Magic Moments
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| "Magic Moments" | ||||
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| Single by Perry Como | ||||
| A-side | "Catch a Falling Star" | |||
| B-side | "Magic Moments" | |||
| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | 1957 | |||
| Genre | Swing | |||
| Length | 2:41 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriters | Burt Bacharach Hal David | |||
| Producer | Joe Reisman | |||
| Perry Como singles chronology | ||||
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"Magic Moments" is a popular song composed by Burt Bacharach and written by Hal David, being one of the first songwriting collaborations by that duo.[1] This song was recorded by Perry Como and released in 1957 as the B-side of his "Catch a Falling Star"; it reached No. 1 in the UK in 1958.
In his 2003 book Burt Bacharach, Song by Song, Serene Dominic comments:
Combined with the quizzical bassoon, the whistling and the ghastly white shadings of the Ray Charles Singers, these distant recollections must seem like occurrences on another planet to later generations.[2]
Chart performance
The biggest hit version of the song was recorded by Perry Como and released by RCA Victor in December 1957, becoming a hit early in 1958. The record was produced by Joe Reisman.[3] The peak position in the United States is hard to track precisely, due to the multiple charts used in Billboard magazine: on the Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart, it reached its highest peak of number four.[4]
The song was also a 1958 hit in Italy, while in the United Kingdom it spent eight weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart, becoming Como's biggest ever UK hit.[3]
In Canada, the song reached number 12 on the CHUM Charts, February 3, 1958, co-charting with Catch a Falling Star.[5]
