Saturday Night with Mr. C
Saturday Night with Mr. C. | ||||
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Studio album by Perry Como | ||||
Released | May 1958 | |||
Recorded | February 12, 13, 19, 20 & March 5, 6, 11, 12, 1958 | |||
Genre | Vocal | |||
Length | 49:00 | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Producer | Joe Reisman | |||
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Saturday Night with Mr. C. was Perry Como's third RCA Victor 12" long-play album, and his first recorded in stereophonic sound.[2][3][4] The album is structured as an extended version of the request section of his popular television show, beginning and ending with his theme songs "Dream Along With Me" and "You Are Never Far Away" and with his TV request theme, "We Get Letters" used twice in the album as an intro. At the time, Perry was seen on NBC's Saturday night schedule at 8 P.M. Eastern Time.
All stereo pressings of Saturday Night With Mr. C. excluded the track "Come Rain or Come Shine", despite that song having its title clearly printed on the jacket. It is assumed that this cut had something to do with space limitations within the new stereo LP format; with a playing time of nearly 50 minutes, the album was nearly twice as long as the typical pop LP of the period. "Come Rain or Come Shine" was reissued in 1967 on the RCA Camden compilation Hello, Young Lovers, but the stereo version on that album was electronically reprocessed ("fake stereo") from monophonic. In 2001, Saturday Night with Mr.C was reissued on compact disc by the Collectables Records third-party reissue label by arrangement with RCA; this reissue included the first release of the true stereo version of "Come Rain or Come Shine".[5]
Since Como's television show ran on Thursday evenings in Australia, the title for the Australian pressing of this album is Thursday Night With Mr. Como.[6] In the United Kingdom, the album was called Dear Perry and spent five weeks in the Melody Maker album chart Top 10, entering on 8 November 1958 and peaking at number 6.[7]
Background accompaniment is provided by the Mitchell Ayres orchestra, with the Ray Charles Singers and arrangements done by Joe Lipman.[8] Cover art by Victor Kalin.
Track listing
Side one
- "Opening Theme: Dream Along With Me Time" (Words and Music by Carl Sigman) / "Accentuate the Positive" (Music by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer) - 2:55
- "It Could Happen To You" (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke) - 2:46
- "Love Letters" (Music by Victor Young and lyrics by Edward Heyman) - 1:59
- "Almost Like Being In Love" (Music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner) / Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day" (Music by Mabel Wayne, Maurice Sigler and Al Hoffman) / "The Gypsy In My Soul" (Music by Clay Boland and lyrics by Moe Jaffe) / "The Whiffenpoof Song" (Music by Tod B. Galloway and Meade Minnigerode with George S. Pomeroy) - 9:12
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler) - 2:22
- "Red Sails in the Sunset" (Music by Hugh Williams (Will Grosz) and lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy) - 3:06
Side two
- "The Birth of the Blues" (Music by Ray Henderson with lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown) - 3:25
- "When I Fall in Love" (Music by Victor Young and lyrics by Edward Heyman) - 2:59
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Music by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer) - 3:20
- "You Made Me Love You" (Music by James V. Monaco and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy) / "I May Be Wrong" (Music by Harry Sullivan and lyrics by Harry Ruskin) / "Like Someone in Love" (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke) / "Vaya Con Dios" (Words and Music by Larry Russell, Buddy Pepper and Inez James) - 10:07
- "It Had to Be You" (Music by Isham Jones and lyrics by Gus Kahn) - 2:35
- "Twilight on the Trail" (Music by Louis Alter and lyrics by Sidney D. Mitchell) / "Closing Theme: You Are Never Far Away Time" (Music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Allan Roberts) - 3:01
References
- ^ Saturday Night with Mr. C at AllMusic. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ "Saturday Night with Mr. C". Kokomo. Archived from the original on June 1, 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ Hammerston, Claude (7 June 1958). "Perry's New Album a Gem". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "Saturday Night with Mr. C-credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- ^ "Saturday Night with Mr. C-2001 re-release". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- ^ "Como, Fisher and Boone Releases". The Age. 7 November 1958. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ British Hit Singles & Albums 18th edition, Guinness World Records 2005, page 117
- ^ Saturday Night with Mr. C. (Media notes). Perry Como. RCA Victor Records. 1958. LOP-1004.
