It's Impossible
Perry Como - CD
- Artist: Perry Como
- Format: CD
- Year: 1992, 2006
- UPC: 4582260930168
- Item Number: MSI093016
- Release date: 05/15/2011
- 1. It's Impossible
- 2. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
- 3. Head
- 4. Something
- 5. Snowbird
- 6. A House Is Not a Home
- 7. Everybody Is Looking for an Answer
- 8. El Condor Pasa
- 9. (They Long to Be) Close to You
- 10. I Think I Love You
- 11. We've Only Just Begun
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It's Impossible by Perry Como on CD
In June 1970, 58-year-old Perry Como increased his career activity by undertaking an engagement in Las Vegas, his first live performances in more than 20 years. But his real comeback was accomplished that fall, when "It's Impossible," an English translation of a Mexican song, became his first pop singles chart entry in a year and a half. As it streaked toward the Top Ten (and number one on the easy listening charts), Como quickly scheduled studio time in late November with producer Don Costa (known for his work with Frank Sinatra) and cut an accompanying album, which was in record stores before the end of the year. Como and Costa's best idea for this rush job was to fill up the album with recent pop hits previously recorded by the Beatles, the Carpenters, and Simon & Garfunkel, among others, in arrangements similar to the hit versions. The unruffled Como style worked fine on some of this material, but a song requiring a slightly greater emotional commitment, such as "A House Is Not a Home," didn't get it, and the choice of the Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" was hilariously inappropriate. Though some record company executives had been urging singers of Como's vintage to record contemporary soft rock, cutting the songs of Paul Simon and Lennon and McCartney was not really a way to assure career longevity, and Como was not able to reclaim any of these songs from their hitmakers. His real hope of sustaining his comeback lay in finding more songs of his own like "It's Impossible." But the album did its job, giving consumers an LP version of that hit, and as a result it was Como's most successful LP in a nearly a decade. Meanwhile, "It's Impossible" earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
- Artist: Perry Como
- Format: CD
- Year: 1992, 2006
- UPC: 4582260930168
- Item Number: MSI093016
- Release date: 05/15/2011
- Label: 3D, RCA Camden Classics
- Genre: VocalMusic
- Style: Traditional Pop
- Album Time: 23:55
- Album Type: "Best of..." / "Greatest Hits"
- Prisoner of Love/Till the End of Time
- Dreamer's Holiday
- The Lord's Prayer/The Shadow of Your Smile/Dream on Little Dreamer
- Lord's Prayer [Vox/Camden]
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Dream on Little Dreamer
- My Love and Devotion
- Perry Como : Christmas With
- Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music [Delta]
- Pure Gold
- Today
- All-Time Greatest Hits
- Season's Greetings
- Silent Night
- Yesterday & Today: A Celebration in Song
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Christmas Songs
- The Very Best of Perry Como [RCA]
- Greatest Gospel Songs
- Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters
- The Essential Perry Como, Vol. 1
- The Essential Perry Como, Vol. 2
- Saturday Night with Mr. C./When You Come to the End of the Day
- So Smooth/We Get Letters
- Como Swings/For the Young at Heart
- TV Favorites [Collectables]
- And I Love You So/It's Impossible
- Dream Along With Me/Dreamer's Holiday
- Scene Changes/Lightly Latin
- Magic Moments: The Best of Perry Como
- Juke Box Baby
- Lightly Latin [Bonus Tracks]
- Scene Changes [Bonus Tracks]
- Sings Love Songs
- Best of Perry Como [BMG]
- I'm Confessin
- Golden Voice Of Perry Como
- Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
- "Live" at the Supper Club 1946
- At the Supper Club, Pt. 2
- They Call Him Mr. Cool
- The Man Who Invented Casual
- Catch a Falling Star [Performance]
- Close to You
- Merry Christmas Music
- Perry Como [Platinum] (Import)
- Perry-Go-Round
- I Want to Thank You Folks (Import)
- Class Will Tell
- One More Time
- The Long Lost Hits
- PERRY COMO : THE COMPLETE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
- V-Disc Recordings: A Musical Contribution by America's Best for Our Armed Forces Overse
- Perry Como [Kala]
- The Love Collection
- By Request [Compilation]
- 100 Hits Legends
- PERRY COMO : TILL THE END OF TIME
- Encore of Golden Hits
- Perry Como: Cocktail Hour
- Perry Como-Jukebox Memories
- The Best of the War Years
- The Love Collection
- The Definitive Perry Como Collection
- Legendary
- Till the End of Time: Early Hits 1936-1945
- Sings Songs of Faith & Inspiration
- Christmas with Perry Como [BMG]
- I Believe [Compilation]
- White Christmas
- Magic Moments: The Best of Perry Como
- Sentimental Date with Perry Como [Dutton Vocalion]
- Till the End of Time [Goldies]
- Christmas Legends
- Christmas Legends
- They Call Him Mr. Cool
- Perry Como : 20 Most Requested
- Forever & Ever [Rajon]
- Greatest Hits 1943-1953 (City Hall)
- Close to You
- Perry Como: Essential Gold
- Best of Perry Como [UK Import]
- Platinum & Gold Collection
- Legends
- The Lord's Prayer [Compilation]
- Till the End of Time [Goldies] (Import)
- That Christmas Feeling
- All Hits
- Very Best of Perry Como [Sony] (Import)
- Greatest Gospel Songs
- Icons
- A Perry Como Christmas
- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever
- Season's Greetings
- The Essential Perry Como
- Very Best of Perry Como [Sony]
- 16 Most Requested
- Best of Perry Como [Mastersound]
- Great Perry Como, Vol. 2
