Among the top popular light music composers, arrangers and conductors of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties,

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 Listing

• Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
• Amor
• Long ago And Far Away
• Bahia
• Tico Tico
• I'll Close My Eyes
• Dancing InThe Dark
• That Old Black Magic
• Begin The Beguine
• I Got Rhythm
• Deep Purple
• El Cumbanchero
• I Only Saw Hime Once
• Tzin,Tzan,Tzun
• I Cross My Fingers
• On An Ordinary Morning
• Giddy Yap
• They Can't Take That Away From Me
• I Was Dancing With Someone
• Friendly Star
• Me And My Imagination
• Why Fight The Feeling
• Don't Ever Leave Me
• Someone To Watch Over Me
• You're Not In My Arms Tonight
• Life Is So Peculiar

• Christmas In Killarney
• The House Of Singing Bamboo
• Green Grass And Peaceful Pastures
• Too Late Now
• Old Witch,Old Witch
• On Top Of Old Smokey
• Nervous Gavotte
• If You Turn Me Down
• Black Ball Ferry Line
• Fiddle Derby
• Cold,Cold Heart
• My Girl Back Home
• Loneliness Of Evening
• Half As Much
• I Want To Be Near You
• When The Saints Go Marching In
• Tenderly
• Would You
• Kitten On The Keys
• Delicado
• Looking for A Boy
• Meet Me On The Corner At A Quarter To Eight
• Street Of Dreams
• There's A Rainbow Round My Shoulder
• She's Funny That Way
• Blues In the Night
• Kiss
• April In Paris

• Tell your Tale Nightingale
• Over The Mountain
• Say You'll Wait For Me
• My Tormented Heart
• Congratulations To Someone
• All The Time And Everywhere
• Why Try To Change Me Now
• Funny Fellow
• You Can Never Give Me Back My Heart
• Time
• Look Me Over Closely
• Everybody Loves Saturday Night
• Swedish Rhapsody
• Theme from 'Moulin Rouge'
• Rags To Riches
• Here Comes That Heartache Again
• I'm Walking Behind You
• Robe Of Calvary
• Stranger In Paradise
• What Is there To Say
• Brave Man
• Rainfall
• Three Coins In A Fountain
• Bubbling Over
• If You Believe
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• There's A Rising Moon

• Land Of The Pharaohs
• The World Is Mine
• I'll Never Stop Loving You
• Let's Fall In Love
• We Won't Say Goodbye
• The Rose Tattoo
• Imagination
• Moonlight Becomes You
• A Woman In Love
• Cry Me A River
• Valley Valparaiso
• On The Street Where You Live
• You Don't Know Me
• If I Had You
• Baby Doll
• Long Before I Knew You
• Kiss Me Again
• There Goes My Heart
• Maria
• The Impala Theme
• Indiscreet
• Winter Wonderland
• La Cucaracha
• La Paloma
• The Mexican Hat Dance
• Theme from 'A Summer Place'

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 300 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/01/13

UPC: 824046706128