Faith was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He played violin and piano as a child, and played in theatres and at Massey Hall. After his hands were badly burned in a fire, he turned to conducting, and his live orchestras utilized the new medium of radio broadcasting. Beginning with defunct stations CKNC and CKCL, Faith was a staple of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's live-music broadcasting from 1933 to 1940, when he resettled in Chicago. In 1945, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He made many recordings for Voice of America. After working briefly for Decca Records, he worked for Mitch Miller at Columbia Records, where he turned out dozens of albums and provided arrangements for many of the pop singers of the 1950s, including Tony Bennett, Doris Day and Guy Mitchell (for whom Faith wrote Mitchell's number one single, "My Heart Cries for You").
His most famous and remembered recordings are "Delicado" (1952), "Song from the Moulin Rouge" (1953) and "Theme from A Summer Place" (1960), which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961. Faith remains the only artist to have the best selling single of the year during both the pop singer era ("Song from Moulin Rouge") and the rock era ("Theme from a Summer Place").
Though Faith initially mined the worlds of Broadway, Hollywood and Latin music for many of his top-selling 1950s recordings, he enjoyed immense popularity starting in 1962 with his orchestral versions of popular rock and pop hits of the day. His "Themes for Young Lovers" album was a top seller during this era and introduced the Faith sound to a younger generation of listeners. With the success of Columbia record-mate Ray Conniff's chorus and orchestra during this same time, Faith began using a chorus (usually all female in the early recordings, later mixed) in several popular albums from the mid-1960s on. Faith's first single with a female chorus, "Yellow Days," was a substantial hit in the MOR (Middle of the Road) easy listening radio format of the mid-1960s. Faith continued to enjoy airplay and consistent album sales throughout the early 1970s, and received a second Grammy award in 1969 for his album "Love Theme from 'Romeo and Juliet'."
With the advent of harder rock sounds in the 1970s, Faith's elegant arrangements fell out of favor with the listening and record-buying public, although he continued to release albums as diverse and contemporary as "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Black Magic Woman." He released one album of country music and two albums of disco-oriented arrangements toward the end of his near 40 year career.
Though best-known for his recording career, Faith also occasionally scored motion pictures, and received an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of the song score for the Doris Day musical feature, "Love Me or Leave Me." Several of his other original scores for dramatic features such as "Tammy Tell Me True" and "The Oscar" contained popular theme songs.
Percy Faith died of cancer in Encino, California and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
A Summer Place
Percy Faith Orchestra Lyrics
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Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
For within that summer place
Your arms reach out to me
And my heart is free from all care
For it knows
When seen through the eyes
Of those who are blessed with love
And the sweet secret of
A summer place
Is that it's anywhere
When two people share
All their hopes
All their dreams
All their love
There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms
The theme from "A Summer Place" by Percy Faith is a song about finding refuge in the arms of a loved one in a beautiful summertime setting. The singer describes a place where it may rain or storm, but they feel safe and warm because of the love and comfort they find in their partner's arms. They express that the beauty of this summer place is that it isn't a physical location, but rather a state of mind that can be shared between two people in love. In this state, all worries and cares disappear, and the world is a joyful, uplifting place. The lyrics suggest that when two people are in love, they can create their own summer place no matter what environment they find themselves in.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a summer place
There exists a location special to me
Where it may rain or storm
Though foul weather may come about in this place
Yet I'm safe and warm
I feel secure and comfortable there
For within that summer place
That location offers me a feeling of safety, comfort, and serenity
Your arms reach out to me
You offer me comfort, safety, and a sense of belonging
And my heart is free from all care
My spirit is unburdened and is at ease there
For it knows
I am certain that
There are no gloomy skies
I am not bothered by strife and difficulties
When seen through the eyes
From the view of
Of those who are blessed with love
Those who have been given love and recognize it will look past hardships
And the sweet secret of
A special secret concerning
A summer place
That special place
Is that it's anywhere
It's not just one location
When two people share
When two people are familiar with
All their hopes
All the things they yearn for
All their dreams
All the strange thoughts they have
All their love
All their affection for one another
There's a summer place
There is an important and meaningful location
Where it may rain or storm
In which all known calamities may occur
Yet I'm safe and warm
But I am protected and cozy there
In your arms, in your arms
It's in the embrace of my partner that I feel this way
In your arms, in your arms
It is held within the embrace of my partner that I find comfort
In your arms, in your arms
It's held in the arms of my partner that I experience a sense of affection and belonging
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Mack Discant, Max Steiner
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@dunhillan8360
Do you still listen this beautiful tune in 2021 like me?
Who's listening this in 2021?
Memories of those far-off day?
Memories tinged with sadness ?
Reminiscences and Memories crowded your mind?
Long lost friend?
or heyday of your life?
I want hear your stories.
Leave your beautiful stories at my door
I'll leave them for the one who waits behind.
@pedromeza2398
A very beautiful melody as a coming of age movie.
@josesebastiaocruzramos3099
Música traz um interior saciado ....
@mapiminair4676
Magnífico!
@charivariable
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@wishbone7410
'coming of age' what a nice phrase !!!
@zeldacrunch272
Yes, and good topic. But why why why must Hollywood pick the notoriously gay Arthur Andrew Gelien to play the male lead?
@yesterdayproductions1019
This song makes me want to climb into a time machine and go back to those days. I hate what this Country has become.
@bobnagelkerk8695
If only that were possible my friend.................if only that were possible.
@elenaparhomenko1643
Мені здається, тоді були чудові часи! Назараз в моїй країні війна😢. Люди, не треба війн! Хай на всьому Світі панує МИР, КОХАННЯ, ДОБРОТА❤❤❤
@reinerloede
I get it how you feel. But we have to realize that just our memories are that good, Reality wasn't it at all.