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Percy Faith

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 interred 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. Read more on Last.fm

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Theme from A Summer Place
111791
2The Theme From "A Summer Place"
36966
3Delicado
36492
4Theme from "A Summer Place"
29979
5We Need a Little Christmas
27305
6A Summer Place
17546
7The Little Drummer Boy
16831
8Moon Over Miami
14228
9The Virginian
13625
10The Syncopated Clock
12073

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