWS WAS PUT TO THIS MOVIE.
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.
Lucas Steiner so sad.
ns2110theonly☺ Have a great christmas and happy new year. Best regards from Christina Steiner💐
Lucas Steiner god bless you
Lucas Steiner God bless you
Samir Web55 🙏
Tinha dez anos quando vi o filme.
Tenho 63 agora. Nunca me esqueci da música
A beautiful piece. It brings me peace to hear it.
15 jaar was ik. 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 84 now, no longer a kid & it still cuts me up, every single time. So gorgeous & so haunting and so in love. ❤
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.
I hear you bro
I'll drink a toast to you both tonight.
I hope some day, somehow, you'll find each other again...
Maybe she's thinking the same thing.
Growler6t6. Bless you. Memories... Memories.
Hauntingly beautiful!
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!
Merci Michel Legrand pour tout cet amour musical magistral
💖🎼 🎼🎹
Best Music regards 🎼
@@nellopalacios5737 : same to you 🎵 -⊰✿¸.•'**☆ ╰⊰✿
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. 👍🏻👍🏻🌾🌾☘️☘️
RIP Michel Legrand. Thank you for the beautiful music.
Yes,Thank you,Maestro. For "the windmills of my heart",too.
JEAN-ERIC TATEÏA And Pretty Polly
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His legacy lives on in his is niece Victoria.
Jennifer O'Neil was such a stunning actress!
Every so often artists get to collaborate on something great and magic is the result. The Movie, the Acting, the Story and The Song! The mystery of life, love and longing... it's all here! Much appreciation to Michel Legrand and to all involved!♥
This music is the more beautiful melody I've ever heard 💖 Thank you for all dear Sir Michel Legrand... RIP 😭😭
Caroline Denux
Totally agree
Indeed my dear! :)
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One of the VERY BEST MELODY AND ROMANTIC SONG i know.
Toute, une poésie délicatesse, sensitive, un magnifique 🎥🎉❤
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?
Well, it’s getting to be less love in the world day but day. Sadly.
Its true
Jennifer O’Neill. One of the most beautiful woman on planet earth!
...or any other planet.💜🍸
@@richardbalducci819 Bernard Menez approve !
She still is. I have no doubt Dorothy looked closely like Jennifer
This movie was filmed in Mendocino and would drive up from Petaluma hoping just to catch a glimpse of her missed out but got an A for trying
I met michel Legrand and told him he changed my life. He walked toward me, our eyes met and it was a beautiful moment. I shall treasure his talent forever.
I saw this movie in 1974 and this song rang in my ears for months
Senior guy, grew up in the 50's and 60's...these boys were us growing up and experiencing wonderful summers.
If EVER a song was written for a movie, this was it...priceless!
Loved the theme from 'Rocky' but this one is something special. You can't quite describe it, but you can FEEL it, and that's what counts!
Ron perfectly said. Thank you
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. ❤️🇺🇸
Nostalgia and thoughts of my grandparents are just wonderful to reminisce. Summer of 42 was an historic time in our world. Great composition
i was 16 when it came out, and saw it with my Dad, who was 16 in the Summer of 42.
Needless to say, we loved it
Saw this when it first came out and as a teenager it opened my eyes and I remember it still to this day. The time when a boy crosses the threshold into manhood and a woman weeps for her lost lover. A lovely film. Simply a lovely film. The world weeps every single day, and sadly that is what existence is all about on this mudball we call Earth.
Such a beautiful piece of music.
This is incredibly romantic. So inspiring to hear.
I love the burst of music half way through it’s just breathtaking beautiful
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..
Never saw the movie but I had my own Summer in 65. Never saw her again.
The pain goes on when someone is gone but the beautiful memorise live on forever
I will bet you $100 within a year she used her husband’s GI insurance to snare a new husband, probably one with money.
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.
I remembe watching the movie on TV in 1975 when I was in junior high, was a Sunday night movie. Remember talking with my classmates about this fantastic movie. Feels like it was just yesteryear.
Ah yes, 1942, the year of my birth. BOY! The world has changed. Now I spend my time yearning for past events and memories. Best done through music.
I too have circled the Sun 83 times! They were good and bad times but I'd never change them.
J'ai adoré ce film un été 42 ❤ musique d'une infinie douceur à l'écoute en accord avec le thème du film❤ bravo au compositeur Michel Legrand
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.
mrs. robinson huh
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
tom funk
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In everyone's life, there's a summer of 42. Jd
Absolutely. I've said the same thing.
So true
Yes so true
ummmmmmmmmm, no , I certainly never had a Summer of 42. lol
HOT AFTERNOON 1ST DAY OF JUNE....SAW THE SUNRISE AS A MAN, SAME THEME....TIMELESS
Essa linda canção foi uma inspiração para meus sonhos de amor que ficaram apenas nos sonhos......😢😢😢😢😢
Love this song, brings back memories of71 or 72,I I got a job selling magazine subscriptions,met a bunch of other young people, mark Stevens,Judy Lindsay,Michelle Keefe,many more,I fell for Judy,who was dating Mark,she was my first love,everytime I hear this song it brings back fond memories that summer,and yes judy
This piece is so haunting, I can't get it out of my mind.
