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Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. Faith became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, Faith refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s.
Biography
Faith was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He was the oldest of eight children. His parents, Abraham Faith and Minnie née Rottenberg, were Jewish. He played violin and piano as a child, and played in theatres and at Massey Hall. After his hands were badly burned in a fire, he turned to conducting, and his live orchestras used the new medium of radio broadcasting.
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Frank Loesser. The story, about a romance between an older man and younger woman, is based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard. The original Broadway production ran for 14 months and it has enjoyed several revivals, including one staged by the New York City Opera.
Background and history
A friend of Loesser's recommended the Howard play They Knew What They Wanted as material for a musical in 1952. After he read it, he agreed it had musical potential, but decided to omit the political, labor, and religious material. It took him four years to complete the musical.
The Most Happy Fella frequently has been described as an opera, but some have qualified the term. In his book The World of Musical Comedy, Stanley Green noted that the musical is "one of the most ambitiously operatic works ever written for the Broadway theatre...Loesser said 'I may give the impression this show has operatic tendencies. If people feel that way - fine. Actually all it has is a great frequency of songs. It's a musical with music.' " In an article in the Playbill Magazine for the original Broadway production, Loesser wrote, "What was left seemed to me to be a very warm simple love story, happy ending and all, and dying to be sung and danced."Brooks Atkinson, theatre critic (The New York Times), called it a "music drama," noting Loesser "has now come about as close to opera as the rules of Broadway permit." Composer, conductor, and musical theatre teacher Lehman Engel and critic/author Howard Kissel called it a "fresh musical (perhaps opera)".
The Most Happy Fella is an album by The Jazz Modes led by horn player Julius Watkins and saxophonist Charlie Rouse recorded in 1957 and released on the Atlantic label. The album features jazz interpretations of songs from Frank Loesser's broadway musical The Most Happy Fella.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album 3½ stars and stated "While it didn't match the huge success of such similarly attempted jazzed-up Broadway hits like Shelly Manne's My Fair Lady or the Miles Davis and Gil Evans collaboration on Porgy and Bess, the complex synchronization of Watkins' fluid mellow tone with the moderately choppy tenor lines of Rouse make for a lyrical bop/cool jazz hybrid that still sounds fresh".
Track listing
All compositions by Frank Loesser
Podcasts:
Percy Faith
ALBUMS
- Percy Faith Plays Music From South Pacific released: 2009
- Greatest Hits released: 2008
- Passport to Romance & Bonus Tracks released: 2007
- Bon Voyage! / Carefree released: 2003
- Clair / New Thing released: 2003
- Chinatown featuring The Entertainer / Summer Place '76 released: 2003
- The Love Goddesses / Hollywood's Great Themes released: 2002
- Today's Themes for Young Lovers / For Those in Love released: 2002
- The Music of Brazil! / Shangri-La! released: 2002
- Subways Are for Sleeping / Do You Hear a Waltz released: 2002
- Corazon / My Love released: 2002
- Porgy and Bess / The Most Happy Fella released: 2002
- Angel of the Morning / Black Magic Woman released: 2002
- The Ultimate Collection released: 2001
- Broadway Bouquet / Country Bouquet released: 1998
- Camelot / My Fair Lady released: 1998
- Tara's Theme / Jealousy released: 1997
- Viva! The Music of Mexico / The Music of Brazil! released: 1997
- Joy to the World released: 1995
- Instrumental Favorites: A Time Life Collection released: 1994
- Christmas Is... released: 1991
- Christmas Melodies released: 1990
- 16 Most Requested Songs released: 1989
- Chinatown featuring The Entertainer released: 1974
