Perry Como with Eydie Gormé, André Previn & Sammy Cahn

From 1961, a medley of lyricist Sammy Cahn's songs performed by Perry Como, Eydie Gormé and others with André Previn providing piano accompaniment.

[@jakela671]

I met Sammy Cahn when I was in high school. He was a customer of my Dad's. He was so gracious and friendly to me. Years later, whenever he appeared at local venues in NY, my wife and I would go to see him perform. He was very entertaining. Between sets, he would sit with us at our table for a while before going to his dressing room to take a rest. A dear, sweet man.

[@tabspatell2600]

I get goose bumps and so emotional listening and watching these great musical legends who had natural musical talent to turn any song into magic.

[@brittanydeane9826]

Absolutely

[@otrfan84128]

Absolutely wonderful ... if television only had this kind of quality entertainment today. Hundreds of channels but so much useless garbage ... how come with only 3 networks and minimal Indies the "old days" had so much more worth watching?

[@rosairedubrule60]

TV needs JME. !

[@Speed001]

It was marketed to people your age. Unlike now.

[@kenbuckley3294]

Eydie says it with "It's magic." Truly a great spin of the fantastic melodies of Sammy Cahn spun by Perry and Eydie with piano virtuoso Andre Previn and a line-up of supporting singers and great dancers. Real show biz. Everyone knows these songs.

[@brittanydeane9826]

Absolutely incredible… what a star you are Sammy Cahn ❤️

[@gabrielzepeda4180]

No place for words ...this is real gold!!

[@francisalanwormald6328]

AT 82 I DO MISS SUCH TALENT & GENIUS!!!!

[@supercat380]

Pure American musical talent of the golden years that can never be challenged!

[@roybodden9243]

What a great song writer Sammy was!

[@JRobbySh]

And a comic he was! Great timing.

[@rosaconge9422]

They are all fantastic.....we always listen to their immortal music.

[@timothyhughes1904]

When Gorme sings, "It's Magic," in this clip, it certainly is! Her performance was spell-binding and listening to her voice only increases the desire to do so.

[@luizcarlosdecourt1681]

S

[@hijodelaisla275]

She sure had some good pipes.

[@Adam-Epler]

She was one of the best. Absolutely underrated...

[@AbrahamDiner]

Eydie Gorme sngs and the world is a beautiful place....

[@QuickWorksBeauty]

A simply magical series of performances.

[@Adam-Epler]

Sammy Cahn was one of the greatest. I bet you could show anyone this video and they would know at least one of the songs. He IS timeless....

[@larrysteimle2004]

Love it! I feel better now.

[@davidkelly7272]

Cannot believe I'm viewing this on 15/6/23. I saw AND recorded this on my tape recorder ( I still have the tape along with several other Perry Como 'Kraft' Music Shows transmitted on UK BBC Television in 1962. Had a viewing fig. of c.11 Milllion. Terrestrial TV in the UK has largely abandoned expensive music progs and reshowing on BBC2 & their extensive catalogue from the Sixties to Eighties. They don't make 'em like that anymore!!

[@Adam-Epler]

Any chance you could upload the full show? Would be great to not have it lost for the next generation.... all the best

[@TerryComo2010]

Pure unadulterated talent! Try anything like this today and every single (so called) singer of today would not only freak out, but fall flat, FLAT on their face!

[@sinrob1]

Not to mention that they would need auto-tune; a year to learn the songs; a complete inability to perform it live....

[@Piratebreadstick]

What a load of rubbish. There are many great singers around, most of them don't perform on television and are therefore unknown outside their small scenes. Television and the producers who choose the talent are the problem if anything, and the entire culture has changed, so audiences have also changed. There's no shortage of talent. Take Previn for instance, a master all -rounder (still there's probably no one around who can do all the things he did,) but every major town in the world today has a handful of pianists who play jazz at least as well as he ever did.

[@TerryComo2010]

@@Piratebreadstick True muscians such as pianists, yes, very talented people are everywhere. I am speaking of singers today, no talents like Justin Beiber, Rap (CRAP) singers, those types. What passes for talent and so called music today is a joke!

[@Piratebreadstick]

@@TerryComo2010 you have no argument from me re the Justins of this world:) Btw it was wonderful to see Jules Styne here.

[@albertdiner]

perry como does great on the song ALL THE WAY

[@rr7firefly]

For being such a prolific genius, Sammy Cahn was a regular guy, with no megastar attitude. A nice guy, it seems.

[@luczegoth]

Very enjoyable !

[@joyjacovino6548]

Best entertainment ever!!

[@somejailnursedontask4658]

Wow

[@CarlDuke]

Great stuff.

