"Theme from A Summer Place" is a song with lyrics by Mack Discant and music by Max Steiner, written for the 1959 film A Summer Place, which starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue.
Percy Faith recorded the most popular version of the theme, an instrumental orchestral arrangement. 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.
The single was not an immediate hit, but after it entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at No. 96 on 11 January 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 that would not be broken until 1977, when "You Light Up My Life" spent ten weeks at the top of the chart.