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The Songs I Love (album)

The Songs I Love was Perry Como's 11th RCA Victor 12" long-play album and the first featuring RCA Victor's Dynagroove technology.[3][4]

The Songs I Love
Studio album by
Perry Como
ReleasedJuly 1963
RecordedMarch 18–19, 25–26, 1963
GenreVocal
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerHugo & Luigi
Perry Como chronology
The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President
(1963) 		The Songs I Love
(1963) 		The Scene Changes
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Record Mirror[2]

Perry Como hosted an hour-long program on NBC TV until June 1963, the year that The Songs I Love was released. A regular feature of the show would seat Como on a distinctive set that spelled out "Mr. C." while he would croon a favorite song.[5][6] A photo of the set adorns the cover of Songs I Love. This album reproduces the effect of that segment (which producers Hugo & Luigi describe as "one of the few great traditions in television") over a dozen soft ballads such as "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" and "This Is All I Ask." The leadoff track, "The Songs I Love", sets the tone for everything that follows, and, not surprisingly, it turns out that pop standards are the songs Como loves. The Songs I Love was a commercially successful album aimed at fans of The Perry Como Show, to whom it is recommended.

Track listing

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Side one

  1. "The Songs I Love" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn) - 3:20
  2. "(I Left My Heart) In San Francisco" (music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglas Cross) - 3:17
  3. "Fly Me to the Moon" (In Other Words) (words and music by Bart Howard) - 3:20
  4. "Slightly Out of Tune" (music by Antônio Carlos Jobim) - 3:12
  5. "This is All I Ask" (words and music by Gordon Jenkins) - 3:18
  6. "Hawaiian Wedding Song" (Ke Kali Nei Au ) - 2:37

Side two

  1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer) - 2:43
  2. "Carnival" (Music by Luiz Bonfá and lyrics by Antonio Maria) - 3:24
  3. "My Coloring Book" (Music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb) - 3:33
  4. "I Wanna Be Around" (words and music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt) - 3:00
  5. "When I Lost You" (words and music by Irving Berlin) - 2:55
  6. "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from the 1961 stage musical Stop the World I Want to Get Off) - 2:34

References

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  1. ^ The Songs I Love at AllMusic. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. ^ Watson, Jimmy (4 January 1964). "Perry Como: The Songs I Love" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 147. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  3. ^ "The Songs I love". Kokomo. Archived from the original on June 30, 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  4. ^ "The Songs I Love-credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  5. ^ "It's impossible! Perry Como actually hated those sweaters". Milwaukee Journal. 24 July 1985. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  6. ^ Smith, Cecil (22 January 1970). "Perry Como's Relaxed As Ever". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
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