Word: como
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Dec. 25). Last week a coast-to-coast Gallup poll reported that the man in the street didn't agree with the jazz fans. The popular favorite, after 25 years, was still Bing Crosby.* Billy Eckstine rated only tenth place, well behind such old standbys as Perry Como, Dennis Day and Nelson Eddy...
...Just in Love, one of the most ingratiating of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam (TIME, Oct. 23) tunes. Perry Como (Victor) does it justice...
Later, it was reported, he had met a Czech and an Italian (both unidentified) near Lake Como. "I dare not go back," he said to his wife. "I should be sent to prison if I did." Without telling his parents, he and his family went to Rome. He put up his grey Vanguard at a garage, ordered a full tank of petrol, said he'd be back next day to start a long trip. But he never came back...
...most of the musicians and moguls around RCA Victor's Manhattan recording studios, fresh-faced Ralph Flanagan was just an essential but unexciting fixture. As an arranger for Crooner Perry Como, he was usually puttering around with a pencil making last-minute changes in the scores. Sometimes he played the piano in the band. But last week, Ralph Flanagan was being treated with new respect: almost overnight, recording with a band of his own, he had become the fastest flash seller in Victor's history...