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Saturday, November 15, 2003
Perry Como, "If"
(March 3 and March 17, 1951)
A syruped string of devotional cliches with the organizing concept "even IF" (even if I was rich, even I was powerful, even "if I ruled the night" -- now what does that mean? -- I would still bow down to you), sung by a big vibrating cow baritone. I like overstatement as much as the next rock fan, but this does not compute. Perry Como originally colonized my imagination as the old guy who had that Christmas special; were it not for the louche polka of "Hoop-De-Doo," that's all I'd think a quarter-century later. 1
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