Perry Como

Perry Como (Pierino Ronald Como), born with Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the May 18th 1912, deceased the May 12th 2001, was a singer, an actor and an American presenter of television .

His/her parents, Pietro Como and Lucia Travaglini Como were immigrants originating in Palena in Italy.

After having worked in a hairdressing salon and even, after having assembled his own hairdressing salon, Perry Como begins a professional path of singer in 1933 and, the same year, Marie with Roselle Belline, which will die in 1998 after sixty-five years of marriage.

He will make party of this generation of large American singers of Italian origin as well as Franck Sinatra or Frankie Laine.

A few pieces famous in their interpretation for Perry Como

Round And Round
Hot Diggity,
Catch has Falling Star
Papa Coil Mambo
No Other Love
Magic Moments (N°1 GB in February 1958, present in the film " Las Vegas Parano " of Terry Gilliam)
Till The End Off Time (N°1 US in September - October-November 1945)
Don' T Let The Get Stars In Your Eyes (N°1 US in January and N°1 GB in February 1953)
Dream One Little Dreamer
It' S Impossible
Christmas Dream (which one can hear at the beginning of the film " The Odessa" file;)
I believe
Try to remember
Prisoner Of Coils (US N°1 in May 1946)
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) (US N°1 in July 1947)
Some Enchanted Evening (N°1 US in August 1949)
If (N°1 US in March 1951)
Wanted (N°1 US in April - May 1954)

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