Perry Como Live - May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You

The Perry Como Show. November 10, 1956.
With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers.

Words and Music by Meredith Willson Arranged by Jack Andrews.

'The Big Show' was American radio network's dying gasp in the late 1940s, but what a gasp it was. Tallulah Bankhead was MC, and Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, and Meredith Willson were regulars. At the end of each show Miss Bankhead spoke the ltrics to this song over the melody played by Mr. Willson's orchestra. Composer Willson said that the inspiration for the song came from his mother , who was a Sunday school teacher. Perry's version, simple and direct, was very popular when he performed it on his own TV show.

( notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975 )