Hits Collection 1943-62 (CD) – Perry Como

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.

Track List

1. Goodbye Sue
2. Have I Stayed Away Too Long?
3. I Love You
4. Long Ago and Far Away
5. Lili Marlene
6. I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
7. I’m Confessin’
8. More and More
9. Temptation
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
25. Winter Wonderland
26. That’s the Beginning of the End
27. Sonata
28. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
29. Chi Baba Chi Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
30. I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now
31. So Far
32. Because
33. Haunted Heart
34. Rambling Rose
35. N’yot N’yow (The Pussycat Song)
36. Far Away Places
37. Blue Room
38. Forever and Ever
39. I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore
40. “A” – You’re Adorable
41. Bali Hai
42. Some Enchanted Evening
43. Just One Way to Say I Love You
44. Let’s Take An Old Fashioned Walk
45. Give Me Your Hand
46. A Dreamer’s Holiday
47. I Wanna Go Home (With You)
48. The Lord’s Prayer
49. Ave Maria
50. Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo (The Magic Song)
51. On the Out-Going Tide
52. Hoop-Dee-Doo
53. I Cross My Fingers
54. Patricia
55. A Bushel and a Peck
56. So Long Sally
57. (I Wonder Why) You’re Just in Love
58. Zing Zing – Zoom Zoom
59. If
60. Hello Young Lovers
61. There’s a Big Blue Cloud (Next to Heaven)
62. There’s No Boat Like a Rowboat
63. Rollin’ Stone
64. With All My Heart and Soul
65. It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas
66. Tulips and Heather
67. Please Mr. Sun
68. Noodlin’ Rag
69. One Little Candle
70. Maybe
71. Watermelon Weather
72. My Love and Devotion
73. To Know You Is to Love You
74. Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
75. Wild Horses
76. I Confess
77. My One and Only Heart
78. Say You’re Mine Again
79. No Other Love
80. You Alone (Solo Tu)
81. Pa-Paya Mama
82. Wanted
83. Idle Gossip
84. Hit and Run Affair
85. Papa Loves Mambo
86. The Things I Didn’t Do
87. (There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
88. Ko Ko Mo
89. Nobody
90. Two Lost Souls
91. Chee Chee-Oo Chee (Sang the Little Bird)
92. Fooled
93. Tina Marie
94. All at Once You Love Her
95. The Rose Tattoo
96. Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)
97. Jukebox Baby
98. More
99. Glendora
100. Dream Along with Me
101. Somebody Up There Likes Me
102. Moonlight Love
103. Chincherinchee
104. Round and Round
105. Mi Casa Su Casa (My House Is Your House)
106. The Girl with the Golden Braids
107. My Little Baby
108. Dancin’
109. Just Born (To Be Your Baby)
110. Jingle Bells
111. Ivy Rose
112. Catch a Falling Star
113. Magic Moments
114. Kewpie Doll
115. Dance Only with Me
116. I May Never Pass This Way Again
117. Moon Talk
118. Love Makes the World Go ‘Round
119. Mandolins in the Moonlight
120. Tomboy
121. I Know
122. Delaware
123. I Know What God Is
124. Make Someone Happy
125. You’re Following Me
126. Caterina