{"id":194,"date":"2008-03-28T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:13","slug":"perry-comos-wanted-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/perry-comos-wanted-poster.html","title":{"rendered":"Perry Como’s Wanted Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1954, Perry Como released “Wanted<\/span><\/a>” on a 10-inch 78, with “Look Out Your Window<\/span>” as the B-side; both went up in the charts quickly with Wanted<\/span> hitting #1. Despite Como being in the prime of his career, RCA made sure the word got out and released this promotional flyer<\/a>, perfect size for slipping in the 10″ record sleeve of Como’s other albums. Como is accused of the horrendous crime of ‘breaking out with a great new record’ — something ‘dangerous [to] all singing competitors’! Accusing the white-bread, good-natured Como of a crime was a playful turn, but a bit different from the song: Wanted<\/span>‘s lyrics<\/a> addresses a woman’s criminal act of finding her way into another man’s arms. It seems everyone was engaging in criminal activities! The final line of Como’s crimes uses a apostrophe pun. It could mean, depending on whether the apostophe is a contraction or a possessive, either “Remember — Perry Como is Wanted”, or “Remember Wanted<\/span>, by Perry Como.” That number under Como’s name? It looks like it could be the number off his jailhouse uniform…but it is, in fact, RCA’s catalog number for the Wanted<\/span> record.<\/p>\n

As a sidenote, I tried to track down Phyllis and her Western Record Shop. Sadly, I have no way of knowing where she was located. I got this flyer exactly how it was intended — stuffed in a 78 of one of Como’s other early-fifties albums — but it was purchased from a travelling Texan antique show dealer, so Phyllis could have been dealing in phonographs anywhere from here to Amarillo.<\/p>\n

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