Percy Faith - Music Of Christmas CD

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 Beautiful Album, Poor Remastering
I run a web page dedicated to the music of Percy Faith so I'm a little jaded, but this album was recorded and released in 1958; and to be really technical, it represents a "full re-recording" of it's original MONO version, CL 588 from 1954. The original CL 588 version had me hooked as an 8-year old, I played it summer and winter to the consternation of parents and neighbors! As a classic album it is a terrible shame that as one of Sony/Columbia's early remastering efforts, it was all screwed up; the right channel is "hot,", the left channel way down in highs, and you can hear the frequency spectrum open and close dynamically - and you shouldn't - best example, the kettle drum on the opening bars of GOOD KING WENCESLAS sounds as if it's under water, then it "opens up" as the music progresses. Faith's catalog of wonderful music has been reissued on CD, and with great remastering (clipped beginnings/endings appear on a few) but it is tragic that this once-in-a-lifetime classic instrumental collection of Christmas music has yet to be carefully remastered.
Submitted by mrbill360 (Shawnee Mission, KS, USA)
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 Percy Faith Music Of Christmas
This is one Christmas cd I'm glad I own.Every holiday song on this cd is lush with heavy strings by Percy Faith.I love every song.My favorites are The First Noel,It Came Upon A Midnight Clear and Deck The Halls.Suprisenly I've heard Joy To The World and Deck The Halls by Faith played on Rock stations during the holiday season which is suprising because this is beautiful music.If you listen to beautiful music year round you should get this cd for beautiful Christmas music.Beautiful Music Stations use to play a lot of Faith Christmas Music.Yes this needs a remastering but I'm happy with the one I have.It still sounds ok.Colletibles will eventually reissiue and remaster this along with Halleluia(aka Music Of Christmas vol 2)as they plan on reissiuing the whole Percy Faith catalog even the Singles.I also recommend Percy Faith Christmas Is.This is another one of my favorite holiday albums.Other artist I recommend for holiday music include Tony Bennett,Mantovani,Jackie Gleason,James Last,Johnny Mathis,The 101 Strings,Radio City Music Hall,Andy Williams,Kenny G,Kenny Rogers and Dolly Pardon,Robert Goulet,Roger Williams,Ronnie Aldrich,Frank Chacksfield and others.
Submitted by Jeff Carter (Perry GA USA)
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 Sony's Poor Mastering of Great Music
The LP copy of this album is better than the CD. Sony/Columbia needs to remaster this CD big time. My copy has all of the high frequencies above 5000Hz cut-off so that you don't hear the tape hiss. Let me hear the analog tape hiss, and Percy's snare drums and flutes etc. The music is great, the recording is far below average. Please remaster this LP, and I will buy a dozen.
Submitted by a reviewer (Toledo, OH)
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 Great Album
Wonderful old-fashioned Christmas music.
Submitted by Carolyn (Waverly, MO, USA) 
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 Mr. Faith's jewel .. in the wrong hands?...
This legendary music and it's original lush recordings have been pretty much mangled to death here. This is the best that CBS-Sony can do to preserve and provide us the world's greatest recorded music? The technology is fully in place to completely restore the sound to its original glory, AND THEN SOME (low bass was often compromised for example, just to make certain that phono needles did not skip and jump from record grooves). Sony, please remember to keep the promise and fullfil your (positive?) legacy.
Submitted by hhdrh (Cincinnati, OH., USA)
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