The Songs I Love (Perry Como album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Songs I Love
Type = Album
Artist = Perry Como


Released = 1963
Recorded = March 18th, 19th, 25th & 26th, 1963
Genre = Vocal
Length = ~~:~~
Label = RCA Victor
Producer = Hugo & Luigi
Reviews =
* " [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39zyxdgbjolf All Music Guide] " Rating|2.5|5
Last album = "The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President" 1963
This album = "The Songs I Love'
(1962)
Next album = "The Scene Changes" (1965)

"The Songs I Love" was Perry Como's 11th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the ninth recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the first featuring Dynagroove technology.

Perry Como hosted an hour-long program on NBC TV until 1963, the year that Songs I Love was released. A regular feature of the show was that Como would croon a favorite song while seated on a distinctive set that spelled out "Mr. C." A photo of the set adorns the cover of Songs I Love, and the album aims to reproduce 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

Side One
#The Songs I Love (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn)
#(I Left My Heart) In San Francisco (Music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglas Cross)
#Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)(Words and Music by Bart Howard)
#Slightly Out of Tune (Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim)
#This is All I Ask (Words and Music by Gordon Jenkins)
#(The) Hawaiian Wedding Song ( Ke Kali Nei Au ) Side Two
#Days of Wine and Roses (Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
#Carnival (Music by Luiz Bonfa and lyrics by Antonio Maria)
#My Coloring Book (Music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb)
#I Wanna Be Around (Words and Music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt)
#Mrs. Vimmerstedt, (Words and Music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt)
#When I Lost You (Words and Music by Irving Berlin)
#What Kind of Fool Am I? (from the 1961 Stage Musical "Stop the World I Want to Get Off")

References

* [http://www.kokomo.ca Perry Como Discography]