The Songs I Love was Perry Como's 11th RCA Victor 12" long-play album and the first featuring RCA Victor's Dynagroove technology.
In his review of the album for Record Mirror in January 1964, Jimmy Watson credits Como's typical casual approach to the "first class song material" as he "sings his melodic and soothing way through the twelve" tracks.
Retrospectively, Greg Adams of AllMusic notes how the album cover attempts to reproduce the set of his NBC variety show in which Como sat "on a distinctive set that spelled out 'Mr. C.'" while singing one of his or other fan favorites of the time. Containing a dozen pop standards and soft ballads, the song selection reflects the same attempt to recreate what the producers Hugo & Luigi called "one of the few great traditions in television". Adams concludes by stating that The Songs I Love became "a commercially successful album" by targeting the fans of his television show.
The commercial success of the album was reflected in the charts as The Songs I Love reached No. 59 on the Billboard Top LP's chart in November 1963 and Nos. 52 and 31, respectively, on the monaural and stereo albums charts in Cash Box magazine that October.
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