Percy Faith & His Orchestra and Chorus - Theme from "A Summer Place" (Audio)

[@metatr0n777]

*What a beautiful theme - it invokes feelings of joy, bliss and happiness in me - anyone else feel the same ?*

[@lucianoantoniomoraeszanell2374]

I feel sad, I was seventeen when I saw A summer place, the movie, and that music reminds me to an unbelievable past. I'm 77 now and I lost all those illusions I had that time. Pardon my poor English, I'm brazilian. ((Rio, 24/aug/2020).

[@metatr0n777]

@@lucianoantoniomoraeszanell2374 I absolutely agree with you - it does transport one to the past, reminiscing those nostalgic joyful moments :) p.s. your English is great - never underestimate yourself :)

[@hamiltoncarvalho2383]

It brings me baxk to 1960.

[@alandawson438]

I could not put it any better myself. Back to the days of fairly innocent joys!! The musicians should be very proud of themselves. A great pity the writer,Max Steiner,is dead.

[@gwailouh01]

Takes me back to the early 70's living in small town eastern Ontario. In my childlike naïtivity, the world seemed closer and more secure than it seems today.

[@glennhoddle10]

January 1960. This No 1 hit signalled the start of the Swinging Sixties. What an awesome decade. I am building a time machine to go back. *Who's with me ???*

[@cooldaddy2877]

The Swinging 60s didnt start until 1964. This tune is pure 1950s.

[@shmarific]

Hey, where did you go?

[@jurgencoucke]

Let me know when your time machine is ready to go

[@davidkenner-rb8go]

I'll go to any point in time when Percy Faith could be #1 on the Hot 100.

[@hansmathes6224]

😊

[@helenc4228]

One of the most beautiful melodies I have ever heard. This is my favorite song.

[@w.bridges9118]

Mine as well, regards to you from Australia 🇦🇺.

[@helenc4228]

@@w.bridges9118 regards from the USA!

[@cavaturnagesh]

really good tune, sounds fantastic on electric guitar with reverb and delay

[@geoffwebber8317]

good on you love lovley description god bless you 💖💞⚘🦄🌈🦜🌞☯️🙏

[@willieckaslike]

Have to agree !

[@rd90000]

Possibly the best two and a half minutes of music you will hear in your life.

[@KimberleeLuebke-vd3ng]

I believe so....a great waltz to swirl and dance awayto..❤❤

[@bfunktube]

I requested this song to play while sitting in a room waiting for my wedding ceremony to start. I will never, ever forget that moment for as long as I live. We just celebrated our 5 year anniversary last month! WooHoo!!!! I love my husband more than anything in this world!

[@hgrunt100]

This is such a great idea, i want to use this at my wedding too.

[@geoffwebber8317]

so nice to hear congratulations to you both and many happy times ahead for both of you god bless 🌞🦄🌈🦜☯️🙏

[@sandyshine6690]

Lovely song very uplifting beautiful choice 💖

[@MegaFochi]

Super

[@methinnk2.063]

I do too

[@intuitive7274]

Probably in the top 10 all time instrumentals ever produced and played. The orchestration is absolutely perfect

[@neusagomesalves5525]

Magnífica ❤❤❤

[@neusagomesalves5525]

Amoooo❤❤❤❤❤

[@leoholder7839]

It’s not an instrumental

[@rachelblanche2907]

I agree 😊

[@rushdiahmad2435]

Love is Blue- Paul Mauriat is better

[@keiththomas3141]

The first time I heard this song was when it first came out. I was a little kid and the whole family was in the car for a Sunday drive. I looked around the car as the music played and I could have sworn I was in Heaven.

[@roblabow9702]

Some of my best memories were similar. Summers long ago with family when we were children.

[@nomonoodle]

Thanks keith

[@svsv9]

You were in Heaven.

[@philtharp3243]

I heard this song when it first came out in '58 or '59 when I began going to school dances-- and it is my all time favorite to this day.

[@27THEBREEZE]

you were

[@pumpmancustodioalfonsoo.9817]

I will never get tired listening to this.

