Prisoner of Love
ペリー・コモ [feat. Russ Case & His Orchestra & Chorus] Lyrics

@usacookie8288

My Dad was every bit the singer of Perry Como. Sang right along with his TV shows. Miss those days and miss my Dad.

@karenwilliams8285

A Favourite! His voice just is so perfect! I absolutely Love Perry Como !! Always have xx

@remotegod255

Great, classic, classy voice, beautiful string arrangement and I love how the horns are used. Interesting shifts from minor to major in the B section. The Number-1 song of 1946

@neilnsue

Perry spent many of his career concentrating on his family, which many of his contemporaries did not, more important to have a career. He was so better than all of them!

@nurkenrustem6044

What about Dino?

@akrenwinkle

@@nurkenrustem6044 Despite a lot of folklore, Dean was a player, a philanderer, like Frank was. That didn't mean they didn't love their families. But Perry walked the walk.

@kittygram51

My mom loved Perry for this ❤

@Corrie121

This is my favourite Perry Como song, and his rendition of "If" comes a close second. Thank you for sharing this wonderful post. Much appreciated.

@carlthompson4515

I grew up watching this person. He lived then, and as a kid I watched  Gleason, Skelton, and many others, including Burnett. He mattered to me. Live On!!!

@garychigbrow8006

I'm pm

@terrywells4790

Carl Thompson , same here!

@loungepianoman

Perry was probably the best Crooner of the 50's so relaxed on stage he sang effortlessly and never disappointed. He became one with the audience. As with so many that came up durning the height of the Sinatra era he never got the recognition he rightfully deserved. I like a lot of Sinatra material but what's right is right

@pi2nuna219

Gee wiz Como, now I'm cryin' 😢

@kauimanera726

Dear Aunty Clara told me this was her favorite song that she shared with her husband. He passed and left behind a broken-hearted widow who could not let him go. She said she was a prisoner of love bound in chains. She passed during the pandemic after loving John still - never letting him go. I’d like to think she is with him - with the only man she loved. Aloha My dear Aunty Clara.

@irenemccann7032

He is and was the best, he was only in three movies ,he admitted he wasn't an actor but boy could he sing .this is one of my favourite songs.

@markmassare7786

Very nice and easy to enjoy ❤

@blue45bj

Love this song and Mr. C Brings back wonderful childhood memories. Thanks for the posting.

@rosesuarez3372

It's a nice, beautiful song of Perry Como, song of yesteryears, I love it 🎶🎵🎼🎧♥️♥️♥️😘😘😘

@Dr.Pepper001

This was recorded the year I was born (1946). Perry Como's voice is timeless. I enjoy him now as much as when I was growing up and watched his TV show. Kids today like his timeless songs such as And I Love You So, It's Impossible, and For the Good Times. He could cross over to Country Music and woo the ladies there, also.

@tarank9264

You still alive

@Dr.Pepper001

@@tarank9264 -- Yep, and still kicking my heels up high. But thanks for asking.

@jessicadiola8196

Makes me feel a Prisoner of his beautiful song. Missed you Mr. C.❤.

@vincentlynch3652

I think this is an alternate version. Ah, a live version. Thanks!

@MsBeryl6

For those that say he was not "Well Known" Hey! he was in a lot of movies, and TV Shows.  He was loved by everyone. including me.

@SuperHartline

MsBeryl6 Not well known?? In his day he was a household word. Very handsome guy, only 5' 6" however.

@Meira750

He had his own show for years in the late 50's early 60's. He was huge but he was a real straight arrow. Never a hint of scandal. He maintained a strict family friendly atmosphere on the show. When Patrice Munsel wanted to wear a strapless gown, he veoted her appearance because it wasn't "proper" for children, and he meant it!

@Billnn54

Only 'Not Well Known' by dweebs who have absolutely no knowledge of music earlier than their teen years.

@akrenwinkle

@@Billnn54 Who said he's not well known? I want names.

@ninanethery1502

We used to love his TV show- Sing to me Mr. C.

