Weston, Paul

Paul Weston Bandleader, arranger, and composer Paul Wetstein, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 12, 1912; Hollywood, California, September 20, 1996. Weston is best remembered as one of the first creators of “mood music”—lush, symphonic recordings beloved in suburban households of the 1950s. After graduating from Columbia University in the early 1930s, Weston began his career as a big band arranger, working first for Rudy Vallee and then for Tommy Dorsey. While with Dorsey, he met singer Jo…