in 1959 it spent 13 weeks on the "billboard" hot 100, reaching no. 14, while spending one week at no. 1 on the uk's new musical express chart, and reaching no. 8 on norway's vg-lista, and no. 4 on canada's chum hit parade. it was keller's only hit either side of the atlantic. a popular misconception is that this song quotes the line "the sun shines bright" from the stephen foster song "my old kentucky home", but this is untrue as the line contained in "here comes summer" is "oh, let the sun shine bright".