Bill Purcell

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In pop music, Bill Pursell is best known as a Nashville session pianist from the 1960s who became famous for his instrumental hit "Our Winter Love" (1963). Since 1980, Dr. Pursell has been a professor of music at Belmont University. He is a prolific composer and arranger who has written for television and has numerous orchestral compositions to his credit. Biography Oakland, California, and raised in Tulare, California, USA. Bill Pursell had one US Top 10 hit in 1963 before going on to a successful career as a session pianist. Pursell's main claim to fame was "Our Winter Love", a number 9 single for Columbia Records. Before that, he studied music composition in Baltimore and worked as an arranger for the US Air Force Band during World War II. Further musical education following his discharge led to a position with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and a teaching position at Nashville's Vanderbilt University. He signed with Columbia in 1962 and recorded an album which included his version of the instrumental "Our Winter Love". After its chart run, and that of the album of the same title (with arrangements by Bill Justis and an orchestra conducted by Grady Martin), Pursell continued to record, for such labels as Epic, Alton and Dot Records, but he never made the charts again. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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