The Songs I Love (album)

The Songs I Love was Perry Como's 11th RCA Victor 12" long-play album and the first featuring RCA Victor's Dynagroove technology.^[3][4]

The Songs I Love
Studio album by Perry Como
Released	July 1963
Recorded	March 18–19, 25–26, 1963
Genre	Vocal
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Hugo & Luigi
Perry Como chronology
The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President (1963) The Songs I Love (1963) The Scene Changes (1965)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Record Mirror	[2]

Overview

Perry Como hosted an hour-long program on NBC TV until June 1963, the year that The Songs I Love was released. A regular feature of the show would seat Como on a distinctive set that spelled out "Mr. C." while he would croon a favorite song.^[5][6] A photo of the set adorns the cover of Songs I Love. This album reproduces the effect of that segment (which producers Hugo & Luigi describe as "one of the few great traditions in television") over a dozen soft ballads such as "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" and "This Is All I Ask." The leadoff track, "The Songs I Love", sets the tone for everything that follows, and, not surprisingly, it turns out that pop standards are the songs Como loves. The Songs I Love was a commercially successful album (reaching No. 59 on the Billboard Top LPs,^[7]) aimed at fans of The Perry Como Show, to whom it is recommended.

Track listing

Side one

1. "The Songs I Love" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn) - 3:20
2. "(I Left My Heart) In San Francisco" (music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglas Cross) - 3:17
3. "Fly Me to the Moon" (In Other Words) (words and music by Bart Howard) - 3:20
4. "Slightly Out of Tune" (music by Antônio Carlos Jobim) - 3:12
5. "This is All I Ask" (words and music by Gordon Jenkins) - 3:18
6. "Hawaiian Wedding Song" (Ke Kali Nei Au ) - 2:37

Side two

1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer) - 2:43
2. "Carnival" (Music by Luiz Bonfá and lyrics by Antonio Maria) - 3:24
3. "My Coloring Book" (Music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb) - 3:33
4. "I Wanna Be Around" (words and music by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt) - 3:00
5. "When I Lost You" (words and music by Irving Berlin) - 2:55
6. "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from the 1961 stage musical Stop the World I Want to Get Off) - 2:34

Charts

Chart (1963)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs[7]	59