Saturday Night With Mr C / When You Come to End of the Day

Perry Como | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00005B516
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,805 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #47 in Music > Indie Music > Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Dream Along With Me (I'm on My Way to a Star) [Theme]

2. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

3. It Could Happen to You

4. Love Letters

5. We Get Letters & Dear Perry (Theme)

6. Almost Like Being in Love

7. Little Man You've Had a Busy Day

8. (The) Gypsy in My Soul

9. Whiffenpoof Song

10. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

2. Whither Thou Goest

3. No Well on Earth

4. Only One

5. Scarlet Ribbons

6. I May Never Pass This Way Again

7. A Still Small Voice

8. In the Garden

9. May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You

10. Prayer for Peace

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

From the Label

These albums have been remastered from premium quality sources with the utmost of care and released here in their original stereo versions. Many of these songs are available in true stereo for the first time since their original issue.

Product Description

This double set CD includes Perry's first two full stereophonic albums recorded back to back in 1958. The full title "Saturday Night With Mr. C." is released here complete in stereo for the first time ever, including the song "Come Rain or Come Shine" which had been deleted from all stereo versions of the original record album. As an added bonus, this album is featured here with six tracks from Perry's 1959 "Como Swings" album. The companion album, included within this set, is Perry's highly respected album of inspirational songs, "When You Come to the End of the Day", featuring some of Perry's finest performances and heartfelt interpretations. Both of these albums were produced by Joe Reisman with arrangements by Joe Lipman, Jack Andrews and Ray Charles. Recorded at RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City, and engineered by Bob Simpson, these albums are released here in their original "Living Stereo" formats. The songs from "Como Swings" were recorded in 1959 at Webster Hall, produced by Charles Grean and Lee Schapiro, and also engineered by Bob Simpson.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perry Como fans must have this one., June 25, 2001

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Richard Herbster (Broomall, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saturday Night With Mr C / When You Come to End of the Day (Audio CD)

This double album captures PC at the height of his career. The vocal warmth and ambience of these RCA Living Stereo Recordings are superlative. When I was 12 years of age in 1958, my parents danced in the living room to these songs and I can tell all of the Baby Boomers who grew up on Perry Como: BUY THIS ONE! No disappointments here. This guy could really sing! Collectables did a good job of mastering the original tapes - without the hiss associated with 50's-generation master tapes. I'm a little surprised that BMG/RCA has not reissued these CD's in an audiophile HDCD format. Today's music cannot compare with the quality of these orchestral and vocal arrangements. They will be classics 100 years from now.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Come Rain Or Come Shine" included and in REAL STEREO!, August 13, 2006

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

This review is from: Saturday Night With Mr C / When You Come to End of the Day (Audio CD)

This 2 CD Set brings together in full (for the very first time on CD), Perry's first 2 STEREO albums for RCA Victor recorded in 1958: "Saturday Night With Mr. C" and "When You Come To The End Of The Day". The set also includes 6 bonus tracks from Perry's 1959 RCA Victor album "Como Swings".

A very interesting point to note is that "Come Rain Or Come Shine" is included in REAL STEREO. It was excluded from the Original STEREO release (despite being listed on the back cover) due to space limitations within the then, new format. It was however released in MONO within the MONO release of the "Saturday Night With Mr. C" album. In 1967, the song was included within Perry's RCA Camden compilation "Hello, Young Lovers" - but in ELECTRONIC STEREO (reprocessed from a MONO source). Here, for the first time is the complete "Saturday Night With Mr. C" album in REAL STEREO, including "Come Rain Or Come Shine".

The sources are Release Master Tapes and this is one of the best efforts of Collectables. This CD is a fine example of the excellence of STEREO, even in it's earliest days and represents a very good value for money 2 CD Set.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remembering Como On Television, June 14, 2003

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Vincent T. Lynch "vtl" (Colorado Springs, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Saturday Night With Mr C / When You Come to End of the Day (Audio CD)

If you want to hear the kind of music Perry used to do on his 1950's to early 1960's television show, "Saturday Night With Mr. C" is better than anything else he has done. In fact, it's one of my favorites of Perry's. The orchestrations by Mitchell Ayres are great, and some of the most memorable numbers are "Accentuate The Positive", "It COuld Happen To You", "Love Letters", "When I Fall In Love" (perhaps the definitive recorded version?), and of course the familiar, fun "We Get Letters". Great stereo! There are also some bonus tracks from "Como Swings", another album with great arrangements by Mitchell Ayres.

While not a "pop" album, "When You Come To The End Of The Day" has some beautiful recordings of relgious music. As a Buddhist, this is about the only relgious music I can tolerate...it's just too beautifully done to ignore!