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Percy Faith
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One of the founding fathers of easy listening, but not always the purveyor of pablum he's made out to be. Faith was a child prodigy on the piano, but his hopes for a career as a concert pianist ended when he injured his hands in a fire when he was 18. He switched to arranging and conducting, working in hotel and theater orchestras in Toronto and eventually landing his own radio show on CBC in 1938. In 1940, Faith moved to Chicago and became a naturalized citizen a few years later. He moved to New York City and worked in radio for a while until he joined the A&R staff of Decca. By 1950, he was working for Mitch Miller at Columbia, who found Faith's rich but not overbearing string work perfect for the sound he was trying to cultivate
Rebecca Kilgore: The Rebecca Kilgore Trio, Vol. 1
by Richard J Salvucci
What do Doxy," Cottontail," Dear Bix" and I Wanna Get Married" all have in common? Clues to a party game on some lost episode of Playboy After Dark? Give up? All make an appearance on Rebecca Kilgore's swing and have fun" release, which is just what Kilgore and her co-conspirators (including her husband, Dick Titterington, on ...
Chinatown Featuring The Entertainer - Summer Place '76
By Percy Faith
Label: Columbia
Released: 2003
In Concert - Recorded Live In Japan 1974
By Percy Faith
Label: CBS/Sony
Released: 1974
Track listing: Musical Medley; First Light; Corazon; My Heart Cries For You; Bach's Lunch; Hill Where The Lord Hides; Tara's Theme; The Way We Were; Enter The Dragon; Mexican Medley; Also Sprach Zarathustra; Theme From "A Summer Place";