Bing Crosby - Bing Crosby Sings & Swings Love Songs 1

Styles: Swing
Year: 2023
Time: 74:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 172,2 MB
Art: Front

(1:34) 1. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (Alternate Take) (Feat. The Buddy Cole Trio)
(2:27) 2. I Get A Kick Out Of You
(2:49) 3. Almost Like Being In Love
(2:48) 4. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
(2:31) 5. People Will Say We're In Love (Version 2)
(2:46) 6. La Borrichita (I'll Never Love Again)
(2:00) 7. The Lady Is A Tramp
(2:19) 8. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
(2:56) 9. That's Amore
(2:03) 10. Where Or When
(2:01) 11. Love's Old Sweet Song
(2:37) 12. Isn't This A Lovely Day?
(1:59) 13. C'est Magnifique / Taking A Chance On Love (Mono)
(2:35) 14. You're Just In Love (Version 2)
(2:34) 15. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
(2:35) 16. All The Way
(2:29) 17. Pagan Love Song / Cuban Love Song
(1:50) 18. Everybody Loves My Baby
(2:23) 19. Love And Marriage
(3:27) 20. P.s. I Love You (1953 Version)
(2:42) 21. No Te Importe Saber (Let Me Love You Tonight)
(2:06) 22. Taking A Chance On Love
(2:00) 23. All My Love (Bolero)
(2:18) 24. Papa Loves Mambo
(3:35) 25. South Of The Border
(2:22) 26. I Love Paris
(2:56) 27. Medley: I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore / I Wish I Were In Love Again (Live) (Feat. Maurice Chevalier)
(1:35) 28. Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me
(2:06) 29. Pledging My Love
(3:32) 30. I'm Through With Love

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality and businessman. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. Crosby was a leader in record sales, network radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He was one of the first global cultural icons. Crosby made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs.

Crosby’s early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed, such as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon. Yank magazine said that Crosby was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.: 6  In 1948, Music Digest estimated that Crosby’s recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music in America.

Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Going My Way (1944) and was nominated for its sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), opposite Ingrid Bergman, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. Crosby was the number one box office attraction for five consecutive years from 1944 to 1948. At his screen apex in 1946, Crosby starred in three of the year's five highest-grossing films: The Bells of St. Mary's, Blue Skies and Road to Utopia. In 1963, he received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. Crosby is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He was also known for his collaborations with his friend Bob Hope, starring in the Road to ... films from 1940 to 1962.

Crosby influenced the development of the post–World War II recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to the United States by John T. Mullin, Crosby invested $50,000 in the California electronics company Ampex to build copies. He then persuaded ABC to allow him to tape his shows and became the first performer to prerecord his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Crosby has been associated with the Christmas season since he starred in Irving Berlin's musical film Holiday Inn and also famously sang "White Christmas" in the movie.

Through audio recordings, Crosby produced his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became the industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, Crosby helped finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, during which time the team won two World Series (1960 and 1971).https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2437980f-513a-44fc-80f1-b90d9d7fcf8f

Bing Crosby Sings & Swings Love Songs 1

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Bing Crosby - Return To Paradise Islands

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1963
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:45
Size: 121,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:21) 1. Return To Paradise
(2:15) 2. The Hukilau Song
(3:48) 3. The Old Plantation
(2:56) 4. Lovely Hula Hands
(3:19) 5. Love And Aloha
(2:46) 6. Keep Your Eyes On The Hands
(3:17) 7. Adventures In Paradise
(2:51) 8. Frangipani Blossom
(3:25) 9. Forevermore
(3:59) 10. Farewell My Tane
(3:44) 11. Beautiful Kahana
(3:08) 12. Home In Hawaii (King's Serenade)
(1:00) 13. Return To Paradise (False Start And Studio Chatter)
(2:26) 14. My Little Grass Shack (In Kealakakua, Hawaii)
(2:15) 15. The Cockeyed Mayor Of Kaunakakai
(2:31) 16. Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
(2:22) 17. Ukelele Lady
(2:13) 18. King's Serenade

