Duck's Memory Bag - 1960

I was three years old when the theme from "A Summer Place" by Percy Faith and his orchestra became a hit. I don't remember when I first heard this song, but it was some time after, probably 1963 or 1964. My father purchased a reel to reel tape player/recorder, and the Greatest Hits of Percy Faith was one of the first reels that he bought. He'd play it on Sunday mornings after church, and I grew to love with this breezy, schmaltzy, waltzy, ethereal tune. The 60's musical counterculture, with all its edginess, was still a few years from full rebellious bloom.

If Susan's Husband's theory of conservation of angst is correct, then Percy Faith represented the angst-balancing maestro of heart-lightening fantasy for the war-weary Greatest Generation.