the essential \

Perry Como

 

It's Impossible

Original music with Spanish lyrics

by Canache Armando Manzanero, 1970

with English lyrics by Sid Wayne

 

And I Love You So

Words and Music by Don McLean

 

For The Good Times

Words and Music by Kris Kristofferson

 

I Think of You

Music by Francis Albert Lai 

with lyrics by Rod McKuen

 

Catch a Falling Star  

~ first certified "Gold" record by R.I.A.A. in 1958

Words and Music by Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance

 

Magic Moments

~  recorded by Perry in December, 1957

Music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David , 1958

 

I've Got You Under My Skin

~ from the 1936 Hollywood musical "Born to Dance"

Words and Music by Cole Porter

 

( I Love You ) Don't You Forget It

Music by Henry Mancini 

with lyrics by Al Stillman ,1963

 

Delaware

Words and Music by Irving Gordon 

( composer of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" )

 

Papa Loves Mambo

~  recorded by Perry in August, 1954

Words and Music by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning and Bix Reichner 1954

 

Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes ( with The Ramblers )

~  recorded by Perry in November, 1952

Words and Music by Slim Willet, 1952

 

Hot Diggity  ( Dog Ziggity Boom )

~ Adapted from Alexis Chabrier's 1st theme of España, Rhapsody for Orchestra

Words and Music by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning, 1956

Some Enchanted Evening

Hello, Young Lovers

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

Music by Richard Rodgers 

and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II , 1951

If I Loved You

The Very Thought of You

Words and Music by Ray Noble, 1934

 

What Kind of Fool Am I ?

~ from the 1961 Stage Musical "Stop the World I Want to Get Off"

Music by Leslie Bricusse and lyrics by Anthony Newley

 

Wanted

~  recorded by Perry in December, 1953

Words and Music by Lois Steele and Jack Fulton , 1954

 

Moon River

~ from the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer

 

( They Long to Be ) Close to You

Music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David , 1970

 

If ( Gates )

Words and Music by David A. Gates

 

Try To Remember  ( 1968 from "Look to Your Heart" )

from the musical production "The Fantasticks"

Music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones

 

I Want to Give

Music by  J. Eduardo Ruben Carballo and Enrique Raul De Jesus ( J. Marcelo )

English lyrics Gene Nash

 

( The ) Best of Times  

~ from the score of the Broadway musical "La Cage Aux Folles"

Words and Music by Jerry Herman, 1983

 

1 DISC ~ 24 TRACKS

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Album Notes by Paul Sexton, Summer 2003

 

A Perry Como Discography 

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