The aptly-named Percy Faith released his take on Jesus Christ Superstar in 1971, the year after "the brown album" came out, some months before the first Broadway performances, and two years before the movie. In the early 70s, JCS must have been inescapable...how inescapable, you ask? Percy Faith had a minor Adult Contemporary hit with "Everything's All Right"--a finger-snappin' string-heavy easy-listening instrumental. Imagine--you could have heard it playing in the elevator!
He doesn't do "Damned For All Time" or "Judas' Death" as mood music, which is just as well.
He also released an album of orchestral arrangements of Beatles songs in 1970. These two recordings are sold together these days. Should I comment on what it would be like to go from listening to "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (with its "The way things are going/they're gonna crucify me" chorus) to "The Trial Before Pilate"? No, I don't think I should.
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