You Made Me Love You ( I Didn't Want to Do It )

~ featured in the 1955 Hollywood musical "Love Me or Leave Me"

Music by James V. Monaco and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy , 1913

Broadway Music Corp.

Recorded in medley with:

"I May Be Wrong" / "Like Someone In Love" / "Vaya Con Dios"

Arranged by Jack Andrews

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and the Ray Charles Singers

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

This Song Recording Time 2:04 ( Full Medley Recording Time 10:21 )

Recorded March 6th, 1958 ~ Matrix No. J2PB-1898 Take 1

SESSION MUSICIANS

March 6, 1958

A&R Joe Reisman

Orchestra

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

Sax ~ Harry Terrill

Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman

Sax ~ Abraham Richman

Sax ~ Stanley Webb

Sax ~ Philip Zolkind

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman

Violin ~ Raoul Poliakin

Violin ~ Jack Zayde

Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff

Violin ~ Mac Ceppos

Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz

Violin ~ Max Hollander

Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff

Violin ~ Samuel Rand

Violin ~ Harry Glickman

Violin ~ Fred Buldrini

Violin ~ Maurice Hershaft

Viola ~ Isadore Zir

Viola ~ Howard Kay

Viola ~ Leon Frengut

Cello ~ Maurice Brown

Cello ~ Lucien Schmit

Cello ~ Harvey Shapiro

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola

Guitar ~ Danny Perri

Drums ~ Don Lamond

Drums ~ Philip Kraus

Drums ~ Jack Saunders

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

Harp ~ Gloria Agostini

Organ ~ Mel Wechsler

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

Album issue: RCA-45RPM EP "Perry Como Alla TV" EPA 30-258 MONO RCA ITALIANA 1958

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

Dear Perry ~ The Perry Como Show ( UK Release )

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Notes: ~ Doris Day, as Ruth Etting, sang this song in the 1955 Hollywood musical "Love Me of Leave Me" but it was a big hit for Al Jolson in 1913 and became a staple of his Winter Garden performances and generally associated with the artist ever after. Judy Garland sang it in the musical "The Broadway Melody of '38" in which she sang it to a photograph of Clark Gable. Her version "Dear Mr. Gable" was recorded for Decca following that. Harry James had a big hit with it in 1941 and Jolson sang it on the soundtrack of "The Jolson Story" in 1946 which was then used in a montage in "Jolson Sings Again" in 1949. The song was also heard in "Syncopation" in 1942 and "Private Buckaroo" in 1945.