Although a parade of pop artists recorded Hawaiian material between the '20s and '50s, none of them are as associated with it as Bing Crosby who could have (and did) populate an entire hits collection with only his Hawaiian-themed songs. In the early '60s, Crosby was briefly signed to Reprise Records, the new home for the best vocalists in traditional pop, but his only solo-billed record was this one, from 1963. It's an overlooked gem, recorded with Nelson Riddle, who understood more than any other arranger of his era how to bring exotic sounds home to American shores without proceeding directly to overkill. Riddle employs strings slightly more than on his classic arrangements, but they're sweeping and lush completely in keeping with the material. Crosby sounds not merely comfortable, but fully relaxed in these songs. The opener, "Return to Paradise," a movie theme from a few years earlier, is the perfect place to start; not with some frothy hula dances, but a warm and reflective ballad wrapped in Riddle's strings, which ebb and flow in an obvious homage to ocean shores. The rest of the record balances a few wistful ballads like the first with light novelties that employ the lap-steel guitar and ukulele that's de rigeur for a Hawaiian LP.~ John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/album/return-to-paradise-islands-mw0000837367

Return To Paradise Islands

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Bing Crosby - Bing Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook

Styles: Vocal, American Popular Song, Swing
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:40
Size: 142,8 MB
Art: Front

(2:10)  1. P.S. I Love You - 1934 Version
(2:39)  2. I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande) - Single Version
(3:06)  3. Too Marvelous For Words - Single Version
(2:54)  4. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Single Version
(2:12)  5. Day In, Day Out
(3:00)  6. I Thought About You
(2:40)  7. Mister Meadowlark
(2:56)  8. Skylark
(3:12)  9. Blues In The Night
(2:47) 10. That Old Black Magic
(3:12) 11. On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe - Single Version
(2:41) 12. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive - Single Version
(2:56) 13. Lazy Bones
(2:49) 14. Autumn Leaves
(2:01) 15. In The Cool Cool Cool Of The Evening
(3:34) 16. Jamboree Jones
(3:06) 17. When The World Was Young (Ah, The Apple Trees)
(2:48) 18. Glow Worm
(2:01) 19. Jeepers Creepers
(3:20) 20. And the Angels Sing
(1:59) 21. Something's Gotta Give
(3:26) 22. P.S. I Love You - 1953 Version

Bing Crosby was a media superstar during the first half of the 20th century. He was the best-selling recording artist of all time until the rock era hit, having sold over a half-billion records, and he was a movie star, too, the biggest box office draw of the 1940s. None of this would have been possible if he couldn't sing, but he could, defining the very template of a crooner, and his vocal style, warm and natural, was influential everywhere. Crosby had a particular fondness for songs by Johnny Mercer, his friend and frequent collaborator, and he tracked 100 or so of them during his long career. 

This generous set collects 22 of these recordings on a single disc, including several previously unreleased radio performances, and fun duets with the Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, and Mercer himself, among other valuable archival gems. ~ Steve Leggett https://www.allmusic.com/album/bing-sings-the-johnny-mercer-songbook-mw0002570937

Bing Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook

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Various - Anything Goes (1956 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Remastered)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:29
Size: 124.7 MB
Styles: Soundtrack
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[3:15] 1. Donald O'Connor - Ya Gotta Give The People Hoke, Song
[3:46] 2. Mitzi Gaynor - Anything Goes
[4:02] 3. Jeanmaire - I Get A Kick Out Of You
[2:29] 4. Mitzi Gaynor - You're The Top
[7:40] 5. Joseph Lilley - Dream Ballet
[5:48] 6. Donald O'Connor - It's De-Lovely
[2:57] 7. Bing Crosby - All Through The Night
[6:09] 8. Donald O'Connor - A Second Hand Turban And A Crystal Ball, Song
[4:07] 9. Donald O'Connor - You Can Bounce Right Back, Song
[4:48] 10. Donald O'Connor - Blow Gabriel Blow
[2:52] 11. Bing Crosby - Sailor Beware
[3:21] 12. Bing Crosby - My Heart And I
[3:08] 13. George Stoll's Trio - Moonburn

This is the second film titled Anything Goes to star Bing Crosby (the first was a 1936 film). Both films change a lot of the original Cole Porter stage musical, but at least the later version keeps a few more Porter songs. Still, there is something odd about a Cole Porter film filled with "additional songs" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen (perhaps Porter's work was not warm and cuddly enough for 1956 America, although it seemed to work well at MGM with High Society, released the same year). Crosby plays a Broadway star teamed up with young TV hotshot Donald O'Connor. Vacationing separately in Europe and needing a leading lady for their upcoming show, each signs a prospect--Crosby snaps up Mitzi Gaynor (at her perkiest) and O'Connor finds Jeanmaire, a French dancer. The show can only have one female star, so when the quartet crosses paths on the ocean liner back to the U.S., sparks will fly. Or not--this Paramount musical lacks any definable zip, from the sleepy dialogue to the listless camera. The capable Nick Castle staged the musical sequences, although Jeanmaire's numbers were choreographed by Roland Petit (also her husband). The Porter songs are half-heartedly rendered, although O'Connor and Gaynor get some oomph into "It's De-Lovely." Der Bingle was born to burble "Blow, Gabriel, Blow," but it's too little, too late. --Robert Horton

