What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



It was pop 50 years ago so get off my back. Tiggi says I should put crooner stuff in Jazz, but I can't do it with a straight face. My #2 all time favorite crooner. Gotta go 4 deep to get to Frank. Martin, Como, Martino, then Frank. Perry just had that smooth dreamy baritone voice. Passing in 2001 at the age of 89 and remained active into the 80's. Last hit was in 1970 with It's Impossible, a #10 hit which is also my favorite. Fifteen tracks here going all the way back to 1945 with Till The End Of Time from the film A Day To Remember, topping the charts and becoming the biggest hit of that year. Started in radio in the 30's, with his peak recording years in the mid 50's. Crossed over to television when that medium became the thing, with his own show, The Chesterfield Supper Club. Can you guess who sponsored that show? Perry's biggest and last #1 hit came in 1958 with Catch A Falling Star. Only thing I don't like on here is the polka flavored Hoop-Dee-Doo. Even Music Head has his boundaries and polka would be one of the lines. Seven tracks I love making this a love album. Perry racked up the awards during his career with four emmys and a grammy lifetime achievement award in 2002, a year too late for him to enjoy it. Some excellent live tv performances from that era for those who are into that nostalgia thing, like me.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Hoop-Dee-Doo

Best Track - It's Impossible

It's impossible . . .
Tell the sun to leave the sky,
It’s just impossible . . .

It’s impossible . . .
Ask a baby not to cry,
It’s just impossible . . .

Can I hold you closer to me.
And not feel you goin’ through me,
Split the second,
That I never think of you,
Oh! how impossible . . .

Can the ocean keep from rushin’ to the shore?
It’s just impossible!
If I had you, could I ever want for more?
It’s just impossible!

And tomorrow , should you ask me for the world,
Somehow I'd get it . . .
I would sell my very soul,
And not regret it . . .
For to live without your love,
It’s just impossible!

Can the ocean keep from rushin’ to the shore?
It’s just impossible!
If I had you, could I ever want for more?
It’s just impossible!

And tomorrow , should you ask me for the world,
Somehow I'd get it . . .
I would sell my very soul,
And not regret it . . .
For to live without your love,
It’s just impossible!

Impossible! ( hmm )
Impossible!

1) Round And Round ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCM-cb9hwc
2) Hot Diggity **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twe880F_x5c
3) Catch A Falling Star ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdK1wvKAFfg
4) Papa Loves Mambo **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhx_y9ty6X4
5) No Other Love **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md4KqyA9ax0
6) Magic Moments ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSqQgoR76t0
7) Till The End Of Time **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFXA_-2cIYU
8) Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmkg_E2evbg
9) Wanted ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbhKSRqL2qg
10) It's Impossible ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLagM5kOTXE
11) Hoop-Dee-Doo *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaK6iANjSg8
12) Some Enchanted Evening **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pqRl2GH_uc
13) If **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPqhvhlhCcs
14) Temptation **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJVx_yVTYU
15) Dream On Little Dreamer ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4rfiNFJUh8

3's - 7
2's - 7
1's - 1

Grade - 2.4

so many albums, so little time