( The ) Father of Girls ( single version )
Words and Music by Ervin M. Drake
Cromwell Music Inc. ASCAP
Arranged and Conducted by Nick
Perito
With The Ray Charles Singers
Produced by Andy Wiswell
Recorded in RCA Victor Studio A, 24th
Street, New York City
Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
Recording Time 3:27
( single )
see
note
Recorded December 29, 1967
~ UPA1-6480 Take
4
Single release:
RCA-45RPM-47-9448
note: vocal track for the album is the
remake version
Single Flip Side: "Somebody Makes It So "
US Chart Position No. 92
Charted Adult Contemporary No. 10
Notes:
~ 'This song came out of my own personal
experience,' recalls composer Ervin Drake. '
I have two daughters. Linda, who
is married now, was 14, and Betsy was 8. I really felt
my problems and
apprehensions as a father of girls would touch a responsive strain in
any
father with daughters.' Of Perry's performance, Drake has said, 'Perry sang
it in a
very quiet, very sensitive way. After all, he himself is the father
of girls'.
( notes from " The
Incomparable Como " Readers Digest UK
compilation 1975 )
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Arranged and Conducted by Nick
Perito
With The Ray Charles Singers
Produced by Andy Wiswell
Recorded in RCA Victor Studio A, 24th
Street, New York City
Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
Recorded
December 29, 1967
Note: the single version
of Perry's
"Father of Girls" was included within the UK compilation
"The First Thirty Years" and the only known release on LP.
Although recorded in stereo,
it was released within that compilation electronically
reprocessed to simulate stereo.
The full stereo version of this single was
first released in 1999 within the compact disc
compilation " The
Essential 60's Singles Collection " from Taragon Records.
The original
single version was re-recorded with a voice-over dub for Perry's 1968
album release "Look To Your Heart". Although the actual date of
the re-recording
is not known, nor generally acknowledged, it probably
occurred during the album sessions
from June 5th to 19th, 1968. All
other album re-releases of this song have been the 1968 version.
A Perry Como
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