"Theme From 'A Summer Place' " #1 2/27/1960

We return to 1960 #1 tunes with the most successful instrumental of the rock era. But it wasn't rock, and wasn't the primary theme to the movie in which it appeared. Percy Faith and his Orchestra took this to #1 for nine weeks, a feat unmatched on the pop charts until "Hey Jude" in 1968. Percy helped to move instrumental music away from brass arrangements and far more into strings.