Archiefit wrote:

I've enjoyed reading your Bing listening pleasures.   15 or so years ago I learned how to put many of my CDs onto me computer at work.  When I retired I then bought a computer for me own and this time I put a lot more CDs onto it, but still not everything.  But I put a whole variety of artists and great classic instrumentals, classic jazz, country music, movie and TV soundtracks, great classic TV & cartoon background music and  pop music of favorite artists of the 30s to 70s and rock.  

But I put them in "Playlists" so there are instrumentals all together and other type music grouped together including a playlist with everything.   I do have more Bing CDs on my computer than any other artist but not all my Bing CDs.   It sounds to me, Dave, that you may have put all your Bing CDs on your computer with such a mixture of Bings, radio songs and the rest.   I have with the playlist including Bing, Phil Harris, Vaughn Monroe, Peggy Lee, Rosie, Al Jolson, Bill (Fred) Frawley's  album, Walter Brennan lps, Jo Stafford, Dean Martin and well so many many more I can't list them all here. 

But the good thing about this is anytime you want to hear good music just flip on the computer and all your favorite music will pop up in a "random" play order.   This has been a dream come true for me, I have my own radio station that NEVER plays crap I don't like, I never again have to constantly be hitting the change button looking for a station to listen to and never any commercials.  Nothing but one great song after another.  I love this technology, I really only wish I had had this 40 years ago, so much good music I only wished I could have heard back then when driving or just to turn on and enjoy a wide variety of all your favorites.  It's marvelous. 

Hi Lee,
It's nice to have music without the commercials. I have Pandora on my car currently, and it's better than the regular radio stations - and in Pittsburgh there are no radio stations that play our music! On my computer at home I have most of the Bing, Buddy Clark, Jo Stafford on there now. I keep physical CDs still as a back up, but for the most part I just play CDs on my computer or I upload particular recordings to You Tube and I have a playlist there.

For work, we are not allowed to download or have music files on our computer, so I have a little mp3 player that I can use that holds hundrededs of recordings. So I listen to that - I just have Bing on that one, so I get a day of Bing Crosby at work each day! (In between working of course!)
 

Archiefit wrote:

I don't use Pandora (I don't need it, I have so many CDs I use those or my downloads) but I do use the very small Mp3 Sony "Walkman" player in my car.  I downloaded from my computer onto the Mp3 player 1000's of songs (not all on the computer, but a lot of it) so when driving that's when I use my Mp3 player but when at home it's the computer with so many of my CDs on it that I use for the great variety of music to hear.  One of the things I like about it is the "Random" play feature, you never know what song or artist you're going to hear next, just one great different song after another and never a need to "switch the station" which I used to do constantly in the bad old days.   You're right, as far as radio today, there is NOTHING, no good music at all that you will find on radio today.  If it weren't for my Mp3 player I'd go back to listening to old time radio shows as I used to listen to on cassette in the car when driving home from work. 

You have a good little set up going. With having two little kids, it seems like I listen to more music in the car and at work than home, but last night after the kiddos went to bed, I listened to music on the computer from 9 to about 11:15. It was therapeutic! 

The last time I listened to the radio was when I wanted to hear about the baseball game. I know cities like Chicago and New York have at least one nostalgia type station, but there is nothing in Pittsburgh. It's such a shame!
 

I was off work yesterday sick, but here are five recordings for a Tuesday:

1. Dark Moon (radio recording)
2. Man On Fire
3. Time After Time (radio recording - blooper)
4.Yes Indeed (with Connee Boswell)
5. I Still Suits Me (with Lee Wiley)
 

Graham Pascoe wrote:

Today I listened to Greg Van Beeks' NOSTALGIA RADIO TIME of last Sunday in which he presented a selection of 'songs of love' and if I remember correctly he began with Sing singing "Love is the sweetest thing', which I'd not heard before. Al Bowlly's 1932 recording used to get a lot of airplay on Australian radio 'in the old days'.

Greg really puts on a great show. There is no radio show like that in Pittsburgh.

Bing's version of Love Is The Sweetest thing is from his Buddy Cole radio songs. It's a great version that ranks up there with Al Bowlly's original version. I also like Gogi Grant's version if you get a chance to hear that one.
 

Here are the first five Bing numbers I listened to today:

1. That's What Life Is All About
2. Love In Bloom (radio recording with Spike Jones)
3. You Are My Sunshine
4. With All My Heart (radio recording)
5. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter

Back to work today, and I need some Bing this AM:

1. Humpty Dumpty Heart
2. La Vie En Rose
3. When My Dream Boat Comes Home
4.Takes Two To Tango (radio recording with Rosemary Clooney)
5. It's Been A Long Long Time

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Here's another five for this Thursday:

1. Accidents Will Happen (with Dorothy Kirsten)
2. Around The World
3. Down By The River (1940s radio recording)
4. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (unreleased track from Feels Good, Feels Right album)
5. Seasons
 

TGIF!

Here are the first five songs I am listening to to get me into the weekend:

1. When The Sun Goes Down
2. Life Is So Peculiar (radio recording)
3. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
4. One More Time
5. Lady Of Spain (radio recording)

It's windy Monday in Pittsburgh so here are the Bing recordings I have listened to to warm up:

1.  I Love To Dance Like They Used To Dance
2. Baby Face (radio recording with Al Jolson)
3. Ol Man River (1950s version)
4. Friends medley (television recording with Dinah Shore)
5. Josephine (radio recording)

So far this morning I have listened to:
1.Dance with a Dolly
2.Love Makes the World Go Round 
3.Crossing the Plains
4.Friendly Persuasion
5.How Come You Do Me Like You Do 
6.Shenandoah, I've Heard that Song Before
7.Rock-a-Bye Your Baby
8.Will You Come to the Bower
9.Coquette
10.One for My Baby
11.Jennie Jenkins (w Rosemary Clooney)
12.Lonesome and Sorry, I'll Take Romance
13.The Streets of Laredo
14.When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
15.The Song is Ended, Hang Me
16.Marie, In the Chapel in the Moonlight
17.Bound for the Promised Land
18.Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia 
19.Thank You for a Lovely Evening 
20.Get Along Little Doggies
21.There's Danger in Your Eyes Cherie
22.South of the Border

Happy Wednesday folks!

Here are my five for today:
1. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
2. My Heart Stood Still (radio recording)
3. Apalachicola, FLA (movie soundtrack with Bob Hope)
4. Born To Be With You
5. Your Own Little House

TGIF!

Here's some Bing to start off our weekend right!

1. Zing A Little Zong (with Jane Wyman)
2. Something Wonderful
3. Black Moonlight (1954 version)
4. This Love Of Mine
5. It's Mine, It's Yours

This is the 1st time I think that these songs that play randomly are all from the 50s!