He worked there after school well into the nights. Young Como was also playing the Sousaphone in the town marching band. It was in that he got the job with Freddy Carlone. It was also the year he married his childhood sweetheart Roselle Belline.
He took the plunge with what he later termed as "more than a few misgivings. Band leader Ted We s happened to be there. Art Jarrett has just left him, so he offered me the job. Como almost went back to cutting hair in December when Ted We s entered the armed forces to serve in World War II and the orchestra disbanded.
He was negotiating a lease for the barber shop in Canonsburg when he got an offer from CBS to star in his own radio show. That same year, established with his wife and three-year-old son and minute nightly radio show in New York, he landed engagements at the Copacabana and Versaille nightclubs and the Paramount and Strand Theaters. He also signed a recording contract with RCA Victor. Como's easygoing manner carried over into the studio.
In recording a song, Como told Down Beat, "I like to do about half a dozen takes Then we pick the best one and that's it. 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. He knows when he's done it that you've got his best. You don't see it in his face or his manner--it comes from inside.
He gives you all he's got and that's it. Como's television variety show lasted until , when he finally said goodbye to "the kids"--as he referred to members of his cast, notably the Ray Charles singers. By this time, the entertainment industry had started to change, and Como was beginning to seem old-fashioned. The singer went into semi-exile, although he continued to record and do TV specials, his Christmas program being something of an institution.
But in Perry Como donned the stage tux once again in a summertime show in Vegas that broke a year, self-imposed ban on live performances. With him was his old pal, pianist-singer Ray Charles. As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Como headed out on an international tour; he continued to find success making live appearances for the next decade. Como's tour of Australia was standing room only, and at the time one RCA executive crowed that the whole Como catalogue was "moving out fabulously.
The package included his last recording, "Wind Beneath My Wings," from , as well as two duets from the s with Eddie Fisher "Watermelon Weather" and "Maybe" and older material not reissued since first appearing on 78s. But, nestled bizarrely among such unusual fare came the voice of Perry Como, singing the song "Like Young. Musing over his varied successes in an interview with Alan Ebert for Good Housekeeping, Como concluded, "For the amount of talent I had-- and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke--I enjoyed a tremendous career.
Como died in his sleep on May 12, , at his home in Jupiter, Florida. He was six days short of his 89th birthday.
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