Just added cover images of two LPs that some feel represent the nadir of Bing's long and varied recording career: Thoroughly Modern Bing (1968) and Hey Jude/Hey Bing (1969), the latter featuring the relentlessly (and, IMHO, unfairly) maligned recording of the title song. There's also a composite image of all 15 of the historic Bing's Hollywood series of LPs from 1962. 

https://derbingle.blogspot.com/p/bing-crosby-records-and-album-covers.html 

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I've added a photo of the contents of Bing's landmark 1954 Musical Autobiography 5-LP set with booklet. 
http://derbingle.blogspot.com/p/bing-crosby-records-and-album-covers.html

A half-dozen more images of LPs and EPs have been recently added. 
http://derbingle.blogspot.com/p/bing-crosby-records-and-album-covers.html

Plus, for those who enjoy browsing the Bing Records page, here's one that covers a wider swath of vinyl & shellac, some of which might be to your liking; some perhaps not so much.  
http://derbingle.blogspot.com/p/vintage-vinyl-lp-covers-and-picture.html

I've been sporadically catching bits and pieces of Ken Burns' 14-hour Roosevelts documentary (while I DVR it to watch at a later date), and tonight heard a familiar voice in the background during the description of Churchill's Christmas 1941 visit to the White House. Of course it was Bing, first singing what sounded like a radio recording of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," followed immediately with (I think) the movie version of "White Christmas"; it was hard to pin down exactly which version of each song was being played due to the dominance of the voiceover narration. "O Little Town" was an anachronism, as Bing first sang it on radio in 1945. "White Christmas" was first heard on the radio on Christmas Day 1941, but that's definitely not the version that was used. Nitpicking aside, it was nice (and altogether fitting and proper) to hear Bing's voice accompanyiing this historical epic documentary.

"Some of These Days," 1932.

I came across this very useful and and relatively comprehensive magazine archive the other day: 
http://lantern.mediahist.org/ 

And of course, for Bing covers there's always this page: 
http://derbingle.blogspot.com/p/bing-crosby-magazine-covers.html

There in fact was a US equivalent to The Special Magic of Bing Crosby, titled simply Bing Crosby, on Metro Records, which contained all of the songs on the Bregman LP except "The Song Is You" and "Deed I Do." Not sure of the release date, but the illustration of Bing on the cover is executed in a loose, colorful style that was popular in the 1960's -- similar to the cover art of On the Happy Side and I Wish You a Merry Christmas, both from the early '60's.

As for the Bregman LP's "infamous" reputation, Fred Reynolds* had this to say of the songs Bing recorded with Buddy and his orchestra during the June 11-12, 1956 sessions that comprised Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings:
"Although the LP proved commercially successful the support by a modern, brash swinging outfit was alien to Bing's style and a departure from any of his previous accompaniments. The venture was not an unqualified artistic success but the experiment was typical of his attitude to try any sort of popular music."
... and about "'Deed I Do" specifically:
"The affectionate, intimate assurances of this 1926 song are completely lost in the arrangement. The orchestra seems to compete with rather than accompany Crosby in his two choruses and, while the instrumental chorus features a good sax solo, the strident brass is an abrasive distraction. It is a cry much too far from Trotter and Young."
..."I've Got Five Dollars":
"Indiscriminate crash chords from the brass section..."
... and "The Song Is You":
"In spite of the orchestra's best efforts to defeat (Jerome) Kern's superior melodic writing Crosby proves beyond any doubt his ability to swing a tune. [...] The orchestral passage includes a saxophone solo but otherwise, even if the attempt had been deliberate, could have done little more to expunge all thoughts of Kern's flowing, melodic delight."
*in his comprehensive The Crosby Collection 1926-1977, Part Four: 1951-1960

Personally, I've never been put o

Anybody here subscribe to this? Apparently, they've been playing digitally remastered versions of Bing's radio shows.
http://www.siriusxm.com/40son4