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 ...

He was one of the greatest creators of what is known as easy listening or ‘middle of the road” (MOR) music. Percy Faith died on February 9 1976. If the name is not familiar, his music certainly is, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Theme From a Summer Place” was named the No. 1 song of 1960 by Billboard, and it won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year at ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Historically, ...

In early 1960, Percy Faith and his Orchestra had a surprise hit with the song "Theme From a Summer Place." The iconic instrumental soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Feb. 22, 1960, and ...

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Today's birthdays include Percy Faith, who was born in 1908; jazz singer Billie Holiday in 1915; sitar player Ravi Shankar in 1920 (age 83); country's Bobby Bare in 1935 (age 68); Freddie Hubbard in ...