Along with Frank Sinatra, Perry Como was one of the most prolific hit-makers among the illustrious elite of star crooners in the immediate post-war decades, racking up an astonishing succession of hits through into the rock 'n' roll era and defying the cataclysmic changes in the pop landscape that the new music wrought. His continuous visibility and huge popularity on radio and TV ensured that he was constantly in the public eye and his records, which encompassed romantic ballads, up-tempo novelty songs and middle-of-the-road pop and in later years even flirted with rock flavoured material, gave him a regular chart presence. This excellent-value 126-track 5-CD collection comprises all his Billboard and UK chart hits from this era, including duets with The Fontane Sisters, Jaye P. Morgan, Eddie Fisher, Helen Carroll and Betty Hutton, plus a few bonus tracks which only made the Cash Box charts. It includes no less than fourteen No. 1s - "Til The End Of Time", "Prisoner Of Love", "Chi-Ba-Ba, Chi-Ba-Ba", "Surrender", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Hoop-De-Doo", "If", "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes", "No Other Love", "Wanted", "Hot Diggity", "Round And Round", "Catch A Falling Star" and "Magic Moments". It's a must for every Perry Como fan, and it provides a substantial and evocative showcase for his unique talent as an interpreter of the fine songs of his time, and as an artist who very much represented the zeitgeist of popular taste during his heyday.
10 I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before)
11 If I Loved You
12 Till the End of Time
13 (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling in the Moonlight
14 Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)
15 Here Comes Heaven Again
16 I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
17 You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
18 All Through the Day
19 Prisoner of Love
20 If You Were the Only Girl
21 They Say It's Wonderful
22 Surrender
23 More Than You Know
24 If I'm Lucky
- Disc 2 -
1 Winter Wonderland
2 That's the Beginning of the End
3 Sonata
4 When You Were Sweet Sixteen
5 Chi Baba Chi Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
6 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
7 So Far
8 Because
9 Haunted Heart
10 Rambling Rose
11 N'yot N'yow (The Pussycat Song)
12 Far Away Places
13 Blue Room
14 Forever and Ever
15 I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore
16 "A" - You're Adorable
17 Bali Hai
18 Some Enchanted Evening
19 Just One Way to Say I Love You
20 Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk
21 Give Me Your Hand
22 A Dreamer's Holiday
23 I Wanna Go Home (With You)
24 The Lord's Prayer
- Disc 3 -
1 Ave Maria
2 Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo (The Magic Song)
3 On the Out-Going Tide
4 Hoop-Dee-Doo
5 I Cross My Fingers
6 Patricia
7 A Bushel and a Peck
8 So Long Sally
9 (I Wonder Why) You're Just in Love
10 Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom
11 If
12 Hello Young Lovers
13 There's a Big Blue Cloud (Next to Heaven)
14 There's No Boat Like a Rowboat
15 Rollin' Stone
16 With All My Heart and Soul
17 It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas
18 Tulips and Heather
19 Please Mr. Sun
20 Noodlin' Rag
21 One Little Candle
22 Maybe
23 Watermelon Weather
24 My Love and Devotion
- Disc 4 -
1 To Know You Is to Love You
2 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
3 Wild Horses
4 I Confess
5 My One and Only Heart
6 Say You're Mine Again
7 No Other Love
8 You Alone (Solo Tu)
9 Pa-Paya Mama
10 Wanted
11 Idle Gossip
12 Hit and Run Affair
13 Papa Loves Mambo
14 The Things I Didn't Do
15 (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
16 Ko Ko Mo
17 Nobody
18 Two Lost Souls
19 Chee Chee-Oo Chee (Sang the Little Bird)
20 Fooled
21 Tina Marie
22 All at Once You Love Her
23 The Rose Tattoo
24 Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)
25 Jukebox Baby
26 More
- Disc 5 -
1 Glendora
2 Dream Along with Me
3 Somebody Up There Likes Me
4 Moonlight Love
5 Chincherinchee
6 Round and Round
7 Mi Casa, Su Casa (My House Is Your House)
8 The Girl with the Golden Braids
9 My Little Baby
10 Dancin'
11 Just Born (To Be Your Baby)
12 Jingle Bells
13 Ivy Rose
14 Catch a Falling Star
15 Magic Moments
16 Kewpie Doll
17 Dance Only with Me
18 I May Never Pass This Way Again
19 Moon Talk
20 Love Makes the World Go 'Round
21 Mandolins in the Moonlight
22 Tomboy
23 I Know
24 Delaware
25 I Know What God Is
26 Make Someone Happy
27 You're Following Me
28 Caterina
Along with Frank Sinatra, Perry Como was one of the most prolific hit-makers among the illustrious elite of star crooners in the immediate post-war decades, racking up an astonishing succession of hits through into the rock 'n' roll era and defying the cataclysmic changes in the pop landscape that the new music wrought. His continuous visibility and huge popularity on radio and TV ensured that he was constantly in the public eye and his records, which encompassed romantic ballads, up-tempo novelty songs and middle-of-the-road pop and in later years even flirted with rock flavoured material, gave him a regular chart presence. This excellent-value 126-track 5-CD collection comprises all his Billboard and UK chart hits from this era, including duets with The Fontane Sisters, Jaye P. Morgan, Eddie Fisher, Helen Carroll and Betty Hutton, plus a few bonus tracks which only made the Cash Box charts. It includes no less than fourteen No. 1s - "Til The End Of Time", "Prisoner Of Love", "Chi-Ba-Ba, Chi-Ba-Ba", "Surrender", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Hoop-De-Doo", "If", "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes", "No Other Love", "Wanted", "Hot Diggity", "Round And Round", "Catch A Falling Star" and "Magic Moments". It's a must for every Perry Como fan, and it provides a substantial and evocative showcase for his unique talent as an interpreter of the fine songs of his time, and as an artist who very much represented the zeitgeist of popular taste during his heyday.