@terrywells4790

Perry's version of "If I Loved You" was my favorite song in 1945, and still is, to this day! He had many great songs during the 40's and 50's. Oscar Hammerstein, who wrote the lyrics (Richard Rogers wrote the music) said "If I Loved You" was his personal favorite of all the many songs they wrote. Two other great ones were "Till the End of Time" and "Prisoner of Love." Nothing today compares to the beautiful music of the 30's, 40's and 50's...

@jamesmartin279

What a kind and manly voice with such heart and quality...at the barber listening to Perry....American Decency...

@jayr8202

I was 10 and she was 8 when we heard this song and I told her I would like her forever or until her father was transferred to another military base 3 months later.

@irenemccann7032

fABULOUS what a voice he was and always will be the best, also a great and good person, to be what he was in his profession where there's a lot of temptation says it all.

@tonyfromconey2164

Great voice. I remember him mostly from his 1970s television Christmas specials.

@irenemccann7032

One of his best, fabulous

@theresadoddato

Makes me think of my mother‘she loved him❤

@drollie123

Unbelievably romantic. Love the intros's of Johnny's songs. Does not exist in our time.

@MagsB50

Handsome guy and amazing song!

@josephmacalino

1946? Wow! I like it very much. Thanks for uploading.

@LucidLiquidity

BEAUTIFUL.

@robertchamberlain7202

Sitting in a Niagara Falls restaurant in 1946 with my parents and hearing this song.then traveling to Lewiston to see the p.o.w. Camp.

@michaelalbert

My favorite PC song ever. Wonderful.

@patrickderp1044

this deserves to be the number one on the Billboard year-end top singles of 1946 ...... and it was

@jamesmartin279

When tributes to real love were written.."On the street where you live...Love is a many splendored thing". "What the world needs now is love sweet love.". Lyrics like.."For once in my life I have someone who needs me...". And God's love song...John 3:16

@laurenkustudick9000

Yes !! You're so right.

@lesengir

Perry como, a man who needs no introduction, I also love lena horne version of prisioner of love.

@bwsmyhero

I became acquainted with this song through a set of albums my mom bought called “Greatest Love Songs of the Century”. I think it was through either Time-Life or Readers’ Digest, or something like that. Anyway, I fell in love with this song more than all the others. This one is not the exact same version that was on that set of albums, but hey, it was Perry Como and it was beautiful.

@ian1332

This one's for you Mum RIP , XX

@daveellis3840

brilliant

@nereidamatoscolon

So beautiful

@jimandconnie

This would have been my parents' 65'th anniversary (11/9/46). This was their song.

@RichardKoenigsberg

Perry's most soulful song.

@JanetRichards-gh6rr

Beutiful!

@priyokabi

The BEST crooner of all time. Voice like silk

@millielehigh9936

My husband loved this song ❤

@teramech1

makes me look back to the history of music

@robertlindsay2131

my kind of  guy   R. I. P.

@janettewalker3991

Great record but I still really love Columbo singing his own song.

@andreacolombo2369

To me from 1:19 to 2 it seems like listening a 1930' s bing Crosby' s record. Although Perry 's voice was not as Low as bing' s one, Como was a baritone too

@akrenwinkle

I'm an embryo and I really like this kind of music.

@AllBobsAllTheTime

Agreed - Brother James did a great cover for the next generation!!!

@maydom04

Is Perry's the first version? the Net says it was written in 1931. I think James Brown did his rendition in 1963. Another great version , also 1963 i think , is Susan Blake on KELIT RECORDS 45...I don't think it is on Youtube.....will post when I get time!

@rjennings6212

The first version of the song was in 1931. Music by Russ Columbo and lyrics by Leo Robin and was sung the same year by Columbo

@maydom04

Thanks, I like Russ Culombos original as well!

Tony and Junior

@lilien231

A m a z i n g ... <3

@harveytubban1519

2019?😓

@papaldanondo

Alone from night to night you’ll find me,
too weak to break the chain that binds me.
I need no shackle to remind me,
for I’m just a prisoner of love.

For one command I stand and wait now,
for one who ‘s master of my fate now.
I can’t escape, for it’s too late now,
for I’m just a prisoner of love.

What’s the good of me caring,
if someone else is sharing those arms with me?
Although she has another,
and I can’t have another,
for I’m not free.

She’s in my dreams, awake or sleeping,
upon my knees to you darling I’m creeping.
My very life is in your keeping,
for I’m just a prisoner of love.

