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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Goodbye Sue
2. Long Ago (And Far Away)
3. I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
4. Temptation
5. Till the End of Time
6. Prisoner of Love
7. Garden in the Rain, A
8. They Say It's Wonderful
9. If I'm Lucky
10. Sonata
11. Song of Songs
12. Far Away Places
13. Blue Room
14. With a Song in My Heart
15. Forever and Ever
16. You're Adoreable, "A"
17. Some Enchanted Evening
18. Ball Ha'l
19. I Wanna Go Home (With You)
20. Hoop Dee-Doo
21. Bushel and a Peck, A
22. If
23. Black Moonlight
24. Without a Song
DISC 2:
1. You'll Never Walk Alone
2. I Concentrate on You
3. You Are Never Far Away From Me - (previously unreleased)
4. Maybe
5. Watermelon Weather
6. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
7. Wild Horses
8. I Confess
9. No Other Love
10. You Alone (Solo Tu)
11. Papa Loves Mambo
12. Tina Marie
13. Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)
14. Juke Box Baby
15. More
16. Somebody up There Likes Me
17. Dream Along With Me (I'm on My Way to a Star)
18. Try a Little Tenderness - (previously unreleased)
19. Unchained Melody - (previously unreleased)
20. Round and Round
21. Just Born (To Be Your Baby)
22. Catch a Falling Star
23. Magic Moments
24. Accentuate the Positive
25. Birth of the Blues
DISC 3:
1. Begin the Beguine
2. Delaware - (stereo)
3. What Kind of Fool Am I?
4. Dream on Little Dreamer
5. Bumming Around - (previously unreleased)
6. Summer Wind, The - (stereo)
7. How Insensitive (Insensatez)
8. Anema E Core
9. Father of Girls, The
10. Sunrise, Sunset
11. In These Crazy Times
12. It's Impossible
13. Something
14. I Think of You
15. Bridge Over Troubled Water
16. And I Love You So
17. For the Good Times
18. Where You're Concerned
19. Not While I'm Around
20. Colors of My Life, The
21. Best of Times, The - (Single Version)
22. Wind Beneath My Wings, The
Album Notes
This collection contains 71 performances that span Como's 50-year career with RCA records beginning in 1943. The set includes 38 titles available on CD in the U.S. for the first time as well as 4 previously unreleased tracks and two songs, "Delaware" and "The Summer Wind," available in stereo for the first time. Also included is a 6x12 keeper box that contains a full color 64-page book with photographs, a complete discography, extensive liner notes, and an interview with Perry Como by Colin Escott. All of the tracks for this release have been taken from the original first generation masters.
Personnel includes: Perry Como (vocals); Joe Reisman, Ray Charles, Don Costa
(arranger); Ted Steele, Henri Rene, Mitchell Ayres, Sigmund Romberg, Nick Perito (conductor); Russ Case Orchestra, The Satisfiers, The Fontaine Sisters, Betty Hutton, Eddie Fisher, The Ray Charles Singers, The Anita Kerr Quartet.
Producers include: Joe Reisman, Charles Grean, Lee Schapiro, Chet Atkins,
Andy Wiswell.
Compilation producer: Paul Williams.
Engineers include: Bill Lacey, Pat Martin, Tom Pick.
Recorded between 1943 and 1987. Originally released on RCA Records. Includes liner notes by Colin Escott.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
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