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After 15 years of consistent success, Perry Como's career finally began to decline in 1959. For the first time since he went solo in 1943, he did not score a Top Ten single, and the ratings for The Perry Como Show fell such that NBC moved the program from its Saturday evening time slot after four years, putting Como in charge of the Wednesday night Kraft Music Hall starting in the fall of 1959. Meanwhile, he hadn't made a regular album in a while, last releasing a 12" LP with late 1958's inspirational set When You Come to the End of the Day and before that the TV-themed Saturday Night with Mr. C. in the spring of '58. Frank Sinatra had been enjoying a series of hits with his up-tempo albums Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), A Swingin' Affair! (1957), Come Fly with Me (1958), and Come Dance With Me! (1959), and Como Swings was Como's attempt at the same sort of thing. He hedged his bet with the punning album cover, which depicted him on the golf course, but, inside, his regular arrangers Joe Lipman and Jack Andrews turned in charts full of blaring horns and Latin percussion rhythms. The crooner himself sounded typically unruffled, frequently singing at half the tempo of the accompaniment, but he handled the material well, especially the change-of-pace reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo." Como Swings may not have been enough to reverse the singer's career downturn, but it signaled that he was trying to adjust to the more aggressive post-rock & roll popular music of the late 1950s.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - W.C. Handy, Composer, Lyricist - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Cole Porter, Composer, Lyricist - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - Bobby Troup, Composer, Lyricist - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Robert Byrne, Trombone - Robert Haggart, Bass - Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Stanley Webb, Saxophone - Bob Hilliard, Composer, Lyricist - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Fain, Composer, Lyricist - Charles Grean, Producer - Chauncey Welsch, Trombone - Sol Gubin, Drums - Don Butterfield, Tuba - John Lawson, Trumpet - James Maxwell, Trumpet - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Terry Snyder, Drums - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Abraham Richman, Saxophone - Robert Alexander, Trombone - Bernard Kaufman, Saxophone - John D'Agostino, Trombone - Henry Rowland, Piano - Danny Perri, Guitar - Anthony Mottola, Guitar - Richard Hixson, Trombone - Ine Shapiro, Producer - Urban Green, Trombone
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Ellington, Composer, Lyricist - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Irving Mills, Composer, Lyricist - Charles Grean, Producer - Joe Lipman, Arranger - A. Bigard, Composer, Lyricist - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - Rudolf Friml, Composer, Lyricist - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - ROBERT ALLEN, Composer, Lyricist - Charles Grean, Producer - Allan Roberts, Composer, Lyricist - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - John Benson Brooks, Composer, Lyricist - Bob Russell, Composer, Lyricist - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - Larry Stock, Composer, Lyricist - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer - Dominick Bellins, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - FRANCIS WHEELER, Composer, Lyricist - Sammy Fain, Composer, Lyricist - Charles Grean, Producer - Irving Kahal, Composer, Lyricist - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Jack Lawrence, Composer, Lyricist - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra, AssociatedPerformer - Cole Porter, Composer, Lyricist - Perry Como, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Grean, Producer - Joe Lipman, Arranger - Jack Andrews, Arranger - Lee Schapiro, Producer
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Albumbeschreibung
After 15 years of consistent success, Perry Como's career finally began to decline in 1959. For the first time since he went solo in 1943, he did not score a Top Ten single, and the ratings for The Perry Como Show fell such that NBC moved the program from its Saturday evening time slot after four years, putting Como in charge of the Wednesday night Kraft Music Hall starting in the fall of 1959. Meanwhile, he hadn't made a regular album in a while, last releasing a 12" LP with late 1958's inspirational set When You Come to the End of the Day and before that the TV-themed Saturday Night with Mr. C. in the spring of '58. Frank Sinatra had been enjoying a series of hits with his up-tempo albums Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), A Swingin' Affair! (1957), Come Fly with Me (1958), and Come Dance With Me! (1959), and Como Swings was Como's attempt at the same sort of thing. He hedged his bet with the punning album cover, which depicted him on the golf course, but, inside, his regular arrangers Joe Lipman and Jack Andrews turned in charts full of blaring horns and Latin percussion rhythms. The crooner himself sounded typically unruffled, frequently singing at half the tempo of the accompaniment, but he handled the material well, especially the change-of-pace reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo." Como Swings may not have been enough to reverse the singer's career downturn, but it signaled that he was trying to adjust to the more aggressive post-rock & roll popular music of the late 1950s.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:35:15
- Main artists: Perry Como
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: RCA - Legacy
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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