Perry Como / discography

Perry Como, New York City, circa October 1946. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the American singer Perry Como .

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	UK	US
1955	So smooth	-	-	US7 (? Where) US
1957	We Get Letters	-	-	US8 (10 weeks) US
	Dream Along with Me	-	-	US11 (9 weeks) US
1958	We Get Letters (Volume 2)	-	UK4 (7 weeks) UK	-
	Dear Perry	-	UK6 (5 weeks) UK	-
	Saturday Night with Mr. C.	-	-	US18 (2 weeks) US
1959	When you come to the end of the day	-	-	US16 (7 weeks) US
	Como swings	-	-	US17 (12 weeks) US
1961	Sing to Me, Mr. C.	-	-	US50 (13 weeks) US
1962	By request	-	-	US32 (21 weeks) US
	The Best of Irving Berlin’s Songs from "Mr. President "	-	-	US90 (6 weeks) US	Sampler with contributions by Perry Como, the Ray Charles Singers, Sandy Stewart and Kaye Ballard
1963	The Songs I Love	-	-	US59 (18 weeks) US
1965	The scene changes	-	-	US47 (17 weeks) US	with The Anita Kerr Quartet
1966	Lightly Latin	-	-	US86 (9 weeks) US
	Perry Como in Italy	-	-	US81 (16 weeks) US
1969	Seattle	-	-	US93 (11 weeks) US
1971	It's impossible	-	UK13 (13 weeks) UK	US22 (? Where) US
	I think of you	-	-	US101 (9 weeks) US
1973	And I Love You So	-	UK1 platinum (107 weeks)UK	US34 gold (19 weeks)US
1974	Perry	-	UK26th gold (3 weeks)UK	US138 (10 weeks) US
1975	Memories Are Made of Hits	-	UK14th silver (17 weeks)UK	-
1976	Just out of reach	-	-	US142 (9 weeks) US
1983	For the Good Times	-	UK41 (6 weeks) UK	-

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More studio albums

1949: Supper Club Favorites 1952: TV Favorites 1954: I Believe 1955: A Sentimental Date with Perry Como 1956: Perry Como Sings Hits from Broadway Shows 1956: Relaxing with Perry Como (UK:silver) 1958: Sings Just for You (UK:silver) 1959: Perry Como's Wednesday Night Music Hall 1960: Dreamer's Holiday 1961: For the Young at Heart 1962: Make Someone Happy 1963: An Evening with Perry Como 1965: Somebody Loves Me 1966: No Other Love 1967: Favorite Love Ballads by Perry Como (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1968: Home for the Holidays 1968: Look to Your Heart 1968: You Are Never Far Away 1969: The Lord's Prayer 1970: It's Impossible

1970: In Person at the International Hotel Las Vegas 1971: Door of Dreams 1971: Perry Como Sings / In Romantic Mood 1972: This Is Perry Como Vol. 2 (with The Ray Charles Singers and The Anita Kerr Singers) (2 LPs) 1974: The Sweetest Sounds 1974: Sylvania Presents Perry Como by Special Request 1975: Perry Como 1975: Perry Como in Nashville 1977: The Best of British 1978: Where You're Concerned 1978: Something Special 1980: Perry Como 1980: Perry Como New Best 1981: Perry Como Live on Tour 1982: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever 1983: So It Goes 1987: Today 1993: 1940–41 Broadcast Recordings ( Ted Weems and His Orchestra feat. Perry Como and Elmo Tanner) 1999: I Dream of You

Christmas albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	UK	US
1957	Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music [RCA Victor 1243]	-	-	US8 (9 weeks) US	New edition of an album from 1946 [RCA Victor 161] reached number 9 again at the end of 1958
1960	Season's Greetings from Perry Como	-	-	US22nd gold (8 weeks)US	re-entry three times 1961–1963
1964	Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music [RCA Camden 660]	-	-	US- gold US	New edition of the albums from 1946 and 1957
1970	The Perry Como Christmas Album	-	-	US- gold US	first published in 1968
2001	A Perry Como Christmas	-	-	US196 (1 week) US
2014	The Classic Christmas Album	-	-	US18 (13 weeks) US

