Percy Faith - His Music, Singers & Singles (CD)

Among the top popular light music composers, arrangers and conductors of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties, Percy Faith must rate up there with the very best. Intuitive and innovative, he used his baton as an artist would use a brush, and his orchestra as a palette to paint vivid musical pictures which would help change the face of popular recorded music. This comprehensive 107-track collection trace s his career with the Decca, Majestic and, most famously, Columbia labels from 1944 to 1959, showcasing his unique arranging and conducting artistry as he recorded not only with his own orchestra and chorus, but also a host of big name vocalists, the success of whose records often owed more than a little to Faith's orchestrations. It's not only a worthy tribute to skilled practitioner whose work has generally not received the attention it certainly merits, but also a thoroughly entertaining trawl through some great popular music of the post-war era.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
2. Amor
3. Long Ago and Far Away
4. Bahia
5. Tico Tico
6. I'll Close My Eyes
7. Dancing Inthe Dark
8. That Old Black Magic
9. Begin the Beguine
10. I Got Rhythm
11. Deep Purple
12. El Cumbanchero
13. I Only Saw Hime Once
14. Tzin, Tzan, Tzun
15. I Cross My Fingers
16. On An Ordinary Morning
17. Giddy Yap
18. They Can't Take That Away from Me
19. I Was Dancing with Someone
20. Friendly Star
21. Me and My Imagination
22. Why Fight the Feeling
23. Don't Ever Leave Me
24. Someone to Watch Over Me
25. You're Not in My Arms Tonight
26. Life Is So Peculiar

Disc: 2

1. Christmas in Killarney
2. The House of Singing Bamboo
3. Green Grass and Peaceful Pastures
4. Too Late Now
5. Old Witch, Old Witch
6. On Top of Old Smokey
7. Nervous Gavotte
8. If You Turn Me Down
9. Black Ball Ferry Line
10. Fiddle Derby
11. Cold, Cold Heart
12. My Girl Back Home
13. Loneliness of Evening
14. Half As Much
15. I Want to Be Near You
16. When the Saints Go Marching in
17. Tenderly
18. Would You
19. Kitten on the Keys
20. Delicado
21. Looking for a Boy
22. Meet Me on the Corner at a Quarter to Eight
23. Street of Dreams
24. There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder
25. She's Funny That Way
26. Blues in the Night
27. Kiss
28. April in Paris

Disc: 3

1. Tell Your Tale Nightingale
2. Over the Mountain
3. Say You'll Wait for Me
4. My Tormented Heart
5. Congratulations to Someone
6. All the Time and Everywhere
7. Why Try to Change Me Now
8. Funny Fellow
9. You Can Never Give Me Back My Heart
10. Time
11. Look Me Over Closely
12. Everybody Loves Saturday Night
13. Swedish Rhapsody
14. Theme from 'Moulin Rouge'
15. Rags to Riches
16. Here Comes That Heartache Again
17. I'm Walking Behind You
18. Robe of Calvary
19. Stranger in Paradise
20. What Is There to Say
21. Brave Man
22. Rainfall
23. Three Coins in a Fountain
24. Bubbling Over
25. If You Believe
26. Alexander's Ragtime Band
27. There's a Rising Moon

Disc: 4

1. Land of the Pharaohs
2. The World Is Mine
3. I'll Never Stop Loving You
4. Let's Fall in Love
5. We Won't Say Goodbye
6. The Rose Tattoo
7. Imagination
8. Moonlight Becomes You
9. A Woman in Love
10. Cry Me a River
11. Valley Valparaiso
12. On the Street Where You Live
13. You Don't Know Me
14. If I Had You
15. Baby Doll
16. Long Before I Knew You
17. Kiss Me Again
18. There Goes My Heart
19. Maria
20. The Impala Theme
21. Indiscreet
22. Winter Wonderland
23. La Cucaracha
24. La Paloma
25. The Mexican Hat Dance
26. Theme from 'A Summer Place'