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Honey, Honey ( Bless Your Heart )
- Music by
Larry Stock and lyrics by
Dominick Belline
- Roncom Music Limited
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Second
recording 1959: ( 1957 Version |
- With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra
- Arrangements by Joe Lipman and
Jack Andrews
- Produced by Charles
Grean and Lee Schapiro
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- Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City
- Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
- Final Recording Time 2:00
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- Recorded
April
16th, 1959 ~
Matrix No.
K2PB-2330 Take 2
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- SESSION MUSICIANS
- April 16, 1959
- Produced by Charles Grean and Lee
Schapiro
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- Orchestra
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- Leader: Mitchell Ayres
- Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross
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- Sax ~ Harry Terrill
- Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman
- Sax ~ Sid Jekowsky
- Sax ~ Philip Zolkind
- Sax ~ Romeo Penque
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- Trumpet ~ James Maxwell
- Trumpet ~ Bernie Glow
- Trumpet ~ James Milazzo
- Trumpet ~ John Lawson
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- Trombone ~ Robert Byrne
- Trombone ~ John D'agostino
- Trombone ~ Richard Hixon
- Trombone ~ Jack Satterfield
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- Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman
- Violin ~ Jack Zayde
- Violin ~ Raoul Poliskin
- Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz
- Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff
- Violin ~ Mac Ceppos
- Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff
- Violin ~ Harry Glickman
- Violin ~ Samuel Rand
- Violin ~ Max Hollander
- Violin ~ Charles Fleischmann
- Violin ~ Marc Brown
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- Viola ~ Howard Kay
- Viola ~ Isadore Zir
- Viola ~ Leon Frengut
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- Cello ~ Maurice Brown
- Cello ~ Abram Borodkin
- Cello ~ Charles McCracken
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- Piano ~ Henry Rowland
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- Guitar ~ Anthony "Tony"
Mottola
- Guitar ~ Danny Perri
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- Drums ~ Terry Snyder
- Drums ~ Sol Gubin
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- Bass ~ Robert Haggart
| Lyrics | Album Notes | Session | 1957 Lyrics | Album Links | Digital Finder |
- Produced
by Charles Grean and Lee Schapiro
- with
Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Ray Charles
- Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A, 24th
Street, New York City
- Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson.
- Recorded April 9th,
16th, 23rd
& May 21st, 1959
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- Notes: ~ two very different
versions of this song generally believed to have been
co-written by a
- relative of Mr. Como, Dominick Belline.
The first version, recorded in February 1957 for the "We
Get Letters"
- album, was low-key and intimate while
the second version, recorded two years later for the
"Como Swings"
- album, is up-tempo and big-band.
Not just the styles were different for these two
recordings.
The two album
- sessions marked the end of the monaural era
and the beginning of the stereophonic recording standard.
- The up-tempo recordings for "Como Swings" were
not just simply showing off Perry's ability to swing
but
- rather the new era of big stereo productions. Three
full stereo albums came out of this period
including,
- "Saturday Night with Mr. C." and
"When You Come to the End of the Day" which
were released in 1958
- and "Como Swings"
released in 1959. The first and the latter were
spectacular show pieces but the middle
- one, "When
You Come to the End of the Day" must really be heard
in stereo to be fully appreciated and is
- perhaps Perry's finest vocal performance from the 1950s. The
second best performance, ironically, was probably
- the
album sessions for "We Get Letters" that would
have benefited tremendously had it been recorded in
stereo.
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