Just listened to it, and I wish Bing’s vocals were better extracted from the recording they used, plus they shortened the break between him singing “children” and “listen” so it sounds a bit off. One interesting thing though, and one I’m thankful for, is that despite Geffen being involved they did not use the 1942 recording which didn’t sound so great over a new high fidelity backing track, instead I believe they have used the 1952 tape recording of White Christmas released originally on the “The Crosby Christmas Sessions” release.

I’ve done that before, haha! Dream with Dean is a favorite of mine and it made me jump and make this playlist;

1. I’m Confessin’
2. Gigi
3. More Than You Know
4. Cocktails For Two
5. You’ll Never Know
6. It’s Not For Me To Say
7. I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plan
8. What Is There To Say
9. The Nearness Of You
10. But Not For Me
11. My Heart Stood Still
12. All Through The Night

Oh that one is a favorite of mine, a very nice Billy May arrangement.

I don't have a version that's anything longer than a minute sadly, he seemed to like to include it in carol medleys, but not actually make a full version...

One song that finally got a full version because of Christmas Sing With Bing was Good King Wenceslas, which I am thankful for!

I'm not the biggest fan of AI, but it would be interesting to see. To be honest, I would be interested to see someone who has really studied the Crosby style and can somewhat replicate it do a cover of a song Bing never sang, then use that recording as a base for the AI models. Someone has done this with Sammy Davis Jr., making a cover of Mack the Knife in the closest approximation to Sammy's style that he could muster, then use the AI model to put Sammy's voice over it.
https://youtu.be/pf-3w44oCGU?si=1s9pkMWemYTD_w4D
Sure it may not be the same as an actual recording, but it is a lot more convincing than most AI covers.

They said in the press release for that “Christmas Gems” album that they would dig into the Christmas specials for music videos as well, so even if we have a hiatus of regular music videos, we’ll still likely have Christmas ones coming out.

Primary Wave in conjunction with Bing’s estate is releasing a new Christmas compilation, with limited edition vinyl for Record Store Day and a wide CD release.

1. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
2. Just What I Wanted For Christmas
3. O, Little Town Of Bethlehem
4. How Lovely Is Christmas
5. Away In A Manger (with Kathryn Crosby)
6. Good King Wenceslas
7. It’s Christmas Time Again
8. Joy To The World
9. Christmas Island (with Kathryn Crosby)
10. The Secret Of Christmas
11. White World Of Winter
12. Christmas Candles
13. It’s A Marshmallow World (with Ella Fitzgerald)
14. Christmas Star
15. The Night Before Christmas
16. The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth (with David Bowie)

I have a feeling I know a lot of the sources for these tracks, but there could still be surprises.

Now we have Twilight On The Trail!
https://youtu.be/wdFnzrs5YxY

I believe these compilations to be a hold over until the next release, as this last week we heard of a new Estate partnership for merchandise, no new audio but it’s nice to see, and most of these came out within a 3 day period. I believe this due to the amount of the material that we know has been remastered already and just awaiting release, these remasters ranging from live shows, radio, and private recordings. Keep in mind too that on Friday they released “Ol’ Man River” from Bing’s 1959 TV special as an official music video, maybe we can look forward to something with that next month? I’m very easily being over-hopeful, but it doesn’t seem the most out of the question. I think what we’ve been seeing so far is easily marketable and easily produced content that doesn’t go too far into the vault, maybe to save the vault exploration for a more substantial CD release? Hopefulness again I know, but they built up that Crosby Archives series for so long that it wouldn’t be the most out of question.

I’m just trying not to give up hope yet when most of the material on both the Irish Songbook and the Ella album were newly released or remastered material, those were two solid releases. Valentine From Bing and At the Movies were heavy rehashes, unless you had the Mosiac box, but the movies released had one newly released track that hasn’t been previously available to my knowledge, and one newly remastered General Electric track.

I sound like I’m trying to make excuses, which I partially am to keep my hope as much as possible, but I do think it’s realistic to see newly released sometime in the near future. Time will tell with whatever happens…

I was checking Bing’s monthly listeners on Spotify and spotted 3 “new” releases. RCA released the How The West Was Won album in full, which is certainly nice to have on streaming, while Primary Wave released two compilations of love songs, made up entirely of songs from the Bing Crosby Archive series of releases. All three releases are 30+ songs so, while it is material Bing fans have had readily at their fingertips before, it is interesting to say the least.

It’s from Bing’s Buenos Aires interview from 1970, most of the show has been released before, except for Raindrops.

It’s similarly present on the LPs, and while in my eyes it could use to be a lot less, it’s much better than the dryness present on the Feels Good, Feels Right LP.