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RCA JAPAN RJL-2023 ~
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MONAURAL
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1982
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With
Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra
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and The Ray Charles Singers
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Collector's
tracks from 1954 to 1961
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- Side 1
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Hit
and Run Affair
- ~ a double charting single from
December, 1953,
- with flip side "There Never Was a
Night So Beautiful"
- Words and Music by Don Roseland, Ray Cormier and
Mel Van, 1954
- With Hugo Winterhalter's
Orchestra
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The
Things I Didn't Do
- ~ a popular single for Perry from
September,
1954
- this song charted at No. 22, a
popular "B" flip side to "Papa Loves Mambo"
- Words and Music by Fred Jay, Ira Kosloff and
Irving Reid
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Chorus ( Singers )
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Ko
Ko Mo ( I Love
You So )
- ~ a charted single from January, 1955,
- with flip side "You'll Always Be My
Lifetime Sweetheart"
- Words and Music by Eunice Levy, Jake Porter and
Forest Wilson , 1955
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Chee
Chee-Oo Chee (
Sang The Little Bird )
- ~ a double charting single from April,
1955,
- with flip side "Two Lost Souls"
- Music by Saverio Seracini
- with English lyrics by
John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, 1955
- Original Italian lyrics by Ettore Minoretti
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and Jaye P. Morgan
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Two
Lost Souls
- ~ a double charting single from April,
1955,
- with flip side "Chee Chee-Oo Chee ( Sang the Little Bird )"
- from the musical production
"Damn Yankees"
- Words and Music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, 1955
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and Jaye P. Morgan
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Tina
Marie
- ~ a double charting single from June,
1955, with flip side "Fooled"
- Words and Music by Bob
Merrill
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Fooled
- ~ a double charting single from June,
1955,
- with flip side "Tina Marie"
- Music by Doris Tauber and lyrics by Manny Curtis, 1955
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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All
At Once You Love Her
- ~ a double charted single from
September, 1955,
- with flip side "The Rose Tattoo"
- from the musical production
"Pipe Dream"
- Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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- Side 2
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- ( The )
Rose Tattoo
- ~ a popular single for Perry in Japan
from September, 1955
- inspired by the
Paramount-Wallis film "The Rose Tattoo"
- Music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Jack Brooks
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Juke Box Baby
- ~ a popular double charted
single for Perry from February, 1956,
- and flip side to "Hot Diggity
(
Dog Ziggity Boom )"
- Music by Joe Sherman and lyrics Noel
Sherman, 1956 Arranged by Joe Reisman
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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- More
- ~ a double charting single from May,
1956,
- with flip side "Glendora"
- Music by Alex Alstone and lyrics by
Tom Glazer
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Glendora
- ~ a double charting single from May,
1956, with flip side "More"
- Words and Music by Ray
Stanley, 1956
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Somebody
Up There Likes Me
- ~ a double charted single from
June, 1956,
- with flip side "Dream Along With Me
(
I'm On My Way To a Star )"
- from the 1956 MGM film
"Somebody Up There Likes Me" and performed by Perry
- Music by Bronislau Kaper and lyrics by
Sammy Cahn
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Dream
Along With Me
(
I'm On My Way To A Star )
- ~ recorded by Perry in June,
1956
- theme song from "The
Perry Como Show"
- Words and Music by Carl Sigman, 1956
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Moonlight
Love
- ~ a popular double charted
single for Perry from September, 1956,
- and flip side to "Chincherinchee"
- Music from "Clair de Lune"
by Claude Debussy
- Adapted by Domenico Savino with lyrics
by Mitchell Parish, 1956
- Arranged by Joe Reisman
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Chincherinchee
- ~ one
of Perry's popular singles from September, 1956
- Words and Music by John Jerome, 1956
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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- Side 3
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Girl with the Golden Braids
- ~ a double charting single from April,
1957,
- with flip side "My Little Baby"
- Music by Eddie Snyder and lyrics by Stanley J. Kahan, 1957
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My
Little Baby
- ~ a double charting single from April,
1957,
- with flip side "The Girl With The
Golden Braids"
- Words and Music by Joe Shapiro
and Lou Stallman ( composers of "Round and Round" )
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Dancin'
- ~ a charted single from July, 1957,
- with flip side "Marchin'
Along to the Blues"
- Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Just
Born
( To Be Your Baby )
- ~ a popular single for Perry from
July, 1957,
- flip side with "Ivy Rose"
- Words and Music by Luther Dixon and Billy Dawn Smith
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Ivy
Rose
- ~ a popular single for Perry from
July, 1957,
- flip side with "Just Born ( To Be Your
Baby )"
- Words and Music by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Kewpie
Doll
( with Ray Charles )
- ~ a popular single for Perry from
March, 1958
- un-credited duet with Perry's Choral
Director, Ray Charles
- Words and Music by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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- Moon
- Talk
- ~ charted single from March, 1958,
- with flip side "Beats There a Heart So
True"
- Words and Music by Al Hoffman and Dick
Manning
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Love
Makes the World Go 'Round
- ~ a double charting single from
September, 1958,
- with flip side "Mandolins In The
Moonlight"
- Words and Music by Ollie Jones
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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- Side 4
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Mandolins
In The Moonlight
- ~ a popular double charted
single for Perry from September, 1958,
- and flip side to "Love Makes The World
Go 'Round"
- Words and Music by George Weiss and
Aaron Schroeder
- Arranged by Joe Reisman
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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- Tomboy
- ~ Perry's charted single from January, 1959,
- with flip side "Kiss Me and Kiss Me
and Kiss Me"
- Words and Music by Joe Farrell and Jim Conway
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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- I Know
- ~ a popular charted single for
Perry from May, 1959,
- with flip side "You Are In Love"
- Words and Music by Carl Stutz and Edith Lindeman
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Delaware
- ~ a
popular single from December,
1959,
- with flip side "I Know What God Is"
- this was Perry's last recorded single
of the 50s and his first release of the 60s double charted
- Words and Music by Irving
Gordon ( composer of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" )
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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I
Know What God Is
- ~ a double charting single from December, 1958,
- flip side to "Delaware"
- With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and The
Ray Charles Singers
- Words and Music by Don Raye, Ned Freeman and
John G. Bowen
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- Make
Someone Happy
- ~ a
charted single from October, 1960, with flip side "Gone Is My
Love"
- from the Broadway production
"Do Re Mi"
- Music by Julie Styne and lyrics by Betty Comden and
Adolph Green
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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You're
Following Me
- ~ a charting single from October, 1961,
- with flip side "Especially For the
Young"
- Music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Bob Hilliard
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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Caterina
- ~ a
popular single from February, 1962
- Words and Music by Earl Shuman and Maurice "Bugs" Bower, 1961
- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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original
tracks recorded in stereo
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With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and the Ray
Charles Singers.
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Two record set RCA Japanese compilation
1982.
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Many tracks available here for first time since the
original single release
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All tracks in this album are
monaural.
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| Front Cover | Back Cover | Label 1 | Label 2 | Label 3 | Label 4 |
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| 1940s | Early 50s | Late 50s | Early 60s | Late 60s | Early 70s | Late 70s | 1980s |
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With
Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra
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and The Ray Charles Singers
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Collector's
tracks from 1954 to 1961
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- A Perry Como
Discography
- & Digital Companion
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