Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 23, 2016

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    KenTheCoffinDweller  over 8 years ago

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

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    Wilde Bill  over 8 years ago

    The theme from “A Summer Place”.

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    alviebird  over 8 years ago

    I hope he brought his orchestra.

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    Elmer Gantry Fudd  over 8 years ago

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

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    starfighter441  over 8 years ago

    I have to disagree with Mr. Mallett on this.

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    alviebird  over 8 years ago

    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

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    A purring cat is the best tranquilizer  over 8 years ago

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

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    artinbloom  over 8 years ago

    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.

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    sandpiper  over 8 years ago

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

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    jamesbachreeves  over 8 years ago

    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.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 8 years ago

    All music was, once, new.

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    Max Starman Jones  over 8 years ago

    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.

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    DutchUncle  over 8 years ago

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

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    atajayhawk  over 8 years ago

    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.

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    foggyrobs2 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    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.

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    Carl R  over 8 years ago

    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.

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    Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Still better than Miley Cyrus.

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    Uncle Bob  over 8 years ago

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

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    gordol  over 8 years ago

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

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    carter1965  over 8 years ago

    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?

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 8 years ago

    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.

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    Thomas & Tifffany Connolly  over 8 years ago

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

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    danketaz Premium Member over 8 years ago

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

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    SandyRoss- Premium Member over 8 years ago

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

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    cosman  over 8 years ago

    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..

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    childe_of_pan  over 7 years ago

    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.

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