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More Christmas albums

• 1959: Perry Como Sings the Songs of Christmas
• 1973: Back Home for Christmas (with Julie Andrews , Chet Atkins , Jack Jones , Ed Ames ) (box with 5 LPs)
• 1983: Christmas with Perry Como
• 1989: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever
• 1992: Christmas Favorites (with Dean Martin , Mel Tormé and Johnny Mercer )
• 1997: Christmas with Perry Como
• 2004: Christmas Legends (with Rosemary Clooney )

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	UK	US
1958	Como's Golden Records	-	UK4 (5 weeks) UK	US24 (2 weeks) US
1975	40 greatest hits	-	UK1 platinum (30 weeks)UK	-	Double album
2001	Gold - Greatest Hits	-	UK55 (2 weeks) UK	-
2003	The essential	-	UK54 (3 weeks) UK	-
2004	Papa Loves Mambo - The Very Best Of	-	UK63 (1 week) UK	-
2009	Very best of	-	UK41 (2 weeks) UK	-
2020	gold	-	UK68 (1 week) UK	-

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More compilations

1949: A Sentimental Date with Perry 1957: Perry Como 1963: Perry at His Best 1964: Love Makes the World Go 'Round 1965: Somebody Loves Me 1967: Hello, Young Lovers 1970: This Is Perry Como 1971: Easy Listening (2 LPs) 1971: Here Is Perry Como (2 LPs) 1972: Here Is Perry Como Vol. 2 (2 LPs) 1972: The Shadow of Your Smile 1973: Dream On Little Dreamer 1973: Relax with Perry Como 1974: The Perry Como Collection (UK:gold) 1974: Gold Deluxe (2 LPs) 1974: Fly Me to the Moon (UK:silver) 1974: 20 golden hits 1975: Pure Gold 1975: I Believe in Music 1975: Como's Golden Records (UK:silver) 1975: Sylvania Presents Perry Como Just for You 1976: Forever - 32 hits 1976: A Legendary Performer 1977: Especially for You 1977: A Portrait in Music 1977: Perry Como (2 LPs) 1979: superstar 1979: Perry Como (2 LPs) 1980: Perry Como's 20 Greatest Hits: Volume One 1980: Feelings (with Morris Albert , Salena Jones, Johnny Mathis , Shirley Bassey , Richard Clayderman , Mari Nakamoto, Bobby Vinton , Tony Christie , The Singers Unlimited , Caravelli, Orion, Claude Ciari, Claude Déjean) 1981: 20 Greatest Hits Volume II 1984: Perry Como (4 LPs) 1984: The Young Perry Como (with Ted Weems & His Orchestra) 1985: Magic Moments (2 LPs) 1987: The Best of Perry Como 1987: The Best Of 1987: The Perry Como Collection 1987: Love Songs 1988: All Time Greatest Hits

1988: Perry Como - Three Album Set (box with 3 LPs) 1988: Jukebox Baby 1989: Perry Como 1993: Yesterday & Today - A Celebration in Song (box with 3 CDs) 1993: The Love Songs 1993: Take Me in Your Arms 1994: Magic Moments 1995: Love Letters 1995: 16 Most Requested Songs 1996: The Best of Perry Como (UK:silver) 1996: The Love Collection 1997: The Very Best of Perry Como 1998: The Incomparable Perry Como 1998: The Long Lost Hits of Perry Como 1998: A Classic Collection 1999: The Classic Years 2000: Perry Como 2000: 36 All-Time Greatest Hits (3 CDs) 2000: They Say It's Wonderful 2000: For You 2000: Prisoner of Love 2000: The Very Best of Perry Como 2000: Perry Como (2 CDs) 2000: The Definitive Perry Como Collection (2 CDs) 2000: Greatest Gospel Songs 2000: Till The End of Time (box with 3 CDs) 2001: Enchanted Evening with Perry Como 2001: Perry Como Sings Songs of Faith & Inspiration (2 CDs) 2002: To Know You 2002: With a Song in My Heart (2 CDs) 2002: Perry Como Presents 20 Classics from the Early Years 2003: Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - 23 Greatest Hits 2003: Perry Como 2003: The Best of Perry Como 2003: Till The End of Time 2004: Legends (3 CDs) 2006: One More Time (with The Fontane Sisters) 2006: Here's Perry Como 2007: Papa Loves Mambo 2011: The Real… Perry Como (The Ultimate Perry Como Collection) (3 CDs)

