PERRY COMO - KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HER SONG

KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HER

PERRY COMO

SONGWRITERS: CHARLES FOX; NORMAN GIMBEL & LORI LIEBERMAN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: "AND I LOVE YOU SO"

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: MAMBO

YEAR: 1973

And I Love You So was Perry Como's 21st 12" long-play album released by RCA Records.

As with It's Impossible, this album was issued to feature a surprise hit single, Don McLean’s "And I Love You So". Como brought the song to the national top 40 (Number One Easy Listening). Previous versions of the song by Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vinton had met with mild or no success. Como's version was so successful, RCA asked him to record the song in Spanish. When Como said he didn't speak the language, he received personal Spanish lessons from the head of RCA International to get the record made. As in recent Como LP's, this collection features selections from then contemporary recording artists such as Roberta Flack, The Carpenters, Ray Price, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Bread and Mac Davis. The album was among the last to be produced by Atkins before he stepped down from his executive position with RCA Nashville.

I heard she sang a good song, I heard she had a style

And so I came to see her and listen for a while

And there she was this young girl, a stranger to my eyes

Strumming my pain with her fingers

Singing my life with her words