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- Artist: Perry Como
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- Release Date: September 28, 1999
- Total Time: 145:17
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
An excellent halfway step for fans who are unwilling to purchase the three-disc Perry Como box set but who still want more than the scant 12-track best-ofs, Greatest Hits includes over 50 of his best-loved songs, mostly arranged in chronological order from 1945's "Prisoner of Love" all the way to 1973's "For the Good Times." The focus is on his late-'40s ballad peak, courtesy of hits like "It's Impossible," "Temptation," "Prisoner of Love," "Till the End of Time." Disc two includes many of his vocal-pop favorites ("Hoop-Dee-Doo," "Papa Loves Mambo," "Hot Diggity,") but leaves off all of his '60s material, assuredly not the best period of his career but still a time of beautiful MOR covers of "Yesterday" and "The Shadow of Your Smile," among others. Still, for those who need a bit more Perry Como than any single-disc collection can provide, Greatest Hits is a perfect addition. ~ John Bush, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Prisoner of Love (Lyrics) | Leo Robin, Russ Columbo, |
Perry Como | (3:29) |
| Temptation (Lyrics) | Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed | Perry Como | (2:42) |
| Till the End of Time (Lyrics) | Frédéric Chopin, Buddy Kaye, |
Perry Como | (3:08) |
| "A" You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song) | Buddy Kaye, |
Perry Como, |
(2:24) |
| I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? | Perry Como | (3:09) | |
| I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (Lyrics) | Perry Como, Russ Case, |
(3:04) | |
| Far Away Places | Perry Como | (3:03) | |
| When You Were Sweet Sixteen (Lyrics) | Perry Como, |
(3:09) | |
| A Dreamer's Holiday | Kim Gannon, |
Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(3:16) |
| Forever and Ever (Lyrics) | Perry Como | (3:20) | |
| Some Enchanted Evening | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Perry Como | (3:26) |
| If I Loved You | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Perry Como | (3:13) |
| Because (Lyrics) | Frank Teschemacher, |
Perry Como, Russ Case | (2:47) |
| You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) | Perry Como, Russ Case, |
(2:08) | |
| I Wanna Go Home (With You) | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:21) | |
| I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before) | Perry Como | (2:40) | |
| Surrender (Lyrics) | Bennie Benjamin, George David Weiss | Perry Como, Russ Case | (3:11) |
| Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) | Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Mack David | Perry Como, |
(2:56) |
| Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk (Lyrics) | Irving Berlin | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:50) |
| You're Just in Love (Lyrics) | Irving Berlin | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:55) |
| Zing Zing Zoom Zoom | Sigmund Romberg, Charles Tobias | Perry Como | (2:58) |
| Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo | Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Mack David | Perry Como | (2:19) |
| If (Lyrics) | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(3:04) | |
| Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes (Lyrics) | Slim Willet | Perry Como, |
(2:40) |
| Wild Horses | Johnny Burke | Perry Como, |
(2:47) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Wanted (Lyrics) | Perry Como, |
(3:04) | |
| The Things I Didn't Do | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(3:04) | |
| Maybe (Lyrics) | Perry Como | (2:49) | |
| Patricia (Lyrics) | Art Pepper, Pérez Prado, Benny Davis, |
Perry Como | (2:39) |
| To Know You (Is to Love You) | Robert Allen, Ray Henderson, |
Perry Como, Betty Hutton | (2:39) |
| No Other Love | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Perry Como, |
(3:13) |
| You Alone (Solo Tu) | Robert Allen, Al Stillman | Perry Como, |
(2:47) |
| All at Once You Love Her (Lyrics) | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Perry Como, |
(2:49) |
| Hoop-Dee-Doo (Lyrics) | Frank Loesser, Milton DeLugg | Perry Como, |
(2:52) |
| A Bushel and a Peck | Frank Loesser | Perry Como, Betty Hutton | (2:43) |
| Catch a Falling Star | Paul Vance, Lee Pockriss | Perry Como, Ray Charles, |
(2:26) |
| Round and Round (Lyrics) | Perry Como, |
(2:31) | |
| Magic Moments (Lyrics) | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | Perry Como, |
(2:38) |
| Papa Loves Mambo (Lyrics) | Al Hoffman, |
Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres | (2:39) |
| (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays | Robert Allen, Al Stillman | Perry Como | (2:51) |
| Say You're Mine Again | Perry Como, |
(2:51) | |
| Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) | Jake "Vernon" Porter, |
Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:39) |
| Tina Marie | Bob Merrill, Traditional | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:31) |
| Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) | Al Hoffman, |
Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, Ray Charles, |
(2:22) |
| Juke Box Baby (Lyrics) | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:13) | |
| More | Tom Glazer, |
Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:35) |
| Glendora (Lyrics) | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:43) | |
| Kewpie Doll (Lyrics) | Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres, |
(2:30) | |
| It's Impossible (Lyrics) | Armando Manzanero, |
Perry Como | (3:14) |
| And I Love You So (Lyrics) | Don McLean | Perry Como | (3:18) |
| For the Good Times (Lyrics) | Kris Kristofferson | Perry Como | (3:38) |
