The Songs I Love (Perry Como album)
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| Studio album by Perry Como | ||
| Released | 1963 | |
| Recorded | March 18th, 19th, 25th & 26th, 1963 | |
| Genre | Vocal | |
| Length | ~~:~~ | |
| Label | RCA Victor | |
| Producer(s) | Hugo & Luigi. | |
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| Perry Como chronology | ||
| The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President 1963 | The Songs I Love' (1962) |
The Scene Changes (1965)
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The Songs I Love was Perry Como's 11th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the ninth recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the first featuring Dynagroove technology.
Perry Como hosted an hour-long program on NBC TV until 1963, the year that Songs I Love was released. A regular feature of the show was that Como would croon a favorite song while seated on a distinctive set that spelled out "Mr. C." A photo of the set adorns the cover of Songs I Love, and the album aims to reproduce the effect of that segment (which producers Hugo & Luigi describe as "one of the few great traditions in television") over a dozen soft ballads such as "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" and "This Is All I Ask." The leadoff track, "The Songs I Love," sets the tone for everything that follows, and, not surprisingly, it turns out that pop standards are the songs Como loves. The Songs I Love was a commercially successful album aimed at fans of The Perry Como Show, to whom it is recommended.
[edit] Track listing
Side One
- The Songs I Love (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn)
- (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco (Music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglas Cross)
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)(Words and Music by Bart Howard)
- Slightly Out of Tune (Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim)
- This is All I Ask (Words and Music by Gordon Jenkins)
- (The) Hawaiian Wedding Song ( Ke Kali Nei Au )
Side Two
- Days of Wine and Roses (Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
- Carnival (Music by Luiz Bonfa and lyrics by Antonio Maria)
- My Coloring Book (Music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb)
- I Wanna Be Around (Words and Music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt)
- Mrs. Vimmerstedt, (Words and Music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt)
- When I Lost You (Words and Music by Irving Berlin)
- What Kind of Fool Am I? (from the 1961 Stage Musical "Stop the World I Want to Get Off")
