Track Listing 1. Christmas Is 2. I'll Be Home for Christmas 3. Little Drummer Boy, The (Carol of the Drum), carol 4. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the film Meet Me in St. Louis) 5. Mame, musical: We Need A Little Christmas 6. Silver Bells (for the film The Lemon Drop Kid) 7. White Christmas, song (from "Holiday Inn") 8. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 9. Christmas Song, The (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) 10. Do You Hear What I Hear? 11. Happy Holidays, song (from "White Christmas")
| Details | | Playing Time: | 31 min. | | Producer: | Allen Stanton | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes Personnel: Percy Faith (piano). Recording information: 1966. Photographer: Sandy Speiser. Possibly Percy Faith's best-selling album, CHRISTMAS IS is a relative rarity in the Toronto-born bandleader/arranger's oeuvre in that it's not primarily an instrumental album. Other than a couple of tracks like a lovely rendition of "I'll be Home For Christmas," the songs feature a largish chorus of sweet-voiced male and female singers in the traditional '50s easy listening style. What made Faith different from all the other easy listening bandleaders is that he knew how to balance the human voice with a full orchestra; these arrangements are fairly remarkable in the way Faith complements the vocals with the lower sonorities of the orchestra, a range he rarely explored on his fully instrumental albums.
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