Latest Updates - Perry Como

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Comment by han enderman:

Vic Album P-161 - a copy of the 1st edition of the album is at present on ebay. 2 labels are shown (not Bethlehem) and these do not show the album number. That is, however, on the image of the album spine.

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Comment by han enderman:

The Perry Como website says:
"Surprisingly, it's not generally known that the original recordings for Perry's first Christmas album date back to 1946 when it was released as a 4 record 78-rpm disc Musical Smart Set. All of these songs were recorded in August, 1946, but one song, "O Little Town of Bethlehem", was later dropped from the set and replaced by "White Christmas" recorded in 1947. In 1956, the revised collection was combined with another collection, "Around the Christmas Tree", recorded in 1953, under the original 1946 album title, to form Perry's first full RCA Victor 12" LP Christmas album."
Thus there are 2 versions of the 78 rpm album, of which the first was released in 1946, as could be expected from the cat. numbers.
"Bethlehem" is on youtube, with a good label image (can be copied?). It omits the album nr on the label, but this occurs more often at the time, as I have an image of 20-2081 without album nr, but present in P-169 (Freddy Martin).
In discogs is the 1946 Canadian release, a copy of the orig. US record.

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Comment by Mike Gann:

This is the release date from DAHR for the album which is incorrect because it shows that "White Christmas" was recorded on July 10, 1947. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/437956/Victor_20-1970

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Comment by leonard:

According to the official Perry Como website all songs except for White Christmas were recorded in August 1946. White Christmas is a 1947 recording. Therefore the release date given here for this album can’t be right. Also the track listing here is for A-D indicating 4 sides, it should be from A-F (8 sides) [Corrected. mod]

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Comment by scrough:

It was released in Feb 1951 so I've updated. Deleted Feb 1953.

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Comment by neilthompson78:

According to the Kokomo website the B side was recorded 10th August 1950 so must have been released later than this date here

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Comment by han enderman:

Vic 20-5647 - Trying to list the earliest colored nipper labels in my previous comment, I overlooked 20-5675 by Eddie Fisher, where W.B.lbl gives the Billboard text on the design change. In this 20- series, that is the 2nd occurrence of the new label. The original label of 20-5739 has the small uncolored nipper, but another pressing has the colored nipper. Maybe these are from different pressing plants?

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Comment by han enderman:

Vic 20-5647 - images added (incl. clearer A-side). - Apparently this record was selected to introduce the new colored label design on 78 rpm. It is not known with the circle label and also Disc Jockey copies, very common at the time, are not reported. In this series, the last circle label release is 20-5750 (May1954), and the first colored-nipper issues after 20-5647 are 20-5748 (Eddie Fisher), -5749 (Perry Como), & -5752 (Tito Puente). Vic 20-5739-46 have circle labels and 20-5753/56-57 have nipper; 20-5743/51/54-55 unknown (only known from dj copies).

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Comment by han enderman:

Vic 20-5749 - label images added; from different copies on archive, where the music can be heard.

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Comment by W.B.lbl:

This would appear to be the earliest 78 (and 45) release with the four-color Nipper design; its inaugural rollout was announced in the Dec. 26, 1953 issue of Billboard.

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Comment by DeweyGill SUBS:

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Comment by Mike Gann:

Thank you, xiphophilos

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Good catch! I've moved the data from the duplicate release here and deleted it.

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Comment by Mike Gann:

Why do we need two entries for this?
https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/202315us

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Side A

"Silk Stockings"

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Side B

There's No Place Like
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Perry Como with Mitch Ayres
and his Orchestra


2:50

Roncom Music Co.
ASCAP

Words by
Al Stillman

Music by
Robert Allen

Produced by
Joe Carlton

Arranged by
Joe Reisman

RCA Victor Records
20-5950
(E4VB-5938)

"New Orthophonic"
High Fidelity

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Conductor
Mitchell Ayres

Choir Contractor
Ray Charles

Sax
Hank Ross,
Harry Terrill,
Bernard Kaufman,
Stanley Webb,
Philip Zolkind

Trumpet
Melven Solomon,
James Maxwell,
James Milazzo

Trombone
Robert Byrne,
John D'Agostino,
Bart Varsalona

Piano
Henry Rowland

Guitar
Danny Perri

Bass
Robert Haggart

Drums
Robert Rosengarden,
Terry Snyder

Harp
Lucille Lawrence

Violins
Sylvan Shulman,
Zelly Smirnoff,
Mac Ceppos,
Raoul Poliakin,
Jack Zayde,
Harry Melnikoff,
Julius Schacter,
Paul Winter,
Harry Glickman,
Felix Orlewitz,
Sidney Harris,
Samuel Rand

Viola
Isadore Zir,
Howard Kay,
George Brown,
Samuel Persoff

Cello
Maurice Brown,
Lucien Schmitt

Choir
Ray Charles,
Lois Winter,
Peggy Powers,
Marilyn Palmer,
Marsha Heil,
Marilyn Jackson,
Elise Bretton,
Lillian Clark,
Francine Carroll,
Steven Steck Jr.,
William Ventura,
Jack Brown,
Arthur Malvin,
Robert Spiro,
David Vogel,
Eugene Lowell,
Michael Stewart

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Recorded in Webster Hall
in New York City on
Tuesday, November 16, 1954

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