Bing With a Beat [Original recording remastered]

Bing Crosby | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B00024I34Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,051 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Bing's Best, February 14, 2001

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Alan Breck (Jersey City, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bing With a Beat (Audio CD)

This album is one of the great achievements of Bing Crosby's remarkable career. It's also tremendous fun. Here Bing swings twelve songs, some famous, others not, in Dixieland style, backed by the reliable Bob Scobey and his "Frisco Jazz Band." Crosby brings to mind his earliest recordings with sensitive yet swinging interpretations of "Whispering," "I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," and, most notably, "Dream a Little Dream of Me," where Crosby's voice and Scobey's trumpet both sound as if they're awaking from a dreamy, lilting, southern sleep.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And What a Beat!, December 16, 2004

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Alan Breck (Jersey City, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bing With a Beat (Audio CD)

This album is one of the great achievements of Bing Crosby's remarkable career. It's also tremendous fun. Here Bing swings twelve songs, some famous, others not, in Dixieland style, backed by the reliable Bob Scobey and his "Frisco Jazz Band." Crosby brings to mind his earliest recordings with sensitive yet swinging interpretations of "Whispering," "I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," and, most notably, "Dream a Little Dream of Me," where Crosby's voice and Scobey's trumpet both sound as if they're awaking from a dreamy, lilting, southern sleep. I originally posted this review for the Japanese re-issue, but this Bluebird release sounds much better. Oddly, the version of "Exactly Like You" heard on this release is an alternate take from the one released on the LP and Japanese CD. It's the same arrangement, but a different vocal with a different scat. There is no mention of this change in the liner notes or technical information! I would also like to disagree with the reviewer who described this album as representative of Sinatra's 50s style. Sinatra could never record an album like this. There are only about two existing tracks (and they're almost never heard) of Sinatra with a dixie band. It was not a style he was comfortable with, and one at which he did not excel. Crosby, on the other hand, was intimately aquainted with this style and proves it, yet again, on Bing with a Beat.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new favorite CD, May 17, 2001

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Sally (South Orange, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bing With a Beat (Audio CD)

I only recently got this CD, but it has quickly become one of my all-time favorites and has yet to leave my CD player. Bing is in great voice. As usual, his phrasing is impeccable. Bob Scoobey and the Frisco Jazz Band are fantastic. Best of all, Bing and the band seem to be having a great time together. Finally, the sound quality is excellent.