Say It Isn't So ~  album links

Words and Music by Irving Berlin , 1932 

Irving Berlin Music Co. ASCAP

 

With Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra

Arrangements by Joe Lipman and Jack Andrews

 

Recorded at RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Medley recording time 7:20

 

Recorded May 15th, 1961   ~   Matrix No. M5PW - 2281  Take 5

 

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Sing To Me Mr. C." LSP-2390 STEREO 1961

RCA Quarter-Track Reel Stereo-Orthophonic Tape 7½ I.P.S. FTP-1090 1961

Album issue: Camden-LP12 "Door of Dreams" CASX-2482 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1971

Album issue: RCA UK "Sing To Me Mr. C"SF-8191 STEREO 1971 Reissue

Album issue: Camden-LP12 "Perry Como Box Set Vol. 2" CDS-1091 / CDS-1101 / CDS-1137 Circa 1980s

 

Notes: ~ "Sing to me, Mister C., sing to me . . . " The familiar theme music swells

as Mister C. takes his place at the boom mike. On screen you see Perry looking

over the music on the stand before him. Above him is the mike, and in the lower

right hand corner, a single rose stands in it's vase. Tony Mottola, on guitar, picks up

the melody from the Ray Charles Singers, and segues into Perry's first number.

As the medley builds, Mitchell Ayres expertly brings in rhythm, strings and brass.

| Album Sessions | Album Notes | Large View | 1956 Version |

Produced by Hugo & Luigi

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra, Tony Mottola on Guitar

Arrangements: Joe Lipman and Jack Andrews

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City 

May 15th, 17th and 26th, 1961

A Perry Como Discography 

& Digital Companion

| Site Links | All Albums |  All Songs | The Recording Sessions |

First Edition Summer 1992

Second Edition Christmas 1993

Web Page Edition Christmas 1997

25th Anniversary Revision November, 2017

Digital Upgrade August, 2018

July 2026 Revised Edition

 

 

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