Percy Faith
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Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a band-leader, orchestrator and composer, known for his arrangements of standard tunes with lush string sections and female chorus vocal and wordless. The female chorus became a Percy Faith signature with his mid to late 60's "Young Lovers" projects, and was used in his final Holiday album "Christmas Is" released in 1967.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His live orchestra was a staple of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's live-music broadcasting from 1938 to 1940, when he resettled in Chicago. In 1945, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He made many recordings for Voice of America. After working briefly for Decca Records, he worked for Mitch Miller at Columbia Records, where he turned out dozens of albums and provided arrangements for many of the pop singers of the 1950s.
His most famous and remembered recordings are "Delicado" (1952), "Moulin Rouge" (1953) and "Theme from A Summer Place" (1960). He died in Encino, California. Percy Faith is interred in Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.
External links
- [Percy Faith discography and general informations (Music City)]
- [Brief biography]
- [Percy Faith webpages]
- [Alan Bunting, "Percy Faith Discography"]
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