The Perry Como Christmas Album Explained
The Perry Como Christmas Album |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Perry Como |
Cover: | Comochristmasalbum.jpg |
Released: | October 1968 |
Recorded: | August 1, 3, 6, 1968 |
Genre: | Vocal |
Label: | RCA Victor |
Producer: | Andy Wiswell |
Prev Title: | Perry Como in Italy |
Prev Year: | 1966 |
Next Title: | Look to Your Heart |
Next Year: | 1968 |
The Perry Como Christmas Album is Perry Como's 15th RCA Victor 12" long-play album.[1] [2]
Como is accompanied on the album by the Ray Charles Singers and an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nick Perito. On two songs, "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", boy choristers from the Little Church Around the Corner and from Saint Thomas Church (Manhattan) also participated.
Track listing
Side one
- "Christmas Eve" (Music by Gerard Andre Biesel and lyrics by Ray Charles)
- "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (Words and Music by Noël Regney and Gloria Shayne Baker)
- "Christ Is Born" (Words and Music by Domenico Bartolucci and Ray Charles)
- "The Little Drummer Boy" (Words and Music by Henry Onerati, Katherine Davis and Harry Simeone)
- "There Is No Christmas Like a Home Christmas" (Words and Music by Carl Sigman and Mickey J. Addy)
- "O Holy Night" (Words and Music by Adolphe Charles Adam)
Side two
- "Caroling, Caroling" (Words and Music by Wihla Hutson and Alfred Burt)
- "The First Noël" (Traditional Christmas Music)
- "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Music by Felix Mendelssohn and lyrics by Charles Wesley)
- "Silent Night" (Music by Joseph Mohr and lyrics by Franz Gruber)
- "Silver Bells" (Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans)
- "Toyland" (Words and Music by Victor Herbert)
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Words and Music by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane)
- "Ave Maria" (Original Music by Franz Schubert)
Como also recorded a rendition of the Wihla Hutson-Alfred Burt composition "Some Children See Him" during the sessions, but this was omitted from the finished album, presumably due to space limitations.[1] The track remained unreleased until its inclusion on a 1999 CD compilation of Como Christmas recordings.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The Perry Como Christmas Album . Kokomo . 5 April 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402135457/http://www.kokomo.ca/album_21.htm . April 2, 2012 .
- Web site: The Perry Como Christmas Album-credits. AllMusic. 1 September 2011.