Perry Como - "So Smooth" / "We Get Letters"&"And I Love You" / "It's Impossible"

Description: In a singing (and sometimes acting) career that spanned over six decades, the name Perry Como has come to mean that warm, smooth, easy-listening, general-audience, slow-flame romance that characterized popular music in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. It has also come to represent an overall good feeling. Telling of the success of the appeal of that good feeling early on in his career, during just a single week in the 1940s, the music industry pressed and sold 4 million Como records. In the 1950s, 11 of his singles sold well over 1 million copies each. In more than six decades of singing, his records sold more than 100 million copies; 27 individual prints reached the million-record mark.Christened Pierino Como in Canonsburg, Pa., and one of a family of 13 children, Como pursued a career as a barber before he launched his singing career. At 11, he was working after school cutting hair in a barbershop. Before long he had set his sights on owning his own shop -- even making monthly payments toward one. He enjoyed singing, however, and let go of his barbershop ambitions soon after high school and his marriage to his high school sweetheart, Roselle Beline. It didn't take long to prove that he had talent and soon landed a spot in the Freddie Carlone Orchestra, where he made $28 a week touring the Midwest. In 1937, he joined the Ted Weems orchestra and was featured on the band's "Beat the Band" radio program. His career was on the rise. But, with the start of WWII and the eventual breakup of Weems' band, Como found himself back in Canonsburg in a barbershop cutting hair -- not for long, however. CBS radio soon offered him a weekly show at $100 a week and RCA signed him to a recording contract that garnered him in the next 14 years 42 Top 10 hits, a feat bettered only by Bing Crosby. These hits included "Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)," "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," "They Say It's Wonderful," "Surrender" and "Some Enchanted Evening." The 1945 rendition of "Till the End of Time," (a song associated with the movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and based on Chopin's "Polonaise in A-Flat Minor") was perhaps his most memorable hit from this era. Other hits were on the lighter side of romance and included "Hot Diggity" and the forever a favorite "Papa Loves Mambo."It was also during his singing career in the 1940s that Como appeared in three films for Twentieth Century Fox. His parts were unfortunately less than memorable, partly because of his overpowering screen presence of his co-star Carmen Miranda. But Como did have a screen presence, and he found its niche in the magic of the living room theater when he made his television debut in 1948 with NBC's "The Chesterfield Supper Club." In 1950, he was at the helm of his own show with CBS: "The Perry Como Show," which ran for five years. Back on NBC in 1955 he achieved his greatest success in the medium with an eight-year run. This was the show that featured his theme song: "Sing Along With Me." The show included the talents of the Ray Charles Singers and announcer Frank Gallop. It was also in this show where he developed and honed the image of the cardigan-wearing, relaxed, wholesome nice-guy that has been his trademark ever since. In 1956 and '57 he won Emmy Awards for most outstanding television personality. The show itself won Peabody and Golden Mike awards. During his tenure with this show he also received the Recording Industry Association of America's first ever Gold Disc Award for his rendition of "Catch a Falling Star." He retired from his show in 1963, opting to work only occasionally on t.v. specials. These specials included his traditional Christmas shows. After two decades of just canned music, he returned to live performances in the 1970s, playing Las Vegas and other circuits; he even did a sell-out tour of Australia. The 1970s also gave rise to his million record seller "It's Impossible." In one of his most gratifying moments in his career, President Reagan presented Como with a Kennedy Center award for outstanding achievement in the performing arts. Perry Como – So Smooth / We Get LettersLabel:Collectables – COL-CD-2764, BMG Special Products – DRC 1-2835Series:Original 2 LPs On 1 CDFormat:CD, CompilationCountry:USReleased:2001Genre:Jazz, PopStyle:Vocal, Easy ListeningTrack list:So Smooth1It's A Good Day1:432As Time Goes By3:123I've Got The World On A String2:214My Funny Valentine2:445For Me And My Gal2:336I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues2:477Breezin' Along With The Breeze2:178It's The Talk Of The Town3:409You Do Something To Me1:5310It Happened In Monterey3:0211One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)3:4312In The Still Of The Night2:45We Get Letters13Swinging Down The Lane2:1114It's Easy To Remember3:1315South Of The Border2:1416That What I Like2:3717Honey, Honey (Bless Your Heart)2:3918Angry2:1819They Can't Take That Away From Me2:2720Sposin'3:3721I Had The Craziest Dream2:3422'Deed I Do1:5723Somebody Loves Me3:1924Sleepy Time Gal2:15Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: 090431276426 Perry Como – And I Love You So / It's Impossible Label:Collectables – COL-CD-2767, BMG Special Products – 2001Series:Original 2 LPs On 1 CDFormat:CD, Album, CompilationCountry:USReleased:2001Genre:Jazz, PopStyle:VocalTrack list:And I Love You So (1973)1And I Love You So2Killing Me Softly With Her Song3For The Good Times4Aubrey5Sing6I Want To Give7Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree8I Thought About You9It All Seems To Fall Into Line10I Believe In MusicIt's Impossible (1970)11It's Impossible12Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head13Something14Snowbird15A House Is Not A Home16Everybody Is Looking For An Answer17El Condor Pasa18Close To You19I Think I Love You20We've Only Just BegunCompanies, etc.Manufactured By – BMG Special ProductsCopyright © – Collectables Records Corp.Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: 0 90431 27672 3

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