Anything Goes (1956 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Remastered)

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Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire - Together

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:39
Size: 143,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:54)  1. Roxie
(3:20)  2. Top Billing
(3:35)  3. How Lucky Can You Get?
(4:05)  4. Spring Spring Spring
(3:12)  5. It's Easy To Remember
(2:55)  6. Change Partners
(5:09)  7. Pick Yourself Up
(2:51)  8. Mr Keyboard Man
(3:26)  9. I've A Shooting Box In Scotland
(3:28) 10. In The Cool Cool Cool Of The Evening
(3:49) 11. Bon Vivant
(2:50) 12. Sing
(3:50) 13. Dance In The The Old Fashioned Way
(3:00) 14. I Love To Dance Like They Used To Dance
(2:58) 15. A Couple Of Song And Dance Men
(2:39) 16. That's Entertainment (The Band Wagon)
(1:51) 17. Top Billing (Reprise)
(3:40) 18. Session Sound Bites - Bloopers With Bing & Fred

Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. What a Team! Crosby the Archetypal Crooner and Legendary Hitmaker who Had Worked with Everyone from Bix Beiderbecke to David Bowie and Astaire the Quintessential Dancer who Introduced More Classic Songs to the Popular Catalogue Than Crosby and Sinatra Combined. This Collection is a Reissue of the Original 1975 Album "How Lucky Can You Get!" and features Bonus Tracks. Sleeve Notes Written by Ken Barnes, the Producer of the Original Record. ~ Editorial Reviews  http://www.amazon.com/Together-Bing-Crosby/dp/B000E9X6WG

Together

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Bing Crosby With Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band - Bing With A Beat

Styles: Big Band
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:36
Size: 87,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:51)  1. Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella
(3:02)  2. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myelf A Letter
(3:29)  3. Along The Way To Waikiki
(3:16)  4. Exactly Like You
(2:40)  5. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
(2:47)  6. Last Night On The Back Porch
(2:45)  7. Some Sunny Day
(3:27)  8. Whispering
(2:57)  9. Tell Me
(3:54) 10. Mack The Knife
(3:15) 11. Down Among The Sheltering Palms
(3:07) 12. Mama Loves Papa

They just don't write songs like "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" anymore. It's a catchy melody combined with witty lyrics that conveys an innocent longing for love that would be inconceivable as a radio hit today. However, the same goes for just about any other song on Bing With A Beat.  But then they weren't really writing songs like that in 1957, either. That's when this album first appeared, and none of the songs were in heavy circulation among pop singers at the time. Only "Mack The Knife" still had some legs, thanks to versions recorded by Louis Armstrong (earlier) and Bobby Darin (later). But most are relics from the time when Bing first became famous, long forgotten by the artists whom he influenced. 

Leave it to Crosby to resurrect these old tunes tunes that he always wished he had recorded to create his one true jazz album, a tribute to the music he always loved. Crosby had continued to record well into the fifties, straddling two generations with his blue-eyed, gentlemanly appeal. But where it would have been easy to sing over a lush Nelson Riddle-type orchestration as he had already done he hand-picked Bob Scobey and the rest of his Frisco Jazz Band to create a swinging Dixieland backing that has no strings at all. Dixieland was always Crosby's love, and while the presentation and song selection may seem a little trad, it's a tribute to the talents of Crosby and Scobey that the album works as well as it does and has an instant appeal today. For one thing, Crosby sounds positively jubilant at the opportunity to sing these songs with the hot band behind him, and truly Bing With A Beat sounds like no other vocal album from the time period. Scobey and company rip through the choruses when given the chance and provide punchy backing when Crosby takes the mike. 

There's a snap in Crosby's delivery that wasn't always featured on previous recordings, but his strength was always making lyrics sound earnest. No one has written a song about "Waikiki" in years, but Crosby makes it sound like the hot new vacation spot. In his book Jazz Singing Will Friedwald claims that Bing With A Beat is one of the top ten jazz vocal albums ever made. This may come as a surprise to those who never thought of Crosby as a jazz vocalist in the first place, but there's no denying that Armstrong and Sinatra both owe him debts in their rhythm and phrasing, and most of all the art of singing naturally. Top ten? Maybe. Leave it to Bing, though, to assert himself as capable of creating a jazz album that out-jazzes most of them. ~ David Rickert   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15506#.Uwl0MIVZg9c

Personnel:  Bing Crosby - vocals; with Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band.

Boing With A Beat

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