Sorry I missed last few meetings. Caught them on Youtube. Boy! I wish I could attend Jason's get togethers. I can just picture me singing along with Ian and others. I guess Ian is the Patti Andrews of the group. Lol! Jason, whatever happened to your Lizard? Did he die from all the bad singing? Lol!

Lol! You are too funny Jason. How come Ian has not been at last few meetings?

Thank you Anton for making those meetings available to all friends of Bing Crosby!

I am very glad to hear that you found my contributions to the meeting worthwhile. Bing provides tones of material for good presentations and the Country Girl commercial recordings were really overlooked gems. You have an amazing ear to determine the composer without seeing it. Harold Arlen was one of the best. I was thinking that Joseph Lilley was very experienced in vocal arrangments as well so that might explain the tremendous duet with Patty and I am looking forward reading the article about him in our next issue. Παρακαλώ!

Blonde56 wrote:

Sorry I missed last few meetings. Caught them on Youtube. Boy! I wish I could attend Jason's get togethers. I can just picture me singing along with Ian and others. I guess Ian is the Patti Andrews of the group. Lol! Jason, whatever happened to your Lizard? Did he die from all the bad singing? Lol!

Hello Carmela. You'll never believe this but a few times I was actually roped into playing Patti Andrews, aged nine years for an Andrews Sisters drag act for a few concerts while in the UK boy scouts - I know, wonders never cease! These days at Jason's get togethers, I'm more of an ultra background Chesney Allen. 

Anton G.-F. wrote:

We did miss you at the last few meetings, Carmela. For those that weren't able to make the meetings, they are all available in chronological order here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcrPMqN7tSWeE9kvGv-ZXgGsIKToLoDw0 

AGF

Thank you, Anton - this really helped in my not being able to make the most recent two. 

Thank you very much for your kind words on my presentation. I am glad you liked it.

You're very kind, Carmela but thankfully for everyone present all those decades ago, the Andrews Sisters' recording of "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was being mimed to via a 45rpm single disc. No ears were harmed by any actual live singing. Dress aside, I will never know how you ladies manage to balance, let alone get around in high heels. Never again! 

I believe some were taken but they may have been cremated in tribute on the demise of Miss Andrews.
I seem to remember "Rum and Coca-Cola" being the B-Side of that 45rpm single. 
Very sensible in your avoidance of high heels. 
I never had the calves for them. 

Now you as Bing would be worth seeing at a future meeting, Carmela.
For that and with my hairline, I'd have to borrow one of Bing's toupées just to begin with. 
You never know, Pantelis and I might even see one for auction at Sotheby's, London when we visit Kathryn's and Bing's collection of exhibited lots for sale later this week.
 

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My name is becoming ever longer, Carmela.
Yes, we're looking forward to the day but we're just going down to browse the lots, as they are ony being exhibited in London before the auction itself actually takes place on 18th December in your neck of the woods, at Sotheby's of New York. So, get your bidding paddle ready and that beautiful walnut wood grand piano we all see being played by Billy Kyle during "Now You Has Jazz" in High Society (and after filming, purchased by Bing), could be yours for its cool reserve of twenty thousand dollars.

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