EPs

1952: Perry Como Sings His Favorite Songs of Worship 1952: Songs of Faith 1952: TV Favorites 1952: I'm Always Chasing Rainbows / Love Me or Leave Me / Body and Soul / When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver (I Will Love You Just the Same) 1952: When Day Is Done / Carolina Moon / What'll I Do / If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts We'll Just Be the Same Old Friends (with Russ Case and His Orchestra / Lloyd Shaffer and His Orchestra) 1953: Bushel and a Peck / You're Just in Love / Marrying for Love / It's a Lovely Day Today (with Betty Hutton ) 1953: It was the Night Before Christmas / The Twelve Days of Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen / CHRISTMAS 1953: Joy to the World / Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Frosty the Snow Man / The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) 1953: The Story of the First Christmas 1954: Como's Golden Records (Part 1) 1954: Song of Songs 1954: Jingle Bells / White Christmas / Santa Claus Is Comin 'to Town / Winter Wonderland 1955: PC (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1955: So Smooth (double EP) 1956: I Believe 1956: The Rose Tattoo 1956: Relaxing with Perry Como 1956: With a Song in My Heart / Love Me or Leave Me / Lies / Body and Soul / No Other Love 1956: Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music 1956: Perry Como Sings Hits from Broadway Shows (double EP) 1957: Temptation / Black Moonlight / All at Once You Love Her / Look Out the Window (And See How I'm Standing in the Rain) 1957: If / When You Were Sweet Sixteen / I've Got the World on a String / You Do Something to Me 1957: What'll I Do / Blue Room / Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) / It Happened in Monterey

1957: Dream Along with Me 1957: Perry Como 1957: We Get Letters, Vol. 1 1957: We Get Letters, Vol. 2 1957: Kleenex Tissues Presents Perry Como Highlighter 1958: Evening Reverie 1958: When You Come to the End of the Day / May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You / He's Got the Whole World in His Hands / Only One 1958: Round and Round / When You Were Sweet Sixteen / Till the End of Time (Based on Chopin 'Polonaise) / Hubba-Hubba-Hubba (Dig You Later) 1958: Temptation / Mi casa, su casa (My House Is Your House) / Prisoner of Love / Because 1958: Perry Como Sings the Pops 1958: Hits by Perry Como 1958: Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music 1958: We Get Postcards 1959: Como Swings 1959: You'll Never Walk Alone 1959: Perry Como Sings 1959: Relaxing with Perry Como 1959: I Believe 1959: Perry Como's TV songs 1959: Christmas with Como 1960: Honey, Honey 1962: White Label Radio Promo 1963: Tenderly Yours