[@courregeaaron947]

So do i,i play it every time when i shower

[@chantalderenet5981]

I love this melodie so much. It makes me happy

[@joseomedina9429]

I Hear this beautiful instrumental son g from percy faith on 1959 in my hometown teatre

[@rkalgam2696]

This melody is magic for me: it can bring my memories back 60 years, when I was a little boy, playing with my friends and relatives in our old home on the countryside - it's all far away, but for this three minutes of music it's freshly in front of my eyes!

[@Fernando-ff4oc]

It. also. reminds. me. being. a. 5. or. 6. years. old. Kid, sitting. in the. lap. of. my. Mother's. legs, while. my. Father. drove. the. car towards. the. Eastern. Provinces of. Cuba. And. the. radio. was. on, playing. that. song. Fernando. Ruiz, Miami, Florida USA Tuesday. 12. December. 2023. 3:11 pm. Miami 10:11 pm. Riga

[@richardsheffield2823]

I love this song.... It reminds me when I would sit with my mother as a teenager and listen to instrumental music as the sun went down.. It was so peaceful... I miss her..

[@geoffwebber8317]

i am so sorry mate your mum would be looking down smiling and proud of you mate stay strong mate 🌈😇🙏

[@richardsheffield2823]

Very kind of you Geoff. My Mom is always with me

[@francinestroehmer2774]

It is magnificent, God bless.

[@richardsheffield2823]

Thank you Francine

[@fernandovilca5547]

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[@christinaalexaaa]

Is it sad to admit that I’ve been looking for this song my whole life? I’m 31. It reminds me of the childhood I didn’t get to have.

[@EdsonromeroJA]

I was 7 and loved to see young couples dancing with this song. It seems that this generation lost the magic of romance, of dreaming and of living. I wouldn’t want to go back to those days but it feels like something is missing in the world today! However we can listen this song once more and let its magic take over us again and makes us dream of better times ahead of us. Hopefully!

[@jun24juanhuerta14]

Back in September 1959 I was 12 years old, and this beautiful instrumental would lull me to sleep. It still has the same effect.

[@freeguy77]

You must have been the first to hear it, because it was not released until shortly after it was recorded on Sep. 11, 1959! Was not a hit in entering the Hot 100 (at 96) until Jan. 11, 1960. But within 6 weeks it leaped to #1 for the week of Feb. 22, and stayed at #1 through its last week on Apr. 18, for 9 consecutive weeks. The record for any instrumental after the Hot 100 started in Aug. 1958.

[@JuliaJeanne-vj1jy]

I wish you a long life and listen to everything that is beautiful and bright like you

[@methinnk2.063]

So you are 12 years older than me 😂

[@rtbarnes4893]

This song perfectly captures a cool 5pm summer breeze.

[@joeg5855]

one of the best instruments ever recorded

[@OriginalEye2072]

this is legendary

[@tarek307]

@@OriginalEye2072 and Lujon

[@courregeaaron947]

@@tarek307 i also admire sunflower by mancini

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[@rjmcallister1888]

1959: Written by the immortal movie composer Max Steiner when he was 71. To be more precise, the 'young lovers' theme, one of four he wrote for the movie soundtrack. Percy Faith's arrangement was perfect, and this was a monster hit through 1959 and '60. Still holds up 60 years on. Written as an instrumental; Mack Discant added lyrics later on.

[@fromthesidelines]

Recorded on Septemebr 11, 1959.

[@gljm]

Steiner would be composing for films for another 6 years !.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

@@fromthesidelines Shortly after complete this movie

[@joantrezza]

The band the Lettermen, recorded this song in 1965. Andy Williams also recorded a version of this lovely song.

[@MatthewLewis-mb3bi]

Most historical info. Yes indeed, this is a true masterpiece. I'm in south Ariz., About 50 minutes from U.S./MEX. border. When I was a kid in mid-1960s our AM radio could get KOMA. I think it's from Oklahoma, theme from, "A Summer Place" would come on. Later on, FM classic music stations came about. Percy Faiths', A Summer Place; sounded so good. Stereofonic on FM. YES, THIS IS A GREAT PIECE OF INSTUMENTAL MUSIC. NEVER GET TIRED OF IT. [MATTHEW, in AZ]

[@tamiderose5464]

This was the music I used as a warm up in gym class. Valleystream Central H.S , Valley Stream NY 1959 to 1965.

