Tuesday is my least favorite day of the week, but maybe Bing will help.

Here's the first five that came on my MP3:

1. When I Lost You (radio recording)
2. Stardust (1944 radio recording)
3. Takes Two To Make A Bargain
4. One More Time
5. I Can't Get Started (radio recording)
 

I woke up thinking it was Friday so I need some Bing for this Thursday morning. Here are the first five Bing recordings for today:

1. Dolores - 
I remember I had this recording on an old Blue label Decca record.

2. Row, Row, Row -
Another Bing revival of an old song. Great energy on this one.

3. April In Portugal -
One of the great songs from the overlooked Holiday In Europe album. Glad Sepia reissued it!

4. I've Got To Fall In Love Again -
Upbeat forgotten Bing number that I recently discovered.

5. The Girlfriend (with Tommy Dorsey) -
Another forgotten track that I have always liked. My favorite song writing team, Rodgers & Hart wrote this song too!

Richard Baker wrote:

Thank you David for assisting me, and I'm sure others, in pulling up past memories. My playing has tended to be of favourites that get repeated: your random approach has aided me in seeking out several forgotten gems that hide away on less repeated albums.
 

I love having my player on random so I don't always listen to the same recordings. My favorite Bing recordings are Pennies From Heaven, Way Back Home, You Are Too Beautiful, and I Love You Samantha so I would listen to them again and again. When I have the music on random I get a great variety. All of the songs on my MP3 I like by Bing so the bad ones I leave off, but it forces me to listen to different recordings.
 

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I should be playing White Christmas or I've got my love to keep me warm - by Les Brown, as the opening words are - the snow is falling.
And 'yesterday, when I was Young in Australia with about 90 degrees to here in Morton at 32 as the snow is falling,
No doubt - Spring will be a little late this year, as our man sings it, and probably a little later - raindrops keep falling on my head.

Sorry for the delay this AM but I had/have computer issues at work.

Here are my first five for this Tuesday:

1. If You Were The Only Girl In The World (radio recording)
2. Mandy Is Two
3. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart (radio recording)
4. All Alone
5. June In January (from Seasons album)
 

Here are the first five for this Thursday:

1. Blue Skies
2. Constantly
3. Try A Little Tenderness (radio recording)
4. Misty (radio recording)
5. I Got Rhythm (1970s version)

Let me know if these threads are getting annoying...

I'm listening to nothing but reading various reports about the tragic events in Christchurch, New Zealand.
A former Southern Cross branch of The Club Crosby - Thelma Hardy - lived in Christchurch and I visited her in 1962 and she showed me her special Christmas present from Bing. Thelma was President at the time. Southern Cross Branch represented New Zealand and Australia.
Perhaps I should listen the Maori Farewell - aka as Now Is The a Hour.

I uploaded some more Bing recordings to my mp3 player so now I am at 627!

A lot to pick from but here are the random first five for this Monday:
1. Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep
2. I've Got To Pass Your House
3. Once In A While
4. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me (radio recording)
5. Looking At You 
 

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Hi David

Thanks for persevering with this... I find it very useful for reminding me of tracks which I haven’t heard for a while.

Going back a few posts, it’s strange what “does it” for some people and doesn’t for others. “Far Away Places” is one of my earliest Bing memories and I have always absolutely loved it - as I have “Now Is The Hour”. They are also both very easy to sing along and harmonise with..!

jeremyrose wrote:

Hi David

Thanks for persevering with this... I find it very useful for reminding me of tracks which I haven’t heard for a while.

Going back a few posts, it’s strange what “does it” for some people and doesn’t for others. “Far Away Places” is one of my earliest Bing memories and I have always absolutely loved it - as I have “Now Is The Hour”. They are also both very easy to sing along and harmonise with..!

I can not even pinpoint why I don't like the songs. I played Dinah Shore's version of Far Away Places, and it's the song that I don't like not Bing's performance. I was never a big fan of Swingin On A Star either. 
 

Here are the first five on my play list today:
1. Sentimental Journey (radio recording)
2. And You'll Be Home (movie soundtrack recording)
3. Beautiful Dreamer
4. The Second Time Around
5. A New Moon Is Over My Shoulder (radio recording)

Archiefit wrote:

OK, I can't stand it anymore, you're now forcing me to list the last several songs I've heard from my computer's random play of songs, warning, I have a wide variety of artists and kinds of music that plays, not just Bing  (though if I put Bing in as a search for in the playlist it would only play Bing), get set:
Ballad of Palladin - Johnny Western
If There’s Anybody Here Bing w/Donald O’Connor
Never Trust A Woman – Tex Williams
It Takes A Heap of Living –Walter Brennan
Where The Blue of  The Night Meets Blue of the Day (1930’s version, but not Hawaiian version (thank goodness)
Jazz Legato – Leroy Anderson
Scarlet Ribbons – Jo Stafford
The Saint (TV show) Theme - Edwin Astley
Each time I have read these lists of "random" played songs I tell myself I'm going to list my most recent songs played too, but because I just don't listen to Bing only I have refrained, but couldn't take it anymore.
 

Hey Lee,

Can you not stand it or are you inspired? LOL. I love your list. I am especially a fan of Leroy Anderson and Jo Stafford is my favorite female singer. 

With about 3000 CDs and a ton of LPs and cassettes, Bing is my favorite singer but I listen to many other artists as well. At work now I just listen to Bing because he seems to relax me the most when I am stressed out. In the car or at home I listen to a favorite of jazz, big band, and vocals. When the kids are in the car, they like the younger fellas like The Beatles and Billy Joel so I let them listen to that.

Lee, maybe you can do a list weekly as well!
 

Archiefit wrote:

Sometimes I like to listen to just Bing too, that's when I put Bing in on my search place on Media Player and then it will only play Bing songs, I generally do this on Saturdays.  Oh, there is one song that comes up sometimes and plays that is not a Bing recording, it's the Dean Martin song, "If I Could Sing Like Bing" other than that it's all Bing.  

I have always liked the Buddy Clark and Doris Day duets, I was surprised a year to 2 ago when I saw a picture of Buddy Clark, he looked a lot older than I had pictured him in my mind.

Jo Stafford is one of my favorite singers and one of the very best girl singers.  I especially love the way she holds a note so long and sings with such ease.  I think holding a note the way she does shows what a great singer she is, as opposed to modern day female singers who have that awful warbling yodel sound every time they open their mouth, holding a note today is never done.  I think it was Whitney Houston's example who ruined modern female singers forever.

I agree. Buddy Clark never was a good looking guy, and he was a ghost singer in Hollywood for awhile. By all accounts he was a great guy. What I like about Jo Stafford is she retired before she was past her prime. She stopped singing when her voice changed. So many great songbirds like Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, and Rosemary Clooney kept on singing way past when they should have. So my memory of Jo is that her voice was always perfect since she retired in 1970. 
 

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