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Percy Faith

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One of the founding fathers of easy listening, but not always the purveyor of pablum he's made out to be. Faith was a child prodigy on the piano, but his hopes for a career as a concert pianist ended when he injured his hands in a fire when he was 18. He switched to arranging and conducting, working in hotel and theater orchestras in Toronto and eventually landing his own radio show on CBC in 1938. In 1940, Faith moved to Chicago and became a naturalized citizen a few years later. He moved to New York City and worked in radio for a while until he joined the A&R staff of Decca. By 1950, he was working for Mitch Miller at Columbia, who found Faith's rich but not overbearing string work perfect for the sound he was trying to cultivate

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Article: Album Review

Rebecca Kilgore: The Rebecca Kilgore Trio, Vol. 1

Read "The Rebecca Kilgore Trio, Vol. 1" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


What do “Doxy," “Cottontail," “Dear Bix" and “I Wanna Get Married" all have in common? Clues to a party game on some lost episode of Playboy After Dark? Give up? All make an appearance on Rebecca Kilgore's “swing and have fun" release, which is just what Kilgore and her co-conspirators (including her husband, Dick Titterington, on ...

Album

2001 (Also Sprach Zarathustra)

Label: Columbia
Released: 1977

Album

Great Moments Of Percy Faith

Label: Columbia
Released: 1976

Album

Emmanuelle The Joys Of A Woman

Label: Columbia
Released: 1976

Album

Christmas Album

Label: Columbia
Released: 1976

Album

In Concert - Recorded Live In Japan 1974

Label: CBS/Sony
Released: 1974
Track listing: Musical Medley; First Light; Corazon; My Heart Cries For You; Bach's Lunch; Hill Where The Lord Hides; Tara's Theme; The Way We Were; Enter The Dragon; Mexican Medley; Also Sprach Zarathustra; Theme From "A Summer Place";

Album

Country Bouquet

Label: Columbia
Released: 1974

Album

Clair

Label: Columbia
Released: 1973


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