Swingin' With Bing: Bing Crosby's Lost Radio Performances [LIVE] (2004)

Product Summary Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records UPC: 00826663150728 Release Date: 8/24/2004 Buy.com Sku: 61704469 Item#: M53FPK Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Swinging On A Star ~ Bing Crosby 2. Don't Fence Me In - (with The Andrews Sisters) ~ Bing Crosby 3. Bing Introduces 'Strange Music' ~ Bing Crosby 4. Strange Music ~ Bing Crosby 5. Tallahassee ~ Bing Crosby 6. Peg O' My Heart ~ Bing Crosby 7. Shoo Shoo Baby ~ Bing Crosby 8. Bing Chats With The Andrews Sisters ~ Bing Crosby 9. You Don't Know the Language - (with The Andrews Sisters) ~ Bing Crosby 10. South America, Take It Away ~ Bing Crosby 11. It's Magic ~ Bing Crosby 12. Night Has A Thousand Eyes, The ~ Bing Crosby 13. But Beautiful ~ Bing Crosby 14. Bing Introduces Nat King Cole ~ Bing Crosby 15. Bing Chats With Nat ~ Bing Crosby 16. Sam's Song - (with Nat "King" Cole) ~ Bing Crosby 17. My Foolish Heart ~ Bing Crosby 18. Them There Eyes ~ Bing Crosby 19. Too Late Now ~ Bing Crosby 20. Not Mine ~ Bing Crosby 21. Bing Welcomes Back The Andrews Sisters ~ Bing Crosby 22. I Can Dream, Can't I? - (with The Andrews Sisters) ~ Bing Crosby 23. Sure Thing - (with Buddy Cole) ~ Bing Crosby 24. Bing Introduces Finale ~ Bing Crosby 25. May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You - (with Nat "King" Cole/The Andrews Sisters) ~ Bing Crosby Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Basin Street Blues - (with Ella Fitzgerald/Red Nichols) ~ Bing Crosby 2. If This Isn't Love ~ Bing Crosby 3. It's A Good Day ~ Bing Crosby 4. Bing Introduces Louis Armstrong ~ Bing Crosby 5. Bing Chats With Louis ~ Bing Crosby 6. Blueberry Hill - (version 1, with Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 7. Fella With An Umbrella, A ~ Bing Crosby 8. Bing Introduces Ella And 'Dreamer's Holiday' ~ Bing Crosby 9. Dreamer's Holiday, A - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 10. For You, For Me, Forever More ~ Bing Crosby 11. Bing & Louis Introduce 'Gone Fishing' ~ Bing Crosby 12. Gone Fishin' - (with Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 13. Lazy Bones - (version 1, with Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 14. Best Things In Life Are Free, The ~ Bing Crosby 15. That's a-Plenty - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 16. Kiss To Build A Dream On, A - (version 1) ~ Bing Crosby 17. Louis Congratulates Bing On His 20th Anniversary ~ Bing Crosby 18. Blueberry Hill - (version 2, with Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 19. Bing Chats With Jack Teagarden ~ Bing Crosby 20. Rockin' Chair - (part 1, with Jack Teagarden/Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 21. Bing Chats With Dinah Shore ~ Bing Crosby 22. Rockin' Chair - (part 2, with Dinah Shore/Louis Armstrong/Jack Teagarden) ~ Bing Crosby 23. Five Minutes More ~ Bing Crosby 24. Marshmallow World, A - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 25. Silver Bells - (version 1, with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 26. Bing Introduces 'Memphis Blues' ~ Bing Crosby 27. Memphis Blues - (version 1, with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Stay With the Happy People - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 2. It Had to Be You - (with Red Nichols) ~ Bing Crosby 3. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - (with Joe Venuti) ~ Bing Crosby 4. Now That I Need You ~ Bing Crosby 5. Gone Fishin' - (version 2, with Louis Armstrong/Jack Teagarden) ~ Bing Crosby 6. Chicago Style - (with Ella Fitzgerald/Bill Taylor) ~ Bing Crosby 7. Route 66 ~ Bing Crosby 8. Blue Skies - (with Les Paul) ~ Bing Crosby 9. Istanbul - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 10. Lazy Bones - (version 2, with Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 11. Bing Introduces Toni Arden & The Band ~ Bing Crosby 12. My Honey's Lovin' Arms - (with Toni Arden) ~ Bing Crosby 13. Bing Introduces The Mills Brothers ~ Bing Crosby 14. Paper Doll / Up A Lazy River - (with The Mills Brothers) ~ Bing Crosby 15. Way Back Home - (with The Mills Brothers/Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 16. You're Just in Love - (with Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 17. