Percy Faith

Artist: Percy Faith

LP: Disco Party

Song: "7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle)"

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Anyone who's gone digging through record bins at any GoodWill Thrift Store already knows that Percy Faith records make up about 35% of what's available there (another 30% are Ray Conniff records, 20% are Barbra Streisand albums, and the remaining 15% are "other"). If you're like me, you flip through the Percy, Ray and Babs records without giving them a thought. But if you come across this late-career Percy Faith disco LP (he died the year after its release), I recommend you snatch it up. Every cut could be the soundtrack for a rooftop chase scene in one of my favorite TV shows from the '70s! You can read about Percy Faith and find the extensive list of albums he released throughout his 40-year career on Wikipedia here.

 

 [ Percy Faith: April 7, 1908 — February 9, 1976 ]