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Father of L.A. band, TOTO, singer-songwriter David Paich.

Started with Pete Rugolo as arranger for the Gary Nottingham Orchestra. After the war, was pianist/arranger for Peggy Lee. Joined ASCAP in 1953. Arranger for Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Shore, Dean Martin, Astrud Gilberto and others. Arranged and produced West Coast jazz recordings by such artists as Stan Kenton, Shelly Manne, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers and Anita O'Day. Lengthy and fruitful collaboration with Mel Torme, also as leader of his backing group, the Dek-tette. Later active arranging for pop musicians (eg. Andy Williams), as leader of studio orchestras for TV variety shows and composer/conductor for TV series, such as "Hong Kong" and "Ironside" (Emmy Award, 1974).

His instrumental works include "Gray Flannel", "Color it Brass" and "Suze Bluze".

Pianist, arranger and band leader. Studied at San Francisco State University, the Conservatory of Music and Art in LA (M.A. in composition, 1951) and at UCLA under Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Served in the U.S. Air Corps during World War II, leading a USAAF band.

He wrote arrangements for Art Pepper for the album Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics.

He began recording with Mel Tormé in 1955 on the album It's a Blue World when Tormé was moving from pop singer to jazz singer. During the next year, his ten piece band accompanied Tormé on the album Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette, which contained a version of the 1930s song "Lulu's Back in Town".

He led the studio orchestras for television variety programs such as The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and replaced Nelson Riddle in The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.

Paich was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor.

In the 1930s, when he was ten years old, he was leading bands and performing at weddings.

In the 1970s, he worked as a composer and arranger in film and television, winning an Emmy award for the television drama Ironside.

He attended the University of Southern California and received a master's degree in composition from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Among his teachers were Julia Bal de Zuniga, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Arnold Schoenberg.

At sixteen, he wrote arrangements with Pete Rugolo.

As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Art Pepper, Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Shorty Rogers, Pete Rugolo, Ray Charles and Mel Tormé.

Over three decades he worked with pop singers such as Andy Williams and Jack Jones and for film and television.

He also composed music for films (including some animated Hanna-Barbera projects: Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!1 in 1964, The Man Called Flintstone in 1966).

Paich also orchestrated many film scores, including those for "Pretty Woman," "The Fugitive" and "Prince of Tides.".

In the 1960s, he spent less time as a musician and more as an arranger for pop singers such as Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Barbra Streisand, Andy Williams, Dinah Shore, and Jack Jones.

After the early '70s, Paich's activity began to tail off, though he still worked sporadically as an orchestra conductor and string arranger, both on movie soundtracks and for artists like George Benson, Carly Simon, Elton John, and Kenny Loggins (a Grammy-nominated arrangement for "Only a Miracle"), not to mention his son David Paich's album rock supergroup Toto, and he also helmed Sarah Vaughan's Songs of the Beatles project in 1980.

He was producer and arranger for Barbra Streisand's hit recording of "The Way We Were" and worked with Michael Jackson.