Percy Faith: June 2008

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Birth centennial year

Percy Faith, Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, and composer
04/07/1908 - 02/09/1976

Percy Faith was one of the most popular easy listening recording artists of the '50s and '60s. Not only did he have a number of hit albums and singles under his own name, but Faith was responsible for arranging hits by Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, and Burl Ives, among others, as the musical director for Columbia Records in the '50s.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Nazareth's Dengozo played by Percy Faith's Orchestra (1962)

Felicia Sanders Tribute

She was picked, in 1953, by Columbia's biggest orchestra leader, Percy Faith, to sing a vocal on a song he was recording, taken from the film "Moulin Rouge", a biographical film about Toulouse-Lautrec. The song, known as "The Song from Moulin Rouge", was recorded on January 22, 1953 and released by Columbia with the credits shown as "Percy Faith and his Orchestra featuring Felicia Sanders". The song reached #1 on all the record charts, and was to be her biggest success.