[@jeanminner6500]

Most beautiful instrumental song ever.

[@Usha252]

When I hear this it feels like all my worries are gone and I’m spending my time with my mom ❤

[@owensweetland342]

Better than any alcohol or drug high I've ever experienced. Listening to Percy Faith's music won't take me to skidrow unlike the other stuff.

[@garyjohnson3081]

One of the most beautiful,if not the most beautiful song ever recorded.

[@MegaFochi]

Most beautiful

[@ernie451]

Definitely, beautiful but i wouldn't call it a song

[@rtbarnes4893]

Was a kid in the 1960's listening to this masterpiece. I wake up today and I'm in my sixties. How did all go so fast?? Where are my parents? SImpler times then, my friends..

[@jwbullardxxiii]

Oh, I know. Just had a garage sale this weekend ad a lot of stuff from my youth went out...

[@jamescollinson2179]

This version of the theme from A Summer Place arranged and conducted by Percy Faith and released in 1960 set a record for the longest sustained #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 of 11 weeks, a record it held for 36 years.

[@freeguy77]

9 weeks. Not 11. Feb. 1960.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

The best performance ever

[@kenlowell318]

A magic renditions a beautiful melodic line and harmony. The closer is the tie between the Violins and French Horns.

[@larrygilbert8590]

I had forgotten how nice it was to melt away in such a beautiful sound, leaving this stupid world behind to find peace and calm in this music. Thank you

[@donnakoster9795]

I had this played at my wedding. Love this song.

[@brndxt]

One of my favorite instrumentals and the Percy Faith version is the best.

[@topenddean]

1959...a different world.

[@commandercaptain4664]

@Vintage Electronics Not for everyone, which was the point of the movie.

[@danagraslie5718]

The year my parents were born...

[@joedixon9656]

Wonderful,and great mood.,...

[@davidmaslow399]

Yes, it was a different world. I was 9 and saw the movie.

[@davidmaslow399]

In many ways these years were so Wonderful

[@raystewart6524]

This song will always remind me of my late partner and soul mate Dawn Maria Theresa O'Neill..we lived in Tenerife for 3 years before she passed away..it was always Summer there for us..great times..RIP babe..

[@GM8101PHX]

This song came out when I was two years old, I have heard it off and on since and still love it, it is now 2022

[@KMK7355]

I was 5 and my late Dad loved this song. When I hear the song, I am transported back to the very early 60's.

[@yarabamba]

Each time I listen to this song I feel younger and rejuvenated. The melody is awesome.

[@schrap72]

I've loved this song since I was a child and I love it just as now as I did then. ❤❤❤

[@joenright3109]

One of the best instrumentals!

[@missgramirez4446]

I remember this song playing at the department store 55 years ago with mom shopping. Memories are strongly rooted with this beautiful melody & my momma. RIP mami

[@jaret9901]

David Lynch sent me here... but as soon as I hit play, I realized I had already heard the song before, just never by its name. A beautiful musical moment of bliss and optimism for these dark times.

[@bobhedden7841]

Sitting poolside in a beautiful setting summer sun listening to this masterpiece.

[@dougshoemaker7733]

This beats what's playing on the radio today.

[@duckhuenguyen9032]

Playing radio to me

[@huntrrams]

You know there’s some modern underrated artists that still have the retro vibe

[@travisdurand5374]

We don't need to bash music to appreciate music

[@tarquin4592]

Anyone sitting on the toilet beats what passes for music today. Apologies for crudeness....

[@iru_motori447]

@Brian Allen its because you hardly listens to one

[@fredgeer536]

devastatingly beautiful arrangement.

[@philip2508]

Fabulous just fabulous what fantastic music this man produced.

