Saturday Night with Mr. C

Studio album by Perry Como

Released

1958

Recorded

February 12, 13, 19, 20 & March 5, 6, 11, 12, 1958

Genre

Vocal

Length

49:00

Label

RCA Victor

Producer

Joe Reisman

Perry Como chronology

We Get Letters
(1957)

Saturday Night with Mr. C
(1958)

When You Come to the End of the Day
(1958)

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Saturday Night with Mr. C was Perry Como's third RCA Victor 12" long-play album, and his first recorded in stereophonic sound. The album is structured as an extended version of the request section of his popular television show, beginning and ending with his theme songs "Dream Along With Me" and "You Are Never Far Away" and with his TV request theme, "We Get Letters" used twice in the album as an intro. At the time, Perry was seen on NBC's Saturday night schedule at 8 P.M. Eastern Time.

All stereo pressings of Saturday Night With Mr. C. excluded the track "Come Rain or Come Shine", despite that song having its title clearly printed on the jacket. It is assumed that this cut had something to do with space limitations within the new stereo LP format. This song was re-released in 1967 on the RCA Camden compilation Hello, Young Lovers, but the stereo version was electronically reprocessed from monophonic. In 2001, this album was reissued by the Collectables Records third-party label by arrangement with RCA for the first time complete in stereo including "Come Rain or Come Shine".

As with his previous LPs, So Smooth and We Get Letters, Como eschewed the kind of novelties he was recording for 45/78 release in favor of collections devoted to well-known pop standards dating back to the 1920s.

Since Como's television show ran on Thursday evenings in Australia, the title for the Australian pressing of this album is Thursday Night With Mr. Como.

Background accompaniment is provided by the Mitchell Ayres orchestra, with the Ray Charles Singers. Cover art by Victor Kalin.

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