Season's Greetings from Perry Como explained
Season's Greetings from Perry Como, originally released in 1959, was Perry Como's sixth RCA Victor 12-inch long-play album and the fourth recorded in stereophonic sound, as well as his first major full-length Christmas album.[1] [2]
The album is warm and relaxed, featuring lush renditions of "Winter Wonderland", "The Christmas Song", "O Holy Night" and seven other Christmas tunes (including a re-recording of Como's own 1954 hit, "Home for the Holidays"). Como is accompanied on the tracks by Mitchell Ayres' orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers.
Track listing
Side One
- "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" (Words and music by Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
- "Winter Wonderland" (Words and music by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith)
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Words and music by Johnny Marks)
- "The Christmas Song" (Words and music by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells)
- "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (Words and music by Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots)
- "White Christmas" (Words and music by Irving Berlin)
Side Two
- "Here We Come A-Caroling"/"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (Traditional arranged by Ray Charles)
- "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Traditional Christmas music)
- "O Holy Night" (Words and music by Adolphe Adam)
- "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Words and music by Phillips Brooks and Lewis Redner)
- "Come, Come, Come to the Manger" (Traditional Christmas music adapted by Mitchell Ayres)
- "The First Noël" (Traditional Christmas music)
- "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Latin hymn translated by Frederick Oakeley)
- "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Adapted by Mitchell Ayres and Jack Andrews)
- "Silent Night" (Words and music by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Season's Greetings from Perry Como . Kokomo . 5 April 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130704101741/http://www.kokomo.ca/album_12.htm . July 4, 2013 .
- Web site: Seasons Greetings from Perry Como-credits. AllMusic. 1 September 2011.
