Percy Faith

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Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976), was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. After 1940, he moved to Chicago, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1945. He died in Encino, California, and is iinterred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California.

Faith was a band-leader, orchestrator, and composer best known for his arrangements of standard tunes using lush string sections and female choruses. The latter sometimes sang, most often they just vocalized without words.

Faith’s live orchestra was a staple of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s live-music broadcasts from 1938 to 1940. After moving to the U.S., Faith made many recordings for Voice of America. After working briefly for Decca Records, he went to work for Mitch Miller at Columbia Records. There, he turned out dozens of albums and provided arrangements for many of the pop singers of the 1950s. The use of the female chorus really became a Percy Faith signature with his mid-late 1960’s “Young Lovers” projects; it was also used in his final Holiday album, “Christmas Is,” released in 1967.

Faith’s most famous and best-remembered recordings are “Delicado” (1952), “Moulin Rouge” (1953) and “Theme from A Summer Place” (1960).
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  • rafaelhelenojor

    A summer place

    December 2011

  • ativke

    "16 Most Requested Songs" really good album title

    March 2011

  • ElPrincipedelaS

    A Summer Place..What a beauty....remind me I could not watch the movie because I was underaged....and now almost 60 y/o....God time pass FASTTTTTTTTTTTTT

    December 2010

  • gemafrei-music

    Mein Favorit ist "Grunchy Granola Suite" aus den 70ern. Wurde in den 80ern als Abspannmusik für die Samstags-Hitparade auf NDR1 verwendet - Einfach wunderbar! Alle wollten den Titel damals aufnehmen, aber nur einmal wurde er komplett ausgespielt, so weit ich mich erinnern kann. Enthalten auf dem Album "Percy Faith / Corazon"

    September 2010

  • IRSARGE

    Pure Heaven !

    August 2009

  • Thorpe

    Theme From "A Summer Place" - it's like heaven.

    June 2009

  • imuzico

    purely awesome..

    April 2009

  • NewFeudalism

    Love you Percy!!!

    February 2009
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