Word: como
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Sinatra Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS-TV), with the unenviable job of bucking the Milton Berle show, puts its major reliance on song. To the accompaniment of girlish squeals from the studio audience, Sinatra and his guests (Perry Como, Frankie Laine, the Andrews Sisters, Broderick Crawford) alternate their songs with rather painful comedy sketches. Though no longer in the best of voice, Sinatra keeps his 60-minute show moving, lends a hand with the commercials and engages each guest star in brief and occasionally entertaining badinage...
...Vocalists of the Year": Doris Day, Perry Como...
...good deal. In television, ABC has been long on facilities (owning its own TV stations in New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco), but short on entertainment talent and cash for further development. Paramount, whose famed stage shows have launched such luminaries as Danny Kaye, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Betty Hutton and many a name band, is long on entertainment know-how and cash...
...Singers' Single-Record Series (Victor; 54 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Employing nine of their top pop singers (Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Perry Como et al.), Victor has released an avalanche of new versions of old hits (playing time: two hours 24 minutes) ranging from Walter Donaldson's My Mom (1947) back to Gus Kahn's My Isle of Golden Dreams...
...Perry Como; Victor, 45 r.p.m.). Como gives his usual relaxed treatment to a climbing new ballad (no kin to Kipling's If) that sounds a little like the old wedding favorite, Because...