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Percy Faith -- off the record

Title: Percy Faith -- off the record [videorecording] / a CBC Television production ; produced and directed by Norman Campbell.
Publication: Canada : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1966.

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Description

1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequence NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Musical portrait of Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, arranger, and conductor. The program combines music and dance numbers with interview footage of Faith, who discusses music arrangement, songwriting, his assessment of rock and roll, and composing for movies.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Music.
Dance.
Video.

Note

Additional program data from accompanying data sheet.

Credits (note)

Written by Stan Daniels ; sets, Jack McAdam ; costumes, Frances Dafoe ; lighting direction, Tom Ashworth ; executive producer, Franz Kraemer.

Performer (note)

Interviewee: Percy Faith.
Interviewer/narrator: Elwood Glover.

Event (note)

Telecast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the series Music Canada on November 2, 1966.

Contents

Music and dance numbers: This train / instrumental work.
The song from Moulin Rouge / instrumental work.
Temptation / arranged by Percy Faith ; instrumental work.
[Song medley] / arrangements by Percy Faith ; excerpts from recordings sung by Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, and Mahalia Jackson.
Embraceable you / music, George Gershwin, arranged by Percy Faith ; sung by Shirley Harmer.
The march from Camelot / instrumental work.
Younger than springtime from South Pacific / choreography, Grant Strate ; music, Richard Rodgers ; danced by Kristina Sealander and Gunter Pick of the National Ballet of Canada.
Fiddler on the roof / instrumental work.
Theme from A summer place / instrumental work performed by Percy Faith (piano) and the orchestra.
Good King Wenceslas / performed by the orchestra and chorus.
Maybe September / music, Percy Faith ; sung by Shirley Harmer.
Are you there? / music, Burt Bacharach ; instrumental work.
Yesterday / music, John Lennon ; instrumental work performed by Hyman Goodman (violin) and the orchestra.
Keystone caper / instrumental work performed as background for silent movies.
Celia's waltz (col.) / recorded on the beach at Lake Ontario ; choreography, Grant Strate ; music, Percy Faith ; danced by Martine van Hamel.
Mexican hat dance / instrumental work.
O Canada / new setting by Percy Faith ; performed by the orchestra and chorus.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5142

OCLC

NYPY01-F544

Title

Percy Faith -- off the record [videorecording] / a CBC Television production ; produced and directed by Norman Campbell.

Imprint

Canada : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1966.

Country of Producing Entity

Canada.

Event

Telecast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the series Music Canada on November 2, 1966.

Credits

Written by Stan Daniels ; sets, Jack McAdam ; costumes, Frances Dafoe ; lighting direction, Tom Ashworth ; executive producer, Franz Kraemer.

Performer

Interviewee: Percy Faith.

Interviewer/narrator: Elwood Glover.

Music played by the Percy Faith Orchestra, conducted by Percy Faith.

Singer: Shirley Harmer.

Dancers: Martine van Hamel, Kristina Sealander, Gunter Pick.

Added Author

Harmer, Shirley, singer.

Van Hamel, Martine, 1945- dancer.

Sealander, Kristina, dancer.

Pick, Günter, dancer.

Faith, Percy, 1908-1976, interviewee.

Faith, Percy, 1908-1976, arranger of music.

Faith, Percy, 1908-1976, instrumentalist.

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, composer.

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979, composer.

Bacharach, Burt, composer.

Lennon, John, 1940-1980, composer.

Strate, Grant, 1927- choreographer.

Campbell, Norman, 1924-2004, producer.

Campbell, Norman, 1924-2004, director.

Kraemer, Franz. Producer

Percy Faith Orchestra.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5142

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