Theme from A Summer Place in 1976, as a disco version titled "Summer Place '76." In 2008, Faith's original version was ranked at #18 on "Billboard"'s top 100 songs during the first 50 years of the Hot 100 chart. "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits" called it "the most successful instrumental single of the rock era." "Theme from "A Summer Place"" has been covered by a number of artists in addition to Percy Faith, in both non-vocal instrumental versions, and with one or more vocalists either singing the Discant lyrics or a wordless melody line. The theme has also been referenced, sampled, or otherwise
A Summer Place good inheritance", as Bart terms it in a letter. According to "Time" magazine, the financial terms accompanying the publication of "A Summer Place" were unusual: A Summer Place A Summer Place is a 1958 novel by Sloan Wilson, and follows his 1955 bestseller "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit". The novel is about an adult couple who rekindle a long-ago summer romance that ended because of class differences, and their two teenage children from other marriages who also fall in love with each other. It was adapted into a 1959 film of the same name. Two onetime teenage lovers,