Faith Career Notes

His orchestra heard "on the air" in Canada and the United States, since the 1930's, Mr. Faith brought us his unique sound, rich arrangements featuring his favorite section of the orchestra - the strings, that carried the Faith signature sound of rich countermelodies and harmonic developments across sections of the orchestra.  Pictured above, Percy at the piano in the living room of his Encino home in 1966, "California 1966" in his own writing (this is an original picture from the family collection   That Faith recorded 45 albums is a head-scratcher, Faith recorded closer to 90 albums, and that does not include the many "random track collection" albums that could no doubt double that number worldwide.  I believe this error began with a press release, I still have a copy somewhere.   The Collectables series of CD's now available cover Percy's entire Columbia career.  There are CD's available that go back to the "pre-Columbia" days of Decca, Majestic, and RCA, please see Alan Bunting's website for details.

PERCY FAITH:   COMPOSER-CONDUCTOR-ARRANGER

Percy Faith had a tremendous career, doing just what he wanted to do, creating albums of beautiful music.   Actually that's the second half of his career, the first was "on the air" bringing his unique orchestral style to radio.  Few are aware he did much outside of SUMMER PLACE, DELICADO or MOULIN ROUGE - but view these pages and you'll realize that he recorded over a thousand arrangements with a style that could never be duplicated.  After all these years, we are rewarded with our treasured albums being available in the "best possible" sound of the compact disc; see below!   There are several great CD reissues by Taragon and Collectables, and manufacturing remains with Sony (Taragon does its own remastering), so the quality is superb.   It is a great tribute to PERCY FAITH that his music still delights listeners in the year 2000 and beyond.  Millions of thanks go to Good Music, Collectables, and Taragon for bringing Faith's music to us in the window-on-sound CD format.