Percy Faith Bim! Bam!! Boom!!!/Themes For The "In" Crowd CD

 One of Percy's best Latin albums
Bim! Bam! Boom! is definitely Faith's best latin album, featuring songs that would soon become classics of the Bossa Nova era. In fact, the tunes recorded here were recorded before the vocal versions became popular such as Estrada Branca and No Blanco Do Jequiba. Both tunes became classics, so it's nice to hear them before lyrics were added. And as a bonus, on the tune Estrada Blanca, Faith takes it at a tempo so completely different from the version that Antonio Carlos Jobim (who composed the song) and Frank Sinatra take on their version, that you may not initially recognize it! Faith's version of Yesterday is beautifully done with strings, far better than his later version on his album, Percy Faith plays the Beatles. The arrangement of Bach's Minute Waltz is given a harpsichord treatment, as a nod to the old master himself! Enjoyable arrangement. Great album!
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 FEATURED AS A JOKE IN "THE MIGHTY WIND."
I researched this album after watching "A Mighty Wind." This album was used in a joke as one of the actors said he was musically abused as a child because his father locked him in a room and forced him to listen to Percy Faith's Album, Bim Bam Boom. It really does exist!
Submitted by hokey455 (philadelphia, Pa)
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