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Perry Como: The Best Of Perry Como (2-CD)

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  • Interpret: Perry Como

  • Album titlle: The Best Of Perry Como (2-CD)

  • Genre Pop

  • Label Not Now Music

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 5060143495472

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Como, Perry - The Best Of Perry Como (2-CD) CD 1
01Papa Loves MamboPerry Como
02Magic MomentsPerry Como
03DelawarePerry Como
04CaterinaPerry Como
05Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)Perry Como
06It's Only A Paper MoonPerry Como
07Tina MariePerry Como
08FooledPerry Como
09Juke Box BabyPerry Como
10A Bushel And A PeckPerry Como
11Somebody Up There Likes MePerry Como
12MorePerry Como
13WantedPerry Como
14My One And Only HeartPerry Como
15With All My Heart And SoulPerry Como
16I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)Perry Como
17Mi Casa, Su Casa (My House Is Your House)Perry Como
18Hello Young LoversPerry Como
19Moon TalkPerry Como
20The Things I Didn't DoPerry Como
21MarchetaPerry Como
22GlendoraPerry Como
23No Other LovePerry Como
24Round And RoundPerry Como
25All At Once You Love HerPerry Como
Como, Perry - The Best Of Perry Como (2-CD) CD 2
01Hot DiggityPerry Como
02IfPerry Como
03Kewpie DollPerry Como
04ChincherincheePerry Como
05Dancin'Perry Como
06Pa-Paya MamaPerry Como
07My Little BabyPerry Como
08Look Out The Window (And See How I'm Standing In The Rain)Perry Como
09You Alone (Solo Tu)Perry Como
10Love Makes The World Go 'roundPerry Como
11Dream Along With Me (I'm On My Way To A Star)Perry Como
12Watermelon WeatherPerry Como
13Idle GossipPerry Como
14Ivy RosePerry Como
15Just Born (To Be Your Baby)Perry Como
16I May Never Pass This Way AgainPerry Como
17Hit And Run AffairPerry Como
18You're Following MePerry Como
19Me And My ShadowPerry Como
20The Girl With The Golden BraidsPerry Como
21LiesPerry Como
22PatriciaPerry Como
23I KnowPerry Como
24There Never Was A Night So BeautifulPerry Como
25A - You're AdorablePerry 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 - The Best Of Perry Como (2-CD) CD 1
01 Papa Loves Mambo
02 Magic Moments
03 Delaware
04 Caterina
05 Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)
06 It's Only A Paper Moon
07 Tina Marie
08 Fooled
09 Juke Box Baby
10 A Bushel And A Peck
11 Somebody Up There Likes Me
12 More
13 Wanted
14 My One And Only Heart
15 With All My Heart And Soul
16 I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
17 Mi Casa, Su Casa (My House Is Your House)
18 Hello Young Lovers
19 Moon Talk
20 The Things I Didn't Do
21 Marcheta
22 Glendora
23 No Other Love
24 Round And Round
25 All At Once You Love Her
Como, Perry - The Best Of Perry Como (2-CD) CD 2
01 Hot Diggity
02 If
03 Kewpie Doll
04 Chincherinchee
05 Dancin'
06 Pa-Paya Mama
07 My Little Baby
08 Look Out The Window (And See How I'm Standing In The Rain)
09 You Alone (Solo Tu)
10 Love Makes The World Go 'round
11 Dream Along With Me (I'm On My Way To A Star)
12 Watermelon Weather
13 Idle Gossip
14 Ivy Rose
15 Just Born (To Be Your Baby)
16 I May Never Pass This Way Again
17 Hit And Run Affair
18 You're Following Me
19 Me And My Shadow
20 The Girl With The Golden Braids
21 Lies
22 Patricia
23 I Know
24 There Never Was A Night So Beautiful
25 A - You're Adorable