Relaxing with

Perry Como

 

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The Last Straw ( with Betty Hutton )

Words and Music by 

Lenny Stack

 

Blue Room 

~ from the 1948 M-G-M film "Words and Music"

Words and Music by Rodgers and Hart, 1926

 

When Day Is Done

~ a German song originally titled "Madonna, Du Bist Schöner als der Sonnenschein!"

Music and original German lyrics by Robert Katscher , 1926

English lyrics by B.G. DeSylva

 

What'll I Do?

~ featured in "Big City", 1948, sung by Danny Thomas

Words and Music by Irving Berlin, 1924

 

If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts ( We'll Just Be The Same Old Friends )

~ featured by Andy Russell and The Pied Pipers in the mid-forties

Music by James V. Monaco and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy , 1915

 

Marrying For Love

~ from the 1950 Broadway musical "Call Me Madam"

Words and Music by Irving Berlin , 1950

 

Summertime ( with Sally Sweetland )

Introduced by Abbie Mitchell in the musical production "Porgy and Bess"

Music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Du Bose Heyward , 1935

 

I'm Always Chasing Rainbows ( with The Satisfiers )

~ melody adapted from Chopin's "Fantaisie Impromptu in C# Minor

Music by Harry Carroll and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, 1917, 1946

 

Love Me Or Leave Me

~ from the 1928 Stage musical "Whoopee"

Music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn

 

Body and Soul

~ from the United Artists Film "Body and Soul"

Music by Johnny Green

and lyrics by Robert B. Sour, Edward Heyman, and Frank Eyton

 

When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver ( I Will Love You Just The Same )

Music by Peter De Rose

and lyrics by Charles Tobias, 1930

 

Carolina Moon

Music by  Joe Burke and lyrics by Benny Davis , 1929

 

Haunted Heart

~ from the musical production "Inside U.S.A."

Music by Arthur Schwartz 

with lyrics by Howard Dietz, 1948

 

My Child

Words and Music by Cy Coben and Jerry Livingston 

adapted from a Chopin Piano Concerto

 

Some Enchanted Evening

~ from the 1949 Stage musical "South Pacific"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

Bali Ha'i

~ from the musical production "South Pacific"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

Hello Young Lovers

~ from the 1951 musical production "The King and I"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

We Kiss In A Shadow

~ from the 1951 Stage musical "The King and I"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

My Heart Stood Still ( with Chorus )

~ from the musical production "A Connecticut Yankee"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart 1927

 

Hopelessly ( with The Ames Brothers )

Words and Music by Jack Richards and Ed Penney ( Robert Mellin )

 

One More Time ( with The Ames Brothers )

Music by Ray Henderson

with lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown

 

All At Once You Love Her ( and The Ray Charles Singers )

~ from the musical production "Pipe Dream"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

A Perry Como Discography 

& Digital Companion

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First Edition Summer 1992

Second Edition Christmas 1993

Web Page Edition Christmas 1997

25th Anniversary Revision November, 2017

Digital Upgrade August, 2018

November 2024 Revised Edition