* 1908 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer, conductor, and bandleader ( d. 1976 )

Easy listening icon Percy Faith, in one of his last recordings, recorded a disco version of his famous " Theme from A Summer Place " in 1976.

* 1976 – Percy Faith, Canadian musician ( b. 1908 )

* April 7 – Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician ( d. 1976 )

* February 9 – Percy Faith, Canadian-born musician and composer ( b. 1908 )

* Percy Faith, orchestra conductor ( former resident )

* Merry Christmas – Johnny Mathis with Percy Faith and his Orchestra

** Percy Faith

* Percy Faith, musician

** Percy Faith for " Theme From A Summer Place "

** Percy Faith for Love Theme From " Romeo and Juliet " performed by the Percy Faith Orchestra & Chorus

Selections from the Li ' l Abner musical score have been recorded by everyone from Percy Faith and Mario Lanza to André Previn and Shelley Manne.

Thrower, and WPIX-FM programming director Charlie Whittaker selected the music, based largely on the easy listening format the radio station had at that time, with the likes of Percy Faith ( whose rendition of " Joy to the World " is played at the beginning and the end of the telecast ), Nat King Cole, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston " Pops " Popular Orchestra, Mantovani, and the Ray Conniff Singers to name a few.

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Hugh Le Caine, John Hanert, Raymond Scott, composer Percy Grainger ( with Burnett Cross ), and others built a variety of automated electronic-music controllers during the late 1940s and 1950s.

They had reached heights of over 40 metres by the early 1950s when they were felled on the orders of Percy Thrower.

The owner / headmaster from the early 1950s until the school's closure in 1969 was William Percy Higgs ( died Bristol 1986 ), a former Cambridge University organ scholar and music master at Eton.

* Film character actor Percy Kilbride, best known role was as ' Pa Kettle ' in the " Ma & Pa Kettle " comedy film series of the 1950s.

* 1882 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer ( d. 1961 )

In 1935, Australian-born composer Percy Grainger, who also had a deep interest in music made before Bach, arranged Dowland ’ s Now, O now I needs must part for piano.

This ' Pure English ' resembles the ' blue-eyed English ' later adopted by the composer Percy Grainger, and sometimes the updates of known Old English words given by David Cowley in ' How We'd Talk if the English had WON in 1066 '

* February 20 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer ( b. 1882 )

* July 8 – Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian composer ( d. 1962 )

Noted composer Percy Grainger was also an early admirer and supporter.

* Percy Wenrich, composer

At competitions arranged by Gervase Elwes in 1905-06, several folk singers from the surrounding area — including Joseph Taylor and George Gouldthorpe — sang for the composer Percy Grainger songs such as Brigg Fair and Lisbon.

Australian composer Percy Grainger, an avid Kipling reader wrote a Jungle Book cycle, which was published in 1958.

In 1951, Australian-born composer Percy Grainger, who was an admirer, performer and arranger of Gershwin's music, completed a twenty minute piece for two pianos titled Fantasy on George Gershwin's " Porgy and Bess ".

* Australian composer Percy Grainger wrote numerous settings, which he called " Irish Tune from County Derry ", in his British Folk-Music Settings.

The English composer Percy Grainger is a notable case.

Later, he studied at Luther College in Wahoo, receiving a diploma in 1911, then at the Institute of Musical Art, the forerunner of the Juilliard School, in New York City, where he studied with the composer and music theorist Percy Goetschius in 1914.

In 1990 Sherbet were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame alongside classical composer and pianist, Percy Grainger.

In 1990 Sherbet were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame alongside classical composer and pianist, Percy Grainger.

Moeran, composer ; Lt General Sir Brian Horrocks, Commander of the XXX Corps under Montgomery, and later a TV lecturer on battles and war ; and Percy Chapman, captain of the England cricket team 1926-30, who won the Ashes.

Are Ye Right There Michael is a song by the 19th-century and early 20th-century Irish composer and musician Percy French, parodying the state of the West Clare Railway system in rural County Clare.

Percy Marshall Young ( 17 May 1912 – 9 May 2004 ) was a British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher.

* Percy Faith ( 1908 – 1976 ), Canadian-born bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor

* Percy Grainger ( 1882-1961 ), Australian-born composer and pianist