worked in television and continued recording the occasional LP for various budget labels. Winterhalter's last US chart single was "Theme From 'Popi'", released by Musicor in 1969. It reached #35 in the Billboard Easy Listening Top 40. Winterhalter died from cancer, in Greenwich, Connecticut on September 17, 1973. He is interred alongside his wife at Rockland Cemetery in Sparkill, New York. Winterhalter had a son, Hugo Francis Winterhalter, who was killed in Vietnam on December 29, 1966. He was with the 169th Combat Engineer Battalion. Musical Style The back cover of "Huge Winterhalter Goes...Continental" shares this about the conductor: "Maestro Winterhalter uses a very large string section, a full brass section (he was, incidentally, one of the first of the big-band leaders to use such previously symphonic instrucments as the French horn in popular music), a large woodwind choir, and timpani galore. Together with the distinctive Winterhalter arranging touch, this all results in a fresh and ear-filling treatment of even those tunes that are standard fare wherever pop music is played." References External links Biography of Hugo Winterhalter on "The Interlude Era" (Alternate link) 1909 births 1973 deaths American music arrangers Easy listening musicians RCA Victor artists People from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Musicians from Pennsylvania 20th-century American musicians 20th-century American male musicians