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 18. Silver Bells - (version 2, with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 19. Bing Chats With Ella - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 20. White Christmas - (with Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby 21. Kiss To Build A Dream On, A - (version 2, with Louis Armstrong) ~ Bing Crosby 22. Bing, Ella & Louis Introduce "Memphis Blues" ~ Bing Crosby 23. Memphis Blues - (version 2, with Louis Armstrong/Ella Fitzgerald) ~ Bing Crosby BING CROSBY - SWINGIN WITH BING: LOST RADIO PERFORMANCES (DVD MOVIE)   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Includes a 40-page booklet. Personnel: Bing Crosby (vocals); Dinah Shore, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Teagarden, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, The Andrews Sisters, Mills Brothers, Toni Arden (vocals); Les Paul (guitar); Joe Venuti (violin); Ziggy Elman (trumpet); Red Nichols (cornet); John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires. Liner Note Author: Ken Barnes. The public domain is well stocked with budget discs drawn from Bing Crosby's long radio career. Unfortunately, few are worth the plastic they're etched on, the usual problems including horrid sound quality and little in the way of documentation (regarding their origins) or context (regarding their relation to Crosby's career). Enter Shout! Factory to remedy the situation, hiring longtime enthusiast Ken Barnes -- who produced several sessions during Crosby's recording renaissance of the mid-'70s -- for the producer/compiler position and giving him free rein over the far-flung vaults of grubby transcription discs and tapes that comprise Crosby's radio career. The results, released as Swingin' With Bing! Bing Crosby's Lost Radio Performances, are splendid, offering clear proof of the opinion Bing Crosby fans have carried for decades: that transcriptions are a better source (or at least a more consistent one) to hear Crosby's swing smarts. 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 postwar period) and tying them together with just a few interstices and crowd noise. (His instructions to audio restorer Peter Reynolds included "finding matching applause for the topping and tailing of each selection to give the feeling of a total production.") While the process may not be historically accurate, it makes for a wonderful program that delivers incredible performances and avoids the pitfalls of a usually exhausting 75-track box set. Many of the highlights come on the first disc with looser versions of his hit standards "Swinging On a Star" and "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 selection of Bing Crosby's non-studio sides smoother than it's ever been before. ~ John Bush This beautifully packaged Bing Crosby box set is divided into three parts. The first disc features Crosby in radio performances with Nat "King" Cole and the Andrews Sisters. Disc two documents broadcasts with Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and, finally, the third disc features additional Crosby collaborations with Fitzgerald and Armstrong, as well as two performances with the Mills Brothers. One of the highlights on this collection is the second rendition of "Memphis Blues," a tune Crosby shares with Fitzgerald and Armstrong. Here, the rapport between the three singers is relaxed and lighthearted, and Armstrong even causes the studio audience to crack up during one of his verses. "Basin Street Blues" is another wonderful example of the simpatico between Crosby and Fitzgerald. At Crosby's request, Fitzgerald imitates Armstrong to the bemusement of the audience, and Red Nichols takes a superbly bluesy cornet solo on this tune, as well. (Not surprisingly, Nichols's playing is very influenced by the swampy, New Orleans approach of Armstrong.) Cole Porter's hit "Don't Fence Me In" is another high point; this song combines 1940s swing with a Western feel (a la Gene Autry), and the Andrews Sisters' rich three-part harmonies add great depth to this selection. Of course, it's Crosby's debonair voice that ultimately steals the show. 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Factory Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Live Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00826663150728    Related Videos Randy Jackson: Randy Jack...