When I Fall In Love

~ featured in the 1957 film "Istanbul"       

Music by Victor Young and lyrics by Edward Heyman, 1952

 

Arranged by Joe Lipman

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

 

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A , 155 E. 24th Street, New York City

Recording Time 2:58

 

Recorded February 20, 1958   ~   Matrix No. J2PB-1602 Take 7

SESSION MUSICIANS

February 20, 1958 

A&R Joe Reisman

 

Orchestra

 

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

 

Sax ~ Harry Terrill

Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman

Sax ~ Stanley Webb 

Sax ~ Abraham Richman

Sax ~ Philip Zolkind 

 

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman 

Violin ~ Jack Zayde 

Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff 

Violin ~ Max Hollander 

Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz  

Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff 

Violin ~ Mac Ceppos 

Violin ~ Samuel Rand 

Violin ~ Harry Glickman 

Violin ~ Ralph Silverman 

Violin ~ Fred Buldrini 

Violin ~ Harry Hoffman 

 

Viola ~ Isadore Zir 

Viola ~ Howard Kay 

Viola ~ Leon Frengut 

 

Cello ~ Maurice Brown 

Cello ~ Lucien Schmit 

Cello ~ Harvey Shapiro

 

Trumpet ~ Malven Soloman 

 

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

 

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola

Guitar ~ Danny Perri 

 

Drums ~ Don Lamond 

Drums ~ Philip Kraus

 

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

 

Harp ~ Gloria Agostini

 

 

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With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

Arranged by Joe Lipman

Produced by Joe Reisman

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recorded February 12 ~ 20 & March 5 ~ 12, 1958

 

Notes: ~ originally from the 1952 Hollywood musical "One Minute to Zero" but the album credits

this song to the 1957 film "Istanbul" which starred Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley,

Torin Thatcher and Nat King Cole who sings this song. It was no doubt Nat King Cole's performance

in this movie, and on record, which inspired the selection of "When I Fall in Love" for the

"Saturday Night With Mr. C." album in 1958. Mr. Como's recording would have been among

the first in full stereophonic sound. Doris Day and Jeri Southern also recorded the song and it

was revived by The Lettermen in 1962. In 1992 Canada's Celine Dion and Clive Griffin performed

this song for the soundtrack of "Sleepless In Seattle" and as a hit single following. By the 1990's,

however, the original concept of a "hit single" had lost all meaning and there was no longer

a simple definition of exactly what this meant.

A Perry Como Discography 

& Digital Companion

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