Saturday Night with Mr. C


Saturday Night with Mr. C. was Perry Como's third RCA Victor 12" long-play album, and his first recorded in stereophonic sound.

Overview

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; with a playing time of nearly 50 minutes, the album was nearly twice as long as the typical pop LP of the period. "Come Rain or Come Shine" was reissued in 1967 on the RCA Camden compilation Hello, Young Lovers, but the stereo version on that album was electronically reprocessed from monophonic. In 2001, Saturday Night with Mr.C was reissued on compact disc by the Collectables Records third-party reissue label, by arrangement with RCA Records; this reissue included the first release of "Come Rain or Come Shine" in true stereo.
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. In the United Kingdom, the album was called Dear Perry and spent five weeks in the top ten of the Melody Maker album chart, entering on 8 November 1958 and peaking at number six. The album reached No. 18 on the Billboard Best Selling Pop LP's chart.
Como is accompanied by the Mitchell Ayres orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers, with arrangements by Joe Lipman.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Opening Theme: Dream Along With Me Time" / "Accentuate the Positive" - 2:55
  2. "It Could Happen To You" - 2:46
  3. "Love Letters" - 1:59
  4. "Almost Like Being In Love" / Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day" / "The Gypsy In My Soul" / "The Whiffenpoof Song" - 9:12
  5. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" - 2:22
  6. "Red Sails in the Sunset" - 3:06
Side two
  1. "The Birth of the Blues" - 3:25
  2. "When I Fall in Love" - 2:59
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" - 3:20
  4. "You Made Me Love You" / "I May Be Wrong" / "Like Someone in Love" / "Vaya Con Dios" - 10:07
  5. "It Had to Be You" - 2:35
  6. "Twilight on the Trail" / "Closing Theme: You Are Never Far Away Time" - 3:01