 The film features a haunting theme composed by David Shire.The theme song lyrics were jointly written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and the resulting selection, titled "I'll Never Say Goodbye," was performed by Melissa Manchester.The song was nominated for an Oscar in 1979, resulting in Melissa Manchester having two movie theme songs "Through The Eyes Of Love" (from "Ice Castles") and "I'll Never Say Goodbye" (from "The Promise") nominated for Best Original Song in the same year at the 52nd Academy Awards (the first artist to do this was Maureen McGovern, with 'Wherever Love Takes Me' from 'Gold' and 'We May Never Love Like this Again' from 'Towering Inferno').