Percy Faith - Delicado

Title: Delicado Artist: Percy Faith Release Date: 2004 Label: ASV/Living Era / Livi Duration: 154:07 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, performer(s) biography, composition (work) description UPC: 743625027822 Genre: Vocal Music Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. Amor, amor
2. Negra Consentida (My Pet Brunette)
3. Embraceable You, song (from Girl Crazy, musical)
4. Baia (Ne baixe do sapateiro) (from the film "The Three Caballeros")
5. There is someone lovelier than you
6. Tico-Tico no Fubá,  for voice & ensemble
7. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year (from the film "Christmas Holiday")
8. Bem Te Vi Atrevido, for choro ensemble
9. I love you, song (from "Mexican Hayride")
10. Capullito de alelí
11. Long Ago (And Far Away), song (from the film "Cover Girl")
12. La Cumparsita, for tango orchestra
13. Stardust
14. Stars In Your Eyes (Mar)
15. Bim, Bam, Boom!
16. I'll Close My Eyes
17. There's No Holding Me, song (from "Park Avenue")
18. Dancing in the Dark
19. That Old Black Magic, song (for the film "Star Spangled Rhythm")
20. All through the night, song (from "Anything Goes")
21. Begin the beguine, song (from "Jubilee")
22. The Touch of Your Hand, song (from "Roberta")
23. Tia Juana
24. Temptation, song (from the film Going Hollywood)
25. Noche Caribe (Caribbean Night)

1. Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, for orchestra ("Midsommarvaka"), Op. 19
2. Body and Soul
3. Da Du
4. Deep Purple
5. Fiddle Derby
6. My Dream Concerto
7. Dizzy Fingers for piano
8. I Got Rhythm, song (from Girl Crazy, 1930)
9. Flight 33 1/3 (after Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight Of The Bumble-Bee)
10. Solitude
11. Nervous Gavotte
12. Mosquitoes' Parade
13. La Mer (Beyond the Sea)
14. Kitten on the Keys, for piano
15. Whirlwind
16. El Combanchero, for pops orchestra
17. Goodbye, John
18. Perpetual Notion
19. They Can't Take That Away from Me, song (from Shall We Dance?, film)
20. Soft Lights and Sweet Music, song (from "Face the Music")
21. Oodles of Noodles
22. Would You? (used in the film San Francisco)
23. Cumana
24. Delicado
25. Moulin Rouge, film score
    - Song: Where Is Your Heart?

ASV/Living Era's Delicado collects two discs' worth of Percy Faith's sweeping orchestral pop from 1944 to 1953, including his first commercial recordings, "Amor" and "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year." Disc one follows Faith's career at his first label, Decca, and his subsequent stints at Majestic and Royale; tracks such as the aforementioned "Amor" and "Negra Consentida" trace the beginning of Faith's latin -influenced productions, while "I Love You" and "Long Ago and Far Away" find him applying his lush but mellow approach to Cole Porter and Jerome Kern. Disc two enters Faith's '50s salad days at Columbia, and features his first big hit and the collection's namesake, "Delicado," as well as "The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)." More of Faith's own compositions are also here, including "Da Du," "Fiddle Derby," "Flight 33 1/3," "Nervous Gavotte," and "Perpetual Notion," all of which reflect the more playful direction of his work and of instrumental pop at the time. Nevertheless, his thoughtful productions of "Solitude" and "Soft Lights and Sweet Music" show that Faith still had a way with luxurious yet appealing-sounding arrangements. Although this collection doesn't quite function as a greatest-hits compilation (16 Most Requested Songs still makes a good introduction), Delicado is nevertheless a thorough and entertaining look at Faith's early career. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Bunting Compilation, Liner Notes, Remastering, Audio Restoration, Restoration, Transfers Bernie Leighton Piano Chorus Performer Felicia Sanders Vocals Gabriel Ruíz Composer Hildegarde Vocals Lou Stein Piano Percy Faith Conductor Percy Faith & His Orchestra Orchestra Peter Hanley & The Magic Voices Vocals Ray Charles Vocals Stan Freeman Piano