Theme from A Summer Place versions, and has also appeared in a number of subsequent films and television programs. The best-known cover version of the theme is an instrumental version by Percy Faith and his orchestra that was a Number One hit for nine weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in 1960. Percy Faith recorded the most popular version of the theme, an instrumental orchestral arrangement, at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City. It was released in September 1959 as a single on Columbia Records, credited to "Percy Faith and his Orchestra," prior to the November 1959 release of the film
Theme from A Summer Place did not break, the nine-week record in 1968.) It remains the longest-running #1 instrumental in the history of the chart. "Billboard" ranked Faith's version as the Number One song for 1960. The Faith version reached #2 in the UK. It was also a #1 hit 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,