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
The Guess Who by a Canadian band to top the US Hot 100, and was the group's only No. 1 hit in the United States. (The Crew Cuts from Toronto had a long-running US #1 "Sh-Boom" in the summer of 1954, but that was four years before the existence of the Hot 100.) Another single from the album, a re-recording of "No Time", became a Top Five US hit. Randy Bachman had completed a solo album, "Axe", in March 1970, but then became ill with a gall bladder attack; the group continued touring with an American guitarist from Philadelphia, Bobby Sabellico. Differences between