PERRY COMO

RCA CAMDEN SET VOL. 1

 

RCA CAMDEN CDS-1123 / CDS-1130 / CDS-1148 (e)

STEREO / ELECTRONIC STEREO

 

Record One Side 1

 

Dream on Little Dreamer ( with The Anita Kerr Quartet )

~ from Perry's first Nashville album "The Scene Changes" recorded February, 1965

charted at No. 25 but issued as the single "B" side to "My Own Peculiar Way"

Words and Music by Jan Crutchfield and Fred Burch

 

Days of Wine and Roses

~ from Perry's 1963 RCA Victor album "The Songs I Love"

from the 1962 film "Days of Wine and Roses"

Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, 1962

 

What Kind of Fool Am I ?

~ from Perry's 1963 RCA Victor album "The Songs I Love"

from the 1961 Stage Musical "Stop the World I Want to Get Off"

Music by Leslie Bricusse and lyrics by Anthony Newley

 

Stay With Me

~ from Perry's 1966 RCA Victor album "Lightly Latin"

Music by Nick Perito and lyrics by Ray Charles

 

Moon River

~ from Perry's 1962 RCA Victor album "By Request"

from the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer

 

"A"— You're Adorable

~  a No. 1 hit single from March, 1949, the "B" flip side to "When Is Sometime?"

Music by Sidney Lippman with lyrics by Fred Wise and Buddy Kaye, 1948

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters

 

Record One Side 2

 

Maria

~ from Perry's 1962 RCA Victor album "By Request"

Music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, 1957

 

( I Left My Heart ) In San Francisco

~ from Perry's 1963 RCA Victor album "The Songs I Love"

Music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglas Cross

 

In These Crazy Times

~ from Perry's 1968 RCA Victor album "Look To Your Heart"

Music by Sydney Lippman and lyrics by Sylvia Dee

 

Try To Remember

~ from Perry's 1968 RCA Victor album "Look To Your Heart"

from the musical production "The Fantasticks"

Music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones

 

Long Ago  ( And Far Away )

~  a double charted single from February, 1944, the "B" flip side to "I Love You"

from the 1944 Hollywood musical "Cover Girl"

Music by Jerome Kern and lyrics Ira Gershwin, 1944

 

It's Only a Paper Moon

~  a double charted single from February, 1944, the "B" flip side to "I Love You"

from the 1944 Hollywood musical "Cover Girl"

Music by Jerome Kern and lyrics Ira Gershwin, 1944

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

 

Record Two Side 1

 

"A"— You're Adorable

~  a No. 1 hit single from March, 1949, the "B" flip side to "When Is Sometime?"

Music by Sidney Lippman with lyrics by Fred Wise and Buddy Kaye, 1948

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters

 

Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk

~  a double charted single from May, 1949, the "B" flip side to "Just One Way To Say I Love You"

from the 1949 Broadway musical production "Miss Liberty"

Words and Music by Irving Berlin

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and Chorus

 

I'm Confessin' ( That I Love You )

~  a double charted single from December, 1944, the "B" flip side to "I Dream Of You (More Than You Dream I Do)"

Music by Doc Dougherty and Ellis Reynolds and lyrics by Al J. Neiburg , 1930

With Orchestra Conducted by Lew Martin

 

Forever and Ever

~  a double charted single from January, 1949, with flip side "I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore"

Music and original German lyrics by Franz Winkler

English lyrics by Malia Rosa, 1949

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and Chorus

 

You Won't Be Satisfied ( Until You Break My Heart ) ( with The Satisfiers )

~  a double charted single from October, 1945, with flip side "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"

Words and Music by Freddy James and Larry Stock, 1946

With Orchestra Conducted by Russ Case and The Satisfiers

 

Long Ago  ( And Far Away )

~  a double charted single from February, 1944, the "B" flip side to "I Love You"

from the 1944 Hollywood musical "Cover Girl"

Music by Jerome Kern and lyrics Ira Gershwin, 1944

 

Record Two Side 2

 

It's Only a Paper Moon

~  a double charted single from February, 1944, the "B" flip side to "I Love You"

from the 1944 Hollywood musical "Cover Girl"

Music by Jerome Kern and lyrics Ira Gershwin, 1944

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

 

There Never Was a Night So Beautiful

~  a double charted single from January, 1954, the "B" flip side to "Hit and Run Affair"

Words and Music by John Rox

With Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra

 

You Alone ( Solo Tu )

~  a double charted single from August, 1953, the "B" flip side to "Pa-paya Mama"

Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman, 1953

With Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus

 

My One and Only Heart

~  a double charted single from March, 1953, with flip side "Say You're Mine Again"

Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman

With Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra

 

Marcheta

~  recorded December, 1947, and released as the 1950 "B" flip side to "So Long Sally"

Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman

With Orchestra Conducted by Russ Case

 

I Love You

~  a double charted single from February, 1944, with flip side "Long Ago (And Far Away)"

from the 1944 Stage musical "Mexican Hayride"

Words and Music by Cole Porter

 

Record Three Side 1

 

Catch a Falling Star

Words and Music by Lee Pockriss 

and Paul Vance

 

No Other Love

from the 1953 Stage Musical "Me and Juliet"

Music by Richard Rodgers 

with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

Delaware

Words and Music by Irving Gordon

 

Come Rain or Come Shine

from the Stage musical "St. Louis Woman"

Music by Harold Arlen 

with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, 1946

 

I've Got You Under My Skin

~ from the 1936 Hollywood musical "Born to Dance"

Words and Music by Cole Porter

 

Begin the Beguine

~ from the 1935 Stage musical "Jubilee"

Words and Music by Cole Porter

 

Record Three Side 2

 

'Till the End of Time

~ adapted from Chopin's Polonaise No. 6 in A Flat Major

Words and Music by Ted Mossman and Buddy Kaye, 1945

 

Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes ( with The Ramblers )

Words and Music by Slim Willet, 1952

 

Some Enchanted Evening

from the 1949 Stage musical "South Pacific"

Music by Richard Rodgers 

with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

Song of Songs

An English translation of the French song "Chanson du Coeur Brise"

Music by Harold Vicars and lyrics by Clarence Lucas , 1914

Original French lyrics by Maurice Vancaire

 

How Insensitive ( Insensatez )

Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim 

with lyrics by Vinicius De Moraes

English lyrics by Norman Gimbel

 

Arrivederci Roma ( Goodbye to Rome )

~ featured in the 1958 Hollywood musical "Seven Hills of Rome"

Music by Renato Ranucci with Italian lyrics by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini

English lyrics by Carl Sigman

 

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