Bing Crosby

[suits lover]

Bing Crosby is one of the greatest singer and entertainer to have ever live. My question is what are your favourite Bing Crosby songs? Mine are St-Louis Bleu, Missipi mud, some of these day and wrap your troubles in dreams.

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[LizzieMaine]

I think my favorite Crosby recording is a Robin and Rainger tune from his 1935 film "Here Is My Heart" called "With Every Breath I Take." This was at the very start of his long tenure recording for Decca and at the tail end of his crooner period, right before he emerged as Bing the All Around Entertainer. The result is crooning raised to a very high level. The accompaniment by Georgie Stoll's orchestra is pretty fine as well.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Please (1932)
accompanied by Anson Weeks and his Orchestra and featuring Eddie Lang on guitar

[video=youtube;7gP7kYBYlU0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gP7kYBYlU0[/video]

You Lucky People You (1941)
featured in The Road to Zanzibar

[video=youtube;i6uBR91eihE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6uBR91eihE[/video]

 

[normanpitkin]

Beautiful dreamer and A Little dutch mill!

 

[Stanley Doble]

In the cool cool cool of the evening from Here Comes the Groom and Well Did You Ever from High Society. They always make me smile no matter how many times I hear them. Both duets, one with Jane Wyman the other with Frank Sinatra.

 

[vitanola]

With Whiteman, Bing's vocal chorus on "You Took Advantage of Me" has always been my favorite:

[video=youtube_share;WRk3qa2Icbk]http://youtu.be/WRk3qa2Icbk[/video]

"I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" is another fine performance

[video=youtube_share;R7IkZdOatmY]http://youtu.be/R7IkZdOatmY[/video]

My two absolute favorites, however, are his waxing of "Sweet Georgia Brown", with the Isham Jones Orchestra

[video=youtube_share;FvnsxpghZeY]http://youtu.be/FvnsxpghZeY[/video]

and his 1932 recording of that anthem from the absolute depths of the Depression, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"

[video=youtube_share;eih67rlGNhU]http://youtu.be/eih67rlGNhU[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Don Clark's Orchestra -- I've Got The Girl (1926)
vocals by Bing Crosby and Al Rinker

Bing Crosby's first recording

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[suits lover]

All nice tune! It pretty hard to have favorite one sometime. Love very much his first recording in 1926 with Al Rinker.

 

[Bird Lives]

When I was growing up there were too many Crosby albums around my house for me to have a favorite...'Moonlight Becomes You", "Swinging From a Star", some of the 'up' things like "Dinah" and "Pennies From Heaven"are maybe the first to pop into mind....And Bob Crosby and the Bob Cats were also big in my house aswell....
But just wanted to say..."White Christmas" was certainly one of the Theme Songs of several generations...

Also I remember hearing Bing talk on the Merv Griffen Show one afternoon...and apparently he was quite the rascal at one time as was Joe Venuti (Jazz Violinist famous for infamous practical jokes)...Well it was Joe's idea, so he, Bing and some other cats from Whiteman's band thought it would be funny to set Paul Whiteman's Hollywood Mansion on fire as a practical joke...They started the fire near the swimming pool, and hid over a hill on the estate to see the fire trucks come rolling in...But The King of Jazz had gone to bed early...So the fire was going pretty good by the time they called the fire dept. themselves...He said half the mansion burned down before the Dept. arrived...He said they were so scared they didn't tell anyone for like 40 years...and of course luckily no one was hurt....Crazy Kids...

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

A Little dutch mill!

I'll second that.

Bing is the One Exception to my general tendancy of not liking the artistic output of people who were ... "rascals"... by many accounts... (He ticked off WC Fields when he tried behind Fields' back to get a movie editor to cut out Fields' screentime and add to his own screentime... Fields later found out and was to have said, "Ol' Bing better watch out, or I'll sing in his next picturrrr!")

Yup, Der Bingle is a guilty pleasure... he was just So Good at what he did!... Got a stack of his stuff...

Oh yeah, just in fact discovered this one this morning - (what're the odds?) - a new Bing favorite: It seems it was part of a 1949 Disney movie, The Adventures of Ichabod: From that, one of Crosby's tunes, "The Headless Horseman":

(Glenn Miller fans might recognize a Miller tune which this Bing song's intro imitates...)

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[suits lover]

This is really Bing at his best ! Thank for having share this! The Miller song is song of the volga boatmen if I'm not mistaken.

 

[dhermann1]

Many many many.
For starters, and not necessarily in order of preferance.

The Folks That Live on the Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH_uFIpp0Ik

Black Moonlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk6uvWLF9Sw

There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears (with the Rhythm Boys)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AIRdUhzlM8

Snuggled on Your Shoulder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWdvbzLREPE

Oh, geez, so many more.

 

[dhermann1]

Many many many.
For starters, and not necessarily in order of preference.

The Folks That Live on the Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH_uFIpp0Ik

Black Moonlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk6uvWLF9Sw

There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears (with the Rhythm Boys)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AIRdUhzlM8

Snuggled on Your Shoulder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWdvbzLREPE

Oh, geez, so many more.

 

[dhermann1]

Why can't I delete that double post????

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Loyce Whiteman & Bing Crosby (and Jack Oakie) -- What Is It? (1931)
From a live broadcast from the Cocoanut Grove with Gus Arnheim and his Orchestra.

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[Miss Tuppence]

At the moment my favourite is San Fernando Valley, though I’m not sure now after V.C. Brunswick posted “I’ve got the girl” and “you lucky people”- oh what a fickle soul I am!
[video=youtube_share;JbgLaAIrYFw]http://youtu.be/JbgLaAIrYFw[/video]

oh and I like this one too- It makes me think of satin tap pants and dancing chorus girls.....and oh course I like to imagine he is singing it to me (haha I wish!), but alas I wasn’t a very beautiful baby, and now….. well, lets not go any further!!!!
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[V.C. Brunswick]

Did You Ever See A Dream Walking? (1933)

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[rue]

and his 1932 recording of that anthem from the absolute depths of the Depression, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"

[video=youtube_share;eih67rlGNhU]http://youtu.be/eih67rlGNhU[/video]

A favorite of mine also and this one too:

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[V.C. Brunswick]

Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby -- Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland (1959)
Written in 1909, Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland is among my favorite songs

[video=youtube;P1aADfu5cnA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1aADfu5cnA[/video]

 

[suits lover]

At the moment my favourite is San Fernando Valley, though I’m not sure now after V.C. Brunswick posted “I’ve got the girl” and “you lucky people”- oh what a fickle soul I am!
[video=youtube_share;JbgLaAIrYFw]http://youtu.be/JbgLaAIrYFw[/video]

oh and I like this one too- It makes me think of satin tap pants and dancing chorus girls.....and oh course I like to imagine he is singing it to me (haha I wish!), but alas I wasn’t a very beautiful baby, and now….. well, lets not go any further!!!!
[video=youtube_share;XTV8bOv3Jhs]http://youtu.be/XTV8bOv3Jhs[/video]

I had never heard these songs before, thanks!
But what do you means Miss Tuppence by -but alas I wasn’t a very beautiful baby, and now….. well, lets not go any further!!!!