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
Theme from A Summer Place comic effect when a show cuts away from a scene deemed to be too violent to display and shows peaceful images instead. More recently, the song's peaceful and relaxed theme has taken on a darker significance as it has been used to convey an eerie sense of false security in horror productions, such as the TV miniseries "Rose Red" (2002), and the films "Final Destination 3" (2006), "Dark Shadows" (2012) and "Beautiful Creatures" (2013). Theme from A Summer Place "Theme from "A Summer Place"" is a song with lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, written for the