When I Fall In Love

~ featured in the 1957 film "Istanbul"

Music by Victor Young and lyrics by Edward Heyman, 1952

Arranged by Joe Lipman

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A , 155 E. 24th Street, New York City

Recording Time 2:58

Recorded February 20, 1958 ~ Matrix No. J2PB-1602 Take 7

SESSION MUSICIANS

February 20, 1958

A&R Joe Reisman

Orchestra

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

Sax ~ Harry Terrill

Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman

Sax ~ Stanley Webb

Sax ~ Abraham Richman

Sax ~ Philip Zolkind

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman

Violin ~ Jack Zayde

Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff

Violin ~ Max Hollander

Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz

Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff

Violin ~ Mac Ceppos

Violin ~ Samuel Rand

Violin ~ Harry Glickman

Violin ~ Ralph Silverman

Violin ~ Fred Buldrini

Violin ~ Harry Hoffman

Viola ~ Isadore Zir

Viola ~ Howard Kay

Viola ~ Leon Frengut

Cello ~ Maurice Brown

Cello ~ Lucien Schmit

Cello ~ Harvey Shapiro

Trumpet ~ Malven Soloman

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola

Guitar ~ Danny Perri

Drums ~ Don Lamond

Drums ~ Philip Kraus

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

Harp ~ Gloria Agostini

Single release: RCA ITALIANA-45RPM-45N-0677

Single Flip Side: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Saturday Night With Mr. C." LOP / LSO-1004 MONO / STEREO MAY / JULY 1958

Album issue: RCA-UK-LP12 "Dear Perry" RD-27078 MONAURAL 1959

Dear Perry ~ The Perry Como Show ( UK Release )

When I Fall in Love / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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Notes: ~ originally from the 1952 Hollywood musical "One Minute to Zero" but the album credits this song to the 1957 film "Istanbul" which starred Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher and Nat King Cole who sings this song. It was no doubt Nat King Cole's performance in this movie, and on record, which inspired the selection of "When I Fall in Love" for the "Saturday Night With Mr. C." album in 1958. Mr. Como's recording would have been among the first in full stereophonic sound. Doris Day and Jeri Southern also recorded the song and it was revived by The Lettermen in 1962. In 1992 Canada's Celine Dion and Clive Griffin performed this song for the soundtrack of "Sleepless In Seattle" and as a hit single following. By the 1990's, however, the original concept of a "hit single" had lost all meaning and there was no longer a simple definition of exactly what this meant.