[@excelsciors]

Hearing this song in the late 60's and early 70's. Reminds me of when my mom would put the radio on at night for us to sleep. These songs also influenced me to be a musician.

[@velflavel983]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL RENDITION, IT BRINGS BACK SWEET MEMORIES OF YOUTH, OF DREAMS AND HOPES, AND THE EVERLASTING BEAUTY THAT IS THERE IN NATURE!

[@valeriechapman1612]

Percy Faith. Theme from a Summer Place. This music is magical and every time I hear it it brings back the nostalgia of hearing it for the first time, a long while ago, and knowing how much I enjoy listening to it. It’s a moving and emotional tune. Lovely.

[@Eric-jo8uh]

Brings back many many great memories.

[@uxb59]

Sends me way back in time and brings back so many fond memories. One of the most beautiful orchestra pieces of all time.

[@GM8101PHX]

There are lyrics to this song, look up Andy Williams singing this song!

[@laszlojakabfi8382]

A song that will make you feel like crying

[@conradgalvez]

u got that right

[@soulaesthete8563]

One the most beautiful songs ever! Mama would play it on our hi-fi record player and fill the house with a sound that made you feel good all over!

[@dellamoore514]

Soulaesthete ur so lucky

[@soulaesthete8563]

I've been very blessed and the older I get the more I realize how much.

[@carolina7987]

This Music is Magic,Straightly Touch Your Deepest Heart

[@dianeridings7669]

Yes beautiful music. Everytime I hear it my hear is filled with romance and memories.

[@dianeridings7669]

Also wistfulness for the good old days

[@pattyferrer9030]

Que bella melodia inunda el alma y el corazon de felicidad

[@leshernandez8577]

If there's A Heaven This Masterpiece should be Welcoming Folks Entering The Golden Gates of Eternal Piece and Solitude. I know This Much I chosed This Majestic Melody as My Song to be Played at My Funeral, It just feels Perfect. 🥰❤️

[@joletterussell23]

I was a little girl about 10 when I first heard this beautiful, magnificent piece of music. It brings back so much. How at peace I must have been. I still get that same feeling. WOW!!

[@frlander]

Best selling instrumental of all time. I believe it was number one for ten straight weeks!

[@carloszavala2992]

When I sit to hear that melody I can feel heaven.

[@alltimegoldengreats]

This is one hell of a masterpiece of music such good vibes coming off this classic 👌

[@frankmitchell3934]

When we were teenagers my girl friend & I literally melted into each other’s when we heard this beautiful music ❤️

[@gabrielerosa6079]

Can not be more beautiful song than the summer place.

[@anacristinaoliveira4605]

Tema da minha vida. Música da minha vida. Amei o filme, amo a música e essa orquestra divina, que infelizmente não existe mais. No mundo de hoje não há mais espaço para a beleza e o espetáculo das grandes orquestras. Elas reinaram no mundo dos anos 1940 aos anos 1970 e nos deixaram maravilhas, como Theme from A Summer Place. Simplesmente maravilhosa.

[@paulobellini9309]

Perfeita a sua colocação, assino embaixo. Tempos áureos que nunca mais teremos novamente

[@TuhTuh-sg1fn]

Listening this song, reminds me to my Mother.. She was always listeing this melody while she had a resting time. (It was around 1977, when I was 5 y.o) I missed my late Mother sooo much 😢💚🩷

[@hotwax9376]

Pieces like this are the reason why Max Steiner is easily my favorite Hollywood composer. He knew how to make music that cut straight to the heart.

[@nancydavis_]

I dedicate this song to my dear Dad who loved orchestra music. Love and miss you so much! Aww Percy Faith, such a beautiful song. That smile says it all . . . the fulfillment of earning a living by doing what one does best! Thanks for posting.

[@kimmergonzales9792]

The arrangement in this master piece is absolutely perfect 🥰💞👌

[@Baskerville22]

Brings back memories of youthful summer days that seemed to last for ever....

[@randystewart9303]

And unfortunately go by too, too quickly...never to return.

[@marshaharmon1585]

Absolutely love this song!! I' first watched the movie "Summer Place" when I was in high school, late sixties . It's all about young love!!!

