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BING CROSBY / BUDDY BREGMAN

BING SINGS WHILST BREGMAN SWINGS

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In early 1956, Bing Crosby ended the two long term company affiliations that had defined his career for more than 20 years, leaving his exclusive associations with Paramount Pictures and Decca Records. Thereafter, he made movies and records on a freelance basis. One result was a new album for Verve, Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings. Twenty five year old Buddy Bregman, a friend of Crosby's son Gary, had recently been appointed an A&R executive at the fledgling Verve. His idea for Crosby was to copy the formula of recent Nelson Riddle arranged Frank Sinatra successes such as Songs for Swingin' Lovers take a collection of inter war standards and give them punchy big band arrangements. These 12 songs, none of which Crosby had released commercially before, were great standards from the likes of Kern, Rodgers and Hart, Berlin, and Gershwin, and Crosby turned in typically witty interpretations. But Bregman's repetitive, overly busy arrangements, full of loud, sudden horn blats and splats, forced the singer to compete for attention and occasionally smothered him completely.

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Personnel

Details:

The Song Is You

Mountain Greenery

Cheek To Cheek

'Deed I Do

Heat Wave

Blue Room

Have You Met Miss Jones?

I've Got Five Dollars

They All Laughed

Nice Work If You Can Get It

September In The Rain

Jeepers Creepers

Personnel: Pete Candoli, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Frank Rosolino, Bob Cooper, Bud Shank, Herb Geller, Joe Mondragon, Barney Kessel, Paul Smith, Maynard Ferguson, more

Label:	UNIVERSAL
Number:	549367
Item Code:	31363
Format:	CD
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Dates:	(1956)
Price:	$18.00
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