"The Third Man Theme" is an instrumental written and performed by Anton Karas for the soundtrack to the film The Third Man (1949). Karas was working as a zither player when director Carol Reed, during location scouting for the film, heard him playing in a beer garden. Reed wanted music that wasn't waltz but would be appropriate to the city of Vienna, in which the film was set, so he asked Karas if he would write and record the film's score.

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  • "The Third Man Theme" is an instrumental written and performed by Anton Karas for the soundtrack to the film The Third Man (1949). Karas was working as a zither player when director Carol Reed, during location scouting for the film, heard him playing in a beer garden. Reed wanted music that wasn't waltz but would be appropriate to the city of Vienna, in which the film was set, so he asked Karas if he would write and record the film's score. Karas agreed, and he wrote the theme based on a melody in a practice book. The zither had not previously been widely used in English or American music, but the theme became popular with audiences of the film soon after its premiere. This song was originally released in the U.K. in 1949, where it was 'The Harry Lime Theme. ' Following its release in the U.S. in 1950, "The Third Man Theme" spent eleven weeks at number one on Billboard's U.S. Best Sellers in Stores chart, from April 23 to July 8. Its success led to a trend in releasing film theme music as singles. A guitar version by Guy Lombardo also sold strongly, and four other versions charted in the U.S. during 1950. According to Faber and Faber, the different versions of the theme have collectively sold an estimated forty million copies.
  • Das Harry-Lime-Thema (engl. The Third Man Theme) ist eine Instrumental-Komposition, die von Anton Karas für den Film Der dritte Mann geschrieben und interpretiert wurde. Sie ist benannt nach der Titelfigur des Films, Harry Lime.
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  • "The Third Man Theme" is an instrumental written and performed by Anton Karas for the soundtrack to the film The Third Man (1949). Karas was working as a zither player when director Carol Reed, during location scouting for the film, heard him playing in a beer garden. Reed wanted music that wasn't waltz but would be appropriate to the city of Vienna, in which the film was set, so he asked Karas if he would write and record the film's score.
  • Das Harry-Lime-Thema (engl. The Third Man Theme) ist eine Instrumental-Komposition, die von Anton Karas für den Film Der dritte Mann geschrieben und interpretiert wurde. Sie ist benannt nach der Titelfigur des Films, Harry Lime.
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