Matt Monro Forum

does anyone else like perry como? love his relaxed and easy going style, enjoyed watching his tv specials from around the world, and continued performing well into his eighties. he did a christmas concert from dublin in 1994 at the age of 81, and although he wasn't well at the time and his voice was a little croaky, he had standing ovations for superb performances of AND I LOVE YOU SO, BLESS THIS HOUSE andWIND BENEATH MY WINGS. i preferred his later recordings from the late fifties onwards, he recorded some lovely songs such as WORLD OF DREAMS, I WANT TO GIVE and the unforgettable IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. a great artist.

john wrote:does anyone else like perry como? love his relaxed and easy going style, enjoyed watching his tv specials from around the world, and continued performing well into his eighties. he did a christmas concert from dublin in 1994 at the age of 81, and although he wasn't well at the time and his voice was a little croaky, he had standing ovations for superb performances of AND I LOVE YOU SO, BLESS THIS HOUSE andWIND BENEATH MY WINGS. i preferred his later recordings from the late fifties onwards, he recorded some lovely songs such as WORLD OF DREAMS, I WANT TO GIVE and the unforgettable IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. a great artist.

Absollutely!
I wish RCA would release ALL his albums onto CD and soon!

Hi John and Mark,

Perry Como had a lovely laid back style of singing.
His voice was pure gold and he along with Matt and others too mentioned here in the forum, was one of the best male singers from the last century.

There are two or three DVD's available which you can order from HMV.
We also have a good collection of Perry's music at home.
The "Love collection" is superb. This includes the lovely song, "For the good times" which is one of our favourites!

I like Perry Como. You can tell he is a nice guy. His voice is so soothing but when required, he can belt too like in "Without A Song".

Wonderful Perry Como, who could possibly not like his marvellous recordings and likeable and easy going style.

Ahh - Perry Como, just such an easy going nice style. He was so much cleaner cut than many of his contemporaries, and his music really is like a comfy cardigan that you can snuggle up to on cold winters nights!

I have a Perry Como DVD, "Legends in Concert" material from his 50's TV show, which also contains a couple of songs from a movie he made in 1945.

Perry Como is featured on the Biography Channel on Wednesday evening at 7pm, I think it has been shown before but I haven't seen it.

He's said to be one of the nicest guys in showbiz.
My eldest sister was crazy over him in the 50s and 60s.

I really used to enjoy the old Perry Como tv shows, when I saw The Osmonds as guests, for the first time too.
Marian

Never heard anyone say a bad word about Perry, and among the top crooners from that era.

It's a wonder no one has picked me up on this, I think it was The Andy Williams' Shows, not Perry's, that the Osmonds appeared on regularly. but I suppose they might have appeared with Perry Como too.
Marian

Marian, we did know that it was Andy Williams that The Osmonds appeared with in the early Sixties, but also wondered if we had missed something and they may have appeared with Perry Como, but not to our knowledge
Even Robert fell asleep on this one.

I thought I'd better not just single out Robert, wouldn't want to upset him You were very kind not to mention my mistake Lena and Harry
Marian

Hi Marian

Robert mentioned a Perry Como DVD which I understand has Perry's performances in black and white.

Vic Damone is getting a DVD release soon.

Isn't it time for the wonderful Jack Jones to have a concert DVD commercially released?

The Sinatra Society of Japan says Jack is not an active kind of person regarding his RCA releases. I take this to mean that Jack is not displaying any urgency in getting them released.

I wonder if you can communicate to him that many of his fans are waiting for his RCA recordings on CD format.