Premium Masters ( BMG UK )Perry Como ~ Mr. Saturday Night!
 
Side 1
 
( The ) Best of Times ( 1983 Single Version )
~ from the score of the Broadway musical "La Cage Aux Folles"
Words and Music by Jerry Herman, 1983
 
How to Handle a Woman 
- from the Broadway and musical production "Camelot" 
Music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
 
Days of Wine and Roses
~ from the 1962 film "Days of Wine and Roses"
Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, 1962
 
It Had To Be You  MONO ORIGINAL MONOSTEREO ORIGINAL
~ from the 1944 Hollywood musical "Show Business"
Music by Isham Jones and lyrics by Gus Kahn, 1924, 1944
Complete Medley:
All I Do Is Dream of You
Music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed, 1934
 
Gigi
Music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, 1958
 
The Way You Look Tonight
Music by Jerome Kern and lyrics Dorothy Fields
 
What Kind of Fool Am I ?
~ from the 1961 Stage Musical "Stop the World I Want to Get Off"
Music by Leslie Bricusse and lyrics by Anthony Newley
 
They Can't Take That Away From MeMONO ORIGINAL MONO
~ from the MGM film "The Barkley's of Broadway"
Music by George Gershwin and lyrics Ira Gershwin
 
Red Sails in the SunsetMONO ORIGINAL MONOSTEREO ORIGINAL
~ featured in the Stage musical "Provincetown Follies"
Music by Hugh Williams ( Will Grosz ) and lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy, 1935
 
Side 2
 
Hello, Young Lovers   ( 1960 Version from "For the Young at Heart" )
from the 1951 Stage musical "The King and I"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II , 1951
 
I Had the Craziest DreamMONO ORIGINAL MONO
from the 20th Century Fox film "Springtime in the Rockies"
Music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mack Gordon , 1942
 
Try To Remember  ( 1968 from "Look to Your Heart" )
from the musical production "The Fantasticks"
Music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones
 
The Father of Girls   ( 1968 Album Version from "Look to Your Heart" )
Words and Music by Ervin M. Drake
 
Moon River
~ from the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer
 
Begin the Beguine
~ from the 1935 Stage musical "Jubilee"
Words and Music by Cole Porter
 
Song On the Sand  ( La da da da )
~ from the score of the Broadway musical "La Cage Aux Folles"
Words and Music by Jerry Herman, 1983
 
It's Easy To RememberMONO ORIGINAL MONO
~ from the 1935 Paramount film "Mississippi"
Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart 1935
 
The Best of Times - RCA / Ariola 1986
 
COMPILATION BY DON BURKHIMER AND TOMMY LOFTUS
PROJECT SUPERVISION BY PAUL WILLIAMS
DIGITALLY REMASTERED BY MICHAEL MORAN
 
Special thanks to Eileen Cafarella, Phoebe Kranish and Nancy Chessare
Copyright 1986 RCA / Ariola International 
 
THE BEST OF TIMES ~  16 TRACKS ( I MEDLEY ) TIME 55:35
ALL TRACKS IN REAL STEREO EXCEPT MONO ORIGINALPURE MONO
THESE TRACKSSTEREO ORIGINALSHOULD BE STEREO BUT RELEASED HERE IN MONO
1986 BMG UK
RCA PD 89970 

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