Ave Maria ~ album links

1st recording 1949

Perry Como - Bless this House - Australia EP issue

Home for the Holidays ~ compilation circa 1968

Album issue: RCA-45RPM-EP "Songs of Faith" EPA-410 MONO 1953

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "I Believe" LPM-1172 MONO 1956

Album issue: RCA-45RPM EP "I Believe" EPB-1172 MONO 1956

Album issue: RCA-45RPM-EP GOLD STANDARD "Songs of Faith" EPA-5142 MONO 1959

Album: RCA-AUSTRALIA EP "Bless this House" RCA-20033 MONO

Album reissue: RCA-LP12 "I Believe" LPE-1172 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1961

Album: RCA-UK EP "I Believe" RCX-161 MONO U/K

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Home for the Holidays" PRS-273 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1968

Album re- issue: Pure Gold-LP12 "I Believe" ANL1- 1137 (e) ELECTRONIC STEREO 1975

Album issue: RCA-UK-LP12 "The First Thirty Years" LFL4-7522 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1975

Album issue: TELDEC-LP12 "Perry Como Forever" RCA FJL-27195 GERMANY 1976

Album issue: KELO MUSIC-LP12 "Perry Como" K-TEL NC-503 MONO 1977

Album issue: RCA SPECIAL PRODUCTS-LP12 "The Greatest Hits of Perry Como" DVL2-0362 MONO 1979

Album issue: Quality Records-LP12 "Magic Moments" QRSP-1007 MONO 1985

2nd recording 1959

The Lord's Prayer ~ RCA Camden compilation 1969

Here Is Perry Como ~ 1971 UK Compilation

Album issue: CAM-LP12 "The Lord's Prayer" CAS-2299 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1969

Album issue: RCA-UK-LP12 "Here Is Perry Como" DPS-2018 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1971

3rd recording 1968

Season's Greetings Pure Gold ~ circa 1976

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever ~ 1982

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "The Perry Como Christmas Album" LSP-4016 STEREO 1968

Album issue: Pure Gold-LP12 "Season's Greetings" CANADA KNL1-7045 STEREO 1976

Album issue: RCA SPECIAL PRODUCTS-LP12 "Great Songs of Christmas" DPL1-0285 STEREO 1977

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever" AYL1-4526 STEREO 1982

Ave Maria or Hail Mary, name given by Roman Catholics to a form of address to the Virgin Mary, included in the Divine Office and in a few antiphons of the Mass. Ave Maria are the first two words of the prayer that is taken from the salutation (see Luke 1:28) of the angel Gabriel, traditionally worded: "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women." Appearing in varying forms as early as the 6th century in the Liturgy of St. James and others, the Ave Maria was finally adopted as a popular devotion in the 11th century. The present form was fixed by Pope Pius V in 1568 and has been used by the Roman Catholic laity as widely as the Our Father, or Lord's Prayer.