by JT Griffith
Ferrante & Teicher became popular in the '60s with albums containing lush, orchestrated versions of movie themes. Their breakthrough album, Theme From the Apartment, contained songs from the Billy Wilder comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Ferrante & Teicher's albums over the next two decades would feature their take on music from many other United Artist films and pop hits of the era. In 1978, they released Supermen, which includes "Can You Read My Mind" from that movie, the theme from the film The Promise, "The Music's Too Sweet Not to Dnace" from Oliver's Story, and the theme from Heaven Can Wait. Other tracks on Superman are "Feels So Good," "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (popularized by Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand), and "Ski Fever." Overall, the song selection is solid for their sentimental, refined easy listening style. An album like Superman, though, makes one wish Ferrante & Teicher would have tackled more than one song per film. John Williams' Superman, for example, has a number of songs that would have matched their instrumental style perfectly.