This is by no means the best hits compilation available (it is one of the most prevalent), but these pre-Decca recordings from the early '30s are interesting for those with...
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All-Time Best of Bing Crosby is an uneven but entertaining collection of ten random hits from Crosby's long, prolific career, featuring such songs as "Swinging on a Star,"...
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On an occasional basis through the years, Bing Crosby recorded in Dixieland and swing-oriented settings. This fine CD collects 20 selections on which he is heard teaming up...
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While it does not include Crosby's biggest hit, the perennial "White Christmas," this collection of holiday favorites remains a good introduction to the singer's many...
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This four-CD set does a superb job of summing up Bing Crosby's years with Decca. After nine titles from 1931 (which were acquired by Decca later on), the program...
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According to chart researcher Joel Whitburn, Bing Crosby hit the singles charts 361 times between 1931 and 1965, including 40 number one hits -- by far the most successful...
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CEMA Special Markets' Christmas with Bing Crosby is a collection of ten tracks culled from various holiday albums Der Bingle recorded throughout his career. It may not be as...
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This Living Era compilation takes 18 tracks from Bing Crosby's 1930s recordings, including the usual items like "June in January," "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" and...
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"Der Bingle" in two distinctly different moods: from the solemnity of "Silent Night" and "Adeste Fidelis" (sung in Latin and English) to the playfulness ("gonna have a lotta...
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This Living Era compilation focuses on the more romantic recordings of Crosby's '30s heyday, such as "Stardust," "Between a Kiss and a Sigh," "Dancing in the Dark," the...
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This JSP collection combines a few of the more exotic numbers in Bing Crosby's late-'30s repertoire, including "Sweet Purple," "When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby," Trade...
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The period 1927 to 1934 represents the first phase of Bing Crosby's phenomenally successful career, beginning with his tenure with bandleader Paul Whiteman and early...
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GNP Crescendo's release of The Radio Years, Vols. 1-2 in 1987 (the volumes were available separately or together) wasn't the debut of these mid-'50s recordings, but for the...
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The folks at MCA essentially fused together one half of White Christmas and one half of That Christmas Feeling to create Bing Crosby Sings Christmas Songs. Not a bad recipe...
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Culled from sessions recorded in the late '40s and 1950, That Christmas Feeling features some of Bing Crosby's lesser-known Christmas songs. As holiday records go, this is a...
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Another of Pearl Flapper's compilations spotlighting the early '30s, That's Jazz hits some commercial high marks with "Blue Hawaii," "How Deep Is the Ocean?," "I'm an Old...
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GNP Crescendo's release of The Radio Years, Vols. 1-2 in 1987 (the volumes were available separately or together) wasn't the debut of these mid-'50s recordings, but for the...
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The first box set covering Bing Crosby, this three-disc CBS release appeared in 1988 with good remastering across its 65 tracks, numerous alternate takes, and a fabulous job...
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GNP Crescendo's release of The Radio Years in 1987 (two volumes, available separately or together) wasn't the debut of these mid-'50s recordings, but for the first time...
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While many of Bing Crosby's films have followed Droopy the Bear into that dark night, the Pearl/Flapper label dusts off some of the musical diamonds from these sometimes...
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Included on this Affinity compilation are almost 50 of Bing Crosby's more swing-oriented sides of the 1920s and '30s. Spread across two discs, there are many highlights for...
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The Great Years is another Pearl Flapper collection with a few rarer sides, but mostly Crosby standards from the 1930s and early '40s. It includes several Western selections...
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MCA repackaged two Bing Crosby albums of Irish songs, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling and Shillelaghs & Shamrocks, as a single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not...
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Although it is far from definitive, MCA's Christmas is a good budget-line sampler of Bing Crosby's holiday recordings, featuring, of course, his classic "White Christmas,"...
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Best of Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire is a ten-track budget-priced collection that features some of the duo's biggest hits, including "Sing," "It's Easy to Remember, " "How...
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Impeccable sound quality on some very old recordings is the prime reason to snatch this compilation on ABC Records. Remastered by Robert Parker, the disc includes favorites...
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A fascinating historical document as well as a triumph of radio entertainment, LaserLight's reissue of Bing Crosby's Armed Forces broadcasts of 1944-45 include two complete...
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A fascinating historical document as well as a triumph of radio entertainment, LaserLight's reissue of Bing Crosby's Armed Forces broadcasts of 1944-45 include two complete...
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A fascinating historical document as well as a triumph of radio entertainment, LaserLight's reissue of Bing Crosby's Armed Forces broadcasts of 1944-45 include two complete...
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A fascinating historical document as well as a triumph of radio entertainment, LaserLight's reissue of Bing Crosby's Armed Forces broadcasts of 1944-45 include two complete...
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A fascinating historical document as well as a triumph of radio entertainment, LaserLight's reissue of Bing Crosby's Armed Forces broadcasts of 1944-45 include two complete...
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Included on this Living Era CD issue are 25 selections of Bing Crosby and a host of duet partners (including Fred Astaire, the Boswell Sisters, the Mills Brothers, Jack...