[@allenjones3130]

Percy Faith's recording of "A Summer Place" is a classic! Rest in peace, Percy.

[@ΕυθυμίαΜανούσακα]

The most beautiful summer melody

[@petervitti9]

This is my favorite song since I was a little kid. I m 62 years old now.

[@GM8101PHX]

I think I remember in the early 60's of a couple dancing all over the floor to this recording of Summer Place. They made it seem easy to a young boy, but now when listening I can follow three different parts of the song beat. In this recording you can hear all instruments totally clear and in tune. I wonder if in 2022 any young people know this song!!!

[@earlmcferrin2495]

My late mother would play this on our old RCA record player in the early '60s. I still recall liking it even when the Beatles showed up. Memories of a better time in America, before JFK was killed in '63. That's when when the downhill slide started.

[@antoonsuijkerbuijk9577]

I saw the movie A Summerplace when I was just a kid, just on our black and white tv and it gave me a special feeling , the romance in the movie with this tune. Always think back to that precious time that never will come back again. Best melodie ever made. Thank you so much Percy, you were so great

[@gregorysmith1578]

Oh my gosh my Dad played this at the skating rink so many times such wonderful memories I will always cherish 4 ever..what a great song...it will always remind me of him...miss you Dad...

[@RhondaFiggis]

Like everyone else , it's great memories

[@sorayadossantossouza]

❤ lembranças de infância ❤

[@415radios8]

This is one of the greatest songs ever written. You have to be crazy to hate this.

[@petepevehouse6953]

I remember this song I was a teenager what a classic. Thank you

[@leshernandez8577]

As a Life filled with Ups, Downs, and Everything in Between.... Listening to This Anthem of Pease, Happiness, Melancholy which Stir One's Emotions into a Tranquil Place, A Place in your mind of Complete Unadulterated Wonder of Why Life must be a Chaotic Irregular Journey. This Pleasantly Full Melody of Utterly Complete Happiness and a Deep Feeling of a Better Earth for All Her Children to Live and Prosper in JOY! 🥰❤️

[@russellgardiner7642]

Me holding Lydia's hand, My late Mom, and she is to buy me some clothes in a big shopping mall and this music is playing....I'm 6years old....1972, Cape Town South Africa

[@treybryant7863]

This is one favorite songs. It was also my Grandma’s favorite song. She passed away on March 1st. I love and miss you, Grandma. 😢

[@divinoaraujo4594]

When I was just a kid my father took me to the cinema, it was the first time I had the opportunity to watch a movie , so I was really excited; before they start showing the film this music came on and at the end of it the film began; many times after this I've got interested in take back my old memories on this song and looked for it but I didn't know the name of it until now, but watcthing a cartoon by Disney's studios I finaly got the title of it "theme from a summer place" by Henry Mancini or Percy Faith, it is simply wonderful...

[@kimbeaven1452]

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[@clivejones3983]

This is such a beautiful theme its going to be played at my mums funeral tomorrow she loved it I will see you again mum x

[@samhicks97]

Heard this song on a retro episode of Tom & Jerry, old cartoon's always lead you to great music.

[@samdroid559]

Reminds me of sitting in the park with my brother and my mom watching the Merry-Go-Round go round and round to the Summer Place song I was six my brother was 4 wonderful times, I'm 64 years old now,my brother and mom are gone now but i will never forget that SUMMER PLACE.

[@emilyleo1435]

Take me up to heaven in this to it's to beautiful ❤️ to leave behind. Amen greatest. Composer

[@eusou526]

This wonderful music reminds me happy and unforgettable times that never come back. I miss my parents, my distant and gold childhood, etc. Pure nostalgy...

