Perry Como - Como Swings '1959

Tracks list

After 15 years of consistent success, Perry Como's career finally began to
decline in 1959. For the first time since he went solo in 1943, he did not score
a Top Ten single, and the ratings for The Perry Como Show fell such that NBC
moved the program from its Saturday evening time slot after four years, putting
Como in charge of the Wednesday night Kraft Music Hall starting in the fall of
1959. Meanwhile, he hadn't made a regular album in a while, last releasing a 12"
LP with late 1958's inspirational set When You Come to the End of the Day and
before that the TV-themed Saturday Night with Mr. C. in the spring of '58. Frank
Sinatra had been enjoying a series of hits with his up-tempo albums Songs for
Swingin' Lovers! (1956), A Swingin' Affair! (1957), Come Fly with Me (1958), and
Come Dance With Me! (1959), and Como Swings was Como's attempt at the same sort
of thing. He hedged his bet with the punning album cover, which depicted him on
the golf course, but, inside, his regular arrangers Joe Lipman and Jack Andrews
turned in charts full of blaring horns and Latin percussion rhythms. The crooner
himself sounded typically unruffled, frequently singing at half the tempo of the
accompaniment, but he handled the material well, especially the change-of-pace
reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo." Como Swings may not have been enough
to reverse the singer's career downturn, but it signaled that he was trying to
adjust to the more aggressive post-rock & roll popular music of the late 1950s.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Perry Como - St. Louis Blues (3:04) 
1.02 - Perry Como - I've Got You Under My Skin (2:17) 
1.03 - Perry Como - Route 66 (3:55) 
1.04 - Perry Como - Dear Hearts and Gentle People (2:54) 
1.05 - Perry Como - Mood Indigo (3:17) 
1.06 - Perry Como - Donkey Serenade (2:49) 
1.07 - Perry Como - To Know You Is To Love You (2:22) 
1.08 - Perry Como - You Came A Long Way From St. Louis (3:11) 
1.09 - Perry Como - Honey, Honey (Bless Your Heart) (2:05) 
1.10 - Perry Como - Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy Day) (3:08) 
1.11 - Perry Como - Linda (2:52) 
1.12 - Perry Como - Begin The Beguine (3:29)

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