I Don't Know What He Told You

Original Italian Words and Music by Giulio Rapetti, Elio Cesari, Alberto Testa

English lyrics by Robert I. Allen

Donert/Roncom Music Co., ASCAP

Arranged and Conducted by Nick Perito

Produced by Pete Spargo

Also recorded in 1973 under the title "He Couldn't Love you More"

Recorded in RCA's Studio "C," New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recording Technicians: Joe Lopes and Tom Brown

Recording Time 2:42

Recorded January 07, 1974, RCA's Studio "C," New York

Matrix No. DPA1-1103 Take 1 +

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Perry" CPL1\CPD1-0585 STEREO\QUAD 1974

Single release: RCA-45RPM-APB0-0274-A

Single Flip Side: "Weave Me the Sunshine"

Charted Adult Contemporary No. 8

Mexico Single release: RCA-45RPM-SP-4093 RCA Mexicana ( White Label ) 1974

Single Flip Side: "Weave Me the Sunshine" ( Juntame Los Rayos Del Sol )

UK Single release: RCA-45RPM-LPB0-7520-B

Single Flip Side: "The Way We Were"

A grand ballad, musically and lyrically,

that only a singer of Perry's stature could essay.

"I Don't Know What He Told You" Japan Single with flip side "Weave Me the Sunshine"

"I Don't Know What He Told You" Belgium Single with flip side "Weave Me the Sunshine"

"I Don't Know What He Told You" Mexico Single with flip side "Weave Me the Sunshine"

Originally a popular Italian song, this intriguing tune was titled 'Un Uomo Tra la Folla', which translates roughly to 'A Man Against the Crowd', or, perhaps, 'One Man in Many'. But Robert I. Allen took what writers Renis, Mogol and Testa had composed and made it right for Perry. It's the old eternal triangle again, with Perry singing the role of the guy in the odd corner, trying to keep his love, despite what the other man has told her.

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