Music for Jennifer

One of the most gorgeous of all so-called "easy listening" records was devoted to music from films that starred Jennifer Jones. This Paul Weston 10-inch LP from 1954 has everything - fine sound, lovely arrangements, excellent themes and a beautiful cover.

Paul Weston

Weston's liner notes claim that he got the idea for the album from Jones herself. Call me cynical, but I suspect he more likely got it from Jones' publicist. Whatever, it makes for a delightful program, later incorporated into a more generic "music from Hollywood" 12-inch LP.

That 12-inch LP had four additional tracks - "Tara's Theme" from Gone with the Wind, and themes from A Streetcar Named Desire, Quo Vadis and For Whom the Bell Tolls. They had been previously issued as singles and as the EP depicted at right. Those tracks are newly (November 2026) included as a bonus with the Music for Jennifer LP.

Here are the films and composers represented on Music for Jennifer:

Indiscretion of an American Wife - Alessandro Cicognini
Portrait of Jennie - Bernard Herrmann
Duel in the Sun - Dmitri Tiomkin
Since You Went Away - Max Steiner
Ruby Gentry - Heinz Roemheld
Song of Bernadette - Alfred Newman
Love Letters - Victor Young

Vocal versions of "Love Letters" [Dick Haymes], "Autumn in Rome" (the Indiscretion theme) [Herb Jeffries], "Ruby" (from Ruby Gentry) [Ray Charles] and the exploitation song "Portrait of Jenny" [Nat King Cole] can be found in the forthcoming (November 2026) collection of vocal themes from the movies on my other blog.

Note (November 2026): I have posted a transfer of the Indiscretion of an American Wife soundtrack LP here. It is newly remastered with much improved sound.

LINK to 2026 remaster of Music for Jennifer plus bonus tracks