Playback

 
This was a TV program with Percy Faith and his Orchestra produced by Columbia Records.

~ Thanks to the help of   Manfred Thoenicke  and   Bill Halvorsen  for supplying the information.

Information: 
Host: Goddard Lieberson
Guest: Percy Faith
Running Time: 5 minutes
 

Rough transcription:
Columbia Records presents...
Playback
Your Guest: Percy Faith
Your Host: Goddard Lieberson

Host: Do you always play Percy Faith when you are out here?
Faith: Well, actually I... not, very rarely I listen to my own records, because I feel that that's done and on to the next one...

Host: I wasn't objecting, I like to listen to Percy Faith. And the piece if I'm not mistaken is 'Temptation' right?
Faith: That's right.

Host: Now let me ask you something, do you feel that you have succumbed to temptation to coming down to California?
Faith: Well, the sun gets a little monotonous out here, but I was told I wouldn't create any longer and I have nothing but a dull furniture except where I would like to be? Besides ...

Host: Would you like to be a dull furniture?
Faith: .....

Host: Well, that's wonderful.

Host: Well, you know that you have a reputation for being one of the top arrangers in the field...
Faith: It's that word again...

Host: What word?
Faith: An arranger, or orchestrator... I thought that what we do nowadays is the line between arranging and composing is so fine, that I feel we're actually composing. We're giving some melody and we have to elaborate on this and this is creation, is hardly arranging ...

Host: Well, I'm inclined to agree with you
Faith: I want to show you an example of this from the score of the record you just heard 'Temptation'

Host: Yeah, I'll like to.

Host: Well, I think that in a matter of fact, a lot of people would be interested in the role of ...
Faith: Here is the music that was sent to me by the producer and of course, .... goes like this (Percy plays the melody in the piano)

Host: Yes, now that's all you get
Faith: That's all I get and from then on, I have to produce a big, important piece of music for a large orchestra and after much thought or sometimes little thought depending on how I feel, in this case the introduction came up this way (Percy plays the introduction he created in the piano)

Faith: And later on, I added the bass
Host: Those elements, the bass, the figure and the melody ...

Faith: Never losing track, or lose the intent of the composer. Now later I will add this .... oboe which is a third voice. Now if you play the melody time, ....
Host: Go ahead, go ahead...
(The host plays the melody and Percy his more elaborated arrangement)

Faith: Yes, in other words, that melody that you just played has, was not in the mind of the person who wrote 'Temptation'.
Host: This is entirely a new melody that you created, composed to different (counters?) that later gets completely complicated not to the point where the average listener wouldn't feel that he's lost it, because I do feel that there's ... as well educate musically as we are. We have to keep in mind, so even if we want to become ... I do have a few things... but you never lose track of the melody that we'll go on and of course become this size
(Percy Faith plays the melody with his arrangement and then, continues with the full orchestra)

(voice over)
The Sound of Percy Faith 'Jealousy' a new showcase for the swab(?) and colorful instrumentation style.
The lively arrangements of Ray Conniff, his latest 'Say it with Music' with a touch of Latin rhythm.
And the fresh, new Mitch Miller sound, a burden(?) Brass Band that goes 'Marching along with Mitch'.
The Sound of Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Mitch Miller, yours on Columbia Records.