Chorus
honors leader
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NICK PERITO has accompanied, arranged,
composed and conducted for many of the worlds most famous singers and
entertainers. His career in television has earned him twelve Emmy
nominations. This book offers an affectionate glimpse of his
upbringing as the son of Italian immigrants and recounts his
successful career in the colorful and unpredictable world of show
business.
Purchase information: write to book@kokomo.ca |
| This is an album of instrumental music, brilliantly played by Mitchell Ayres and his orchestra, the same orchestra in general that accompanies Perry Como each Saturday night on his great NBC-TV show. The music is perfect for dancing, superb for listening. No matter what kind of wonderful weekend you may be planning, this album can't help making it more enjoyable. |
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In 1934 a USA branch of
Decca was launched, which quickly became a major player in the depressed
United States record market thanks to it's roster of popular artists . . . including Perry
Como who was then a featured vocalist with The Ted Weems Orchestra.
Perry Como
with Ted Weems' Orchestra | Chronological Listing | Alphabetical Listing | |
| On May 18,1912. Born to Pietro and Lucia Como. In Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Pierino ( Perry ) Ronald Como. Seventh son of a seventh son. Favourite nephew of Lady Luck. |
| A singer, like a songwriter, must be judged by his staying power. You can't point to one or two hit records that he made. You must ask "How good has his average been over the years?" Perry Como's record ( no pun intended ) will show that he's been up there on top for a good many years and I know he will remain there for a good many more. Irving Berlin |
| It's a well known bit of show business fact that Perry's first ambition was to be the best barber in Canonsburg. At 14, he was apprenticed to Steve Fragapane who taught him the trade of the shears, and Perry soon opened his own shop as an after-school money maker. |
| Perry Como, singer of popular songs, has been billed as "King of the Jukes" as a result of the widespread sale of his recordings. The baritone left his trade as a barber to become, first, a vocalist with a band and, later, a solo singer who is rated high in the popularity polls. The inspiration for a number of fan clubs, Como is heard not only through records, but also on the "Supper Club", a radio network program. |
| Perry Como, singer of popular songs, has been billed as "King of the Jukes" as a result of the widespread sale of his recordings. The baritone left his trade as a barber to become, first, a vocalist with a band and, later, a solo singer who is rated high in the popularity polls. The inspiration for a number of fan clubs, Como is heard not only through records, but also on the "Supper Club", a radio network program. |
| BMG Special Products is a division of BMG and Bertelsmann AG. This division works cooperatively with third-party labels who wish to produce specialist music compilations for their own purposes. The vast majority of third-party compilations are produced using the services of this division. Recordings are licensed from the RCA Victor Records Label and produced in accordance with a standard established solely by the third party label. |
| The Como's have three children, 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. In an era when superstars children grow up slightly screwed up, the Como children werent ... thanks to Roselle. |
| He was there at the beginning of television, hosting one of the first weekly variety shows. For almost a decade, Perry Como was the weekly Saturday-night date at eight for millions. He won a fistful of Emmys and a handful of Grammys, many for the 27 gold records he proudly owns. ``For the amount of talent I had ~ and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke ~ I enjoyed a tremendous career," says Perry. ``I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.'' |
| Can even Superman blast Lois Lane's super-crush on super-crooner Perry Como? |
| For the secret of how to have fun while you work, watch Perry Como on his thrice-weekly musical fests. That affable gentleman of song disproves the old adage that business and pleasure don't mix. |
| Perry's contract with Kraft Foods achieves recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest in the history of the television medium. |
| Perry records he novelty song "Delaware" back to back with the inspirational "I Know What God Is" as his first single of the new decade. |
| Perry's "Kraft Music Hall" is broadcast throughout the world to an international audience of enormous proportion. In November of 1960 he would complete the first of five albums with Hugo & Luigi and begin one of the most successful decades of his recording career with RCA Victor. |
| My father was a "serious" Perry Como fan. Today, he would be called a fanatic! So serious was he that following World War II he, along with an uncle of mine, recorded all the American Forces Network radio programmes which had been broadcast on the airwaves featuring Perry. < Bill Hodges-Smith > |
| In January, 1994, Perry Como traveled to Dublin, Ireland, for what would become an auspicious moment within his long career of more than 60 years. |
| A privately funded project to re-release 14 of Perry's original RCA Victor albums including many unreleased tracks. These recordings are to be engineered to the highest possible standards by specialist engineers. |
| A complete discography of Perry's RCA Victor recordings from 1943 through to 1987, including those he made with Ted Weems and His Orchestra between 1936 and 1941, plus the final recordings from Ireland in 1994. Complete with lyrics and audio files. Approval pending. |
| Doug Bell's page and his memories of Perry Como and what he meant in the life of Doug and his wife, Lucille, and their marriage . . . 1951. Doug met Perry Como as a 16 year old DJ in 1947. He met Perry Como in the early 50s at NBC while taking a college course under the NBC Chief Announcer at NBC. The 19 year old was so impacted by the demeanor of Perry Como . . . it has lasted a lifetime. This is his tribute to a great man. |
| A mellow blend. There's no other way to describe this collection of medleys by two of pop music's most famous Mr. C's ~ Perry Como and Bing Crosby. These selections are taken from the television programs broadcast in early 1960 on which Bing and Perry exchanged guest appearances. On these shows, they both joked about the medleys being made into an album because, up until that time, they had never recorded together. Regretfully, a formal recording session never did take place during the next seventeen years before Bing's death and so this rather facetious suggestion made two decades earlier turns out to be the perfect way to preserve these priceless performances by the ex-barber from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and the ex-law student from Spokane, Washington. |
| The CD Companion is a parallel sub-web within the Perry Como Discography having independent internal links. Individual song links within the Companion will open a special CD-Finder database which will help you identify songs released on specific compact discs whereas discography links have a very different purpose. Discography links will follow individual songs to their original source with full background information in minute detail. You may move between the Discography and the CD Companion through hyperlinks located at the bottom of each page. Take care to learn the two different purposes of the CD Companion and the Discography Sites while searching for information about these recordings. |
| The popular music industry is caught in a Catch-22 situation; whereas technology has been jumping in leaps and bounds with the possibility of better recordings than we've ever heard before, the ability of consumers to make their own copies and share files through the Internet has cast a death knell on the legitimate prospects of releasing these recordings as they deserve to be heard, re-mixed and remastered from original first generation sources. |
| These terms are used in radio circles to describe those who, on the one hand, like their music pure, and those who, on the other hand, seem to like their music distorted. What's what with the radio-phonograph combination which sometimes approaches high fidelity, but more often does not. The industry's theme: the public isn't interested |
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