We Get Letters

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We Get Letters
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Studio album by
Perry Como
ReleasedApril 1957
RecordedJune 18, 1956, February 12, 19, 1957
Studio RCA Victor Studios 2 & 3, New York City
Genre Vocal, jazz
Length31:52
Label RCA Victor
Producer Ed O. Welker
Perry Como chronology
Relaxing with Perry Como
(1956)		We Get Letters
(1957)		 Saturday Night with Mr. C
(1958)
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We Get Letters is a 1957 album by Perry Como, his second RCA Victor 12" long-play album. [2]

Contents

Overview

The LP's concept is an album of requests from Como's television show, but forgoing the usual big-band sound of Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers for a small group known as "Como's little Combo", with soft, breezy jazz arrangements by Joe Lipman. [3] The album was recorded between June 1956 and February 1957.

As with his first LP So Smooth , Como avoided the type of novelty songs he often recorded for single releases in favor of pop standards dating back to the 1920s and 30s.

The album reached No. 8 on the Billboard Best Selling Pop Albums chart, staying on the chart for ten weeks. [4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Music by Isham Jones and lyrics by Gus Kahn, 1923) - 2:13
  2. "It's Easy To Remember" (Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, 1935) - 3:15
  3. "South of The Border" (Words and Music by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr, 1939) - 2:17
  4. "That's What I Like" (Words and Music by Mae Boren Axton and Glenn Reeves) - 2:38
  5. "Honey, Honey (Bless Your Heart)" (Music by Larry Stock and lyrics by Dominick Belline) - 2:41
  6. "Angry" (Music by Henry Brunies and Jules Cassard with lyrics by Dudley Mecum, 1925) - 2:20

Side two

  1. "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (Music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, 1937) - 2:30
  2. "Sposin'" (Music by Paul Denniker and lyrics by Andy Razaf, 1929) - 3:39
  3. "I Had the Craziest Dream" (Music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mack Gordon, 1942) - 2:36
  4. "'Deed I Do" (Music by Fred Rose and lyrics by Walter Hirsch, 1926) - 1:58
  5. "Somebody Loves Me" (Music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and B.G. DeSylva, 1924) - 3:20
  6. "Sleepy Time Gal" (Music by Ange Lorenzo and Richard A. Whiting with lyrics by Joseph R. Alden and Raymond B. Egan, 1925) - 2:18

Charts

Chart (1957)Peak
position
US Billboard Best Selling Pop Albums [4] [5] 8
US Cash Box Best Selling Pop Albums [6] [7] 10

References

  1. ↑ We Get Letters at AllMusic. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "We Get Letters". Kokomo. Archived from the original on August 7, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ "We Get Letters-credits". AllMusic. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top LPs, 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 35. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Billboard's Music Popularity Charts: Best Selling Pop Albums". The Billboard . Vol. 69, no. 36. September 9, 1957. p. 22. Retrieved August 20, 2025– via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 120. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
  7. ↑ "The Cash Box Best Selling Pop Albums" (PDF). The Cash Box . Vol. XIX, no. 1. September 21, 1957. p. 32. Retrieved August 20, 2025– via worldradiohistory.com.
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