Percy Faith'S Greatest Hits

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 33:48

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Percy Faith’s Greatest Hits is a midline-priced collection that highlights some of Percy Faith’s best-known and most popular performances for Columbia Records, including “Theme From a Summer Place” “Swedish Rhapsody,” “Delicado,” and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” A handful of the songs from 16 Most Requested Songs are replicated here, but tunes like “Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet,” “Baubles, Bangles and Beads,” and “Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)” are strikingly absent. It’s far from a perfect retrospective of Faith’s career, but Percy Faith’s Greatest Hits is still a nice sampler of familiar items, and it may satisfy the needs of some casual fans who only want (some of) the hits. – JT Griffith

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