Biography
Norman Leyden
Real name: Norman Fowler Leyden
Effective period / Period of releases: 1949 - 1960
American, conductor, arranger, and clarinetist.Born October 17, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Died July 23, 2014 (age of 96) in Portland, Oregon, USA.
He has worked in film and television and is perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symphony Pops orchestra. He co-wrote with Glenn Miller the theme "I Sustain the Wings" in 1943, which was used to introduced the World War II radio series.