Composition". In addition to Legrand's scoring, the film also features the song "Hold Tight" by The Andrews Sisters and the theme from Now, Voyager. On the Billboard 200, it debuted on November 9, 1971 and peaked at #52 on November 20, 1971. In 2014 Intrada Records released Summer of '42 and The Picasso Summer on a limited-edition two-disc set, with the entire score for the former and the original album presentation of the latter (dubbed "The Picasso Suite") on disc 1, and the complete score for The Picasso Summer on disc 2. Warner Bros. Publications released a sheet music folio, Summer of '42 & Other Hits of the Forties, which contains the movie theme and 34 other unrelated songs. Cultural impact Music Legrand's theme song for the film, "The Summer Knows", has since become a pop standard, being recorded by such artists as Peter Nero (who had a charting hit with his 1971 version), Biddu (1975 international chart hit), Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Andy Williams, Jonny Fair, Scott Walker, Elis Regina, Jackie Evancho, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Toots Thielemans, George Benson, Roger Williams, and Barbra Streisand. The 1973 song "Summer (The First Time)" by Bobby Goldsboro has almost exactly the same subject and apparent setting, although there is no direct credited link. Bryan Adams has, however, credited the film as being a partial inspiration for his 1985 hit "Summer of '69". Garth Brooks' 1993 hit "That Summer" features a similar story of a coming-of-age male in a romance with an older female. Chart history Roger Williams Peter Nero Biddu Orchestra Film and television An episode of the 1970s sitcom Happy Days was loosely based upon Summer of '42, with Richie Cunningham befriending a Korean War widow. In Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, Wendy (Shelley Duvall) is shown watching Summer of '42 on a television. The film's title formed the basis of a Season 7 episode of The Simpsons, "Summer of 4 Ft. 2". In the Family Guy episode "Play It Again, Brian" Brian says he plagiarized part of an essay where he discusses his love for Lois from Summer of '42. The episode "Summer of '85" in Baywatch shows Eddie (Billy Warlock) having a summer romance with an older woman called Lorna when he was a teenager. Remakes In the years since the film's release, Warner Bros. has attempted to buy back Raucher's ten percent of the