Saturday Night With Mr. C./When You Come to the End of the Day

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2 LPs on 2 CDs: SATURDAY NIGHT WITH MR. C. (1958)/WHEN YOU COME TO THE END OF THE DAY (1958). Personnel: Perry Como (vocals); Mitchell Ayres Orchestra; Ray Charles Singers. Recorded at RCA Studio A, New York, New York in 1958. Originally released on RCA Records. Personnel: Robert Hartman, Jack Brown, Rae Whitney, Sue Singleton, Alan Sokoloff, Herb Davidson, Steve Steck, James Stover , Robert Harris, Warren Hayes, Anne Phillips, Rose Marie Jun, Lois Winter (vocals); Danny Perri, Sebastian Mure, Don Arnone, Al Casamenti, Al Caiola, Tony Mottola, Mundell Lowe (guitar); Gloria Agostini (harp); Frederick Buldrini, Harry Glickman, George Ockner, Solomon Deutsch, Harry Hoffman, Ralph Silverman, Harry Melnikoff, Felix Orlewitz, Harry Urbont, Tosha Samaroff, Sylvan Shulman, Arnold Eidus, Mac Ceppos, Maurice Hershaft, Samuel Rand, Jack Zayde, Raoul Poliakin, Max Hollander (violin); George Brown , Harold Furmansky, Howard Kay, Leon Frengut, Isadore Zir (viola); Abram Borodkin, Lucien Schmit, Maurice Bialkin, Maurice Brown , Harvey Shapiro (cello); Harry Terrill, Thomas Parshley, Stanley Webb , Irving Horowitz, Abraham Richman, Philip Zolkind, Bernard Kaufman, Wolfe Taninbaum, Romeo Penque (saxophone); James Maxwell, Joseph B. Wilder, Melven Soloman, Bernie Glow, Nick Travis (trumpet); Fred Klein, John Barrows (French horn); Robert Alexander , Eddie Bert, John d'Agostino, Frank Rehak, Jack Satterfield, Robert Byrne, Thomas Mitchell (trombone); Harvey E. Phillips (tuba); Henry Rowland (piano); Moe Wechsler (organ); Don Lamond, Frank Garisto, Jack Saunders, Jimmy Crawford , Osie Johnson, Phil Kraus , Todd Sommer, Terry Snyder (drums). Recording information: 02/12/1958-06/23/1958. Arrangers: Joe Lipman; Ray Charles; Jack Andrews. Collectables Records' Saturday Night With Mr. C./When You Come to the End of the Day actually packs two and a half vintage Perry Como albums into its two-CD package with a running time of nearly an hour and three-quarters. That's because, having been pushed to two discs by the unusually long running time of Saturday Night With Mr. C., the label has added even more material, culling six of the 12 songs from the 1959 album Como Swings as bonus tracks. At a release price of $13.50 for 40 tracks, the resulting compilation is quite a bargain. That said, the pairing is an odd one. Saturday Night With Mr. C. and When You Come to the End of the Day were both originally released in 1958, but they're very different records. The former is a kind of audio equivalent of Como's TV show, beginning with his opening theme and ending with his closing theme, in between including two introductory bits of his "Letters Theme" that serve to structure the disc as if it were an extended request segment from the show. Como performs a large number of miscellaneous standards in relatively brief renditions, following, for example, "The Whiffenpoof Song" with "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," as if the selection and sequencing were determined by unpredictable audience choices. The album might better have been paired with the similar 1961 LP Sing to Me, Mr. C., while When You Come to the End of the Day, an inspirational set, would have been better matched with an earlier album on the same theme, I Believe. Still, this is a lot of Perry Como for the money. ~ William Ruhlmann
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