- Day by Day released: 1972
- Joy released: 1972
- Jesus Christ Superstar released: 1971
- Black Magic Woman released: 1971
- I Think I Love You released: 1971
- The Beatles Album released: 1970
- Held Over! Today's Great Movie Themes released: 1970
- Leaving on a Jet Plane released: 1970
- Windmills of Your Mind released: 1969
- Those Were the Days released: 1969
- Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" released: 1969
- For Those in Love released: 1968
- Movie Date released: 1967
- Themes for the "In" Crowd released: 1966
- More Themes For Young Lovers released: 1964
- Themes for Young Lovers released: 1963
- Mucho Gusto! More Music of Mexico released: 1961
- Bouquet released: 1959
- The Columbia Album of George Gershwin released: 1958
- Viva: The Music of Mexico released: 1957
- The Most Happy Fella released: 1956
- Music From Hollywood released: 1954
- Screen Music Best Selection released:
- Music From Rogers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music released:
- Viva - The Music of Mexico released:
- Music of Christmas, Volume 2 released:
- Music of Christmas released:
Passport to Romance & Bonus Tracks
Released 2007- Madeira
- Merry-Go-Round (La Complainte de la butte)
- Bonjour tristesse
- Moritat (Theme from The Threepenny Opera)
- Heart of Paris (Coeur de mon coeur) (I Left My Heart in the Heart of Montmartre)
- Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia)
- Little Bells and Big Bells (Glocke und Glöckchen)
- The Little Lost Dog ("Chiens perdus sans collier")
- Scalinatella (Memory) (Stay After School)
- The Portugese Washerwomen (Les Lavandières du Portugal)
- Sierra Madre (Luna Gitana)
- Sombra (Merveilleux)
- Valley Valparaiso
- Bluebell
- We All Need Love
- Carmellita
- With a Little Bit of Luck
- The Rain in Spain
Bon Voyage! / Carefree
Released 2003- Guaglione
- Morgen
- L'Eau Vive
- Piccolissima Serenata
- Anema E Core
- Souvenir
- Ciao Ciao Bambina
- Mon Oncle
- Petite Fleur
- La Vie En Rose
- Under Paris Skies
- Arrivederci Roma
- Goin' Home Train
- Quia Quia
- Pizzicato Polka
- Go-Go-Po-Go
- Brazilian Sleigh Bells
- Carfree
- Lisa
- No One but You
- Caress
- Blue Is the Night
- Bouquet
Clair / New Thing
Released 2003- Clair
- Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- Ben
- Sweet Surrender
- I Can See Clearly Now
- 2001
- Nights in White Satin
- Summer Breeze
- Superfly
- Happy
- We Were Havin' Some Fun at the Conservatory, When...
- Dueling Banjos
- Hill Where the Lord Hides
- Washington Square
- Theme From Serpico
- Stranger on the Shore
- Land of a Thousand Dances
- Euterpe
- The Way We Were
- Pelican Dance
- Eres Tu
- Skybird
- Angelica
Chinatown featuring The Entertainer / Summer Place '76
Released 2003- The Entertainer
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
- What'll I Do
- Deep in the Morning
- Theme from 'Chinatown'
- Fifth Movement
- Moody
- I Got Rhythm
- Midnight at the Oasis
- 1,2,3,4
- Bend Me, Shape Me
- Summer Place '76 (Theme from 'A Summer Place')
- Feelings
- Ding Dong
- Maybe September
- Soleado
- Dream Your Dream
- Sha Bumpin'
- Saddest Thing of All
- La Balanga
- Send In the Clowns
The Love Goddesses / Hollywood's Great Themes
Released 2002- The Love Goddess
- Cheesecake
- Marilyn
- Surrender
- The Vamp
- Keystone Kapers
- The Virginian
- Our Love
- The Monaco Theme
- Chico Bolero
- Celia's Waltz
- Oba! (Bossa Nova)
- El Cid: Love Theme
- Moon River
- The King of the Kings: Theme
- Splendor in the Grass: Love Theme
- Maria
- It Might as Well Be Spring
- Over and Over Again
- Ben Hur: Love Theme
- Too Late Blues
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: Theme
- Light in the Plaza: Theme
Today's Themes for Young Lovers / For Those in Love
Released 2002- The 59th Street Bridge Song
- Yellow Days
- There's a Kind of Hush
- I Can Hear the Music
- Release Me
- Mary in the Morning
- Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
- Windy
- A World of Whispers
- Happy Together
- Somethin' Stupid
- Sunny
- The Look of Love
- I Say a Little Prayer
- Brand New Morning
- Don't Sleep in the Subway
- Waitin'
- Never My Love
- It Must Be Him
- Goin' Out of My Head
- For Those in Love
- Live for Life
The Music of Brazil! / Shangri-La!
