Bing! His Legendary Years, 1931 to 1957

Bing Crosby - Bing! His Legendary Years, 1931 to 1957

Bing! His Legendary Years, 1931 to 1957
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Artist: Bing Crosby
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1993-09-28
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)
  2. Out of Nowhere
  3. Just One More Chance
  4. I'm Through With Love
  5. I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)
  6. At Your Command
  7. I Apologize
  8. Dancing in the Dark
  9. Stardust
  10. Moon Was Yellow
  11. Two Cigarettes in the Dark
  12. With Every Breath I Take
  13. June in January
  14. Love Is Just Around the Corner
  15. Soon
  16. Down by the River
  17. It's Easy to Remember
  18. Red Sails in the Sunset
  19. Silent Night
  20. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
  21. I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)
  22. Pennies from Heaven
  23. Fine Romance
  24. Sweet Leilani
Music CD 2
  1. Blue Hawaii
  2. Too Marvelous for Words
  3. It's the Natural Thing to Do
  4. Moon Got in My Eyes
  5. Remember Me
  6. Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
  7. Don't Be That Way
  8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  9. Small Fry
  10. I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams
  11. Mexicali Rose
  12. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
  13. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
  14. Somebody Loves Me
  15. What's New?
  16. Sierra Sue
  17. Trade Winds
  18. Only Forever
  19. New San Antonio Rose
  20. Humpty Dumpty Heart
  21. Deep in the Heart of Texas
  22. Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie
  23. When My Dreamboat Comes Home
  24. White Christmas
  25. Easter Parade
Music CD 3
  1. Be Careful, It's My Heart
  2. Adeste Fideles
  3. Moonlight Becomes You
  4. Sunday, Monday or Always
  5. Mississippi Mud/I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain
  6. Pistol Packin' Mama
  7. I'll Be Home for Christmas
  8. San Fernando Valley
  9. Close the Door Joe, We're Making a Disc! [#]
  10. Swinging on a Star
  11. I Love You
  12. I'll Be Seeing You [Rehearsal Glimpse][#]
  13. I'll Be Seeing You
  14. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
  15. Song of the Fifth Marines [#]
  16. (There'll Be A) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go ...)
  17. Don't Fence Me In
  18. My Baby Said Yes (Yip, Yip de Hootie)
  19. Mine
  20. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
  21. Road to Morocco
  22. You Belong to My Heart
  23. It's Been a Long, Long Time
  24. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)
  25. I Can't Begin to Tell You
  26. Day by Day
  27. MacNamara's Band
  28. South America, Take It Away!
Music CD 4
  1. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  2. Spaniard That Blighted My Life [#]
  3. Whiffenpoof Song
  4. Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
  5. But Beautiful
  6. Galway Bay
  7. Far Away Places
  8. Sing Soft, Sing Sweet, Sing Gentle
  9. Dear Hearts and Gentle People
  10. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
  11. Play a Simple Melody
  12. Sam's Song (The Happy Tune)
  13. Harbor Lights
  14. Autumn Leaves
  15. Silver Bells
  16. Getting to Know You
  17. Gone Fishin' [Live]
  18. In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
  19. Watermelon Weather
  20. Thanks for the Memory
  21. Around the World (In Eighty Days)
  22. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
  23. Gigi
  24. Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)

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Bing - The Legendary Years
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This is the only disc, or set of discs, I own where I can say I love every selection on every disc. I can't even say that about Elvis. More about Elvis later...

A bit about how I came to this set of CDs. I grew up with White Christmas, the song and the movie. I occasionally heard another song by Bing Crosby, and I always loved his voice. I got on a kick over the last year or so of picking up some of the singers my parents listened to while I was growing up - Andy Williams, Robert Goulet, Dean Martin, et al. I came across this 4 CD set on Amazon, read the reviews and added it to my wish list. It sat there for many months until I decided one day to just bite the bullet and buy it. I can now say it is worth every penny!

I put on CD 1, and it didn't sound like the Bing I knew. So I stopped it and put on CD 2. That sounded more like Bing. As I was listening, I remarked to my husband how Bing's voice was almost completely absent of any vibrato, and how he seemed to have two different voices - a chest voice and a head voice. He reminded me of Elvis that way, and I became convinced that Elvis must have grown up listening to Bing Crosby. I felt that Bing was Elvis's vocal predecessor.

I started reading the excellent booklet that came with the set and read about the earliest tracks of the CD, so I went back to CD 1 and listened to the whole thing. What a revelation! Here was young Bing, and I was very surprised to hear a very rapid vibrato on a lovely tenor voice, with only occasional glimpses of the deeper baritone he later became famous for. There were times I could swear I was listening to Dean Martin! Again, I figured Dean must have grown up listening to Bing Crosby.

In the booklet, Will Friedwald talked about how important the words were to Bing. I wasn't really sure what he meant until my husband, who was discovering Bing with me, commented that he bet that Bing was difficult to accompany as he sung in almost a "singspiel" voice, a kind of talk-like singing. Then I realized that the cadences Bing used in singing were the cadences one would use in speaking those words. Ah, now I understood Friedwald's comments, and also understood that this is why Bing comes across in such an easy, casual, pleasant-to-listen-to and utterly delightful manner.

Once I was over all the analysis (I admit to being something of a student of the human voice, it fascinates me), I sat back and listened to all four discs and by the time I was done, I was just in love with everything about them. Bing, his beautiful voice and easy delivery, the beautiful music, the peek into a bygone era where the term "political correctness" hadn't been conceived of, and where music was just plain fun! I only wish there were more discs in the set! Well I'll just have to find some more!
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Bing Crosby was a laidback swinger, and this four-CD box spends a fair amount of its time reminding us of an era when the emphasis was as much on the swing as on the lazy-lidded attitude. Never as angst-ridden as Sinatra could be, and consequently not as multilayered, Crosby is nonetheless not a singer to be missed. The quarter century surveyed here includes cultural touchstones ("White Christmas," "Don't Fence Me In") and obscurities. All deserve to be heard by fans of the American song book and stylish performances. --Rickey Wright

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