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"Tracy's Theme" is a 1960 instrumental written by Robert Ascher and recorded by Robert Mersey under the name "Spencer Ross". The fictitious name may have been used because Mersey was under contract to a record label other than Columbia, which released "Tracy's Theme", at the time of the recording. It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 after being used as the theme for a TV production of ''The Philadelphia Story''. ==Origin== "Tracy's Theme" is a 1960 instrumental recorded by producer, conductor and arranger Robert Mersey under the name "Spencer Ross". As part of the December 7, 1959 airing on NBC of a new television production of ''The Philadelphia Story'', composer Robert Ascher wrote a melody to be associated with the character of Tracy Lord,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Desert Sun 5 December 1959 )〕 played by Diana Lynn on the TV special. Talent Associates, the production company that owned the special, thought the tune had hit potential, so the company worked out a deal with Columbia Records to issue it as a single. This presented a problem for Mersey, the musical director for Talent Associates, as he was under contract with the new Big Top label as its musical director as well; he had already released a single, "Bittersweet September," on the label in July 1959. Devon Music, the publishing firm of Talent Associates owned by David Susskind and Howie Richmond at the time,〔 came up with a solution. They created a fictitious artist named Spencer Ross, and retained ownership of that pseudonym for potential future use. "Tracy's Theme" was reviewed in the November 23, 1959 issue of ''Billboard'', two weeks before ''The Philadelphia Story'' aired. Another Ascher melody from a Talent Associates production, "Thanksgiving Day Parade" from the November 27, 1959 airing of ''Miracle on 34th Street'', was used as the B-side. Neither Mersey nor the fictitious Ross were the real stars of the recording; Vincent J. "Jimmy" Abato, a one-time member of Glenn Miller's orchestra, played the hypnotic melody on the alto saxophone,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://michlinmusic.com/abato/recordings.php )〕 with the accompaniment of strings and a repeated percussion beat. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tracy's Theme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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