Percy Faith and His Orchestra recorded this theme for the 1959 film A Summer Place, and the instrumental became a major American hit in 1960, spending nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The melody, written by Max Steiner for the film's love story, quickly outgrew the movie itself and became a standard for easy listening and romantic nostalgia. Decades later, creators still reuse it to signal old Hollywood romance, summer longing and a softer, more innocent era.