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Perry Como: Legends (3-CD)

(BMG UK & Ireland) 50 tracks - 3-CD in Slipcase - Essential Collection! 

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  • Interpret: Perry Como

  • Album titlle: Legends (3-CD)

  • Label BMG

  • Genre Pop

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0828766370720

  • weight in Kg 0.3
Como, Perry - Legends (3-CD) CD 1
01And I Love You SoPerry Como
02Round & RoundPerry Como
03YesterdayPerry Como
04Moon TalkPerry Como
05El Condor PasaPerry Como
06SomethingPerry Como
07Magic MomentsPerry Como
08It All Seems To Fall Into LinePerry Como
09Just Born (To Be Your Baby)Perry Como
10FeelingsPerry Como
11Mi Casa Su CasaPerry Como
12SnowbirdPerry Como
13For The Good TimesPerry Como
14Kewpie DollPerry Como
15It's ImpossiblePerry Como
16Try To RememberPerry Como
17Catch A Falling StarPerry Como
18Wind Beneath My WingsPerry Como
Como, Perry - Legends (3-CD) CD 2
01I Believe In MusicPerry Como
02SingPerry Como
03Unchained MelodyPerry Como
04Dream Onlittle DreamerPerry Como
05Raindrops Keep Falling On My HeadPerry Como
06Your Light Up My LifePerry Como
07When I Need YouPerry Como
08Mandolinsin The MoonlightPerry Como
09Killing Me Softly With Her SonPerry Como
10We Kiss In A ShadowPerry Como
11Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak TreePerry Como
12Where You're ConcernedPerry Como
13Walk Right BackPerry Como
14Juke Box BabyPerry Como
15Most Beautiful GirlPerry Como
16Moon RiverPerry Como
17I KnowPerry Como
Como, Perry - Legends (3-CD) CD 3
01Don't Let The Stars Get In Your EyesPerry Como
02I Left My Heart In San FranciscoPerry Como
03Hawaiian Wedding SongPerry Como
04SeattlePerry Como
05Days Of The Wine & RosesPerry Como
06Beyond TomorrowPerry Como
07Ivy RosePerry Como
08MorePerry Como
09We've Only Just BegunPerry Como
10Papa Loves MamboPerry Como
11Close To YouPerry Como
12Let's Do It AgainPerry Como
13GlendoraPerry Como
14There's A Kind Of HushPerry Como
15DelawarePerry Como
Perry Como P ietro and Lucia Como arrived in the United States from Italy around 1903. They... more
"Perry Como"

Perry Como

Pietro and Lucia Como arrived in the United States from Italy around 1903. They settled in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, just southwest of Pittsburgh, across the river from Steubenville, Ohio where Dean Martin, another son of first generation Italian immigrants, grew up. For the Comos, the New World was an almost exact replica of the Old. Pietro worked at Standard Tin Plate, but he and Lucia continued to speak Italian, never learning more than a few words of English until they died. They ate the food and drank the wine of the old country, attended church, and sang the songs they'd always sung. Women with less than five children were thought barren; the Comos had thirteen. Some were born in the old world, some in the new. Pierino, or Perry as he became known, arrived on May 18, 1912, the seventh son of a seventh son.

Third Avenue in Canonsburg is now Perry Como Avenue. Just the idea of it elicited a wince from Perry. He didn't like that sort of thing. For the first five years that Perry ran up and down what would become Perry Como Avenue, he didn't speak English. He only began picking it up when he went to school. The mines and the mills where many of the immigrants worked were not for him: he would be a 'barbiere.' Nick Tosches reckoned that between one-half and two-thirds of Italian immigrants declared that they were 'barbieri.' Even the great Caruso had been a barbiere. Perry started apprenticing when he was twelve, and took over an established business when he was fourteen with two grown men working for him. "A haircut was fifty cents; now I pay twenty bucks. Maybe I got out too soon,"  he said. Another shrug. Maybe he'd told that joke too often. Perry had a guitar, and led his own barbershop quartet in his own barbershop, and played valve trombone in a brass marching band. On July 4 and Italian saints' days, they would parade around Canonsburg. "My father walked right alongside me in the crowd," said Perry. "That's-a-my boy, you know. He loved music."

