( Perez Prado's " Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" remained at number one for 10 weeks on the Best Sellers in Stores chart in 1955, and Elvis Presley's double-sided hit " Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog" remained at number one for 11 weeks on the Best Sellers in Stores and Jockeys charts in 1956, all prior to the Augcreation of the Hot 100 chart The Beatles' " Hey Jude" tied, but did not break, the nine-week record in 1968.) The single was not an immediate hit, but after it entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at #96 on January 11, 1960, it ascended to number one in just six more weeks, on February 22, 1960, going on to set an at-the-time record of nine consecutive weeks at number one, a record which would not be broken until 1977, when " You Light Up My Life" spent ten weeks at the top of the chart. 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 A Summer Place. Percy Faith recorded the most popular version of the theme, an instrumental orchestral arrangement, at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City. 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. studio orchestra, the theme was recorded by many artists in both instrumental and vocal versions, and has also appeared in a number of subsequent films and television programs. Originally known as the " Molly and Johnny Theme", this lush extended cue, as orchestrated by Murray Cutter, is not the main title theme of the film, but an oft-heard secondary love theme for the characters played by Dee and Donahue.įollowing its introduction in the film by the Warner Bros. It was recorded for the film as an instrumental by Hugo Winterhalter. It includes lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, and is written for the 1959 film A Summer Place, which starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue. " Theme from A Summer Place" is the song featured in the Femme Fatales episode " Girls Gone Dead".
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