Perry Como

RCA VICTOR AYL1-4526

STEREO

ASSEMBLED 1982

Side One:

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever

~ recorded for Perry Como's French-Canadian Christmas Television Special, 1981

Music by Nick Perito and lyrics by Richard B. Matheson

Toyland

~ from Perry's 1968 RCA Victor LP "The Perry Como Christmas Album"

Words and Music by Victor Herbert

Arranged and Adapted by Nick Perito

Christ Is Born

~ from Perry's 1968 RCA Victor LP "The Perry Como Christmas Album"

Original Music by Monsignor Domenico Bartolucci

with English lyrics by Ray Charles

( The ) Christmas Song ( Merry Christmas to You )

~ from Perry's 1959 RCA Victor LP "Season's Greetings from Perry Como"

Music by Mel Tormé and lyrics by Robert Wells, 1946

Ave Maria ( Schubert )

~ from Perry's 1968 RCA Victor LP "The Perry Como Christmas Album"

Original Music by Franz Schubert

Arranged and Adapted by Nick Perito

Side Two:

Here We Come A-Caroling — We Wish You a Merry Christmas

~ from Perry's 1959 RCA Victor LP "Season's Greetings from Perry Como"

Traditional arranged by Ray Charles

Silver Bells

~ from Perry's 1968 RCA Victor LP "The Perry Como Christmas Album"

Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans 1951

Christmas Dream ( with The London Boy Singers )

~ from the original 1974 Columbia Pictures film soundtrack "The Odessa File"

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by and Tim Rice

with German lyrics by André Heller

White Christmas

~ from Perry's 1959 RCA Victor LP "Season's Greetings from Perry Como"

Words and Music by Irving Berlin, 1942

Bless This House

~ from Perry's 1956 RCA Victor Compilation LP "I Believe"

Words and Music by Helen Taylor and May H. Morgan ( a.k.a. Brahe ), 1927

Original RCA Victor albums: | The Christmas Album 1968 | Seasons Greetings 1959 | I Believe 1954 |

"Christmas Dream" is from the original soundtrack recording of "The Odessa File" recorded August 7, 1974

"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever" from a 1981 Perry Como Christmas Television Special.

Album photo from Perry Como's French-Canadian Christmas Special, 1981

Album notes by Jim Lehner

"Bless this House" recorded in MONAURAL on June 26, 1950 at The Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City

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First Edition Summer 1992

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Revision Christmas 2011

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Perry Como

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Original RCA Victor albums: | The Christmas Album 1968 | Seasons Greetings 1959 | I Believe 1954 |

| 1940s | Early 50s | Late 50s | Early 60s | Late 60s | Early 70s | Late 70s | 1980s |

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