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Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer, actor, and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century, he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for 44 years, from 1943 until 1987.
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entertainment · American singer, actor, and TV personality (1912–2001) · singer · jazz musician · radio personality · television personality · actor · recording artist · musician · also Perry Como, Pierino Ronald, Como
Born 18 May 1912 · Died 12 May 2001 · Q333405
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 2 entries
Released album “It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”.
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Released album “Perry Como: Gold”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “On the Radio: The Perry Como Shows 1943”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Till the end of time”.
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2002).
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But it remains a household name in The Liberties
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And was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006
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2001· 5 entries
Died 2001-05-12.
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At his home in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida, aged 88
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"He (Como) came from this whole generation of crooners—Crosby and Sinatra, but he was the only one of them who figured out TV
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Released album “That Christmas Feeling”.
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Como co-hosted a weekly syndicated radio show with John Knox called Weekend With Perry
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2000· 8 entries
Released album “Catch a Falling Star”.
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Released album “The 3 Crooners”.
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Released album “Perry Como: Long Ago and Far Away”.
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Released album “Legendary”.
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Released album “Greatest Gospel Songs”.
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Released album “Prisoner of Love”.
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Released album “Perry Como”.
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Released album “I Dream of You”.
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1999· 8 entries
Released album “The Shadow of Your Smile”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “The Long Lost Hits”.
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Released album “The Essential 60's Singles”.
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Released album “The Legendary Perry Como”.
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Released album “Greatest Christmas Songs”.
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Released album “Juke Box Baby”.
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Released album “A Portrait of Perry Como”.
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1998· 5 entries
Released album “I Believe”.
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Released album “A Classic Collection”.
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Released album “I'm Confessin'”.
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Released album “Moments in the Moonlight”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Christmas With Perry Como”.
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Released album “The Masters”.
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “The Love Collection”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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Released album “Portrait of Perry Como”.
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Released album “Sings Just for You”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Love Letters”.
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “Yesterday & Today: A Celebration in Song”.
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Was successfully treated for bladder cancer
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Released album “Take Me In Your Arms”.
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Released album “The Voices”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “The Living Legend”.
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Released album “Magic Moments”.
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Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Perry Como Invites You to Dream Along with Me”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “20 Greatest Hits, Volume One”.
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Released album “Take It Easy”.
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And received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1987
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “36 All-Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Moon River (1988)”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Today”.
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And was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame three years later
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Released album “The Best of Perry Como”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Times”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “The Lord's Prayer”.
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Como related the story of his first film role experience in Something for the Boys
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1984· 1 entry
Como traveled the US with his 50th Anniversary tour
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “So It Goes”.
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1982· 2 entries
Como and Frank Sinatra were invited to entertain Italian President Sandro Pertini at a White House state dinner when he made an official visit
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Released album “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Where You’re Concerned”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Superstar”.
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “A Legendary Performer”.
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1975· 3 entries
Released album “40 Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Pure Gold”.
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Released album “I Believe In Music”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Perry”.
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “And I Love You So”.
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Released album “Dream On Little Dreamer”.
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “I Think of You”.
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While taping Perry Como's Winter Show in Hollywood, Como suffered a debilitating fall from a stage platform
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Released album “Easy Listening”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “It’s Impossible”.
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Seattle”.
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Look to Your Heart”.
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Released album “The Perry Como Christmas Album”.
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1967· 1 entry
Como began reducing his TV appearances, gradually becoming limited to seasonal and holiday specials with the emphasis being on Christmas
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Lightly Latin”.
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Released album “No Other Love”.
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Released album “Perry Como in Italy”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “The Scene Changes”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “The Songs I Love”.
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1962· 3 entries
Included Como's shaving a serviceman with a Castro-like beard and the enthusiastic participation when Perry asked for volunteers to come on stage to do the twist with the lovely ladies who were part of the visiting dance
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Released album “The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President”.
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Released album “By Request”.
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1961· 3 entries
Released album “Sing to Me Mr. C”.
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Released album “For the Young at Heart”.
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Released album “Dreamer’s Holiday”.
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “Season’s Greetings From Perry Como”.
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Released album “Como Swings”.
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Como signed a $25 million deal with Kraft Foods and moved to Wednesday nights, hosting Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall weekly for the next four years
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1958· 4 entries
Released album “Como’s Golden Records”.
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Released album “Saturday Night With Mr. C.”.
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The Comos celebrated their silver wedding anniversary with a family trip to Italy
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Released album “When You Come to the End of the Day”.
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1957· 2 entries
Released album “We Get Letters”.
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Released album “Dream Along With Me”.
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1956· 5 entries
The season premiere of The Perry Como Show was broadcast from NBC's new color television studio at the New York Ziegfeld Theatre, making it one of the first weekly color TV shows
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Released album “Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music”.
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Released album “Relaxing With Perry Como”.
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When Life conducted a poll of young women, asking them which man in public life most fit the concept of their ideal husband: it was Perry Como
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Released album “Perry Como Sings Hits From Broadway Shows”.
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1955· 2 entries
Viewers were able to see first-hand what Como did for a living before he was a professional singer
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Released album “So Smooth”.
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1954· 1 entry
When the entertainer suffered a broken ankle and leg in an on-air fall
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1953· 1 entry
Released album “Around the Christmas Tree”.
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1952· 1 entry
It was a news item only after Archbishop Fulton J
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1950· 1 entry
Como moved to CBS and the show's title was changed to The Perry Como Chesterfield Show, again sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes
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1949· 1 entry
It became a weekly half-hour offering on Sunday nights, directly opposite Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town
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1948· 1 entry
Released album “A Sentimental Date With Perry”.
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1946· 2 entries
And continuing long after Como stopped appearing on weekly television
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Como moved to Flower Hill, New York
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1944· 1 entry
Moved from CBS to NBC for a new radio program, Chesterfield Supper Club
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1940· 1 entry
While the Weems band was working in Chicago
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1936· 1 entry
While the Carlone orchestra was playing in Warren, Ohio
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1932· 1 entry
Como left Canonsburg, moving about 100 miles away to Meadville, Pennsylvania, where his uncle had a barber shop in the Hotel Conneaut
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1929· 1 entry
The 17-year-old Como met Roselle Belline at a picnic on Chartiers Creek that attracted many young people from the Canonsburg area
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-05-18.
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1910· 1 entry
From the Abruzzese town of Palena, Italy
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