Released 2002- Brazil
- Delicado
- Tu Sabes
- Ba-Tu-Ca-Da
- Amorada or Brasileirinho
- The Bandit (Theme from 'O Congaceiro')
- Baia
- Tico-Tico
- Little Dreamer or Tutu Maramba
- Maxixe or Dengoza
- Atrevido or Bem Te VI Atrevido
- The Minute Samba
- Shangri-La
- Kashmiri Song
- The March of the Siamese Children
- Stranger in Paradise
- Cherry Blossom
- Song of India
- Mountain High, Valley Low
- Beyond the Reef
- The Moon of Manakoora
- And This Is My Beloved
- Sayonara
- Return to Paradise
Subways Are for Sleeping / Do You Hear a Waltz
Released 2002- Ride Through the Night
- I'm Just Taking My Time
- When You Help a Friend Out
- Who Knows What Might Have Been
- I Just Can't Wait
- Getting Married
- Be a Santa
- How Can You Describe a Face
- Come Once in a Lifetime
- Now I Have Someone
- I Said It and I'm Glad
- What Is This Feeling in the Air
- Do I Hear a Waltz
- Here We Are Again
- Moon in My Window
- This Week Americans
- Someone Like You
- We're Gonna Be All Right
- No Understand
- Take the Moment
- Thinking
- A Perfectly Lovely Couple
- Stay
- Thank You So Much
Corazon / My Love
Released 2002- Corazon
- Beautiful Obsession
- Enter the Dragon
- Someone Who Cares
- Our Love
- Vado Via
- Crunchy Granola Suite
- My Heart Cries for You
- Pata Pata
- When I Fall in Love
- First Light
- My Love
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life
- Peaceful
- Sing
- The Twelfth of Never
- Kodachrome
- Pillow Talk
- And I Love Her So
- The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
- Killing Me Softly With Her Song
- Viva Vivaldi
Porgy and Bess / The Most Happy Fella
Released 2002- Catfish Row
- Summertime
- A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
- My Man's Gone Now
- Leavin' for the Promised Land
- I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
- The Buzzard Song
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- Oh, I Can't Sit Down
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- The Strawberry Woman and the Crab Man
- I Loves You, Porgy
- There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
- Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
- Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way!
- The Most Happy Fella
- Somebody Somewhere
- Standing on the Corner
- Joey, Joey, Joey
- Abbondanza
- Don't Cry
- Sposalizio
- How Beautiful the Days
- Fresno Beauties
- Warm All Over
- Big D
- My Heart Is So Full of You
Angel of the Morning / Black Magic Woman
Released 2002- Angel of the Morning
- Do You Know the Way to San Jose
- MacArther Park
- Time for Livin'
- Mrs. Robinson
- Honey
- This Guy's in Love With You
- Elvira's Theme
- A Man Without Love
- Scarborough Fair / Canticle
- Tell Her (Every Girl Likes to Be Told)
- Black Magic Woman
- The Sun King
- Big Yellow Taxi
- If
- Reza
- The Wailing of the Willow
- Viva Tirado
- Oye Como Va
- Wave
- Never Can Say Goodbye
- Tres
The Ultimate Collection
Released 2001- Up on the Roof
- Can't Get Used to Losing You
- Theme for Young Lovers
- I Will Follow Him
- Rhythm of the Rain
- Go Away Little Girl
- Brazil
- Batucada
- Amorada
- Tico Tico
- The Minute Samba
- There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)
- Release Me
- Mary in the Morning
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- Spanish Harlem
- No More Blue
- (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
- The Girl From Ipanema
- Don't Sleep in the Subway
Broadway Bouquet / Country Bouquet
Released 1998- Hello Dolly
- Once Upon a Time
- Somewhere
- Sunrise, Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof)
- Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
- A Quiet Thing
- Make Someone Happy
- What Kind of Fool Am I
- Long Ago
- The Sweetest Sounds
- As Long as He Needs Me
- Golden Boy
- The Most Beautiful Girl
- I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore
- El Paso
- Snowbird
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Annie's Song
- Behind Closed Doors
- Sundown
- For the Good Times
- Orange Blossom Special
Camelot / My Fair Lady
Released 1998- March
- I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight
- The Simple Joys of Maidenhood
- Camelot
- Follow Me
- The Lusty Month of May
- Then You May Take Me to the Fair
- How to Handle a Woman
- If Ever I Would Leave You
- What Do the Simple Folks Do
- I Love You Once in Silence
- Guenevere
- With a Little Bit of Luck
- Wouldn't It Be Loverly
- I'm an Ordinary Man
- The Rain in Spain
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- Embassy Waltz
- Ascot Gavotte
- On the Street Where You Live
- Show Me
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Get Me to the Church on Time
Tara's Theme / Jealousy
Released 1997- Tara's Theme
- Dark at the Top of the Stairs Theme
- Never on Sunday
- Laura
- Exodus
- Fascination
- Summer Place Theme
- Apartment Theme
- Mon Oncle
- Tammy Tell Me True
- Sons and Lovers
- Misfits
- Jealousy
- Temptation
- More Than You Know
- Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- Sophisticated Lady
- Begin the Beguine
- That Old Black Magic
- Right as the Rain
- Dancing on the Ceiling
- Where or When
- I've Told Every Little Star
Viva! The Music of Mexico / The Music of Brazil!