[@sheilahogan8703]

The most beautiful song I have heard

[@denisfossett3009]

when they say ,,,,music is a universal language ,,of feeling ,,,of impression ,,THIS song is it!!! it DOESNT EVEN NEED WORDS ,,,imagine that ,,now this song by Percy and his orchestra ,,,was out for the 1959 - 60 year ,, makes me proud to be born that year ..in 1960 ,,,kinda makes me want to turn back the hands of time ,* if that were possible),,,or relive my childhood ,,,when things were sooo much simpler ,,people actually greeted one another ,,,without ridiculous cell phones and texting one another ,(so impersonal) people would go out of their way to help you ,,,,now they could care less ,,,cars could be worked on by anyone willing to learn ,,,,,now you need to be a damn rocket scientist to know whats under your hood ,,,and they were made of real metal ,,,not plastic ...ok they wanted to help prevent rust ,,,yah but wash it when you can and keep it clean ,,,,weve gotten lazy over the years ,,,even kids today dont want to work or have a work ethic ...ive been working since i was 14 ,,,almost 61 now and still am ,,,proud to say ,,,WELL ANYWAY ,,,THANK YOU PERCY ,,,im sure hes bo longer with us sad to say ,,,but THANK YOU FOR YOUR ARTISTRY in music and painting the picture to all ..of what life was.....back in the day

[@Quarkspeisä]

Absolut Klasse Song und ein Klasse Orchester. Habe viel Musik von ihm auf Platte und MP3. Einfach zeitlos....☺☺☺

[@debbiecclark6538]

Here I am again in my own summer place of long ago.. when music was a beautiful dream of meaning and hearts were warmer and more caring. ♥️

[@anacristinaoliveira4605]

Theme from A Summer Place. What a wonderful melody, what harmony of instruments! Nowadays, there is no more room for the golden years of the great orchestras and their unforgettable music.

[@patrickchang2274]

The first time I heard this music was in 1957 ,wow it was more 50 yrs ago.Now I still enyoying it,Amazing !!

[@navaladmiral2962]

I think you mean 1959 since the movie where this song based it's theme on wasn't even released until 1959

[@williamkennedy5492]

Anyone else listening during the lock down me i am in Thailand and music helps , even had a touch of cabin fever for 5 minutes the other day, now heading into ten weeks of self isolation !

[@bunditklaisumrid5851]

I have been listening to this tunes every day of my life. It has brought me joy and happiness in life. The best instrumental song that I have ever heard.

[@cwcw4805]

Our Uncle george loved this track, & I must dedicate this one for him, one love

[@maryvaldez2432]

I Love this Beautiful Instrumental Theme, I could listen to it all day it makes me happy

[@elaysianaepowell8453]

Rest in peace Percy faith I loved your songs with me mom dad sister and grandma but my grandpa passed away he's with Jesus and all the angels 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

[@ruandted]

This beautiful tune takes us straight back to our wonderful teenage years on Sydney's beaches .

[@JimmyTheMower]

This a timeless classic that will capture generations for ever ♥️

[@angelicwolf909]

Not sure how you can NOT like this tune. Ah but ... there are those ... and I am NOT one of them. Love this one!

[@davidwalsh3439]

One of the greatest recordings ever.never tire of listening to it

[@MrOhmikey]

I missed the school bus one morning sitting on the floor beside the radio totally enraptured by this tune. I was transported again to the same lovely idylliac place just now.

[@silenceofdark29]

This melody melts your heart...in whatever mindset you are ..it will make it better and positive.

[@danielshumway7046]

Want to cry every time I hear this. Sandra Dee, you were incredible. And I like Percy Faith better than Mantovani, or the original movie soundtrack.

[@simonf8902]

This is sooooo evocative. A time of happiness that has passed.

[@arnoldpangilinan5627]

Our Lord God selected some few musicians/composers to sanitise our souls. And Percy Faith was one of them.

[@teresavirina7735]

ALL Time favorite love movie “ A Summer Place “. This movie was done in the sixties, beautiful movie done by handsome couple Sandra Dee & Troy Donahue. I was in my early teens. Won’t forget them both. RIP

[@Mister.Beagle_8-8]

Mis Padres........inevitablemente esta melodía me lleva hacia ellos.No los veo hace más de 1 años por el Coronavirus y aunque los llame todos los dias nada cambia la emoción de abrazarlos y besarlos. Thank you for the Music!