Somebody Up There Likes Me

~ from the 1956 MGM film "Somebody Up There Likes Me"

Music by Bronislau Kaper and lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Leo Feist Inc. ASCAP (2:02)

 

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

 

Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City

Recording Time 2:02

 

Recorded June 07, 1956   ~   Matrix No. G2PB 4620 Take 3

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47- 6590

Single Flip Side: "Dream Along With Me ( I'm On My Way to a Star )"

US Chart Position No. 18

 

UK Single release: HMV-78RPM-POP-304 Blue Label ( March 1957 )

Single Flip Side: "Dream Along With Me ( I'm On My Way to a Star )"

 

Album issue: RCA-45RPM-EP "Somebody Up There Likes Me" EPA-903 MONO 1956

Album issue: RCA-45RPM  EP "Screen Themes in Hi-Fi" EP-1194 MONO 1956

Album issue: RCA-JAPAN-LP12 "Sings Screen Themes" SRA-5082 MONO 1967

Album issue: RCA-JAPAN-LP12 "Collector's Items" RJL-2023-24 MONO 1982

 

 

 

Notes: ~ Perry performed this song for the soundtrack of "Somebody Up There Likes Me" for the first of only two times he has agreed to do so, the second being "Christmas Dream" for the 1974 movie "Odessa File."

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers

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