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The Perry Como Christmas Album is Perry Como's 15th RCA Victor 12" long-play album. [2] [3] Como is accompanied on the album by the Ray Charles Singers and an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nick Perito. On two songs, "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", boy choristers from the Little Church Around the ...
On November 10, 2009, On the Air issued a three disk box set of recordings made from Como's CBS radio show Columbia Presents Como called On the Radio – The Perry Como Shows 1943. Como was the host of this radio show from March 12, 1943, until December 11, 1944, when he moved to NBC as the host of The Chesterfield Supper Club .
The album (LPM-1243) included the same eight songs as before, as well as eight "new" ones which had been recorded and released in 1953 on the Perry Como LP, Around The Christmas Tree (LPM-3133). This album was also released that year as two separate EPs, one with the same title, Around The Christmas Tree , and the other, Christmas Joy . [ 2 ]
Season's Greetings from Perry Como, originally released in 1959, was Perry Como's sixth RCA Victor 12-inch long-play album and the fourth recorded in stereophonic sound, as well as his first major full-length Christmas album.
First released in 1990 on the Reader's Digest album The Best of Perry Como [188] "I Don't Know What He Told You" Giulio Rapetti Elio Cesari Alberto Testa English: Robert I. Allen 1974 [43] Previously recorded in 1973 under the title "He Couldn't Love You More" [189] "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" Bennie Benjamin George Weiss: 1949
Perry Como's Christmas Concert is a 1994 live recording by Perry Como, the last before his death in 2001.Taped at the Point Theatre in Dublin before a live audience of 4,500 which included Irish President Mary Robinson, the concert was also issued on videotape and broadcast in the USA on PBS. [3]
Como was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Pittsburgh. [15] He was the seventh of 13 children [16] and the first American-born child of Pietro Como (1877–1945) and Lucia Travaglini (1883–1961), [17] [18] [19] who both emigrated to the US in 1910 from the Abruzzese town of Palena, Italy.
Perhaps the most iconic version of the song, other than the original Perry Como version, is the Carpenters’ recording on their 1984 LP release, An Old Fashioned Christmas. In 1987, the Muppets sang it in the ABC special, A Muppet Family Christmas. In 1992, Joe Pass recorded a jazz guitar instrumental cover for his holiday album, Six-String Santa.