Music for Her

Percy Faith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00019PCWQ
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #191,280 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You're Mine, You

2. You're My Everything

3. I'll Be Seeing You

4. Take Me in Your Arms

5. But Beautiful

6. The Nearness of You

7. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

8. I'll See You in My Dreams

9. I Concentrate on You

10. Everything I Have Is Your

11. Out of This World

12. The Way You Look Tonight

13. True or False [*]

14. Song for Sweethearts (Come Close) [*]

15. Blue Mirage (Don't Go) [*]

16. Not as a Stranger [*]

17. The World Is Mine [*]

18. We Won't Say Goodbye [*]

Editorial Reviews

A mono album of riches - tender string arrangements that Percy has written to showcase in a jewel-like setting some giant melodies by Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and many more; slow and beautiful arrangements from 1955, easily THE mood music album of the time. As this was Percy Faith's longest album as well, we couldn't fit two albums on one CD - so enjoy six vocal and choral arrangements of the time heard on this CD for the first time since the 45 rpm "donut" records were the rage! (Bill Halvorsen)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "countless memories surface with Faith's music", July 4, 2004

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music for Her (Audio CD)

In the early to mid '50s, Maestro Percy Faith was cranking out beautiful arrangements for singers of the Columbia Record stables (Tony Bennett, Rosie Clooney, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis and Guy Mitchell) to name just a few ~ but his true and real ambition was arranging tunes of the yesterday and composing songs of his own ~ now enters the album and tunes of "Music for Her", featuring countless melodies of many decades, all arranged in perfect order by Mr. Faith ~ in the next few paragraphs let's look at some of them.

Originally released on Columbia Records in 1955 (CL 705) ~ over an hour of stand outs "BUT BEAUTIFUL" (Johnny Burke/Jimmy Van Heusen), "EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS" (Harold Adamson/Burton Lane)(Eddie Fisher had a knockout delivery on this standard), "I CONCENTRATE ON YOU" (Cole Porter)(Perry Como comes to mind the first time I heard this tune), "I'LL BE SEEING YOU" (Irving Kahal/Sammy Fain)(was the theme song for Liberace on his television show), "I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS" (Gus Kahn/Isham Jones)(Danny Thomas had a wonderful recording of this), "OUT OF THIS WORLD" (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)(one of the best performances on this is Ella Fitzgerald, she's my favorite female vocalist ever), "TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS" (Mitchell Parish/Fred Markush), "THE NEARNESS OF YOU" (Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington)(many singers have made this their own-John Gary and Frank Sinatra just to name a few), "THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT" (Dorothy Fields/Jerome Kern)(a big song for Fred Astaire, but lately I've grown to love Michael Buble and Steve Tyrell's angle on this one), "YOU'D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO" (Cole Porter),"YOU'RE MINE, YOU" (Edward Heyman/Johnny Green), "YOU'RE MY EVERYTHING" (Mort Dixon/Joe Young/Harry Warren)(countless Big Band and solo performers have released this, difficult to pick any highlight as they were all original).

The last sections of six tracks are the bonus goodies ~ "TRUE OR FALSE" (Carl Sigman/Percy Faith), featuring Burt Taylor on vocals and chorus from 1953 ~ "SONG FOR SWEETHEARTS(COME CLOSE)" (Carl Sigman/Percy Faith), with Betty Cox on vocals from 1954 ~ "BLUE MIRAGE (DON'T GO)" (Sam Coslow/Lotar Olias), featuring a chorus and signature tango arrangement by Percy Faith from 1955 ~ "NOT AS A STRANGER" (Buddy Kaye/Jimmy Van Heusen), the title song from the film, featured Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra as surgeons at a local hospital, vocal by Bernadine Read from 1955 ~ "THE WORLD IS MINE" (Stanley Adams/Victor Young), beautiful rendition from one of my favorite composers Victor Young, vocal performed by Val Valente (strong resemblence to Mario Lanza) from 1955 ~ "WE WON'T SAY GOODBYE" (Joe Sherman/Noel Sherman/Sid Peters), haunting strings as only Maestro Faith can do ~ the bonus tracks were all singles from 1953 to 1955, which at one time were in my single 45's collection ~ recordings sound so much better on compact disc.

Collectables and Sony Music have given all the fans what they have wanted and craved for years ~ keep them coming and we will be forever grateful and in your debt...gotta love it!

Total Time:66:54 on 18 Tracks ~ Collectables 7562 ~ (4/13/2004)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Percy Faith Music For Her, April 22, 2004

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Jeff Carter (Perry, Ga United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music for Her (Audio CD)

If you love beautiful music that got played on beautiful music stations this cd is an essential Faith collection.Faith used a heavy string contingement on this album.Every song except True or False track 15 is heavily garned with strings.This cd contains 6 singles from Faith as well that were only available on 45's until now but even the singles with the vocals contains heavy strings except 15.Tracks 1-12 are just instrumental.Tracks 13-18 are vocal.If you love beautiful music you will love Faith's versions of the nearness of you,your my everything,I'll see you in my dreams,I concencrate on you,the way you look tonight and others.This relaxing album is from 1955 and got a lot of play on beautiful stations in the 60's and 70's.It is in mono but it was ever only recorded in mono so Collectibles couldn't make it stereo but it still sounds good on cd compared to if you had the scratched lp.I also recommend 3 more beautiful music cd's by these bm artist.

Melachrino Strings-Drifting and Dreaming 2 cd set 40 tracks

John Fox under the name The Starry Night Orchestra-Twilight Time 2 cd set.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Subtle, May 12, 2008

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David Saemann - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music for Her (Audio CD)

This is the most serious sounding Percy Faith album I know, even more so than his elegiac Broadway Bouquet. The famous orchestra leader of earlier vigorous albums like Your Dance Date With Percy Faith and Carefree Rhythms has done almost a complete about face here. Music for Her is an album of 12 romantic standards given a full orchestra treatment that is neither overly plush or rhythmical. The mood, in fact, could almost be described as somber. I know of no other Easy Listening album that compares with this one in its mode. Typical of the treatment of the tunes is I'll Be Seeing You, which is almost achingly romantic. The bonus tracks, I'm sorry to say, are not up to the standard of Music for Her. They are Percy Faith singles from 1953, 54, and 55, designed for more pop oriented audiences. The first one, in fact, True or False, is quite awful. Nevertheless, anyone who appreciates the art of orchestral arrangement really has to hear Music for Her.