Trivia

His recording of "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" (Columbia: 1960) spent seventeen weeks on the American pop charts beginning in January, 1960, including nine weeks at number one, making it the biggest-selling instrumental hit of the rock era to date. The single ultimately won a Gold Record, the R.I.A.A. standard up until 1976, for more than one million copies sold.

One of the most popular composer/arrnger/conductors of the so-called "Golden Age of Mood Music," his best-selling albums from more than two decades on Columbia records include "Amour, Amor, Amore," "Themes for Young Lovers," "Music from 'My Fair Lady,'" "The Columbia Album of Victor Herbert," "The Beatles Album," "Held Over," "Bouquet," "Tara's Theme from 'Gone With the Wind,'" "Joy," "The Music of Christmas," "Latin Themes for Young Lovers," "Bim! Bam!! Boom!!!," "Today's Themes for Young Lovers," "Summer Place '76," and, perhaps inevitably, "Percy Faith's Greatest Hits."

His recording of "Theme from A Summer Place" was the biggest selling single of 1960 in America.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1501 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

Died in a Los Angeles hospital while undergoing treatment for cancer.