That price is a little high. I paid $50 for my copy (after searching forever). It is in VG condition.

I would pass too at that starting price.

Jeremy,
I clicked on the site you mention but there is an - oomphs, the page is missing message.
Ron

Colin, you may well have read Richard Baker's article on 78rpm speeds in issue 187 of 'Bing', to which yours truly makes a small contribution. 'Bing' 188 contains a follow-up article by Mark Scrimger which to my mind - having been granted a sneak preview - gives a definitive last word on the subject. (Despite the fact that that last word leaves at least one of my own conclusions smouldering in the embers..!)

Gary Giddins ,in his POCKET FULL OF DREAMS, notes the problem with IV'E GOT THE GIRL (pg. 145-147. For me, a long time before Giddons, it was my good friend, Richard Wagner. As a (Chicago, ILL) 78RPM  record collector, he found ways to play old 10 inch records using many speeds .He figured it out. It would be a good guess that Richard himself did the re-mastering before anyone else had thought of it? This very good man has been gone for a long time now, so he can't be asked. In any case, this is the kind of commercial recording that remains a huge WHAT IF.....

Price very steep for a 78 considering they can break very easily if it's not well packaged that's why it's better to obtain a CD that has the song on it. it'a on "The Chronogical Bing Crosby vol ! CD as well as a  Naxos CD "Classic Crosby" as well as the 4 CD set on Proper "It's Easy To Remember"

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You're welcome Ian always glad to help out , as for the songs obscurity it's maybe because Don Clark was an obscure and is long forgotten unlike Paul Whiteman as well as the fact that Bing and Al's (Al Rinker that is) vocals are only on a small portion of the recording it's quite possible that Bing himself might not have cared for the song because he didn't include the song on the "Bing A Musical Autobiography" set in 1954.

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I am most grateful, Stepo and Pantelis.
I admit, I would never have known Don Clark's name without this first record of Bing's. 
I've done a little searching online and have come up with virtually nothing extra on him. 
Nice to know he was an ex employee of the still remembered Paul Whiteman. 

Yes, I must confess, until way after the advent of the compact disc, I'd never seen Bing's first recording featured on any long playing vinyl compilations. I'm not at all inferring that they weren't available but during my teenage years and twenties (in the 1980's and '90's), record shops in the UK in my home city of Nottingham, had plenty of new and second hand Crosby compilations and yet I never saw it featured on any.

Towards the end of the 'eighties, I did enquire at a specialist shop (who despite my pestering, eventually went on to employ me) and was told where it would more than likely feature - but still without managing to obtain a copy.

I indeed purchased a copy of Bing's "Musical Autobiography" box set (from "Music Inn", the same specialist shop) and due to already having been accustomed for years of  "I've Got The Girl" always being absent, it never even occurred to me that it may have been present on there. But now you come to mention it, I wonder if it could also have been missing on the autobiography box set due to rights reasons - or Bing not wishing to look any further back before becoming a solo name? 

Pantelis, I wonder with what you have written, if the recording's obscurity continued into the next decade or two - hence my not being able to see it on anything of those vinyl compiations? 

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