Ave Maria (Schubert) by Perry Como, with organ and choir directed by Mitchell Ayres and Ray Charles, produced by Charles Grean, recorded at The Church of ...
This is supposed to be from 1949, the first of many versions that came later, and recorded from the RCA 78 rpm number 28-0436. Well, I have no way to confirm ...
Perry Como's famous version of Ave Maria, which brought Franz Schubert's 1825 composition into the 20th Century, was released in 1949 peaking at #22.
Like its subtle and lovely original 1949 flipside "Ave Maria," Perry's first recording of "The Lord's Prayer" has been consistently overlooked for inclusion in Como ...