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The Songs I Love (album)

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Released
  
1963

Artist
  
Perry Como

Producer
  
Hugo & Luigi

Genre
  
Vocal

Release date
  
1963

Label
  
Collectables Records

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Recorded
  
March 18, 19, 25 & 26, 1963

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The Songs I Love was Perry Como's 11th RCA Victor 12" long-play album and the first featuring RCA Victor's Dynagroove technology.

Contents

Perry Como hosted an hour-long program on NBC TV until June 1963, the year that The Songs I Love was released. A regular feature of the show would seat Como on a distinctive set that spelled out "Mr. C." while he would croon a favorite song. A photo of the set adorns the cover of Songs I Love. This album reproduces the effect of that segment (which producers Hugo & Luigi describe as "one of the few great traditions in television") over a dozen soft ballads such as "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" and "This Is All I Ask." The leadoff track, "The Songs I Love", sets the tone for everything that follows, and, not surprisingly, it turns out that pop standards are the songs Como loves. The Songs I Love was a commercially successful album aimed at fans of The Perry Como Show, to whom it is recommended.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "The Songs I Love" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn)
  2. "(I Left My Heart) In San Francisco" (music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglas Cross)
  3. "Fly Me to the Moon" (In Other Words) (words and music by Bart Howard)
  4. "Slightly Out of Tune" (music by Antônio Carlos Jobim)
  5. "This is All I Ask" (words and music by Gordon Jenkins)
  6. "(The) Hawaiian Wedding Song" (Ke Kali Nei Au )

Side Two

  1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
  2. "Carnival" (Music by Luiz Bonfá and lyrics by Antonio Maria)
  3. "My Coloring Book" (Music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb)
  4. "I Wanna Be Around" (words and music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt)
  5. "Mrs. Vimmerstedt" (words and music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt)
  6. "When I Lost You" (words and music by Irving Berlin)
  7. "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from the 1961 stage musical Stop the World I Want to Get Off)

Songs

1Happiness Comes - Happiness Goes2:31
2Nobody but You2:30
3Seattle2:52

References

The Songs I Love (album) Wikipedia