Till the End of Time [Box set, Import]

Perry Como | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 15, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 18, 2000
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Goldies Records
• ASIN: B00004T1HM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #935,716 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Till the End of Time

2. Temptation

3. More and More

4. Girl of My Dreams

5. When Tonight Is Just a Memory

6. Blue Skies

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. They Say It's Wonderful

2. Far Away Places

3. If I'm Lucky

4. With a Song in My Heart

5. Love Letters

6. Forget Me Nots in Your Eyes

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Goodbye Sue

2. Long Ago (And Far Away)

3. I Love You

4. You'll Never Know

5. Deep in the Heart of Texas

6. May I Never Love Again

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

41 classics on 3 CDs by the beloved crooner, starting with that 1945 title smash that sold over two million copies! Also: his hits Temptation; More and More; Far Away Places; They Say It's Wonderful; I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now; If I'm Lucky , and more. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars he was great then--and he's still great now--but this retrospective just isn't complete, March 2, 2009

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Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Till End of Time (Audio CD)

Perry Como doesn't get remembered these days the way he deserves to be remembered; when Perry sang he could make any tune--or even the phone book--sound like the most beautiful song in the world. Till The End of Time: Early Hits 1936-1945 gives us several of Perry's earlier hits and that's great because a lot of his albums don't have these tracks on them. Perry had more early hits than just the ones here but still this album has a lot to offer. The quality of the music is rather good especially considering the age of these recordings.

The CD starts with the big band sound of "You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes;" and when Perry sings this he never misses a beat. "Until Today" has a very sweet melody; and listen for "Rainbow On The River." "Rainbow On The River" features Perry front and center--right where he belongs! "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?" charms me with its beauty even though the lyrics could be somewhat happier; "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?" again has that big band style music that was so fashionable at the time. Perry delivers these songs like the pro he always was; I just wish that some of these earlier numbers let him start to sing shortly after the number began!

"May I Never Love Again" has Perry singing without hitting a superfluous note; and I really like "Deep In The Heart Of Texas." "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" has a great melody and Perry's singing couldn't be better. "Have I Stayed Away Too Long?" has Perry singing with a charming backup chorus--not that he needed it but it does sound good nevertheless.

"Long Ago And Far Away" stuns me with its beauty; I really like "Long Ago And Far Away." What a classic love song! "Lili Marlene" gets the royal treatment from Perry Como who was born to sing ballads like this. "I'm Confessin' That I Love You" shines like silver and gold when Perry Como sings it; there's some surface noise but still the song is enjoyable. "If I Loved You" is quite memorable; and I always love it when I hear Perry sing "I'm Gonna Love That Gal." "I'm Gonna Love That Gal" has a particularly catchy melody and Perry sings this like he truly means every word of it--great!

"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" has been sung by many crooners but Perry's version is indeed my favorite; and there's also a great Perry Como number when he passionately delivers "Prisoner Of Love" all the while wearing his heart on his sleeve.

Another reviewer correctly notes that the two CD set entitled Forever And Ever is a much more comprehensive view of Perry's early work than this single CD. While this is not the best retrospective of Perry's earlier recordings, it still holds its own. The songs are both strong and moving at once. Perry Como could do these two things at once; and this CD proves it! Perry's fans will want this for their collections; and people who enjoy classic pop vocals that go back all the way to the big band era will want this album, too.

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, April 20, 2009

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J. Wellman "reader" (Michigan and Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Till the End of Time (Audio CD)

Recently my husband and I heard some Perry Como music on the radio. We enjoyed it and thought we would like to have a collection of his songs. We ordered this three disc set which we thought would be good. It is a collection of mostly songs we have never heard and are certainly not Perry Como's best. Each disc was worse than the one before. It is not the Perry Como we remember.

5.0 out of 5 stars A great chronology, December 3, 2006

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Bruce R. Gilson (Wheaton, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Till End of Time (Audio CD)

The period that this CD covers was a significant transition, both in the history of popular music and in Perry Como's personal history. If you were to see a label from a 78rpm record from the early part of this collection, it would say "Ted Weems and his Orchestra" (with Perry Como's name, if there at all, in smaller type); one from the later part would have Como's name in big type with Russ Case's Orchestra in small type. What happened, of course, is that the focus in popular music turned, in the 1940s, from the band to the vocalist. And Como became one of the premier examples of the big-name vocalists that typified late-40s and early-50s popular music.

But not only was popular music changing in this period; Perry Como was developing his own unmistakeable style. In the earliest tracks of this CD, from 1936, Como was just another anonymous big-band singer. Even before the end of his time with the Weems band, though, one can hear his developing the style that made him one of the most-identifiable male vocalists of the era (and a long time afterward, too: Como would continue making great recordings for a half-century afterward!)

In the mid-1940s, Ted Weems, in whose band Como sang, went into the military and dissolved the band (as did a lot of other bandleaders; this was World War II, after all!), but in addition, one other thing happened that probably did just as much to end the Big Band era and bring in the era of the big-name vocalist: there was a musicians' strike against the major recording companies. One could not hear any new music by any of the bands, but the vocalists continued recording (with vocal choruses behind them, filling the role that had belonged to the orchestras). To the credit of ASV, they follow his recording with the Ted Weems band with no fewer than 4 of these musicianless recordings, a sound that I like to hear but haven't had a chance to hear in large numbers. This was, as I said, an important factor in the change of the nature of popular music in the mid-1940s.

So we have at least 3 types of recordings in this collection: the big-band-singer period, clearly illustrating Como's developing his own style; the musicians' strike period, when the vocalist had to come out into the open because the bands were no longer there, and the new sound of the late forties (which extended into the fifties, but this CD cuts off in 1945) with the band serving as backup for the vocalist, who now was the main artist on the recording.

This CD needs to be listened to in order, rather than skipped about as I do with some CDs. It deserves to be listened to as a chronology of the development of popular music from the mid-1930s till the mid-1940s, and as a chronology of the development of Perry Como from anonymous big-band singer to one of the major male vocalists of his time.

Yes, there is some surface noise and the fidelity of some of the earliest tracks is pretty low. But you cannot expect anything better from 60-70- year-old material, and ASV deserves credit for doing as well as they did to preserve these recordings.