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From "Don't Fence Me In" to "Pistol Packin' Mama," Bing Crosby always put his stamp on cowboy and country songs, swapping the crooner mentality of much of his pop material...
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Laserlight's Christmas Through the Years is a budget-priced collection of some of Bing Crosby's biggest holiday hits ("Sleigh Ride," "White Christmas," "The Bells of St....
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In September 1966, Bing Crosby went to Dublin to tape a television special, A Little Bit of Irish, which then was broadcast the following St. Patrick's Day. Nearly 29 years...
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Bing Crosby must have had many more favorite love songs than what's included on this brief MCA compilation. The selections are solid, though, including some of his best...
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The sound quality on this MCA collection is somewhat better than other Hawaiian compilations, but the inclusion of only ten tracks (including "Blue Hawaii," "Sweet Leilani,"...
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Bing's Gold Records is a splendid collection of all of Crosby's 21 gold singles for Decca Records. Each song is represented in its original version, including "White...
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If they make a Hallmark card for it, Bing's got an album for it. In fairness, Christmas and St. Patrick's Day are the only two holidays that prompt reissues of Bing Crosby's...
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This two-CD, two-and-a-quarter-hour set presents songs from the first 13 feature films in which Bing Crosby appeared, starting with The King of Jazz, in which he was part of...
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The second of two Jazz Unlimited CDs that feature the appearances of Louis Armstrong on Bing Crosby's TV series of 1950-51 is almost as rewarding as the previous Havin' Fun....
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You'd be hard pressed to find a better introduction to the music of der Bingle than this 12-track best-of, part of MCA's 20th Century Masters Millennium Collection. All the...
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This 22-track, 65-minute import CD compilation presents Bing Crosby' s original Decca Records recordings of songs used in seven motion pictures in which he appeared between...
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During the late '20s, Bing Crosby was a member of Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, as part of the sideline act the Rhythm Boys but also as an occasional featured vocalist. Though...
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Of the many musical genres Bing Crosby tackled, he probably felt closest to the Irish songs, many of which he must have heard when he was growing up in an Irish-American...
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Just what the title says: a double-CD of 53 tracks from 1939-52 that includes all their official releases (many of which were substantial hits), as well as rarities that...
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These 17 tracks were all recorded during the late '40s on Bing Crosby's Philco radio show, and the duets featured are among the rarer ones in Crosby's discography of radio...
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Subtitled The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook, this features every holiday recording Crosby made for Decca between 1935 to 1956. "White Christmas" is here, of course, in...
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No single package can hold all of Crosby's hits, but this is a start: original cuts from the '30s and '40s, with many favorites. ~ Charles S. Wolfe, All Music...
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In early 1956, Bing Crosby ended the two long-term company affiliations that had defined his career for more than 20 years, leaving his exclusive associations with Paramount...
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By 1974, 71-year-old Bing Crosby was virtually retired from record-making, having last cut a full-length album, the Bing 'N' Basie LP, in 1972. But he was lured out of this...
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Working closely with the International Crosby Circle and particularly with its American representative F.B. (Wig) Wiggins, MCA Records has issued some excellent Bing Crosby...
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The first CD release of Crosby material on MCA came in 1986, and the remastering is uncommonly good on the features "The Ol' Spring Fever" and "You Are Too Beautiful,"as...
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The first volume of Going Hollywood presented 46 selections from Bing Crosby's first 13 feature films; the second volume contains 50 tracks from his next ten. As a...
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The Very Best of Bing Crosby Christmas features 18 holiday hits like "White Christmas," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," and...
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Though these versions of Crosby standards aren't the studio takes normally associated with him, these radio-show versions often reveal a layer of improvisation and...
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Legendary performers Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra collaborate, thanks to Regency, on this holiday collection. Songs include "Hitch a Ride With Santa Claus," "The Christmas...
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One of countless Bing Crosby Christmas collections out there, Christmas Special features one of Crosby's holiday performances. Special appearances by such guests as Frank...
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Bing Crosby's Christmas Album released by Rebound gathers ten pleasant songs of the season, including "Christmas Is," "I Sing Noel," and "The Song of Christmas," delivered...
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Bing Crosby recorded exclusively for Decca Records from 1934-1955 and non-exclusively for a couple of years after that, and Decca purchased some of the masters he recorded...
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Released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Bing Crosby's death, The Complete United Artists Sessions compiles onto three discs all of his material for UA, recorded for...
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This edition in Universal's discount-priced compilation series 20th Century Masters/The Christmas Collection is actually a re-titled reissue of the 1999 collection The Very...
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Bing Crosby claimed that this dozen-song collection was among his favorites, namely because he was able to call all the shots. In the liner text, Crosby -- who was already...
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By 1974, 71-year-old Bing Crosby was virtually retired from record-making, having last cut a full-length album, the Bing & Basie LP, in 1972. But he was lured out of this...
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The public domain is well stocked with budget discs drawn from Bing Crosby's long radio career. Unfortunately, few are worth the plastic they're etched on, the usual...
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