Held Over! Today's Great Movie Themes/Leaving On a Jet Plane

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
The late 60's weren't all rock and roll - this album brings Hollywood together with the Faith orchestral treatment, starting with "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," an essential Bacarach tune for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The second track brings Faith's touch to the theatrical smash film "Midnight Cowboy" by John Barry. There is a wistful treatment of "Come Saturday Morning" from "The Sterile Cukoo" and many more. The next tracks hail from the same year, and include the opportunity to hear "Easy Rider" with the female chorus, where it is instrumental in "Held Over." Same with "Raindrops" - and a different tune is included from "Midnight Cowboy," "Everybody's Talkin'." (Bill Halvorsen)

Tracks:

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head [from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Midnight Cowboy [From Midnight Cowboy]
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life [From the Happy Ending]
Patton Theme [From Patton]
Come Saturday Morning [From "The Sterile Cuckoo"]
True Grit [From True Grit]
Jean [From "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"]
Theme from Z (To Yelasto Pedi)
Airport Love Theme [From "Airport"]
Ballad of Easy Rider [From "Easy Rider"]
Theme from Anne of the Thousand Days
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Early in the Morning
Ballad of Easy Rider
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
Everybody's Talkin'
Wedding Bell Blues
Something
Let Go (Canto de Ossanha)
Colours
Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
Wanting You

Album Description

The late 60's weren't all rock and roll - this album brings Hollywood together with the Faith orchestral treatment, starting with "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," an essential Bacarach tune for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The second track brings Faith's touch to the theatrical smash film "Midnight Cowboy" by John Barry. There is a wistful treatment of "Come Saturday Morning" from "The Sterile Cukoo" and many more. The next tracks hail from the same year, and include the opportunity to hear "Easy Rider" with the female chorus, where it is instrumental in "Held Over." Same with "Raindrops" - and a different tune is included from "Midnight Cowboy," "Everybody's Talkin'." (Bill Halvorsen)

Customer Reviews:

"twenty-two classic arrangements of the '70s ~ Percy Faith".......2004-07-05

Now Percy Faith enters the '70s with "Held Over! Today's Great Movie Themes", originally released by Columbia Records in 1970 (CS 1019) featuring some of the favorites "film-score-buffs" cravings ~ let's begin with "AIRPORT LOVE THEME" (Alfred Newman), "ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS"(theme)(Georges Delerus), "BALLAD OF EASY RIDER" (Roger McGuinn), "COME SATURDAY MORNING" ("The Sterlie Cuckoo") (Dory Previn/Fred Karlin), "JEAN" ("The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie") (Rod Mckuen), "MIDNIGHT COWBOY" (John Barry), "PATTON THEME", (Jerry Goldsmith), "RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN' ON MY HEAD"("Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid"-film) (Hal David/Burt Bacharach), "THE TEME FROM "Z"(To Yelasto Pedi) (Mikis Theodorakis), "TRUE GRIT" (Donald Black/Elmer Bernstein), "WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE" ("The Happy Ending"-film) (Marilyn Bergman/Alan Bergman/Michel Legrand) ~ once again Maestro Faith delivers signature lush instrumentals blended with breathtaking arrangements ~ and delivers he does, crank up the stereo, you're in for an amazing ride!

And now for the second half of the disc "Leaving On A Jet Plane", originally released on Columbia Records in 1970 (CS 9983) ~ featuring his brilliant orchestra and chorus with the hit tunes of the day ~ "BALLAD OF EASY RIDER" (Roger McGuinn), "COLOURS" (Donovan Leitch), "EARLY IN THE MORNING" (Mike Leander/edward Seago), "EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'" (Fred Neil), "LEAVING ON A JET PLANE" (John Denver), "LET GO(Canto de Ossanha)" (Baden Powell/Norman Gibel/Vincius DeMoraes), "RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN' ON MY HEAD" (Hal Daivd/Burt Bacharach), "SOMETHING" (George Harrison), "WANTING YOU" (Jack Fulton), "WEDDING BELL BLUES" (Laura Nyro), "YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY" (Ronald Miller/Bryan Wells) ~ reminiscing back to the '70s with all vocal arrangements for a sixteen chorus group, which graced so many of Mr. Faith's recordings ~ not to mention his thirty five musicians that have been with him these many decades.

Faith continued working right up until his death in 1976 at his Los Angeles residence ~ recorded on the following labels with the number of albums and their label (76 Columbia, 37 Collectables, 8 Sony, 5 Sony Special Product, 5 Taragon, 4 Ranwood, 2 Time Life) ~ check out Amazon.Com see if they are still available ~ cause your in for the musical experience of your life...gotta love it!

Total Time: 68:20 on 22 Tracks ~ Collectables 7607 ~ (4/13/2004)

Percy Faih Held Over/Leaving On A Jet Plane.......2004-05-03

These albums by mastro Faith are very different and sound great on cd.Held Over is just instrumental and Leaving On A Jet Plane is all Vocal with Faith's mixed chrous.Faith used a light string contingment on Held Over and even lighter on Leaving On A Jet Plane.These albums are even more unique for another reason.They contain very different versions of the same songs.
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head is instrumental on Held Over and done vocalley on Leaving On A Jet Plane.Easy Rider is instrumental on Raindrops but vocal on Leaving.Also Faith's version of Leaving On A Jet Plane is beautiful and got a lot of play on beautiful music stations in the 70's.I highley recommend this cd as well as the other new Faith cd's Music For Her,Those Were The Days/Romeo and Juliet,Swing Lo/A Look At Monoco and Country Bouquet/Disco.Collectibles next Faith cd will be a cd of Faith singles that has never been released from 1950 and 1951.No date yet but it should be posted soon.

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