When it came to singing, Perry freely admitted to two influences, Russ Columbo and Bing Crosby. Perry always went out of his way to acknowledge Crosby's influence. Crosby has been portrayed as unlovable, sour-tempered, and miserly, but that's not the way Perry remembered him. "He was supposed to be surly, tough, but he was never that way with me," he said. "He was gentle. We got along. Played golf, did each other's shows, but he couldn't take a compliment. One time we did a duet on television, and I said, 'If it hadn't been for him, folks, I'd still be cutting hair.' He was embarrassed, almost insulted. Afterward, he said, 'Perry, don't say that.'"

Around the time that Crosby became really popular in 1931 and 1932, Perry was getting up on stage around Canonsburg to sing the hits of the hour. Then, during a spring vacation in Cleveland in 1933, he went to see a local bandleader, Freddie Carlone, and auditioned. Carlone offered him a job, but Perry's barber shop was a thriving business netting him around $40 a week, and he needed some prodding from his father to go with Carlone who was only offering $28. He met the band at a park in Meadville, Pennsylvania. His girlfriend, Roselle Belline, came up there with him. Neither could face their parents if they weren't married so they went to see a justice of the peace in Meadville on July 31, 1933, just a few days after Perry officially changed profession. For years, he kept up his membership in the Barbers Guild. Just in case.

Carlone led what was known as a territory band. It had thirteen pieces and they toured up and down the Ohio valley, and did a little radio but never recorded. When they weren't working, Carlone's brother would take Perry to a club in Cleveland where he would sing for tips. "Some guy would ask to hear 'Melancholy Baby,' I'd sing it, he'd put a buck into a jar," said Perry. "I did better with that than I did with the band." It was around this time that amplification became commonplace. Prior to that, singers would use megaphones. Perry had a megaphone with stardust painted on it. Now he was confronted with the new technology, but was slow to embrace it. "Freddie would say, 'Sing in the goddamn thing!'" he remembered, "and I'd say, 'No, I want to sing with the megaphone,' so in the end I sang through the megaphone into the microphone and it sounded awful. I don't think I ever knew how bad."

Carlone's band was run by three brothers, and Perry was treated as the fourth Carlone. After a show, they'd pay off the band, then do a four-way split. Perry felt so much a part of the outfit that he didn't even respond to a wire from the self-styled 'King of Jazz,' Paul Whiteman, offering him a job. Carlone tried to persuade him to leave, but Perry was adamant that he wanted to stay, and, when an offer came from Ted Weems in 1935, Carlone had to push him out the door. Weems had heard Perry at a casino in Warren, Ohio, and wired him. "Ted was the same kind of man as Freddie," said Perry. "Gentle. A gentleman. I was doing well, sending money home to my dad, ten dollars, twelve dollars. Roselle came with me on the road. We had an old Packard, we'd load it up, put a mattress in there for my son Ronnie who was just a few months old, and we'd hit the road. California. Wherever." 

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Tracklist
Como, Perry - Legends (3-CD) CD 1
01 And I Love You So
02 Round & Round
03 Yesterday
04 Moon Talk
05 El Condor Pasa
06 Something
07 Magic Moments
08 It All Seems To Fall Into Line
09 Just Born (To Be Your Baby)
10 Feelings
11 Mi Casa Su Casa
12 Snowbird
13 For The Good Times
14 Kewpie Doll
15 It's Impossible
16 Try To Remember
17 Catch A Falling Star
18 Wind Beneath My Wings
Como, Perry - Legends (3-CD) CD 2
01 I Believe In Music
02 Sing
03 Unchained Melody
04 Dream Onlittle Dreamer
05 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
06 Your Light Up My Life
07 When I Need You
08 Mandolinsin The Moonlight
09 Killing Me Softly With Her Son
10 We Kiss In A Shadow
11 Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree
12 Where You're Concerned
13 Walk Right Back
14 Juke Box Baby
15 Most Beautiful Girl
16 Moon River
17 I Know
Como, Perry - Legends (3-CD) CD 3
01 Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
02 I Left My Heart In San Francisco
03 Hawaiian Wedding Song
04 Seattle
05 Days Of The Wine & Roses
06 Beyond Tomorrow
07 Ivy Rose
08 More
09 We've Only Just Begun
10 Papa Loves Mambo
11 Close To You
12 Let's Do It Again
13 Glendora
14 There's A Kind Of Hush
15 Delaware