The Scene Changes
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The Scene Changes was Perry Como's
12th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the tenth recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the second featuring Dynagroove
technology.
The Scene Changes is a Perry Como
concept album
where all the songs are country and feature the "Nashville Sound". It was produced by country music's Chet Atkins
.
Side Two
Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
12th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the tenth recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the second featuring Dynagroove
Dynagroove
Dynagroove is a recording process introduced in 1963 exclusive to RCA Victor that, for the first time, used computers to modify the audio signal fed to the recording stylus of a phonograph record to make the groove shape conform to the tracing requirements of the playback stylus...
technology.
The Scene Changes is a Perry Como
Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
where all the songs are country and feature the "Nashville Sound". It was produced by country music's Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...
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Track listing
Side One- "Where Does a Little Tear Come From?" (Words and Music by Marge Barton and Fred MacRae)
- "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Words and Music by Willie NelsonWillie NelsonWillie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
) - "Here Comes My Baby" (Words and Music by Bill West and Dottie WestDottie WestDottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...
) - "Sweet Adorable You" (Words and Music by Thomas Baker Knight)
- "I Really Don't Want To KnowI Really Don't Want to Know"I Really Don't Want to Know" is a popular song with music was written by Don Robertson and lyrics by Howard Barnes. The song was published in 1953....
" (Music by Don Robertson and lyrics by Howard Barnes) - "That Ain't All" (Words and Music by John D. Loudermilk)
Side Two
- "Dream On Little Dreamer" (Words and Music by Jan Crutchfield and Fred Burch)
- "Stand Beside Me" (Words and Music by Tompall Glaser)
- "A Hatchet, A Hammer, A Bucket of Nails" (Words and Music by Sarah Graham, Richard Ahlert and Eddie SnyderEddie SnyderEdward Abraham Snyder was an American composer and songwriter. Snyder is credited with co-writing the English language lyrics and music for Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit, "Strangers in the Night"....
- "Gringo's Guitar" (Words and Music by Cindy Walker)
- "My Own Peculiar Way" (Words and Music by Willie NelsonWillie NelsonWillie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
) - "Give Myself a Party" (Words and Music by Don Gibson)