Possibly Percy Faith's best-selling album, CHRISTMAS IS is a relative rarity in the Toronto-born bandleader/arranger's oeuvre in that it's not primarily an instrumental album. Other than a couple of tracks like a lovely rendition of "I'll be Home For Christmas," the songs feature a largish chorus of sweet-voiced male and female singers in the traditional '50s easy listening style. What made Faith different from all the other easy listening bandleaders is that he knew how to balance the human voice with a full orchestra; these arrangements are fairly remarkable in the way Faith complements the vocals with the lower sonorities of the orchestra, a range he rarely explored on his fully instrumental albums.