"Theme From A Summer Place" was originally 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. It was recorded for the film as an instrumental by Hugo Winterhalter. Following its initial film appearance, the theme has been recorded by many artists in both instrumental and vocal versions, and has also appeared in a unmber of subsequent films and television programs. But the best-known cover version is the instrumental by Percy Faith. His recording of "Theme From A Summer Place" held the no.1 spot of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States for nine consecutive weeks, in United Kingdom it went to no.2. It won the Grammy Award for the Record Of The Year in 1961. This was the first movie theme and the first instrumental to win a Record Of The Year Grammy.