Released 1997- Granada
- La Golondrina
- La Cucaracha
- Chiapanecas
- Estrellita
- El Rancho Grande
- La Paloma
- Noche de Ronda
- Mexican Hat Dance
- Guadalajara
- Zandunga: Jesusita en Chihuahua
- Cuanto la Gusta
- Solamente Una Vez
- Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)
- Delicado
- Tu Sabes
- Ba-tu-ca-da
- Amorada (Brasileirinho)
- The Bandit (Theme from 'O Cangaceiro')
- Baia (Na Baixa do Sapateiro)
- Tico-Tico
- Little Dreamer (Tutu Maramba)
- Maxixe (Dengoza)
- Atrevido (Bem Te Vi Atravido)
- The Minute Samba
Instrumental Favorites: A Time Life Collection
Released 1994- The Theme From "A Summer Place"
- Theme for Young Lovers
- How Insensitive (Insensataez)
- Tenderly
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Till
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Song From "The Oscar" (Maybe September)
- A World of Whispers
- Shenandoah (Across the Wide Missouri)
- Speak Low
- Yellow Days
- Blue Moon
- Under Paris Skies
- Delicado
- Rhythm of the Rain
- The Love Goddess (Theme From "The Love Goddesses")
- Tammy Tell Me True
- Right as the Rain
- As Long as He Needs Me
- You Don't Own Me
- Where Is Your Heart (The Song From "Moulin Rouge")
- Tennessee Waltz
- Beyond the Sea (La Mer)
Christmas Is...
Released 1991- Christmas Is ...
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- We Need a Little Christmas (from "Mame")
- Silver Bells
- White Christmas
- Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Happy Holiday
Christmas Melodies
Released 1990- White Christmas
- The Chrismtmas Song
- Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Do You Hear What I Hear ?
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Silver Bells
- We Need A Little Christmas
- I'll Be Home For Christmas
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Happy Holiday
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
- Joy To The World
- Silent Night, Holy Night
- The First Noel
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- O Holy Night
Music From Hollywood
Released 1954- The Song From "Moulin Rouge" (extended orchestral version) (2nd Arrangement)
- Genevieve
- Love Is for the Very Young (theme from "The Bad and the Beautiful")
- Caribbean Night (Noche Caribe) (2nd Arrangement)
- Return to Paradise (1st Arrangement)
- Invitation (1st Arrangement)
- Ruby (from "Ruby Gentry")
- Loveliest Night of the Year
Music of Christmas, Volume 2
- Hallelujah Chorus
- Away in a Manger
- We Three Kings of Orient Are
- Gesù Bambino (The Infant Jesus)
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
- Good Christian Men, Rejoice
- Carol of the Bells
- I Wonder as I Wander
- I Saw Three Ships
- What Child Is This (Greensleeves)
- Angels, From the Realms of Glory
- O Tannenbaum
- Christians, Awake!
Music of Christmas
- Joy to the World
- Silent Night, Holy Night
- Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Good King Wenceslas
- Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
- The First Noel
- Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming / Little Town of Bethlehem
- O Holy Night
- The Holy and the Ivy / Here We Go A-caroling
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
Born: 1908-04-07
Died: 1976-02-09
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by Princess Superstar
The Happy
by: Princess SuperstarCan you feel it, can you taste it
Can you see it, can you touch it
Could you love it, don't you covet
Can you drug it, or can you fuck it
Oh the happy, it's the happy
We're the happy, oh so happy
It's the happy, I'm so happy
The happy, has come here
I'm on fire, I'm on fire
I'm on fire
Don't you wonder, oh I wonder
What a wonder, wonder, wonder
If you know
Then let's go
Get real high
But not if you go low
I just found it
I wanna let you know
It's the place where
I'm gonna take you, go
It's the happy, oh the happy
We're the happy, oh so happy
It's the happy, get the happy
I'm so happy, someone smack me
Alright, here it comes
Alright
It's alright, it's ok
Here we are, another day
And if you are wondering why
You are here, well so am I
I got all the answers
That's why I've got dancers
If you want to follow me
Be good, be good to what you see
Let's get happy, I'm on fire
Let's get happy, I'm on fire
Let's get happy, I'm on fire
Let's get happy
Alright, here it comes
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh
Let's get together, get it together
Everybody work, work it out, come on, come on
Let's get together, get your shit together
Everybody work, work it, work it, work it
Let's get happy, ohh
I'm so happy, ohh
Alright, ooh ooh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh
Let's get happy, ohh
I'm so happy, ohh