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What Bing Are You Currently Listening To?
This weekend I dug out some of Bing's 1936 recordings for Decca. I am surprised that there are some forgotten gems among those records:
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I'm jumping all over the discography at the moment jotting down songs as possible contenders for ideas I have for future ICC online meetings. I won't devulge as to why my attention was drawn to these two tracks recently. I'm not even sure I'll end up using them but I am certainly taking notes on the instrumentation and how Bing repsonds to it.
Love, You Funny Thing (23 February 1932 with Victor Young leading the ARC Brunswick Orchestra)
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Let's Try Again (24 April 1932 with Isham Jones and his Orchestra).
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David, I thought "Just One Word of Consolation" was extremely moving and I thought the chorus singers added to the emotion of it. Sometimes I feel chorus singers can have the opposite effect but not here.
I did favour, though your first choice of "Beyond Compare". Listening to it, I was drawn to thinking how skilled Bing was in being both lightly subtle with a lyric but also emotionally involved with a distinct personality shining through.
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Aaron Tickner wrote:
I'm jumping all over the discography at the moment jotting down songs as possible contenders for ideas I have for future ICC online meetings. I won't devulge as to why my attention was drawn to these two tracks recently. I'm not even sure I'll end up using them but I am certainly taking notes on the instrumentation and how Bing repsonds to it.
Love, You Funny Thing (23 February 1932 with Victor Young leading the ARC Brunswick Orchestra)
and
Let's Try Again (24 April 1932 with Isham Jones and his Orchestra).
Now my curiosity is really piqued, Aaron - but I'll be a good lad and not push you over the reasons.
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I'll give you a clue, Ian. Carmela left a message on the vibraphone presentation. Shhh, don't tell her but I'm looking in to her suggestion. Not sure when I'll get to it because I have a few others in the pipeline.
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My curiosity has now gone nuclear.
Almost time for dinner so I'll have to look at this another time ...
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I was listening to some of Bing's tracks a lot these days, Again (Bing and Peggy duet), Getting to Know You, My Heart Stood Still, The Nearness of You (the recent BCE release), I 'll Be Seeing You, Nevertheless, Once in a While, With Every Breath I Take, plus due to my recent presentation I am also stuck with the Top O The Morning and Emperor Waltz tunes.
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A lovely presentation, Pantelis, I can't blame you for having both films in mind.
He works so well with Peggy Lee, doesn't he? Both had such warm, intimate voices.
What a shame they never made an album together - were they both on Decca at one time before Peggy moved to Capitol - or am I confused?
I know some people rightly complain about it because it doesn't have the original film's leading ladies featuring on the album but at least we have Peg and Bing together on the White Christmas soundtrack LP/Cassette(?)/Mini-Disc(?)CD/Picture Disc/Download ....
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Yes you are right they both worked for Decca at the same time, but Ian Bing and Peggy have made two albums together for Decca plus singles all of them commercially released and quite well received.
Beside the White Christmas album you mentioned, they both recorded the Road to Bali album, where she replaced Dorothy Lamour.
They also released as single Watermelon Weather" / "The Possibility's There" (1952) and Little Jack Frost Get Lost
Being also fond of their radio recordings there have been compilation albums released of radio tracks from their various shows together.
Peggy was in Capitol before and after her Decca contract that was signed in 1952 an run until 1957. It would have been nice though to see them in a concept album project similar with those he did with Rosie.
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I'm listening to The Chronological Bing Crosby Volume 36 tonight.