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...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...
...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...