So Smooth
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| Studio album by Perry Como | ||
| Released | 1955 | |
| Recorded | January 20, 1955 Webster Hall, New York City | |
| Genre | Vocal | |
| Length | 33:11 | |
| Label | RCA Victor | |
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| Perry Como chronology | ||
| So Smooth (1955) |
We Get Letters (1956)
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So Smooth was Perry Como's first RCA Victor 12" long-play album, recorded and originally released in 1955. This was also Perry's first album recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, and his first album with the Ray Charles Singers who would support him generally throughout the remainder of his recording career. The album "SO SMOOTH" was released in England as "We Get Letters Volume 2" as Perry's popularity gained international appeal during the late 1950s.
Como viewed the LP format differently from the singles market, eschewing the kind of novelties he was recording for 45/78 release in favor of collections devoted to well-known standards dating back to the 1930s.
[edit] Track listing
Side One
- It's A Good Day (Words and Music by Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour, 1947)
- As Time Goes By (Words and Music by Herman Hupfeld)
- I've Got The World On A String (Music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, 1933)
- My Funny Valentine (Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, 1937)
- For Me And My Gal (Music by George W. Meyer, lyrics by Edgar Leslie and E. Ray Goetz, 1917)
- I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (Music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, 1932)
Side Two
- Breezin' Along With The Breeze (By Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons and Richard Whiting, 1926)
- It's The Talk of The Town (By Jerry Livingston and Marty Symes with Al J. Neiburg, 1933)
- You Do Something To Me (Words and Music by Cole Porter , 1929)
- It Happened In Monterey (Music by Mabel Wayne and lyrics by William Rose, published 1930)
- One For My Baby and One More for the Road (By Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, 1943)
- In The Still of The Night (Words and Music by Cole Porter, 1937)
