With the 5 CD set of Rosemary Clooney recently announced (http://crosbyfanworld.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=789)
together with the previous 7 CD set from Bing, and the duet double with Rosemary, we will have a very full selection of the songs especially recorded for the sequence of radio shows made for CBS - successively The Bing Crosby Show, The Ford Road Show, and The Crosby -Clooney Show during the years 1954 to 1962 with the Buddy Cole rhythm group. Apart from the three sets I mention there are some songs scattered through other recent issues from BCE as "fillers".

These shows differed from earlier radio shows because the songs were recorded in the studio in batches and used to create a sort of library, to insert into the shows. Some songs therefore crop up several times. Additional dialogue was then spliced in, both of jocular and serious/topical nature. Apart from Bing and Rosemary, Ken Carpenter was prominent. The shows were short - The Bing Crosby Show of 15 minute duration with three or four songs, and The Ford Road show was just five minutes!. 

Just occasionally the commercial recordings were used, particularly early on, but by far the greater number were from the library using Buddy Cole's group for backung. The outstanding characteristic is the relaxed approach, most obvious in Bing and Rosie's treatment of the songs, but also much of the time in the dialogue.

And do not take my description of "relaxed" as in any way careless. They are a joy to listen to.

However, because the accompaniment (with the exeption of a "Dixieland" group on some titles on the 7CD set devoted to Bing) is always Buddy Cole's small rhythm group, I find it is best to take them in smallish doses - certainly no more than one CD at a time.

Bing Magazine site has a fairly comprehensive listing of the shows and their content though full details of some are not known.

BC show http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/final.htm#bcshow
Ford Road Show http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/final.htm#ford
Crosby Clooney show http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/final2.htm