Definitive Collection [Import]

Perry Como | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Camden International
• ASIN: B00004LCBR
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,558 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes

2. Wanted

3. Idle Gossip

4. Papa Loves Mambo

5. Tina Marie

6. Juke Box Baby

7. Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)

8. More

9. Glendora

10. Magic Moments

11. Catch A Falling Star

12. Kewpie Doll

13. I May Never Pass This Way Again

14. Moon Talk

15. Love Makes The World Go Round (Yeah Yeah)

16. Mandolins In The Moonlight

17. Tomboy

18. I Know

19. Delaware

20. Caterina

See all 49 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All his UK hits and much more, January 28, 2004

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Definitive Collection (Audio CD)

From a British perspective, this collection is truly definitive. Perry had 26 UK hits between November 1952 (when UK charts began) and 1973. All of them appear in chronological order on the first CD here. Of course, Perry would have had many more UK hits had there been charts prior to 1952. (Yes, there were sheet music charts, but we'll ignore them.)

Perry had many hits in America that didn't make the UK charts, even after 1952, but most of the big ones are here. His many classics include Don't let the stars get in your eyes, Magic moments, Catch a falling star, Delaware, It's impossible, And I love you so, For the good times and Walk right back, all huge UK hits. They are all on the first CD here together with many other great songs.

The second CD contains 23 tracks that were chosen by the compiler and he seems to have done a good job, attempting to cover as wide a range of his other songs as possible. This CD includes No other love, a major American hit which was not released in Britain. Instead, Ronnie Hilton (a British singer) covered the song and had a UK number one hit with it. In the fifties and sixties, it was common practice for British singers to have UK hits with covers of American songs. Two of Perry's American hits from the 1940's are featured, but only as re-recordings. Temptation is from a 1974 album while Prisoner of love is a live version, recorded in Las Vegas. This CD also includes brilliant covers of Wind beneath my wings, Can't help falling in love, You light up my life, Some enchanted evening, Close to you, My cup runneth over, In the still of the night, I've got you under my skin and two Beatles songs, Yesterday and Here there and everywhere. The CD closes, appropriately, with You are never far away from me - the song that Perry often closed his shows with.

Perry Como does not get as much attention these days as Dean Martin and Andy Williams but his music is every bit as good as theirs. This collection proves it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Love Don't Care (Where It Grows)" - CD Debut, June 3, 2006

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Matthew Long (West Midlands, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Definitive Collection (Audio CD)

This 2 CD Set, which is a mixed effort, contains on the First Disc many of Perry Como's UK Chart Hits. The Second Disc in particular includes an interesting selection of songs from albums and singles - a number of which make their CD debut here - notably "Love Don't Care (Where It Grows)".

The term "Definitive" used for this collection is misleading. "It's Impossible" to create a "Definitive Collection" of Perry Como with only 2 CD's. There are many songs missing from this collection that define Perry Como; including major hits like "Till The End Of Time" and true portrayals of the real Perry Como, such as "Look To Your Heart".

The sources for this CD are not what is desired. Records have been used ("Idle Gossip" for example, has been sourced from a 78 rpm record, although a Release Master copy could have easily been obtained). Some thought has gone into the track listing and sequencing, but the sources and mastering are unexceptional and unacceptable.

What really needs to be done is competent re-mixing and re-mastering of the complete Como albums with their respective session recordings.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perry Como - Songs are Great, Quality is Not., June 13, 2011

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This review is from: Definitive Collection (Audio CD)

I am a big Perry Como fan. I grew up on "Catch A Falling Star." When I saw this CD, I had to have a copy of it. It is indeed an impressive line-up of songs. Lots of his hits are here and several other good songs. The CD is a good one. However, I stop short of saying it is terrific. I was disappointed. Not very much of it was in Stereo or really great quality. Yes, I realize the recordings were from LONG ago but we live in the technological age. Aren't albums redone, re-recorded, tweeked etc. all the time to improve them? Also, these songs must have been recorded somewhere more recently in Stereo. I would have enjoyed it much better if that would have been the case. Songs are still good, though. If you are not a Stereo buff as I am, do not care about the headphones and Stereo separation and quality, this CD will do very well.