This is an instrumental that can best be described as "easy listening classical". I only got through about half of it but that might be because I am not particularly into easy listening music or classical music. This just might be my problem, of course.
"Spencer Ross" was a pseudonym employed by Robert Mersey (1917-1994), an American arranger and record producer. "Tracy's Theme" was composed and recorded for the 1959 NBC TV production of The Philadelphia Story, a comic play. This song was to be released on the Columbia Records label, and Mersey was under contract elsewhere, so the record was released under the Ross name.
"Tracy's Theme" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Mersey released one more single as Spencer Ross, "Theme Of A Lonely Evening", which does its best to sound doleful but wasn't interesting enough for me to listen to for long.
Mersey leveraged the success of "Tracy's Theme" into a career as a staff arranger and producer at Columbia. He worked with many of the label's top artists of the 1960s, including Andy Williams, Barbra Streisand, Bobby Vinton, and Johnny Mathis.
Created November 5, 2026.