This theme is such a perfect score for a great movie. Still gorgeous after all these years..
Most beautiful score ever, just a fantastic film and glorious music with brilliant actors, never to be forgotten.
What an accomplished artist Michel Legrand is, composer, arranger, pianist supreme, and oh, the songs he plays -- perfect! When he combined with Alan and Marilyn Bergman with lyrics, some of the best music of all time went down for us to listen to and love forever! Thank you kindly, Mr. Legrand! (He is 86 now, and I don't know if he is still performing in public, but I bet he's still composing and writing and probably even playing for small private get-togethers. Such a giant of an artist, and so appreciated for what he gave us to remember him by, always.)
...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!..
Fiquei muito triste....ele não imagina quantos sentimento gerou com esse lindo arranjo...meu Deus como amo esta musica....
Maravilhosa
I loved this movie the theme song cuts deep into my heart.
The music is so beautiful❤️
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!
Sadly not everyone finds real real love I am one of those.
Beautiful and melancholy, yearning for my youth and these carefree summers. The score frames the sexual awakening of youth and fulfillment but then letting go and fondly remembering this moment as the music tugs at our heartstrings.
I love this film...it is one of my favorite. When I knew that Jennifer O'neil was born in Rio de Janeiro - Carioca - I loved even more. She is so beautifil. I never get tired of watching it. Old good times. Uma pena não voltar mais...lol..lol...
Saw the film in 1973, and today it’s 2020, forty seven years later, it’s even better, magic of Michael Legrand, brought magic all my life
Merci, Monsieur Michel Legrand pour votre Musique. Reposez en Paix.
Absolutely the most hauntingly beautiful film score that I have ever heard.
I think Peter Niro wrote this music I need to double check.
Love this music & video! Have always been a fan of Jennifer! ♥️🌟👋
Michael legends music touches my very soul what a genius Rip Michael your music is played every day
Merveilleux! Merci Michel Legrand! R.I.P
Ennio Morricone vient de le rejoindre au paradis des musiciens.
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.
Même sentiment que vous, une très grand émotion mêlée de tristesse !
The is one of the greatest songs ever written as far as I'm concerned.... But listen to how great Michel LeGrand's piano playing is on this!
Moments amoureux de bonheur et d'insouciance de la jeunesse américaine en pleine secondé guerre mondiale ! Très beau film et excellente mélodie 😘👍
... MÚSICA E FILME , LINDÍSSIMOS !!!!!!!!! .... CLÁSSICO , ETERNO ... MAGICO , INSUPERÁVEL !!!!!!!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
This song makes me feel nostalgic!!! Hello to my older fellas!!!!!!
Well done Maureen. Excellent selection of pics.
Uma música, um filme dos bons tempos de outrora. Uma época em que o cinema e a música nós encantaram os olhos, a mente e o coração. Agora tudo se tornou medíocre. Os filmes ,as músicas, a vida em si. Uma lástima. O mundo está horrível!!! Obrigada Michel Legran!!! Por essa pérola!!!
Uma perfeita tradução do que se tornou a vida...
Concordo
Jennifer O Neill is a perfect 10, great movie great music
This song never get's old.the movie is great also.
NORMAN YOUR RIGHT NICE MUSIC 1972 I WAS 18 YEARS OLD NOW 68 WOW DON't HAVE TO LONG TO GO PEACE
Very tru there Norman, too bad it was underrated compared with other World War II themed movies made in the 1970’S, I was 18 when it came out in late 1971 and had registered for the draft. I went into the Navy in 1972, met my late wife of 31 years in the Philippines in 1975, I didn’t marry her till 1979 after I got stationed in Subic Bay, it was the very best tour of duty I ever had in theNavy, and my late wife & I had 3 children. She passed away on 3/6/2012, she was, is and will always be the love of my life.
An orchestral conductor by the French composer Michel Legrand
This song is dedicated to my lovely wife of 49 years. Miss Carol i miss you so and look forward to joining you in Heaven. Love Dan your childhood sweetheart from the Summer of 1966...
How beautiful.
I also have a summer of 42 in my life. I am in love again but not with the same intensity and beauty of the first time.
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?
A love Story more. GREAT !
Oh wow 😱
I DO....!
PRECIOSA CANCIÓN. MÚSICA MARAVILLOSA. GRAN PELÍCULA.
UNA OBRA MAESTRA DE
MICHELE LEGRAND.
SIN DUDA MUSICA ES ALIMENTO PARA EL CORAZON. INCOMPARABLE, INIGUALABLE, SUBLIME!!!
EL AMOR ES LO BELLO! GRACIAS.
👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻👍...saludos desde Alicante 🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🥂🍷🥂🍷.....🤜🤛
Any time I listen to this kind of music I remember my mother (RIP)... She used to talk to me about many great movies and singers...