Sixty years ago, Perry Como cut a hit record of the dumbest song ever written. O.K., maybe not quite ever, but “Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom),” a stupefyingly banal novelty tune, surely ranks right ...

Perry Como, born Pierino Ronald Como on May 18, 1912, in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was an American singer and television personality. He was the seventh of 13 children born to Italian immigrant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A beloved pop standard made music history on this date in 1958. Perry Como’s hit “Catch a Falling Star” became the first single ...

No, it was the warm, relaxed manner of the man Bing Crosby dubbed “the man who invented casual.” With his soft and inviting baritone, wearing his unassuming cardigan, Perry Como characterized popular ...

This s the sixtieth anniversary of one of the most unusual, one of the most obscure, and one of the most significant moments in American cultural history. I am referring, of course, to Perry Como’s ...

Leave it to Perry Como, the famously relaxed (and often just downright groggy) crooner of such goofy-fun '50s hits as "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" and "Papa Loves Mambo," to somehow be more ...

Perry Como's last great concert special, filmed in Ireland and screened in 1994. Como appears before an audience of 4,500 in Ireland's celebrated Point Theater, with Irish President Mary Robinson and ...

Perry Como and wife Roselle spent many summers at their home in Saluda. It was their place where they could get away from the flashing lights and cameras. Stories about Como and his music will be held ...

Those song lyrics introduced the “Perry Como’s Early American Christmas” special taped 45 years ago at locations in Colonial Williamsburg’s historic area, early in November and broadcast nationally on ...

Perry Como has laryngitis.Well, not really, because the cardigan-wearing crooner died in May 2011.But Como, or rather, the stone statue of him in his western Pennsylvania hometown of Canonsburg, has ...

A battle between the daughter and one of the sons of the late singer Perry Como over his estate has ended with an agreement to conduct a lottery in which they and another sibling will choose from more ...