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Carroll Gibbons - We're A Couple Of Soldiers
Bing recorded this song for Brunswick, and no one involved in the recording session cared for the song, There is a blooper that shows this. Anyways, Carroll Gibbons and his Savoy Hotel Opheans made a nice recording of it in 1932 with a Les Allen vocal...
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Re: Carroll Gibbons - We're A Couple Of Soldiers
From the outset, the brisker tempo is much more engaging than the arrangment used for Bing.What a pity this version didn't employ Bing. Les Allen is a little stilted and lacks the passion that Bing puts into the song. Some great playing from the orchestra in the instrumental interlude.
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Re: Carroll Gibbons - We're A Couple Of Soldiers
Aaron Tickner wrote:
From the outset, the brisker tempo is much more engaging than the arrangment used for Bing.What a pity this version didn't employ Bing. Les Allen is a little stilted and lacks the passion that Bing puts into the song. Some great playing from the orchestra in the instrumental interlude.
It really is kind of a clinker of a song, but I agree with you the tempo is good but Les Allen, as good as he was in his own right, was no Bing Crosby.
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Re: Carroll Gibbons - We're A Couple Of Soldiers
No wonder Bing didn't include it on his musical autobiography box set.
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