Perry Como Net Worth

Perry Como's Quotes

• I've done nothing that I can call exciting. I was a barber. Since then I've been a singer. That's it.
• [on his career] For the amount of talent I had--and I couldn't dance, act or tell a joke--I enjoyed a tremendous career.
• [on his professional life versus his home life] I'd perform with the world's greatest artists [on television], and then come home to the world's greatest family.
• The audience knows I'm not going to do anything after all these years to upset them.
• I don't work at home at all. Once you know a song too well, you start to fool around with it. At the session, when the band's working on the arrangement, I learn the tune right there.

Interesting Facts about Perry Como

1. One of 13 children, he was the seventh son of a seventh son--a sign of good luck in Italian families.
2. Sold well over 50 million records. Had 13 #1 hit songs--the first was "Till The End of Time" in 1945.
3. Commenting on the relaxing effect his music has on people, Dean Martin once joked that he "used to go over to Perry's to borrow a cup of sleep".
4. In May 2001, days after Como's death, columnist William F. Buckley wrote a column describing a past act of Como's kindness when he gave Buckley's mother a jeweled brooch of his (when she needed a pin to repair an outfit) on board a plane.
5. Had the longest stay of any popular artist with RCA Victor Records: 1943-88.
6. Had a big hit with "Lili Marlene" in the United States and Canada.
7. One of his biggest hits, "Hot Diggity", was freely adapted from Emmanuel Chabrier's popular classical piece, "España".
8. He was the first of his many brothers and sisters to have been born in America.
9. One of the most popular male vocalists of all time, his list of hit records, over a 30-year period, is a testament to his durability. His many hits include "Till the End of Time", "Temptation", "Prisoner of Love", "Because", "When You Were Sweet Sixteen", "Wanted", "No Other Love", "Hot Diggety", "(There's No Place Like) Home For the Holidays", "Round and Round", "Catch a Falling Star", "Delaware", "Seattle", "It's Impossible" and "And I Love You So".
10. Had three children: Ronnie, David and Terri. David and Terri were both adopted, David at the age of four, because Roselle could no longer have children after the birth of her first child.
11. Performed at a ten-cent-a-dance in Pittsburgh called "The Grove" in the early 1930s. He did not have a car to get to work, so he traveled to work on a trolley every day.
12. His 1946 recording of "Jingle Bells" topped Billboard magazine's Hot Ringtones chart--five years after he died. [December 2006]
13. The private Como was exactly as he appeared to the public: a quiet, self-effacing man who considered his performing activities as strictly tertiary to his family and his faith. While he had numerous million-selling singles and albums, he refused to have most of them certified gold (later platinum) out of modesty. A notable exception was when his album "Como's Gold Records" (RCA Victor: 1958) was released. One of the first compilation albums to become a best-seller, with liner notes by Irving Berlin, it became a million-seller in and of itself, and remained on the Billboard charts for more than a decade after its release.
14. He was awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 1708 Vine St., for Recording at 6631 Hollywood Blvd. and for Television at 6376 Hollywood Blvd.
15. Following his death, he was interred with his wife Roselle Beline at Riverside Memorial Park in Tequesta, Palm Beach County, Florida. He passed away only six days before his 89th birthday.
16. Inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame (1990).
17. Posthumously inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006).
18. Owned the television and film production company Roncom Films.
19. Godfather of Debby Boone.