Theme from a summer place (Percy Faith version)

Percy Faith recorded the most popular version of the tune, which spent an at-the-time record of nine consecutive weeks at number one on the still-young Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in early 1960[

It remains the longest-running number-one instrumental in the history of the chart. It reached number two in the UK. It hit number one in Italy under the title "Scandalo Al Sole".

Faith won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961 for his recording. This was the first movie theme and the first instrumental to win a Record of the Year Grammy.

Faith re-recorded the song twice first, in 1969, as a female choral version, then, in 1976, as a disco version titled "Summer Place 76".

In 2008, Faith's original version was ranked at number eighteen on Billboard's top 100 songs during the first fifty years of the Hot 100 chart.

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[mrjosluilli1]

musica maravillosa para sonar,y apreciar la vida.

[cannonballblues]

Wonderful sound. I love Percy....and I love my favorite beautiful-music-group OK-DREAMBAND. Sweet and romantic. CD "Clarinet-Dreams" is available for download (iTunes, amazon...). My favorite track is "Your Eyes Are So Blue".

[Baltimore21224]

Love this song, have the 45

[harrylove1001]

Got to be the most beautiful song ever!

[critchley3819]

@MsLadymotown I have loved this since my youth, you know I have never been asked this question even from my family and friends,I guess they know I like it but now I will have to answer you, well it seems to make me feel good about life also it takes my brain &soul on a trip to. Um ,,at ease..I'm male 60, Australian I sure would like to talk with you some more..brian.critchley@bigpond .com

[MsLadymotown]

@critchley3819 oh my god my kids know from an early age this is to be played at my funeral why do you want it played at your funeral i have got to know oh by the way am 55

[millhill46]

I still love this music

[nymyht]

@recovering16 Interesting...I've never been to Germany. I graduated from Brick Township HS in NJ. Wow, you were a huge fan of that film. I also plead guilty to being a hopeless romantic now and forever! :) Sometimes it leads to :( But it's all good..

[recovering16]

@nymyht Hey, great to meet a fellow 1960 graduate. Where did you "matriculate"? LOL. I was in Wiesbaden, Germany at an American high school there. I saw the movie at the base theater. I saw it as many times as I could, and memorized all the dialogue from the love scenes between Molly and Johnny. (Yes, I was a hopeless romantic, and still am!)

[nymyht]

@recovering16 Thank you R16! I did mean 1960 which is the year I also graduated! First time I ever made myself 4 years older! 1956 was Freshman year, also a great one...