Mario Lanza Sings Selections from The Great Caruso

Mario Lanza Sings Selections from "The Great Caruso"
Studio album by
Mario Lanza
Released1951
LabelRCA Victor
Mario Lanza chronology
Mario Lanza Sings Popular Songs from the M-G-M Technicolor Motion Picture "The Toast of New Orleans"
(1950)		 Mario Lanza Sings Selections from "The Great Caruso"
(1951)		 Mario Lanza Sings Christmas Songs
(1951)

Mario Lanza Sings Selections from "The Great Caruso", or simply The Great Caruso, is an album by tenor Mario Lanza containing songs from the 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Great Caruso that featured him in the title role. The album was recorded for the RCA Victor record label in May 1950 and released in the same year as the film.

The album was issued in several formats: as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. DM-1506) and as a set of four 7-inch 45-rpm records (cat. no. WDM-1506).

The album spent several weeks at number 1 on Billboard's Best Selling Pop Albums chart (on both the 33⅓-rpm and 45-rpm parts of the chart).

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