Accentuate The Positive 'Live'

medley with "Swingin' On a Star" 

 

2nd recording 1980 'Live' Medley version~

 

Music by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer , 1944

 

Arranged and Conducted by Nick Perito

with Vocal Arrangements by Ray Charles

 

Live recording on location produced by Mike Berniker

Time 31:36 Side A and 28:42 Side B applause and talk included

 

Recording Engineer: Mike Moran

RCA Mobile Unit: Ron Olson and Tom Brown

Mastering Engineer: Mike Posner

 

Recorded 'Live' at the Mill Run Theatre, Niles, Illinois, July 29th, 30th, 31st, 1980

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "Perry Como Live On Tour" AQL1-3826 STEREO 1981

 

Notes: ~ This song was included within a tribute to Bing Crosby which Perry performed several times

in live performance and on his well known television specials throughout the 1980s.  The tribute was

again featured in live performance on a 1989 PBS television special with the Boston Pops and

John Williams which included an encore performance with Perry singing

"The Wind Beneath My Wings" interspersed with Crosby and Como video footage

from their 1960 television shows where each was the guest of the other.

This PBS Special was repeated many times during the years following.

 

 

 

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Recorded "Live" on location 1980 ~

Arranged and Conducted by Nick Perito

with Vocal Arrangements by Ray Charles

Live recording on location produced by Mike Berniker

Recording Engineer: Mike Moran

RCA Mobile Unit: Ron Olson and Tom Brown

Mastering Engineer: Mike Posner

Recorded 'Live' at the Mill Run Theatre, Niles, Illinois, July 29th, 30th, 31st, 1980

 

Notes: ~ Also known as "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," this song was introduced by Bing Crosby and

Sunny Tufts in the 1944 Hollywood musical "Here Come the Waves." It was nominated for an Academy Award.

Best-selling records by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (Decca), and Johnny Mercer (Capitol). Artie Shaw,

vocal by Imogene Lynn (Victor), and Kay Kyser, vocal by Dorothy Mitchell (Columbia), also had popular recordings.

The song was on "Your Hit Parade" for thirteen weeks, four times as #1. Perry recorded this song in early 1958

for one of his very first full stereophonic albums as noted above.

A Perry Como Discography 

& Digital Companion

| Site Links | All Albums |  All Songs | The Recording Sessions |

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