Dreamer's Holiday ~ 1960 Camden Release

Perry Como

Dreamer's Holiday

RCA CAMDEN

CAL- 582 MONAURAL ( L3PP-1231/32 )

CDN-149 MONAURAL UK VERSION

ASSEMBLED 1960 / UK 1961

RCA Camden Compilation

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & The Western-Ayres

Background vocals by The Ray Charles Singers,

The Fontane Sisters, The Sons of the Pioneers

and Ray Charles

Side One

My Love and Devotion

~ recorded by Perry in July, 1952

this song charted at No. 22, a popular "B" flip side to "Sweethearts Holiday"

Words and Music by Milton Carson

To Know You ( Is To Love You ) ( with The Fontane Sisters )

~ Perry's first recording of this song from September, 1952

this song charted at No. 19, with flip side "My Lady Loves To Dance"

Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Allan Roberts , 1952

( The ) Rose Tattoo

~ a popular single for Perry in Japan from September, 1955

inspired by the Paramount-Wallis film "The Rose Tattoo"

Music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Jack Brooks

Kewpie Doll ( with Ray Charles )

~ a popular single for Perry from March, 1958

un-credited duet with Perry's Choral Director, Ray Charles

Words and Music by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett

The Things I Didn't Do

~ a popular single for Perry from September, 1954

this song charted at No. 22, a popular "B" flip side to "Papa Loves Mambo"

Words and Music by Fred Jay, Ira Kosloff and Irving Reid

Side Two

Tumbling Tumbleweeds ( and Sons of the Pioneers with the Western-Ayres )

~ one two songs with this group from December, 1950, flip side with "You Don't Kno' What Lonesome Is"

the "Western-Ayres" is a country component of the Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

Words and Music by Bob Nolan, 1934

Just Born ( To Be Your Baby )

~ a popular single for Perry from July, 1957, flip side with "Ivy Rose"

Words and Music by Luther Dixon and Billy Dawn Smith

Ivy Rose

~ a popular single for Perry from July, 1957, flip side with "Just Born ( To Be Your Baby )"

Words and Music by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning

Watchin' the Trains Go By

~ recorded in August, 1950, flip side to Perry's popular "Patricia"

Words and Music by Tot Seymour and Al Goodhart

Rollin' Stone ( with The Fontane Sisters )

~ double charting single from August, 1951, with flip side "With All My Heart And Soul"

Words and Music by Irving Gordon ( composed Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" )

~ originally recorded in stereo

~ the original RCA Camden release mistakenly credits "To Know You ( Is To Love You )" as a duet with Betty Hutton but, in fact, Perry sings it with The Fontane Sisters. Hutton recorded two songs with Perry just one year prior to this recording, in September, 1950, the hit single "A Bushel and a Peck" and flip side "She's a Lady". This listing error has continued even to the present with release of the 1999 double CD "Greatest Hits" compilation. As a matter of interest, Perry recorded this song for a second time in real stereo for the 1959 RCA Victor album "Como Swings" as an un-credited duet with his Choral Director Ray Charles. That was the second un-credited performance of Charles on a Como recording, the first being "Kewpie Doll" as noted above.