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Biography

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.

Top Tracks

1	Theme from a Summer Place	93
2	The Theme From "A Summer Place"	90
3	Theme from "A Summer Place"	31
4	Merry Go Round	28
5	Delicado	27
6	Theme From 'A Summer Place'	25
7	A Summer Place	16
8	Non Dimenticar (Don't Forget)	14
9	Song From Moulin Rouge	12
9	An Ordinary Couple	12
11	The Song from Moulin Rouge	11
12	The Syncopated Clock	10
13	The Virginian	9
14	Stranger in Paradise	8
15	The Sound of Music	7