Search - Perry Como :: Shadow of Your Smile

A sampler for two of Perry's finest albums!

townsend@istar.ca | Nova Scotia, Canada | 02/14/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A re-release of Perry's 1972 RCA Camden album, this nine song compilation really amounts to a sampler for two of Perry's finest albums "Lightly Latin" ( five songs ) and "Perry Como In Italy" ( four songs ) both of which were originally recorded and released in 1966. With only 9 songs, this album is desperately short at 30 minutes 27 seconds in length. Very oddly, it's packaged within a box-set including two other Camden compilations "Dream On Little Dreamer" ( 1973 ) and "The Lord's Prayer" ( 1969 ) of which the latter is a peculiar combination within this set. Apart from the odd combination, however, none of the recordings appear to have been remastered from the original first generation tapes as is claimed. Como fans would have appreciated much more a double album release of the two original 1966 albums complete. Perry's 1969 compilation "The Lord's Prayer" ( mostly recorded from the early 1950s ) would have been much better had it been remastered from original recordings and better combined with the 1956 monaural compilation "I Believe", marketed appropriately to a Christian audience and not combined with popular standards."