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1 of 1- Malcolm Macfarlane
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- Registered: 22/11/2010
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The Bing Crosby Collection
I saw this advertised at and duly bought it.
It arrived today. The 6-DVD set cost $27.98 plus $12.95 shipping plus £11.16 for customs and handling fee. Attractive albeit basic packaging.
Disc 1 - Bing Crosby Show, January 3, 1954 - filmed on a dirty TV screen (kinescope?) but watchable. It is of course available in mint condition on the BCE issue "Bing Crosby - The Television Specials"
The Edsel Show is also on this disc. Acceptable but nowhere near the quality of the "Now You Has Jazz" excerpt released by BCE.
Disc 2 - High Tor - Acceptable quality. We know a better version is around though.
Disc 3 - Bob Hope Show from 1955. Bing has a brief guest spot and there are many excerpts from Road films. Poorish and the sound is out of sync. Still I had never seen it before.
Disc 4 - The Frank Sinatra Timex Show from 1959 with Bing, Dino and Mitzi Gaynor. Similar quality to other versions on DVD. Acceptable though.
Disc 5 - Three sitcom episodes. Good quality and I had never seen the show featuring Gary Crosby before.
Disc 6 - Three Sennetts. "Blue of the Night" is poor but the other two are quite good. "Billboard Girl" is better than the version I had.
Costly for those of us outside the USA but Stateside fans might find it attractive if they haven't got some of these items.
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Re: The Bing Crosby Collection
An interesting set. Pity about the quality and duplication.
Thank you for telling us about this, Malcolm.
The same company list a three volume set of Hollywood Palace.
Volumes 1 and 2 are of eight discs and 3 of ten but each are at priced at $46:95.
Volumes two and three include several appearances by Bing.
I can't speak for quality.