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New Year issues from Sepia
Look what Sepia have got lined up for us.
As a follow on to the 2CD set covering Philco Radio Time
(Click on highlighted link for details)
there is a 2CD set covering the Chesterfield shows.
(Click on highlighted link for details)
The songs were chosen from those rarely covered (or not at all) in previous CD issues, and are mostly of hits by artists other than Bing. It is interesting to hear how he "covers" them.
CD1
1. Chesterfield Intro
2. A Cockeyed Optimist
3. Maybe It's Because
4. I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts
5. Marta
6. Candy And Cake
7. Music! Music! Music!
8. A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes With Perry Como
9. Dear Old Girl With Perry Como & Arthur Godfrey
10. I've Got The World On A String With Mildred Bailey
11. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
12. Old Folks At Home With Lindsay Crosby
13. If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake With Beatrice Lillie
14. It Isn't Fair
15. The Lament Of Homer Tracy With Fred Allen (Very funny)
16. Nevertheless
17. A Bushel And A Peck With Dinah Shore
18. The Tennessee Waltz
19. The Thing With Fred Astaire
20. You're Just In Love With Toni Arden
21. The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful
22. Whispering Hope With Dorothy Kirsten
23. Can Anyone Explain?
24. Mockin' Bird Hill With Les Paul & Mary Ford (Bing multi voiced with Mary)
25. If
26. Would I Love You?
27. I Apologize
28. The Roving Kind With The Cass County Boys
29. Across The Wide Missouri With The Cass County Boys
30. When You And I Were Young, Maggie Blues With Teresa Brewer
CD2
1. Diane With Tommy Dorsey ( Lovely bit of smooth trombone from Tommy)
2. Come On-A My House
3. Just One More Chance
4. Over A Bottle Of Wine
5. Never Before
6. Silver On The Sage
7. June In January
8. The Morning Side Of The Mountain
9. Because Of You
10. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
11. Down Yonder
12. Chesterfield Jingle With Bob Hope
13. Slow Poke
14. If You Catch A Little Cold With Patti Page
15. Sin
16. Charmaine
17. Lazy River With The Mills Brothers
18. Please Mr. Sun
19. Come What May
20. Tell Me Why
21. The Blacksmith Blues
22. With A Song In My Heart With Helen O'Connell
23. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
24. I'll Never Be Free With Kay Starr
25. I Waited A Little Too Long
26. Singin' In The Rain
27. At Last
28. I'll Walk Alone
29. A-Round The Corner
30. Chesterfield Finale
As with the Philco set, many songs include the original short radio introduction by Bing.
ICC Members know the arrangements for ordering.
Others can order from Sepia direct or other usual suppliers.
Sepia also have a double CD set of the Andrews Sisters
(Click on highlighted link for details)
This covers radio from 1948 to 1950.
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Re: New Year issues from Sepia
It's a superb set and our thanks to Richard Baker for his hard work and research on it.. See http://www.sepiarecords.com/sepia1360.html
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Re: New Year issues from Sepia
I got my copy, and it is one of the best sets that Sepia has produced.
It was the best thing I bought in 2020!
- Graham Pascoe
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Re: New Year issues from Sepia
The Chesterfield CDs are beaut.
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Re: New Year issues from Sepia
What a great post!
With all the stuff that hits Facebook I don't hit the forum as much as I should!
I just ordered both of these sets! Am I right to assume that unlike the CBS recordings released by Mosaic that these were actually sung live during a recording of the live show in front of an audience or maybe as part of a taped rehearsal?
How do these compare quality-wise with the later CBS recordings?
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Re: New Year issues from Sepia
Ron1972 wrote:
- Am I right to assume that unlike the CBS recordings released by Mosaic that these were actually sung live during a recording of the live show in front of an audience or maybe as part of a taped rehearsal?
How do these compare quality-wise with the later CBS recordings?
Ron, the essential difference between the Mosaic set and the Philco and Chesterfield sets from Sepia is that the Mosaic tracks were taken direct from tapes recorded in a small studio without any audience. They benefit from having had no additional intervention, whilst the two series from Sepia were as broadcast, with audience (sometimes live, sometimes dubbed) and then recorded to vinyl discs which were sent out to affiliates of the parent network for broadcast. There are thus several stages during which things can happen and the quality of the surviving disc might also be an issue.
Audio quality in those circumstances can vary and whilst we have taken the best of what we had it would be dishonest to claim they compare with the pristine sound on the Mosaics (which are slightly later during a period when recording techniques were evolving quite rapidly).
We can say for certain that some of the shows were recorded in front of a live audience (several from military bases for example), it was becoming increasingly common to dub in audience reactions. There are also several examples of songs being used again. A browse through the discography here http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/Crosby2dChesterfield.html
will tell you more. The notes appended to show numbers 1, 7, 17, 36, 51 and 89 (and possibly others) enlarge on the topic. .
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