Theme from A Summer Place was written for the 1959 movie of the same name by Max Steiner and lyrics by Mack Discant. Hugo Winterhalter recorded the song as an instrumental for the film.
However, it is Percy Faith's recording that is the most popular. He released it in September 1959, and it began a slow rise to #1, reaching the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, February 22, 1960. It remained there for a record 9 weeks, a record which wouldn't be broken until Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life in 1977.
Billboard ranked Faith's version as the Number One song for 1960. Percy Faith won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year, becoming the first movie theme and first instrumental to win a Grammy for Record of the Year.
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