Seattle (Perry Como album)
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Seattle was Perry Como's
Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...

 17th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 15th recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the sixth featuring Dynagroove
Dynagroove
Dynagroove is a recording process introduced in 1963 exclusive to RCA Victor that, for the first time, used computers to modify the audio signal fed to the recording stylus of a phonograph record to make the groove shape conform to the tracing requirements of the playback stylus...

 technology.

Seattle was Perry Como's
Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...

 first attempt at a "groovy" 60's sound. The album's opening track, "Happiness Comes, Happiness Goes" features distorted guitars and swirling organs.

Track listing

Side One
  1. "Happiness Comes, Happiness Goes" (Words and Music by Al Stillman
    Al Stillman
    Al Stillman was an American lyricist.-Biography:Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman, but changed it to that of a well-known New York banking family. He was Jewish. He attended New York University. After graduation, he contributed to Franklin P...

     and Dick Manning
    Dick Manning
    Dick Manning was a Russian-born American songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman....

    )
  2. "Nobody But You" (Words and Music by Dion O'Brien)
  3. "Seattle
    Seattle (song)
    "Seattle" is a song written by Hugo Montenegro, Jack Keller and Ernie Sheldon. It was used as the theme for the 1968-70 ABC-TV U.S. television show Here Come the Brides. Late in the show's first season, singer Perry Como recorded a version of the song, which became a Top 40 hit for him on the...

    " (Music by Hugo Montenegro
    Hugo Montenegro
    Hugo Montenegro was an American orchestra leader and composer of film soundtracks. His best known work is derived from interpretations of the music from Spaghetti westerns, especially his cover version of the main theme from the 1966 film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

    , and words by Ernie Sheldon and Jack Keller)
  4. "Turnaround" (Words and Music by Alan Green, Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte
    Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

     and Malvina Reynolds)
  5. "Beady Eyed Buzzard" (Words and Music by Eddie Snyder
    Eddie Snyder
    Edward Abraham Snyder was an American composer and songwriter. Snyder is credited with co-writing the English language lyrics and music for Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit, "Strangers in the Night"....

     and Richard Ahlert)
  6. "Hearts Will Be Hearts" (Words and Music by Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring...

    )


Side Two
  1. "That's All This Old World Needs" (Words and Music by Bob Tubert and Demetriss Tapp)
  2. "Together Forever" (Music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones
    Tom Jones (writer)
    Tom Jones is a lyricist of musical theatre. His best known work is The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002, and the hit song from the same, Try to Remember. Other songs from "The Fantasticks" include "Soon It's Gonna Rain", "Much More" and "I Can See It"...

    )
  3. "Sunshine Wine" (Words and Music by Cindy Walker)
  4. "Deep In Your Heart" (Words and Music by Jan Crutchfield)
  5. "Buongiorno Teresa" (Words and Music by Dick Manning and Jimmy Lytell
    Jimmy Lytell
    Jimmy Lytell was an American jazz clarinetist. Critic Scott Yanow called him "One of the most underrated clarinetists in jazz history"....

    )
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