Marrying For Love

~ from the 1950 Broadway Musical "Call Me Madam"

Words and Music by Irving Berlin , 1950

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Recording time 3:30

Recorded August 31, 1950 ~ Matrix No. E0VB - 5610 Take 1 - 1A

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47-3922-A

Single Flip Side: "The Best Thing For You"

UK Single release: HMV-78RPM-B-10220 ( April 1952 )

Single Flip Side: "The Best Thing For You"

Album issue: RCA-LP10 "Hits from Broadway Shows" LPM-3124 MONO 1953

Album issue: RCA-45RPM EP " Hits From Broadway Shows" EPA-591 MONO 1953

Album reissue: RCA-LP12 "Sings Hits From Broadway Shows" LPM-1191 MONO 1956

Perry Como ~ Hits From Broadway Shows 1953

Perry Como Sings Hits From Broadway Shows ~ 1956

Notes: ~ Introduced by Ethel Merman and Paul Lukas in the Broadway Musical "Call Me Madam". Merman had a popular single for Decca as did Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell for Columbia. In the 1953 Hollywood Musical "Call Me Madam" George Sanders sang it as a solo.