What’s the good of me caring,
if someone else is sharing those arms with me?
Although she has another,
I can’t have another, for I’m not free.

She’s in my dreams, awake or sleeping,
upon my knees to you my heart is weeping.
My very life is in your keeping,
for I’m just a prisoner of love.

@luissantos917

Música linda.........Brasil

@sesshoumaruluna3115

Brasil...Brasil...

@joannvansteenkiste9669

Papa loves mdabo

@KojiRecords

This version is very, very nice but the much later, definitive version came in 1966 when it became a pop-crossover hit for James Brown, see James Brown-Prisoner of Love 1966 The Ed Sullivan Show---the same lyrics but a total different take from Perry, who sings about being a "prisoner," to James, who IS the "prisoner." Wonderful song...

@BaseballPlayer0

to similar to everybody needs somebody

@sergiodemerdjian2627

Ok, guys, just listen to Sinatra's rendition of this song, and you will hear the difference of excellent emotions Sinatra emits through the story of this song, also Don Costa's arrangements make a huge difference, Costa was a genius in strings.

@jessicadiola8196

Hi
You can have your Frank Sinatra.

@marcellino1956

My dad would some home stiff as a board, and he would be singing this song

@johnweston4558

Great 1:19

@henochparks

ME TOO!

@angelopolozzi7240

voce celestiale

@mkl62

To all you pro wrestling fans: This was the #1 song in the USA when Andre Roussimoff came into the world (May 19, 1946). He would become famous as Andre the Giant.

@loungepianoman

@larrydonguy I hope you didn't misunderstand...I never meant to imply Perry was not well known I just think he should have had more recognition just like Jimmy Roselli which is a tragic story of the mis-directed strength of Sinatra

@WhiteOnZtiP

2:32 Mr.Bush?

@chasingmycolejmillion521

i just so happen to stumble upon this while looking for beautiful lyrics to post on IG....

You think He could have imagined that his Work from 1946 would still be heard in 2020.... by a Gay Black Man? how the world have change 🤯🤯🤯😲😲😲

P.S the Coronavirus change the all our lives. and all the comments will go down in History Too

@TipToeThroughThePrettyTulips

Try listening to his rendition of The Lords Prayer.

@scotnick59

This is NOT the famed version,m but rather an alternate "take": live yet!

@WhiteOnZtiP

2:56 mr.Bush,sir?

@fabolousjada5070

James brown live bring me here. I like this but James brown took it to another level live

@nicholasperkins4655

Utada Hikaru sent me here in 2019

@larrydonguy

@loungepianoman For about two decades Perry Como was every bit as well known as Sinatra, in part, because Perry had his own popular long-running television show. Late in both of their careers Sinatra's fame and reputation as an artist eclipsed Perry's for a variety of reasons. One, unfortunately, was because of Frank's more entertaining personal life, but another was because of Frank's (in my opinion) better and more sophisticated choice of material. Unlike Perry, Frank rarely did novelty songs.

@joeynighttrain1126

James Brown brought me here 👍

@Comofan100

comofan100 to me as a perry como fan he was the best. Sinatra came nowhere near Perry's voice, ,Sinatra's voice was rougher, he would not have sounded as good singing on his own without an orchestra.

@kristenmorgensternmusic

<3

@wk1810

Thought the thumbnail was George W.

@paige3933

A BuzzFeed article brought me here

@eblackadder3

This is a different take.

@rwkc3004

The Sopranos

@kaivaz6076

Next come heavy or not at all :-)

@sliknik99

Sweet !!! I found this song through billboardvideos. net

@sheilabrewster6810

How pathetic. I feel sorry for any guy that couldn't break loose from a woman who dictates to him and he creeps on his knees for her. I believe in Love but this is sheer Masochism.

@VinVonVoom

That's the point. He's not just in love, he's a prisoner of love, that's not meant to be a good thing.

@mr.warmth1511

im diabetic so i must eat

@quentongilliam5803

James Brown Kills this hack.

@nelso53

Yes, with Billy Eckstine on his heels. The Godfather put life into the song while Perry did his usual classical style.

@stylesclash101

I like James Brown's version of the song the best.

@millielehigh9936

My husband loved this song ❤