Max Bygraves - [Medley] And I Love You So / Fly Me To The Moon / Quando Quando Quando @theCoverVerse
Max Bygraves - [Medley] And I Love You So / Fly Me To The Moon / Quando Quando Quando  @theCoverVerse
Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From '' Viva! Congalongamax Vol.10 ''
Label: Pye Records – NSPL 18458
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1975

Tracklist
Medley
A1a Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
A1b Manana
A1c The Coffee Song
Medley
A2a And I Love You So
A2b Fly Me To The Moon
A2c Quando Quando Quando
A3 Y Viva Espana
Medley
A4a Blue Skies
A4b Jealous
A4c Am I Blue
A5 Singalongaconga
Medley
B1a Yours
B1b Besame Mucho (Kiss Me)
B1c Amor
Medley
B2a Spanish Eyes
B2b Always In My Heart
B2c Marie Elena
Medley
B3a Wedding Samba
B3b Brazil
B3c The Laughing Samba
B3d Hava Nagila
Medley
B4a Yellow Bird
B4b Island In The Sun
B4c Jamaica Farewell

Arranged By, Conductor – Frank Barber

Producer – Norrie Paramor

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"And I Love You So" is a song written by folk singer and guitarist Don McLean and released on his 1970 debut album, Tapestry.
Its chorus features an unusual rhyming scheme for a popular song: ABBA versus the usual AB(C or A)B.
The song was the B-side to McLean's debut single "Castles in the Air", released in January 1971.
In 1973, "And I Love You So" was released as an A-side with "If We Try" as its B-side on United Artists Records.

Cover versions

"And I Love You So" was a 1973 hit for singer Perry Como on his RCA Victor album of the same name, And I Love You So, reaching No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It would be the last of his many popular recordings, dating back to 1943, to reach the top 40. It also spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart. It reached No. 2 in South Africa and No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart on RCA Records and remained on the chart for 35 weeks (the longest of his hits in the UK).
Como also recorded a Spanish version, titled "Y te quiero así".

Bobby Goldsboro
Shirley Bassey
Bobby Vinton
Elvis Presley
Sergio Franchi
Glen Campbell
Rick Astley
Harry Connick, Jr.
George Lam
Roch Voisine
Claude François performed a French version, "Et je t'aime tellement", in 1977.
Other performers who have recorded the song include: Harry Belafonte, Tom T. Hall, Emmylou Harris, Engelbert Humperdinck, Howard Keel, Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, Olivia Newton-John, Jim Nabors, and Helen Reddy.

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"Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard.
The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard.
Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.

In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song".

Background and composition

In 1954, when "Fly Me to the Moon" was first presented to the public, Bart Howard had been pursuing a career in music for over 20 years.
He played piano to accompany cabaret singers, but also wrote songs with Cole Porter, his idol, in mind.
In the book Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret James Gavin noted that Howard wrote the song "in response to his publisher's plea for a simpler song: why did he have to write such grandiloquent lyrics? 'In Other Words' talked about the verbosity of poets who 'use many words to say a simple thing'; 'hold my hand,' 'Kiss me.'" In response, Howard wrote a cabaret ballad. A publisher tried to make him change some words from "fly me to the Moon" to "take me to the Moon," but Howard refused. Many years later Howard commented that "... it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes."

He used his position as a piano accompanist and presenter at the Blue Angel cabaret venue to promote the song, and it was soon introduced in cabaret performances by Felicia Sanders.

Cover versions

Early recordings

Kaye Ballard
Chris Connor
Johnny Mathis
Portia Nelson
Nancy Wilson
Eydie Gormé

Subsequent recordings

Peggy Lee
Connie Francis
Joe Harnell
Julie London
Paul Anka
Brenda Lee
Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, accompanied by Count Basie. The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones.
Bobby Womack
Alamgir

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"Quando quando quando" (or "Quando, Quando, Quando") is an Italian pop song from 1962, in the bossa nova style, with music written by Tony Renis and lyrics by Alberto Testa. The song, originally recorded in two different versions by Tony Renis and Emilio Pericoli, competed in the Sanremo Music Festival in 1962, where it placed fourth, and later became a commercial success in Italy, topping the Musica e dischi singles chart.
American entertainer Pat Boone, who recorded the song in 1962, sang the English lyrics written by Ervin Drake.

English-language versions

Engelbert Humperdinck

Michael Bublé performed the song as a duet with Nelly Furtado

Edgardo Cintron and The Tiempos Noventa Orchestra

Fergie and will.i.am covered the song for the soundtrack to the 2009 musical film Nine, based on the stage musical based on Federico Fellini's 8½.

Notable cover versions

Bobby Curtola

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