Do you people like Perry Como?
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 11:25:06 PM
No.127461515
>>127461579
>>127461889
>>127461447 (OP)
he boring. he also epitomizes Pennsylvania in a nutshell which is to say he boring and corny.
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 11:30:46 PM
No.127461579
>>127461889
>>127461901
>>127461515
This is after all the state that "blessed" us with Taylor Swift.
Anonymous
8/20/2025, 11:57:06 PM
No.127461889
>>127461515
Im sad for you
>>127461579
How can you like that kind of music?
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:10:00 AM
No.127462022
>>127461447 (OP)
Goodwill record bins sure do anyway.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:11:01 AM
No.127462032
Wild Horses was one of his more entertaining ever records and he didn't have a lot of those.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:12:06 AM
No.127462041
>>127462056
>>127462063
>>127461447 (OP)
My grandma was a real old school Italian from Jersey who idolized all the classic wop crooners growing up and she fucking HATED Perry Como.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:12:33 AM
No.127462048
>>127462056
>>127462072
>Como was notorious for his refusal to rerecord any of his 78 era hits in modern hi fi despite RCA's protests, saying "I already did those songs. Why would I want to do them again?" He did make an exception for Christmas songs which he did several rerecords of.[3]
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:13:41 AM
No.127462056
>>127462041
Why?
also, why do all Italians act the same?
>>127462048
Makes sense. I drive a 2002 Cadillac Eldorado as a daily driver
>>127462041
He was super white bread and not necessarily targeted at the same audience as Tony Bennett or Jerry Vale. Dude was out to conquer basic suburban WASP America not the nightclub circuit in Manhattan.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:15:34 AM
No.127462072
>>127462048
I suspect some of that is because he didn't get to pick his own material until the 50s and many of the pre-50s records were songs he didn't want to do and probably had no desire to revisit.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:17:56 AM
No.127462099
>>127462063
Sinatra was effective at bridging both audiences and that was a big part of his success but a lot of those guys (think Vic Damone) were fairly inaccessible except to the core guido audience.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:28:52 AM
No.127462209
>>127462229
>>127462613
>>127462063
ditto his pals the Fontane Sisters
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 12:31:40 AM
No.127462229
>>127462209
they were good and hot too
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:07:59 AM
No.127462498
>>127462462
No what most of the fags here said
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:26:10 AM
No.127462613
>>127462640
>>127462209
Meaning they also eschewed anything guido and instead just shit out novelty pop and country/R&B covers.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:28:41 AM
No.127462630
Joni James's debut and biggest hit was also nightclub pop but she got more generic as time went on as well as started singing in a more neutral and less Italian accent.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:29:59 AM
No.127462640
>>127462613
I don't think the Fontane Sisters ever even did a ballad, not that I know of anyway.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:34:14 AM
No.127462665
>>127462063
There were also lesser lights like Don Cornell and Johnny Desmond who mostly got confined to the schlock circuit on labels like Coral.
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:37:11 AM
No.127462685
also let's not not remember April Stevens the Italian queen of sex voice records in the 50s before reinventing herself as a duet act with her brother in the 60s and faking her age by a lot because i guess she was jealous of Connie Francis and wanted to take her on
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:39:13 AM
No.127462703
now a lot of the more avante garde pop in the 60s came from Italian guys like the Four Seasons, Lou Christie, and Dion
Anonymous
8/21/2025, 1:41:24 AM
No.127462718
Plus the two Northern rockabillies Jack Scott and Freddie Cannon.
