It’s not too
much of a stretch to say that Percy Faith invented easy listening music; along
with Mantovani, he pioneered the use of string sections to soften and sweeten
the brass-dominated sound that dominated popular music during the ‘40s. Faith
was also one of Mitch Miller’s main men at Columbia Records, where he provided
arrangements for everybody from Doris Day to Tony Bennett to Johnny Mathis, and
he composed some of the most memorable soundtrack themes of all time. Now, Real
Gone pays tribute to one of the great arrangers and composers in pop music
history with a 32-track set spanning 22 years of recordings, including hit singles,
tracks drawn from a total of 20 different albums, and a number of his most
revered compositions for the screen. Among the highlights: the #1 hits
“Delicado,” “Where Is Your Heart (from ‘Moulin Rouge’),” and “The Theme from ‘A
Summer Place;’” his soundtrack themes to the films Tammy Tell Me True, The
Oscar, and The Love Goddesses, and the TV series The Virginian; and some of his
signature adaptations of Latin music like “How Insensitive (Insensataez)” and
“Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil).” Joe Marchese provides the notes, and the package
includes photos from the Columbia vaults as well as some of the great cover art
that adorned Faith’s album releases. Remastered by Maria Triana at Battery
Studios in New York…like the title says, the definitive—and largest ever—Percy
Faith collection!
Disc : 1
1. Jungle
Fantasy
2. All My
Love (Bolero)
3. The
Syncopated Clock
4. Delicado
5. Swedish
Rhapsody (Midsummer Vigil)
6. Where Is
Your Heart (From "Moulin Rouge")
7. Return to
Paradise
8. Music
Until Midnight (Lullaby for Adults Only)
9. The
Bandit (Theme from "O Cangaceiro")
10. Swing
Low Sweet Chariot
11. With a
Little Bit of Luck (from the Broadway Musical "My Fair Lady")
12. Embassy
Waltz (from the Broadway Musical "My Fair Lady"
13. Till
14. Ebb Tide
15. Theme
for Young Lovers
16. Theme
from "A Summer Place" (From the Warner Bros. Film "A Summer
Place")
Disc : 2
1. Brazil
(Aquarela do Brasil)
2. Under
Paris Skies (Sous le ciel de Paris)
3. Camelot
(From the Broadway Musical "Camelot")
4. Tammy
Tell Me True (From the Universal Film "Tammy Tell Me True")
5. Stella by
Starlight
6. Moonlight
in Vermont
7. The
Virginian (From the NBC-TV Series "The Virginian")
8. The Love
Goddess (From the Paramount Film "The Love Goddesses")
9. How
Insensitive (Insensataez)
10. The
"In" Crowd
11. Song
from "The Oscar (Maybe September) (From the Embassy Film "The
Oscar")
12. The
Glass Mountain (From the Embassy Film "The Oscar")
13. Bim Bam
Boom
14. Samba de
Orfeu (From the Film "Black Orpheus")
15. Love Theme
from "Romeo and Juliet" (From the Paramount Film "Romeo &
Juliet")
16. Theme
from "Chinatown" (From the Paramount Film "Chinatown")
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