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External links
- Perry Como Discography
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- Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music (1946)
- So Smooth (1955)
- We Get Letters (1957)
- Saturday Night with Mr. C (1958)
- When You Come to the End of the Day (1958)
- Como Swings (1959)
- Season's Greetings from Perry Como (1959)
- For the Young at Heart (1960)
- Sing to Me Mr. C (1961)
- By Request (1962)
- The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President (1962)
- The Songs I Love (1963)
- The Scene Changes (1965)
- Lightly Latin (1966)
- Perry Como in Italy (1966)
- The Perry Como Christmas Album (1968)
- Look to Your Heart (1968)
- Seattle (1969)
- Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas (1970)
- It's Impossible (1970)
- I Think of You (1971)
- And I Love You So (1973)
- Perry (1974)
- Just Out of Reach (1975)
- 40 Greatest Hits (1975)
- The Best of British (UK and Canada) (1977)
- Where You're Concerned (US) (1978)
- Perry Como (1980)
- Perry Como Live on Tour (1981)
- So It Goes / Goodbye for Now (1983)
- Today (1987)
- Perry Como's Christmas Concert (1994)
- On the Radio – The Perry Como Shows 1943 (2009)
- At the Supper Club (2010)
- At the Supper Club Part II (2011)
- At the Supper Club Part III (2011)
- "'A' You're Adorable"
- "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"
- "And I Love You So"
- "As Time Goes By"
- "Bali Ha'i"
- "Because"
- "Beyond Tomorrow"
- "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
- "Blue Room"
- "A Bushel and a Peck"
- "Can't Help Falling in Love"
- "Caterina"
- "Catch a Falling Star"
- "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)"
- "Confessin'"
- "Days of Wine and Roses"
- "Deep in the Heart of Texas"
- "Delaware"
- "Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)"
- "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"
- "Dream Along with Me (I'm on My Way to a Star)"
- "A Dreamer's Holiday"
- "El Cóndor Pasa"
- "Far Away Places"
- "Feelings"
- "Fly Me to the Moon"
- "For the Good Times"
- "Forever and Ever"
- "Forget Domani"
- "Give Me Your Hand"
- "Glendora"
- "The Gypsy in My Soul"
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
- "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
- "Hello, Young Lovers"
- "Here, There and Everywhere"
- "Home for the Holidays"
- "Hoop-Dee-Doo"
- "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)"
- "A House Is Not a Home"
- "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore"
- "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)"
- "I May Never Pass This Way Again"
- "I Think I Love You"
- "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"
- "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
- "If (They Made Me a King)"
- "It's a Good Day"
- "It's Been a Long, Long Time"
- "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
- "Juke Box Baby"
- "Kewpie Doll"
- "Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)"
- "Long Ago (and Far Away)"
- "The Lord's Prayer"
- "Magic Moments"
- "Mandolins in the Moonlight"
- "Maria"
- "Moon River"
- "More"
- "No Other Love"
- "Papa Loves Mambo"
- "Please Mr. Sun"
- "Prisoner of Love"
- "Round and Round"
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
- "Say You're Mine Again"
- "Seattle"
- "The Shadow of Your Smile"
- "Some Enchanted Evening"
- "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)"
- "The Songs I Love"
- "Stop! And Think It Over"
- "Surrender"
- "Till the End of Time"
- "They Say It's Wonderful"
- "Unchained Melody"
- "Wanted"
- "The Way You Look Tonight"
- "What'll I Do"
- "When You and I Were Young, Maggie"
- "When You Were Sweet Sixteen"
- "Young at Heart"
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