Track Listings (24) - Disc #1| All Artists: Bing Crosby Title: Bing With a Swing Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Indie Europe/Zoom Release Date: 3/23/2009 Album Type: Import Genre: Pop Styles: Easy Listening, Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 5024952770298 |
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2009 collection from the Pop crooner. While by no means the first nor the only crooner worthy of the name, Bing, the innovator of a new `Yankee troubadour' style, like some latter-day minstrel he harnessed and catalyzed bl... more » |
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Album Description 2009 collection from the Pop crooner. While by no means the first nor the only crooner worthy of the name, Bing, the innovator of a new `Yankee troubadour' style, like some latter-day minstrel he harnessed and catalyzed black music for a largely white mass-audience, while his crooning romanticized the average American's longing for a `mythical Southland'. His prolific recording career, which started in 1926 with Paul `King of Jazz' Whiteman was crowned by its peerless list of #1 hits (38 - outflanking by far the Beatles' 24 and Elvis' 18). This CD features the jazzier side of the "Old Groaner" and showcases performances with some of the best Jazz combos of the time. 24 tracks. Bygone Days. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsTHAT'S NOT QUITE A PLENTY Barry McCanna | Normandy, France | 07/19/2009 (4 out of 5 stars) "This album presents Mr. Crosby in a variety of jazz-oriented settings between 1940 and 1957, the period up to 1952 comprising fourteen tracks featuring Bob Crosby's Bob Cats, Woody Herman's Woodchoppers, Bob Haggart, the John Scott Trotter Eight, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Louis Jordan and Eddie Condon. To my mind it's a pity that of the eight duets Bing recorded with Connie Boswell only "Yes Indeed!" is included, which was by no means the best. That's somewhat compensated for by "That's A-Plenty" from a 1952 radio broadcast, although Connie's presence is not credited in the tracklist. The stand-out track has to be "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" with the Woodchoppers, driven by Frank Carlson's percussion, but "You Gotta Show Me" with Tommy Dorsey fails to ignite. The compilation is rounded out by ten of the twelve tracks Bing recorded with Bob Scobey & his Frisco Jazz Band in February 1957 (first released on RCA Victor as "Bing With A Beat"). Since the running time of this CD is just under 72 minutes it seems a pity that album wasn't included in its entirety."
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