Description:
Ken Barnes who produced several sessions during Crosby's recording renaissance of the mid ‘70s was the producer/compiler of this project and he was given free rein over the far flung vaults of grubby transcription discs and tape that comprise Crosby's radio career. The results here are splendid. Barnes paces the program with the touch and feel of an expert, selecting tracks from a wide range of time a full decade of the post war period and tieing them together with just a few interstitials and crowd noise. Many of the highlights come on the first disc with looser versions of his hit standards "Swinging on a Star" ad "Don't Fence Me In." The final two discs are devoted to duets a staple of Crosby's show and include performances with a succession of old friends Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Joe Venuti. Aside from the material, the set offers excellent fidelity and an overall sympathetic compilation to make the process of listening to a lengthy compilation of Bing Crosby's non studio sides smoother than it's ever been before. |
 Swinging On A Star
Don't Fence Me In (a)
Bing Introduces "Strange Music"
Strange Music
Tallahassee
Peg O' My Heart
Shoo Shoo Baby
Bing chats with The Andrew Sisters
You Don't Have To Know The Language (a)
South America, Take It Away (a)
It's Magic
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
But Beautiful
Bing introduces Nat Cole
Bing Chats With Nat
Sam's Song (b)
My Foolish Heart
Them There Eyes
Too Late Now
Not Mine
Bing Welcomes Back The Andrew Sisters
I Can Dream, Can't I? (a)
Sure Thing
Bing introduces finale
May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You (c)
Basin Street Blues Radio (d)
If This Isn't Love
It's A Good Day
Bing introduces Louis Armstrong
Bing chats with Louis
Blueberry Hill (version 1) (e)
A Fella With An Umbrella
Bing introduces Ella and "Dreamer's Holiday"
A Dreamer's Holiday (d)
For You, For Me, For Evermore
Bing & Louis introduce "Gone Fishin'"
Gone Fishin' (Version 1) (e)
Lazy Bones (Version 1) (e)
The Best Things In Life Are Free
That's A Plenty (d)
A Kiss To Build A Dream On (Version 1)
Louis congratulates Bing on his 20th anniversary
Blueberry Hill (Version 2) (e)
Bing chats with Jack Teagarden
Rockin' Chair (Part 1) (f)
Bing chats with Dinah Shore
Rockin' Chair (Part 2) (g)
Five Minutes More
A Marshmallow World (e)
Silver Bells (Version 1) (d)
Bing introduces "Memphis Blues"
Memphis Blues (Version 1) (d)
Stay With The Happy People (d)
It Had To Be You
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
Now That I Need You
Gone Fishin' (Version 2) (h)
Chicago Style (d)
Route 66
Blue Skies (i)
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (d)
Lazy Bones (Version 2) (e)
Bing introduces Toni Arden And The Band
My Honey's Lovin' Arms (j)
Bing introduces The Mills Brothers
Up A Lazy River
Paper Doll (k)
Way Back Home (l)
You're Just In Love (e)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (d)
Silver Bells (Version 2) (d)
Bing chats with Ella - White Christmas (d)
A Kiss To Build A Dream On (Version 2) (e)
Bing, Ella and Louis introduce "Memphis Blues" |
Artists: a- Crosby, Andrew Sisters; b- Crosby, Nat Cole; c- Crosby, Andrews Sisters, Nat Cole; d- Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald; e- Crosby, Louis Armstrong; f- Crosby, Jack Teagarden; g- Crosby, Tegarden, Armstrong, Dinah Shore; h- Crosby, Armstrong, Teagarden; i- Crosby, Les Paul; j- Crosby, Toni Arden, Armstrong, Teagarden, Joe Venuti; k- Crosby, The Mills Brothers; l- Crosby, Fitzgerald, The Mills Brothers |
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