Sunday Drive: Delicado

This delightful tune, a favorite of your Head Trucker's, was a chart-topper for Percy Faith and his Orchestra in 1952.

Sunday Drive: A Summer Place

So last night I finally saw A Summer Place, nearly sixty years late.  I've heard the lovely Max Steiner theme all my life, of course, but somehow never saw the show.

I wish I could say it was worth waiting for, but no.  Just crazed, convoluted melodrama that goes on waaaay too long, until you don't know whether to laugh or cry or jump out the window.  But Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue are both young and pretty, and rich dad Richard Egan is a sight for sore eyes.

Here's a rare clip of Percy Faith conducting his orchestra in a performance of the 1960 number-one hit.  It sounds just like summer should feel when you are young and carefree and full of sunny dreams.  I'm on the shady side of life now, but I can still remember.  Enjoy.

Sunday Drive: Swedish Rhapsody

Brrr.  It's clear and 27 degrees here in Texas this morning, a good time to play something cheerful.  Based on Swedish folk tunes, this lively number was a hit for Percy Faith and his orchestra in 1953.




The inimitable Chet Atkins also recorded this on his 1956 album, Finger-Style Guitar:

Sunday Drive: Non Dimenticar

As performed by Percy Faith and his orchestra, 1953:

Sunday Drive: Theme from A Summer Place

So far this year, winter has been fairly mild in Texas - but tonight and tomorrow we're getting hit with snow, sleet, ice, and freezing rain. Brrr! And then more of the same on the weekend, bummer.

I wonder if there's anything to that positive-thinking stuff . . . .