A Sentimental Date with Perry

A Sentimental Date with Perry
1948 cover
Studio album by Perry Como
Released	1948[1] 1955 or 1956 (12-inch LP)
Label	RCA Victor
Perry Como chronology
Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music (1946) A Sentimental Date with Perry (1948) Supper Club Favorites (1949)

A Sentimental Date with Perry, also known as A Sentimental Date with Perry Como,^[2] is an album by Perry Como released by RCA Victor in February 1948.^[1]

Originally, it was a four-records album (cat. no. P-187) containing eight songs across eight sides.^[1] In 1952, it was re-issued on a 10-inch LP record.

There was also a later 12-inch LP version with the same title and the same (but extended to 12) song list, see #12-inch LP. It was released in the middle to late 1950s.

The album was originally released as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. P 187) containing eight tracks across eight sides^[3] and as a set of three 7-inch 45-rpm records (WP 187; did not include the record "What'll I Do?"/"Love Me or Leave Me").^[4]

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Source	Rating
Billboard	(1952 ver.)[5]

In 1952, it was issued in two more formats: on LP (a 10-inch LP, cat. no. LPM 2035)^[6][7] and on EP (two EPs in a gatefold sleeve; EPB 3035).^[8][9]

The album spent three consecutive weeks at number one on Billboard's Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart in February–March 1948.^[2][10]

Set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records (RCA Victor P 187)^[3]

In the middle to late 1950s, RCA Victor released a 12-inch LP (cat. no. LPM 1177) titled A Sentimental Date with Perry Como that contained the same songs as the original album plus four additional songs ("Blue Room" and "With a Rose in My Heart" on side 1, "Lies" and "No Other Love" on side 2).^[11][12] There was also a double-EP version of the new album, with 9 tracks instead of 12 (EPB 1177).^[13]

12-inch LP (RCA Victor LPM 1177)^[14]

• List of Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums number ones of 1948