2 Record Collection

 

PICKWICK INTERNATIONAL PDA-011

ELECTRONICALLY REPROCESSED STEREO

ASSEMBLED IN 1979

 

Romantic Songs

~ from the Como Collection

 

Side One

 

Kiss Me And Kiss Me And Kiss Me ( Tre Volte Baciami )

~  a popular  single for Perry from January, 1959, and flip side to "Tomboy"

Original music by Luciano Beretta with Italian lyrics by Arturo Casadei

English lyrics Al Hoffman and Dick Manning

 

Here's To My Lady

~  a popular  single for Perry from September, 1951, and flip side to "If Wishes Were Kisses"

Music by Rube Bloom and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, 1951

 

You'll Always Be My Lifetime Sweetheart

~  a popular single for Perry from January, 1955, and flip side to "Ko-Ko-Mo ( I Love You So )"

Music by Robert "Bobby" Day with lyrics by Johnny Burke ( under the pseudonym K.C. Rogan )

Arranged by Joe Reisman

 

Carolina Moon

~ recorded in July, 1947, and released as a flip side to "Haunted Heart" in 1948

also included within one of Perry's first album compilations "A Sentimental Date"

Music by Joe Burke and lyrics by Benny Davis , 1929

 

Somebody Loves Me

~ recorded in June, 1956, and released within Perry's 1957 album "We Get Letters"

this song was featured in the 1955 film "Pete Kelly's Blues"

Music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and B.G. DeSylva, 1924

 

Side Two

 

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

 

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

 

I Know~ real stereo

~  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

 

Island of Forgotten Lovers~ real stereo

~  a popular flip side from Perry's 1962 single "Caterina"

Words and Music by Dick Manning and Kay Twomey

 

That Old Gang of Mine

~  a single release from January, 1951, with flip side

"I Found a Million Dollar Baby ( In a Five and Ten Cent Store ) "

featured in the Stage musical "Ziegfield Follies of 1923"

Music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by Billy Rose and Mort Dixon

 

~ released here in real stereo

~ recorded in real stereo but released here in simulated stereo from monaural

 

Side Three

 

The Sweetest Sounds

~ from the Stage musical "No Strings"

Words and Music by Richard Rodgers, 1962

 

My Favorite Things

~ from "The Sound of Music" 1959, 1965

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

Fly Me to the Moon  ( In Other Words )

Words and Music by Bart Howard

 

I'll Remember April

~ from the 1942 Western Musical Comedy "Ride 'em Cowboy"

Music by Gene DePaul and lyrics by Patricia Johnston, and Don Raye

 

( The ) Hawaiian Wedding Song ( Ke Kali Nei Au )

Music by Charles E. King

with English lyrics by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning, 1959

Original written in 1926 by Charles E. King

with Hawaiian words and title "Ke Kali Nei Au"

 

In The Still of The Night

~ from the 1937 Hollywood musical "Rosalie"

Words and Music by Cole Porter

 

Side Four

 

Sunrise Sunset ( from the Broadway and musical production "Fiddler on the Roof" )

Music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

 

This is All I Ask

Words and Music by Gordon Jenkins, 1963

 

When I Lost You

~ This song was composed the year Mr. Como was born. Irving Berlin wrote

this ballad after the death of his young bride, who died shortly after their

honeymoon. It had a tremendous sheet music sale and remains one of Berlin's

most moving songs.

Words and Music by Irving Berlin , 1912

 

The Songs I Love

Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn

 

( The ) Shadow of Your Smile  ( Love theme from "The Sandpiper" ) 

Music by Johnny Mandel with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, 1965

Arranged by Torrie Zito

 

We Kiss In A Shadow

~ from the 1951 Stage musical "The King and I"

Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

 

All tracks in original stereo except as noted

~ released here in simulated stereo from monaural

 

 

| Front Cover | Back Cover | Insert | Label 1 | Label 2 | Label 3 | Label 4 | Notes |

Assembled from 2 previously released RCA Camden / Pickwick compilations

Compiled in 1979 by RCA LTD (UK) for ~ 

Pickwick International Inc. (GB) Ltd 

Victoria Works, Edgeware Road, London, England

UK albums based on 2 previously released RCA Camden ( US ) compilations

"Somebody Loves Me" RCA CAMDEN CAL / CAS-858 (e) 1965

"The Sweetest Sounds" RCA CAMDEN ACL1-0444 1974

ABOUT ELECTRONIC STEREO ( RCA CAMDEN )

This record has been electronically reprocessed for stereo from the original monaural version.

Although it is not up to RCA Camden's current standards for new stereo recordings, it has been

re-issued in this electronically reprocessed stereo version in response to public demand.

IMPORTANT! RCA Camden's monophonic records can be played on stereophonic phonographs.

RCA Camden's electronically reprocessed records with two-channel stereophonic characteristics

(Stereo/Electronically Reprocessed) must be played on phonographs equipped for stereophonic

reproduction. 

| US Release 1965 | Original Album Notes | US Release 1974 |

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A Perry Como Discography 

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Second Edition Christmas 1993

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25th Anniversary Revision November, 2017

Digital Upgrade August, 2018

November 2024 Revised Edition

 

 

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