18/9/2019 1:45 am  #1


Bing Recordings 1949-1950

I wanted to listen to some different Bing records so I picked some records from the 1949-1950 period. I uploaded 10 of them to my You Tube channel but here are a few of my favorites here...



 

 

18/9/2019 1:51 am  #2


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18/9/2019 1:53 am  #3


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18/9/2019 1:55 am  #4


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18/9/2019 1:56 am  #5


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18/9/2019 7:01 pm  #6


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Eileen was a popular name in my family in the 1930-1950 period.
My Mum wasEileen and had cousins with that as either a first or second name - all after my Mum.

 

19/9/2019 11:59 am  #7


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Here is a really forgotten Bing record from that era of his recording...


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21/9/2019 12:21 pm  #8


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Thanks for flagging up “The Little Grey House”, David... This has been one of my top ten favourite Crosby tracks for 40-odd years. I first heard it on an MCA re-release compilation LP from the 70’s called, “Bing Sings Broadway”, which also contained “The Big Movie Show in the Sky”, “The Yodel Blues” and “Stay Well” from the same 1949/50 period...

In his notes for Vol. 50 of “The Chronological...”, John McNicholas is quite disparaging about the song itself - from the Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill show, “Lost in the Stars” - but I think it’s a gem. Movingly sincere singing from Bing and a lovely contribution from the Jud Conlon Singers and John Scott Trotter and the orchestra.

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27/9/2019 7:46 am  #9


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Jeremy, I'm interested in your opinion of 'The Little Grey House', Each week I present a music program on our local community radio station and many of my selections are songs from stage and movie musicals. I believe (from Steven Suskin's book SHOW TUNES) that LOST IN THE STARS opened in New York on 30 October 1949 so I'll consider including the song in my program around that time. Suskin states that the song was written for an unproduced 1939 show titled ULYSSES AFRICANUS, What a name for a musical show.

 

27/9/2019 8:02 am  #10


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Thanks for that, Graham.
“Stay Well”, from the same 18/11/49 session, is also from “Lost in the Stars” and is - to my ears - more recognisably from the same composer who penned “My Ship” and “September Song”.
Interesting that Bing is recording these numbers barely three weeks after the show opened on Broadway...
No, “Ulysses Africanus” doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, does it..?!

 

08/10/2019 4:29 pm  #11


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I keep digging out Bing and then noticing a song that I did not remember before. "Stay Well" and "The Little Grey House" were not great songs but I enjoyed them,

I really enjoyed the song "Sorry" - which I had completely forgotten about!

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