Bill, a life long Percy Faith aficionado, produced the original Percy
Faith Discography on which mine is based and his WEB pages contain a
wealth of information as well as sound and video clips including the
BBC Radio 2 tribute to Percy Faith to which we both contributed.
You MUST visit the Robert
Farnon Society pages - remember, this Society deals with ALL
aspects of light music including Big Band and can also supply hard to
find light music CD's - the modest subscription for the quarterly
magazine Journal Into Melody must be one of the best bargains around!
Ray Conniff
- if you like Percy Faith, odds are you also like Ray's
music. Doug Mitchell's pages are well worth a visit and contain
comprehensive listings.
Mantovani
- the many thousands of Mantovani fans will be pleased to hear that
there is now a superb site dedicated to this famous British Conductor
and Arranger. Wes Stillwagon's site is full of interesting articles
covering the life and work of the maestro in great detail.
Nelson
Riddle fans should visit Mike
Leach's WEB pages which also give details of the Official Nelson
Riddle Appreciation Society
One of the best MOR sites on the WEB is The
Space Age Pop Music Standards Page - don't be put off by this
title - and it also has lots of links to other interesting pages -
well worth a visit.
Classic Themes
from David Shields includes excellent biographies of Percy Faith,
Robert Farnon, Leroy Anderson, David Rose, Nelson Riddle and many
others and now has a new section - 'Classic US TV Themes'.
Searching for second-hand Recordings
If you are looking for second hand records and CDs then try the
following - all three give access to hundreds of dealers world-wide
If you are interested in finding out who composed a
particular piece of music, or discovering what else they have
written, both ASCAP
(American Society of Composers and Publishers) and BMI
maintain on-line data bases which contain a wealth of information.
Although both are American organisations, they contain much
information about composers of other nationalities, including British.