Tina Marie

Words and Music by Bob Merrill

712 Stone Avenue Music ~ ASCAP

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

Arranged by Joe Reisman and Produced by Joe Carlton

Recorded in Webster Hall, New York City

Recording Time 2:31

Recorded June 21, 1955 ~ Matrix No. F2PB 4903 Take 3

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47-6192

Single Flip Side: "Fooled"

US Chart Position No. 5

Belgium Single release: RCA 18313

Single Flip Side: "Fooled"

Belgian Chart Position No. 68 (1955)

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-BY/WBY-50 Children's Bluebird Series

Single Flip Side: "Round and Round"

UK Single release: HMV-78RPM-POP-103 Blue Label ( October 1955 )

Single Flip Side: "( There's No Place Like ) Home for the Holidays"

UK Chart Position No. 24

UK Single release: HMV-45RPM-7M-326 ( Pirate Issue )

UK Matrix No. TBA( See Note )

Single Flip Side: "( There's No Place Like ) Home for the Holidays"

German Gold Standard Series EPA-5012 release:

Substitutes "Papa Loves Mambo" with "Tina Marie"

Children's Bluebird Series ~ Round and Round / Tina Marie

Como's Golden Records ~ Volume 1 EPA-5012 German Release

This novelty song is a bright ditty, with Perry and the chorus having fun with the interpolated 'Ah-hahs' and the frisky little melody. The tune was the 1954 brainchild of writer Bob Merrill, whose accomplishments also include the scores for such hit musicals as 'New Girl in Town' 'Take Me Along', 'Carnival', and 'Funny Girl'. Joe Reisman, Perry's chief arranger and record producer during the mid- and late 1950s, created this hit arrangement.

( notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975 )