Perry Como is the most boring man to ever live, who made the most boring music ever made. He thought rock and roll was too wild and amoral and was overall just a very boring person. He was a crooner who had no swing. I can think of a few fictional Perry Como album titles:>Perry Como sings boring songs about being boring>Perry Como Wears a Button-Up Sweater>Perry Como Sings Songs About Going For A Walk>Saturday Night Spent Reading a Book and other Perry Como hitsGreat stuff if you're a 50s housewife who wants some idle background noise to listen to while washing the dishes.
>>130538622i am perry como's biggest fan
>>130538622his entire schtick was I'm Italian but not really so it's ok for WASP America to listen to me
>>130538657Ditto his buddies the Fontane Sisters.
PAPA LOVES MAMBOMAMA LOVES MAMBO
>>130538657most of the Italian audience never liked him for that reason, he wanted too badly to be a WASP and he also had nothing to do with the Mafia. now some guys like Sinatra were able to find a middle ground between Italian and white bread pop that appealed to everyone, others like Tony Bennett or Jerry Vale just targeted the core Italian audience with no concessions to WASP America.
>>130539211At least Frank Sinatra had shit like Watertown and In The Wee Hours
Frankie called him the best crooner he ever heard. I would've gone with Dean Martin, but Frankie knows wtf he is talking about.
>>130539231Como respected him but said he couldn't ever invite him on his TV show because he wasn't family friendly enough. He was very strict about his clean-cut image, incidentally, banned Julie London from his show for wearing a low cut dress once.
>>130539396still, the guy gets some props for refusing to remake his old 40s records because he said you can't do a song more than once, it doesn't work. Sinatra wasted a lot of time in the 60s remaking old songs instead of doing new stuff.
>>130538622>Great stuff if you're a 50s housewife who wants some idle background noise to listen to while washing the dishes.exactly the aesthetic i'm going for actually, i'll check him out. thanks for the rec
>>130539574That's true though I believe it was also because a lot of those 78 era records were songs he didn't like and didn't want to record, but he didn't really have creative freedom over his own music until the 50s.
