Faith,Percy 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.

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 27. Christmas in Killarney 28. The House of Singing Bamboo 29. Green Grass and Peaceful Pastures 30. Too Late Now 31. Old Witch, Old Witch 32. On Top of Old Smokey 33. Nervous Gavotte 34. If You Turn Me Down 35. Black Ball Ferry Line 36. Fiddle Derby 37. Cold, Cold Heart 38. My Girl Back Home 39. Loneliness of Evening 40. Half As Much 41. I Want to Be Near You 42. When the Saints Go Marching in 43. Tenderly 44. Would You 45. Kitten on the Keys 46. Delicado 47. Looking for a Boy 48. Meet Me on the Corner at a Quarter to Eight 49. Street of Dreams 50. There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder 51. She's Funny That Way 52. Blues in the Night 53. Kiss 54. April in Paris 55. Tell Your Tale Nightingale 56. Over the Mountain 57. Say You'll Wait for Me 58. My Tormented Heart 59. Congratulations to Someone 60. All the Time and Everywhere 61. Why Try to Change Me Now 62. Funny Fellow 63. You Can Never Give Me Back My Heart 64. Time 65. Look Me Over Closely 66. Everybody Loves Saturday Night 67. Swedish Rhapsody 68. Theme from 'Moulin Rouge' 69. Rags to Riches 70. Here Comes That Heartache Again 71. I'm Walking Behind You 72. Robe of Calvary 73. Stranger in Paradise 74. What Is There to Say 75. Brave Man 76. Rainfall 77. Three Coins in a Fountain 78. Bubbling Over 79. If You Believe 80. Alexander's Ragtime Band 81. There's a Rising Moon 82. Land of the Pharaohs 83. The World Is Mine 84. I'll Never Stop Loving You 85. Let's Fall in Love 86. We Won't Say Goodbye 87. The Rose Tattoo 88. Imagination 89. Moonlight Becomes You 90. A Woman in Love 91. Cry Me a River 92. Valley Valparaiso 93. On the Street Where You Live 94. You Don't Know Me 95. If I Had You 96. Baby Doll 97. Long Before I Knew You 98. Kiss Me Again 99. There Goes My Heart 100. Maria 101. The Impala Theme 102. Indiscreet 103. Winter Wonderland 104. La Cucaracha 105. La Paloma 106. The Mexican Hat Dance 107. Theme from 'A Summer Place'