Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 23, 2016

Hey! Hey! Don’t knock Percy Faith, Mancini, or Mantovani. They are all great.

The theme from “A Summer Place”.

I hope he brought his orchestra.

Haha, people with taste in music different from Mallett are stupid!

I have to disagree with Mr. Mallett on this.

Just because I like music by artists such as Alvin Lee, SRV, Beatles, Humble Pie, CCR, and even Gogol Bordello, doesn’t mean that I can’t appreciate an orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkSfPxk_xKY

I became nostalgic and am now playing “Theme from a Summer Place” by Percy Faith. It would be good music to study by!

Loved A Summer Place theme. Now I will ‘hear’ it all day. Not a bad song to get stuck in your mind for the day.

Many years hence, Caulfield’s favorite music will meet the same fate.

WildeBill and Night-Gaunt49, do you REALLY not see that KonaKommando is representing the cartoonist’s point of view in order to commenting on the cartoonist’s closed-mindedness about music beyond his own taste? He’s not calling anyone stupid or displaying a “lack of vision.” I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you weren’t fully awake yet when you posted those comments.

All music was, once, new.

I never have figured out why some people hate easy listening music so much. I am so sick of going into grocery stores, restaurants, and other places, and being screamed at by loud, demanding background music insisting on climbing inside my head.

Sorry, Mallett. I would take Percy Faith over the loud screaming any day.

Don’t know Percy Faith, but if you hum a few bars I’ll fake it.

I’m pretty much a total classical music fan, and preferably old classical music; but certain examples of pretty much any genre have tremendous nostalgic value.

I’ve listened to plenty of Percy Faith; music to take naps to, or sit by the fire reading the paper while someone in another house smokes a pipe.

I hadn’t listened to mantovani or percy faith in years. I remember those, and they sure are better than today’s music. Back then the musicians had to have talent, and practice. Today they fix it in the edit, autotune, etc, and it’s all about performance and costume, not practice or ability.

Still better than Miley Cyrus.

I wonder what Percy thinks of Frazz’s music; if Percy’s still with us, that is…

What part of "quiet’ is she having trouble with?

Band Leader Phil Harris (also a full time drinker) once said of Non-Drinkers "can you imagine waking up in the morning, knowing that is the best you are going to feel all day?

My 8 yr old son hates when people use the word “treat” for things having nothing to do with candy or cupcakes. He came home pouty telling me his speech therapist promised him a treat if he could sound the words out correctly. He did great and held his hand out expecting a sweet treat; instead he got a small plastic toy.

I thought that the teachers weren’t supposed to torture the children.

I prefer Go-Go-Po-Go. (the B side)

Percy Faith and his orchestra played beautiful Christmas music. I have quite a few of his cd’s.

It was around Sept.‘59, I was about two and a half, and the first song to this day that I recall listening to, was Percy’s “Theme from a Summer Place” coming out of the floor-model radio cabinet..the sun had set a couple of hours ago, the living room lights were out, and it was just me & Percy..

I grew up in the era of Percy Faith et al; never cared for orchestral pop. If you are willing to do a little looking for it there are plenty of alternatives for gentle quiet music: Pacelbel’s Canon; Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports”; Fripp and Eno’s “Evening Star”; Tangerine Dream; Jade Warrior; Los Romeros, both as a trio or individually (Celedonio, Angel, or Pepe, a family of classical guitarists; Michael Hedges; Will Ackerman; for that matter pretty much most of the Windham Hill catalogue. There are more options than I have the time or energy to list here; the bottom line is, I believe any of these selections, or any of thousands of others like them, would have been satisfactory to both Mrs. Olson and her class.