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
1953	Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes	-	-	UK1 (15 weeks) UK	-	with The Ramblers
1954	Wanted	-	-	UK4 (15 weeks) UK	-
	Idle gossip	-	-	UK3 (15 weeks) UK	-
	Papa Loves Mambo	-	-	UK16 (1 week) UK	US1 (1 week) US
1955	Tina Marie	-	-	UK24 (1 week) UK	-
1956	All at One You Love Her	-	-	-	US27 (8 weeks) US
	Juke box baby	-	-	UK22 (6 weeks) UK	US10 (17 weeks) US
	Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)	-	-	UK4 (13 weeks) UK	US2 (23 weeks) US
	Glendora	-	-	UK18 (6 weeks) UK	US14 (17 weeks) US
	More	-	-	UK10 (12 weeks) UK	US9 (18 weeks) US
	Dream Along with Me (I'm on My Way to a Star)	-	-	-	US85 (5 weeks) US
	Somebody Up There Likes Me	-	-	-	US26 (10 weeks) US
	Moonlight Love (From Clair de Lune by Debussy)	-	-	-	US42 (9 weeks) US
	Chincherinchee	-	-	-	US59 (8 weeks) US
1957	Round and Round	DE8 (2 months) DE	-	-	US1 (29 weeks) US
	Mi casa, su casa (My House Is Your House)	DE9 (1 month) DE	-	-	US50 (7 weeks) US
	Girl with the golden braids	-	-	-	US15 (14 weeks) US
	My little baby	-	-	-	US48 (6 weeks) US
	Dancin '	-	-	-	US76 (4 weeks) US	with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers
	Just Born (To Be Your Baby)	-	-	-	US19 (17 weeks) US
	Ivy Rose	-	-	-	US32 (15 weeks) US
1958	Jingle Bells	-	-	-	US74 (2 weeks) US
	Magic moments	-	-	UK1 (17 weeks) UK	US27 (16 weeks) US
	Catch a falling star	-	-	UK9 (10 weeks) UK	US9 gold (23 weeks)US
	Kewpie Doll	-	-	UK9 (7 weeks) UK	US12 (16 weeks) US
	I May Never Pass This Way Again	-	-	UK15 (8 weeks) UK	-
	Moon talk	-	-	UK17 (11 weeks) UK	US29 (10 weeks) US
	Love Makes the World Go Round	-	-	UK6 (14 weeks) UK	US33 (10 weeks) US
	Mandolins in the moonlight	DE29 (1 month) DE	-	UK13 (12 weeks) UK	US47 (10 weeks) US
1959	Tomboy	-	-	UK10 (12 weeks) UK	US29 (9 weeks) US
	I know	-	-	UK13 (16 weeks) UK	US47 (9 weeks) US
1960	Delaware	-	-	UK3 (14 weeks) UK	US22 (11 weeks) US
	I know what god is	-	-	-	US81 (2 weeks) US
	Make someone happy	-	-	-	US80 (2 weeks) US
1961	You're Following Me	-	-	-	US92 (3 weeks) US
1962	Caterina	DE7 (5 months) DE	-	UK37 (6 weeks) UK	US23 (12 weeks) US
1963	(I Love You) Don't You Forget It	DE17 (3 months) DE	-	-	US39 (9 weeks) US
1965	Dream On Little Dreamer	-	-	-	US25 (10 weeks) US
	Oowee, Oowee	-	-	-	US88 (4 weeks) US
1967	Stop! And think it over	-	-	-	US92 (4 weeks) US
1968	The Father of Girls Look To Your Heart	-	-	-	US92 (2 weeks) US
1969	Seattle Seattle	-	-	-	US38 (10 weeks) US
1970	It's Impossible It's Impossible	-	-	UK4 (23 weeks) UK	US10 (17 weeks) US
1971	I think of you I think of you	-	-	UK14 (11 weeks) UK	US53 (8 weeks) US
1973	And I Love You So And I Love You So	-	-	UK3 silver (35 weeks)UK	US29 (16 weeks) US
	For the Good Times And I Love You So	-	-	UK7th silver (27 weeks)UK	-
	Walk right back	-	-	UK33 (10 weeks) UK	-
1974	I Want to Give And I Love You So	-	-	UK31 (6 weeks) UK	-
	Christmas Dream The Odessa File OST	-	-	-	US92 (2 weeks) US
1986	The Best of Times Today	-	-	UK82 (2 weeks) UK	-
2007	It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas	DE90 (1 week) DE	CH65 (2 weeks) CH	UK47 silver (11 weeks)UK	US28 (4 weeks) US
2018	(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays	-	-	-	US32 (3 weeks) US

