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The original release included "O Little Town of Bethlehem" which was replaced in 1947 by Irving Berlin's famous song "White Christmas". This album, along with Como's later stereophonic Christmas collections, Season's Greetings from Perry Como (1959) and The Perry Como Christmas Album (1968), are among the all time best-selling Christmas albums ...
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.
Song Music by Lyrics by Year Notes A "Abide with Me" William Henry Monk: Henry Francis Lyte: 1953 [1] with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & Ray Charles Singers [2] "Act of Contrition" Joseph J. Leahy Traditional 1953 [1] with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & Ray Charles Singers [3] "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Harold Arlen: Johnny Mercer: 1958
Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra released their cover of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" on September 18, 1951. Their edition became one of the most successful versions of the song, which is still widely played today, with over 382 million streams on Spotify as of May 1, 2024.
Como and the choir performed the song, a few weeks after the film's October 1974 release, on the television special Perry Como's Christmas Show. [1] [2] The song was subsequently released as a single, reaching #92 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1974. [3] It was also included on the soundtrack album for the film, and later on Como's ...
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.
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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.