Greatest Hits (1999)

About this title: 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 ... read more

Tracks:

1. Prisoner of Love [Columbo/Gaskill/Rob]
2. Temptation [Brown/Freed]
3. Till the End of Time [Kaye/Mossman]
4. "A" You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song) [Kaye/Wise/Lippman]
5. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? [Adams/Hough/Howard]
6. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows [Carroll/McCarthy]
7. Far Away Places [Whitney/Kramer]
8. When You Were Sweet Sixteen [Thornton]
9. A Dreamer's Holiday [Gannon/Wayne]
10. Forever and Ever [Rosa/Winkler]
11. Some Enchanted Evening [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
12. If I Loved You [Hammerstein/Rodgers]
13. Because [Teschemacher/DHarde]
14. You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) [Powell/Stock]
15. I Wanna Go Home (With You) [Candullo/Joyce]
16. I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before) [Ash]
17. Surrender [Benjamin/Weiss]
18. Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) [David/Hoffman/Livin]
19. Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk [Berlin]
20. You're Just in Love [Berlin]
21. Zing Zing Zoom Zoom [Romberg/Tobias]
22. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo [David/Hoffman/Livin]
23. If [Evans/Hargreaves/Da]
24. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes [Willet]
25. Wild Horses [Burke]
26. Wanted [Fulton/Steele]
27. The Things I Didn't Do [Jay/Kosloff/Reid]
28. Maybe [Flynn/Madden]
29. Patricia [Davis]
30. To Know You (Is to Love You) [Allen/Roberts]
31. No Other Love [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
32. You Alone (Solo Tu) [Stillman/Allen]
33. All at Once You Love Her [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
34. Hoop-Dee-Doo [Loesser/DeLugg]
35. A Bushel and a Peck [Loesser]
36. Catch a Falling Star [Vance/Pockriss]
37. Round and Round [Stallman/Shapiro]
38. Magic Moments [David/Bacharach]
39. Papa Loves Mambo [Hoffman/Manning/Rei]
40. (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays [Stillman/Allen]
41. Say You're Mine Again [Heisler/Nathan]
42. Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) [Levy/Porter/Wilson]
43. Tina Marie [Merrill]
44. Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) [Hoffman/Manning]
45. Juke Box Baby [Sherman/Sherman]
46. More [Glazer/Alstone]
47. Glendora [Stanley]
48. Kewpie Doll [Tepper/Bennett]
49. It's Impossible [Manzanero/Manzanero]
50. And I Love You So [McLean]
51. For the Good Times [Kristofferson]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.