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More singles

1949: When Day Is Done 1949: Prisoner of Love 1949: When You Were Sweet Sixteen 1949: Some Enchanted Evening (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1949: When Is Sometime 1949: Just One Way to Say I Love You 1949: I'll Be Home for Christmas 1949: Silent Night 1949: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) 1949: A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes 1949: Ave Maria 1949: A Sentimental Date with Perry (7inch Box Set) 1949: Supper Club Favorites (7inch Box Set) 1950: Please Believe Me (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1950: Song of Songs 1950: Hoop-De-Doo (with The Fontane Sisters) 1950: The First Christmas (Part 1 & Part 2) 1950: Bless This House (with Mixed Chorus conducted by Mitchel Ayres and Organ Accompaniment) 1950: Marrying for Love 1950: A Bushel and a Peck (with Betty Hutton ) 1950: If You Were My Girl 1950: You're Just in Love 1950: Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom 1950: Let's Go to Church (Next Sunday Morning) 1951: Because 1951: Perry Como Sings Billy Rose ( Without a Song / More Than You Know ) 1951: Perry Como Sings Billy Rose ( It's Only a Paper Moon / Me and My Shadow ) 1951: Perry Como Sings Billy Rose ( That Old Gang of Mine / I Found a Million Dollar Baby ) 1951: Hello, Young Lovers 1951: There's a Big Blue Cloud (Next to Heaven) (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1951: Tumbling Tumbleweeds (with The Sons of the Pioneers ) 1951: Rollin 'Stone (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1951: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 1952: Over the Rainbow (with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra And Chorus) 1952: I Concentrate on You (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1952: If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1952: Summertime (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1952: Noodlin 'Rag (with The Fontane Sisters) 1952: One Little Candle (with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra And Chorus) 1952: Tulips and Heather (with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra) 1952: Maybe (with Eddie Fisher ) 1952: Sweethearts Holiday 1952: To Know You (Is to Love You) 1953: The Ruby and the Pearl 1953: Some Enchanted Evening 1953: Say You're Mine Again (with The Ramblers) 1953: Wild Horses (with Hugo Winterhalter ’s Orchestra and Chorus) 1953: A Bushel and a Peck (with Betty Hutton )

1953: No Other Love 1953: You Alone (Solo tu) 1953: My One and Only Heart 1953: Hello, Young Lovers 1953: Pa-paya Mama 1953: Abide with Me 1953: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 1953: The Twelve Days of Christmas 1954: Hit and Run Affair 1954: You Alone (Solo tu) 1954: There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays 1954: Frosty the Snowman 1955: Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) 1955: Nobody 1955: Door of Dreams 1955: Chee Chee-Oo Chee (Sang the Little Bird) (with Jaye P. Morgan ) 1955: You'll Never Walk Alone 1955: Fooled 1955: Till the End of Time (Based on Chopin's Polonaise ) 1955: Silent Night 1957: One Little Candle 1957: Silk Stockings 1957: As Time Goes By 1957: Marching Along to the Blues 1957: Santa Claus Is Comin 'to Town 1959: A Still Small Voice 1959: The Lord's Prayer 1960: Gone Is My Love 1965: Summer Wind 1965: Meet Me at the Altar 1966: Coo Coo Roo Coo Coo Paloma 1966: Forget Domani 1966: My Own Particular Way 1967: A World of Love (That I Found in Your Arms) (with The Ray Charles Singers) 1967: You Made It That Way (Watermelon Summer) 1967: I Looked Back 1967: Christmas Bells 1968: Happy Man 1968: There Is No Christmas Like a Home Christmas 1969: That's All This Old World Needs 1970: Love Is Spreading Over the World 1971: Yesterday I Heard the Rain 1973: Love Don't Care (Where It Grows) 1974: I Don't Know What He Told You 1974: Christmas Dream 1976: Where You're Concerned 1982: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever

statistics

Chart evaluation

UK  US Number one albums UK2UK US-US Top 10 albums UK5UK US3US Albums in the charts UK13UK US24US

DE  UK  US Number one singles DE-DE UK2UK US2US Top 10 singles DE3DE UK14thUK US7thUS Singles in the charts DE5DE UK28UK US41US

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	-	3,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	9 × silver9	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	1,860,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	9 × silver9	7 × gold7th	2 × platinum2

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: Singles albums UK US
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

Web links

• Perry Como at Allmusic (English)
• Perry Como at Discogs (English)