Percy Faith His Orchestra A Summer Place 1959
A Summer Place Film, Directed by Delmer Daves, Warner Bros. 1959. 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 A Summer Place. The single was not an immediate hit and did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart until midJanuary 1960, finally reaching, 1 six weeks later on February 22, It went on to set an atthetime record of nine consecutive weeks at, 1 a record which would not be broken until 1977, when You Light Up My Life spent ten weeks at, 1. (Elvis Presley s doublesided hit Don t Be Cruel, Hound Dog remained at, 1 for 11 weeks in 1956 prior to the 1958 creation of the Hot 100 chart; The Beatles Hey Jude tied, but did not break, the nineweek record i
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