 I don`t work at home at all. Once you know a song too well, you start to fool around with it. At the session, when the band`s working on the arrangement, I learn the tune right there. The audience knows I`m not going to do anything after all these years to upset them.
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Perry Como said of his career: "For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn`t dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career."
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I`ve done nothing that I can call exciting. I was a barber. Since then I`ve been a singer. That`s it.
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On his professional life versus his home life: "I`d perform with the world`s greatest artists [on TV], and then come home to the world`s greatest family."
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Trivia
Roselle was his high school sweetheart.
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One of the most popular male vocalists of all time, his list of hit records, over a 30 year period, is testament to his durability. His many hits include: "Till the End of Time," "Temptation," "Prisoner of Love," "Because," "When You Were Sweet Sixteen," "Wanted," "No Other Love," "Hot Diggety," "(There's No Place Like) Home For the Holidays," "Round and Round," "Catch a Falling Star," "Delaware," "Seattle," "It's Impossible" and "And I Love You So."
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One of his biggest hits, "Hot Diggity", was freely adapted from Emmanuel Chabrier's popular classical piece "España".
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Sold well over 50 million records. Had 13 number #1 hit songs - the first was "Till The End of Time" in 1945.
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The private Como was exactly as he appeared to the public: a quiet, self-effacing man who considered his performing activities as strictly tertiary to his family and his faith. While he had numerous million-selling singles and albums, he refused to have most of them certified gold (later platinum) out of modesty. A notable exception was when his album "Como's Gold Records" (RCA Victor: 1958) was released. One of the first compilation albums to become a best-seller, with liner notes by Irving Berlin, it became a million-seller in and of itself, and remained on the Billboard charts for more than a decade after its release.
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Had the longest stay of any popular artist with RCA Victor records, 1943-88.
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Had three children, Ronnie, David, and Terri. David and Terri were both adopted, David at the age of 4, because Roselle could no longer have children after the birth of her first child.
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Had a Big Hit with "Lili Marlene" in the US and Canada.
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Commenting on the relaxing effect his music has on people, Dean Martin once joked that he "used to go over to Perry's to borrow a cup of sleep."
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Performed at a 10 cent a dance club in Pittsburgh called "The Grove" in the early 1930s. He did not have a car to get to work, so he traveled to work on a trolley every day.
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One of 13 children, he was the seventh son of a seventh son - a sign of good luck in Italian families.
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He was the first of his many brothers and sisters to have been born in America.
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In December 2006, his 1946 recording of "Jingle Bells" topped Billboard magazine's Hot Ringtones chart - five years after he died.
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Days after his death, columnist William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote a column describing a past act of Como kindness when he gave Buckley's mother a jeweled brooch of his (when she needed a pin to repair an outfit) on board a plane. [May 2001]
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