[@wholesomesweetness86]

Amazing! You wouldn't happen to have anymore footage from this episode? Love Eydie Gorme!

[@TheJPCatholic]

Five time academy award winner, songbird for Frank Sinatra and one of the few Great American Songbook (GAS) writers who also penned songs of the Disney Songbook (Peter Pan). I can’t think of any songwriter of the second generation of the GAS that had more success during the late 30s-60s.

[@pjk9056]

I guess you can’t get them all but “Time After Time” conspicuous by it’s absence. Still a great clip!

[@Adam-Epler]

The best "Time After Time" is the Cahn one!!

[@garrettmeadows2273]

Andre Previn died Feb. 28, 2019, at age 89. RIP.

[@hijodelaisla275]

The couple who did "Come Fly With Me" had wonderful voices.

[@zacharyrizzo-pg5wx]

Could you find Perry Como singing Ebb Tide on a Chesterfieldshow back in 1953-54.

[@johnroberts2957]

LOVE THESE CLIPS !...ANY CLASSIC MUSIC ARTIST FROM 1940 TO 1970 ...OR LISTEN TO ES SHEERAN?....SHOOT ME PLEASE

[@ellengutknecht4994]

What is the date of this show? Do you have the whole show to post? Love Eydie!!!

[@ralphturner3798]

This video is the first video in a "MIX" series on KZbin. The MIX is called Classical music. Since when were Perry Como, Eydie Germe and Andre Previn singers of classical music?

[@bobbyroland2530]

Does anyone know who these singers are? The ones leaning over the pianos? I don't think they are the Ray Charles Singers that are usually with Perry. They sure have a fresh innocence about them.

[@ellenshamas-brandt7620]

I think they are, actually. My friend, Jinx, the female in the "Let It Snow" clip, was a Ray Charles singer.

[@ellengutknecht3149]

I was wondering if Eydie might be pregnant in this clip. She sure was beautiful. RIP Eydie.

[@bergy-62]

I agree that Perry should not have put his hand over Sammy's mouth, even in gest.

[@josephpalermo4538]

Oh Please ....will you babies chill out...it was part of the act!!!....Idiots...its called entertainment...something we'vev lost in today's world!!!

[@Adam-Epler]

I agree. He was named "The Best Bad Singer" but I enjoy his voice :)

[@posnerist]

GORME DIED NOT LONG AGO...STEVE LAURANCE MUST BE DEVASTATED...THEY WERE MARRIED FOR MANY YRS.....ONE OF THE GREATS....TO ME....ONLY STRIESAND CONVEYS MORE EMOTION WHEN SHE SINGS....AND THATS A HELLUVA COMPLIMENT....

[@Jasper7182009]

Very nice comment but then your view regarding Streisand conveying more emotion in her singing? I always felt Streisand and was a cold bird. I feel that she thinks the song in her head and then sings it, while Judy Garland and Eydie Gorme and assuredly Connie Francis are just pure singers. I guess Barbra Streisand is a sphinx to me and I’ll never solve her riddle … her riddle being her appeal.

[@posnerist]

@@Jasper7182009 have you noticed all these great singers and composers are Jewish...makes me very proud

[@hijodelaisla275]

@@posnerist Why, did you convert them to Judaism?

[@hijodelaisla275]

@@Jasper7182009 Streisand has a storytelling technique that's theatrical, performative. I find that Judy Garland knew how to give a song immediacy and emotion that felt real.

[@posnerist]

Convert?...many were Born Jewish...

[@posnerist]

HERES A THOUGHT ....ED SHEERAN IS WORTH 160 MILLION........EVER HEARD A BETTER JOKE....WELL ITS TRUE.....

[@andydressler6761]

And all he does is steal music and then write sassy pop love lyrics over it.

[@irenemccann7032]

Today’s talent is rubbish compared to the old,such as what I’m listening and looking at this moment, Perry one of the very best.

[@MrRatherino]

why LSD became popular......

[@josephpalermo4538]

No idiot....its called entertaining....something we don't have today!!!

[@rafi1234321]

This is fantastic and so is LSD

[@laflame8548]

Frank Sinatra feels so bad watching this 🤣

[@chakwong]

So rude to cover Sammy Cahn's mouth!

[@uglyturnips2813]

When we had real voices to listen to

[@timothyhughes1904]

Don't take it so seriously. I'm sure it was part of the act. No doubt Perry and Sammy had gone over the routine earlier in rehearsal.

[@josephpalermo4538]

Chill out...it was part of the act .Perry had way too much class to do something like that intentionally!!!

[@almassa4057]

Edie did it too, check Sammy's reaction- none. It's all part of the show folks.